| At intervals one and then another checked the pace, poising with wings uplifted and vibrating and tail depressed and expanded. |
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| Finally, all turned, slowly glided and pitched down, poising with uplifted wings momentarily before merging into the dusk. |
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| He also took a seat, and readied his materials, inking his quill and poising his hand. |
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| The final moment of its construction, the poising of the sorbet, drew applause from all around. |
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| I like to keep the fingertips pointed forward, better poising this hand to engage in a two-hand hold or to ward off a last-instant physical assault. |
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| That optimism has been deadened by managements poising of the pot, but somewhat amazingly, it's not permanent, and there are signs of a rising. |
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| Land leeches await their victim in damp vegetation, poising one end in the air. |
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| Within the same circle with the pigeons, were beautiful albatrosses, poising and minueting with them in the most pleasing fellowship. |
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| It is equipped with a straight-line lever escapement as well as a bimetallic balance wheel fitted with poising screws and a Breguet-overcoil spring. |
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| They resumed, playing with clarity and passion, poising their bows over the strings between movements so that the audience could see their request that this silence be heard. |
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