All 11 Uses
poise
in
Interview with the Vampire
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- Lestat was poised to jump whoever should open it.†
Part 1
- I stood back against the wall, where I could see them through the high naked windows, the young men dueling late into the night, left arm poised like the arm of a dancer, grace advancing towards death, grace thrusting for the heart, images of the young Freniere now driving the silver blade forward, now being pulled by it towards hell.†
Part 1
- Quickly, I grabbed the lamp, struck a match hard and broke it in my frenzy, then got the flame as I wanted it and held the small vessel of kerosene poised in my hand 'Get away from the window.†
Part 1
- But there, right there in that coffin, with that fellow standing on the broken boards over her feet, was the dead woman, and I tell you ....I tell you she was as fresh, as pink =his voice cracked, and he sat there, his eyes wide, his hand poised as if he held something invisible in his fingers, pleading with me to believe him—'as pink as if she were alive!†
Part 2
- Then she moved, the softness of her small body suddenly snatched from me, in a movement so graceful and swift that she seemed now poised in the air beside the carriage, her hand clutching mine for an instant, then letting it go.†
Part 2
- A great loathsome brown rat he held, its feet poised, its mouth agape, its great curved tail frozen in the air.†
Part 2 *
- But then he slowly, very slowly, lifted his right arm, though mine remained poised and gathering his fingers into a fist, he now struck at his chest in quickening time to mock my heartbeat.†
Part 3
- It was Death standing before the audience, the scythe poised, Death at the edge of a dark wood.†
Part 3
- But I stood there poised, staring at Santiago, seeing him rise despite the wound.†
Part 3
- The flies swarmed on the festering body of a rat, and the child looked quietly up at me as though my eyes were bright baubles, and its dimpled hand closed on the finger that I poised above its tiny petal mouth.†
Part 4
- She had her head bent, her fingers poised above her ear as if about to loosen strands of her hair.†
Part 4
Definitions:
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(1)
(poise) calm, confident, and in control—especially in movement, behavior, or when ready to act
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much more rarely, poise is a technical word referencing a unit of dynamic viscosity.