Sits for a portrait

Usage examples of poses.

Instead, Monday, Quincy and the three Chinese cartwheeled into the pista, beckoned Brutus onto the teeterboard and, as she seesawed happily, did their poses and pyramids and leapfrogging on her back.

I can't leave the CraftHall without someone who appreciates the threat Fax poses to the entire world.

It must not be forgotten, for it poses questions that I have to answer.

She forgave Mirrim all her little poses and attitudes, aware that that was how Mirrim had masked her intense anxiety and grief.

Thella was the one most frequently drawn, in different poses and angles and, in a few cases, in what Jayge realized were disguises.

Perschar, the best artist in the Harper Hall, had sent along portrait sketches of Boskoney, Tomol and Lesselam, several poses of each including a full length drawing in color.

The horses went side by side around and around the ring, while the man and woman assumed various artistic poses, sometimes both of them using both horses, sometimes one of them on each horse, sometimes both on one.

Then she put a foot in the loop, let herself fall until one hand gripped the pole, and did the same poses upside down.

He had caught onto the ladder, of course, and its upper end was secured somewhere inside the wicker rim, and now he was doing the same acrobatic poses and contortions and convulsions that he did in the ring on his wooden ladder, and the crowd was laughing and sobbing with relief, and cheering and applauding with pleasure.

After the elephant had got used to seesawing by herself, she was gradually persuaded to do the same with one and another of the Chinese on her back, until all three of them were up there, doing poses and pyramids, and eventually with Monday and Tuesday also up there joining in the posturing, while the great beast happily teetered and occasionally trumpeted with joy.

Even without practice, Ali Baba did a commendable job of imitating Daphne's poses and handstands and upside-down splits.

The artistes took up their positions and graceful poses on the various wagons, but here, as they had done on other wintry occasions, they only intermittently opened their cloaks or furs to give the street crowds glimpses of their skimpy costumes and bare flesh.

The troupers on the wagon seats or beds or tops kept their graceful poses, and mechanically waved and smiled and blew kisses, and absentmindedly flicked open their coats or cloaks to flash their spangles and skin, for they were meanwhile ogling Paris as raptly as the Parisians were ogling them.

The colonel and Monday put their horses to fancy steps, and Clover Lee, Arpád, Gusztáv and Zoltán did stands and poses as they rode.

Heliotypes of Isaac with his friends in various poses around the city and in Rudewood dotted the walls.