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- On the summit, hard and clear like an equestrian statue upon its pedestal, was a mounted soldier, dark and stern, his rifle poised ready over his forearm.Chapter 6 — Baskerville Hall (44% in)
- As I approached the hut, walking as warily as Stapleton would do when with poised net he drew near the settled butterfly, I satisfied myself that the place had indeed been used as a habitation.Chapter 11 — The Man on the Tor (83% in)
There are no more uses of "poise" in The Hound of the Baskervilles.
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