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poised
1. Meditation is an interior act, and can only be performed successfully when the body is relaxed, rightly poised and then forgotten
2. Mohammed is poised nearby, watching her
3. At peace for the first time in days, she sat watching the land slowly passing by; ducks dabbled in and out of the reed beds bordering the river and here and there she spotted the long legged herons, poised like statues peering at the water intently as though hypnotising their prey
4. delicately poised, even though they prevent me
5. While poised on your knee-caps with your arms above your head practice the Yoga Complete Breath
6. By inverting the body and holding it in poised stillness, all downward pressure is relieved
7. He stands poised, pen in hand, clearly thinking
8. Now, seven years later, she was a very poised, headstrong, young woman
9. As I sit, fingers poised over the keyboard ready to type up my notes, I contemplate the information Bert gave me
10. He stood there poised for a moment then stepped slowly back down to the ground, walked back round the pond, stood before his sisters---and he bowed
11. Gehring whenever she spoke of fashion, her hand poised as if extended for a kiss by a gentleman
12. The city's four main streets stemmed from the palace, and from those streets the rest of the city's thoroughfares and avenues were born, forming a spider web of roadways with Rafe poised at their center
13. For poised above the entry were five iron gates ready to descend at the slightest sign of trouble
14. Adros strode in, his body poised and collected, the Graelic clenched in his hands and ready to strike
15. She was poised to strike
16. Now he is almost poised to act
17. The ground was ever shifting underneath their once poised and planted feet
18. smaller countries the armies were poised to
19. The console did as it was asked, sending a surge to secondary systems as Lichman was poised over the ident interface
20. Scott fumbled clumsily with the connecting wires, to the concern of Dr Lichman who seemed poised to take over
21. out, thumb poised over the buttons
22. "I'm about ready to go home," he said, noticing that Sharon was poised to walk with
23. Shelagh, sitting poised like a Queen Bee
24. I was shocked and in that time as I my hand poised in midair Smith took off back to our trenches red, white and blue lights shot into the air and machine guns and rifles began to strafe the position where we lay
25. The other side were now poised to strike with the big one – and who could question their entitlement to do just that? Smaller Russian defence installations had already been targeted, with much loss of small-scale hardware, including stealth fighter drones, and neutron warheads
26. ’ In fact, she knew Zeradas was – at least from what he told her – poised to trigger the final destruction if all else failed
27. She slid her hairpins under a cot, and edged close to the gate, poised if an opportunity came
28. There was a dull roar; a complete section about a foot wide was blown away as cleanly as if cut, and the mighty trunk rearing its lofty branches over 150 feet in the air, poised itself for a second, and fell to the earth with a thunder and force that shook the ground, crushing down large trees and part of the sacred grove in its fall, and badly injuring some natives who had gone too close after they had been warned
29. He raised his arm, poised to strike again
30. The late afternoon sun was poised on the horizon, and William knew that it would be dark in a few hours
31. Beth wouldn’t call her beautiful but she was poised and there was intelligence written in her face
32. But then, as Vernon was poised to give me the final kick,
33. poised on the deck of such a boat, catching fish with an admir-
34. He stopped a few feet inside the room and then looked at my hand poised above the backpack
35. Hand poised on the throttle, he began easing it forward again
36. They remained calmed but poised, not the least troubled by the small fires in the distance and the general mayhem
37. He kissed her fiercely, and then she was straddling him, his cock poised to plunge inside her
38. He moved her top leg and shifted his body so that she felt his cock poised at her pussy
39. as one might wish, the streaked sky hardly poised against a question
40. Former faction members and factionless alike are gathered in the space and spilling out into the street to hear what our new leader has to say, and factionless soldiers line the walls, their fingers poised over the triggers of their guns
41. They had rolled boulders across the trail to block it and a large (several hundred) force of slingers was poised to strike at the strategic moment, each with a significant pile of stones at his feet
42. He got on the elevator trying to look poised for Sue
43. Mana's arms collapsed beneath the weight, and she was thrown to the ground with the monster on top of her poised to rip her face off
44. Harry could never quite figure out the bond between Mrs Worthington and Petal; where Mrs Worthington was poised, well bred and thought highly of in the community Petal was coarse and street wise but maybe she was also thought highly of in her community as well he pondered or how else could she have survived so well living on the streets as she had for so may years
45. very delicately poised in the middle
46. Rowlandson Bank is stable, healthy and poised for growth
47. Cameras were poised and several newsreaders were delivering speeches to the masses who were following the case with avid interest
48. There was also an antique hall-tree poised by the
49. Frightened, I poised there with my toes curled, hoping I was not about to die a tragic
50. poised in front of this unarmed intruder