All 7 Uses
poise
in
The Chocolate War
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- Notebook in hand, pencil poised, Obie looked at Archie now with fierce anger, furious at the way Archie sat there in the bleachers, his blond hair tossing lightly in the breeze, enjoying himself, for crying out loud, even though he knew that Obie would be late for work and yet keeping him here, stalling, killing time.†
Chpt 2
- Obie's pencil was poised.†
Chpt 2
- Then he'd pace up and down, up and down, restless, sighing, wandering through the aisles, the blackboard pointer poised in his hand, the pointer he used either like a conductor's baton or a musketeer's sword.†
Chpt 6
- Archie was at the doorway, poised to flee if Janza made a move.
Chpt 15 *poised = prepared (ready)
- Jerry suddenly understood the poster—the solitary man on the beach standing upright and alone and unafraid, poised at the moment of making himself heard and known in the world, the universe.†
Chpt 28
- Painfully, his muscles and bones protesting, he lifted himself from the mattress and poised, on one elbow, to thrust himself from the bed.†
Chpt 32
- His body was poised for a moment like some wounded animal and then he collapsed like a hunk of meat cut loose from a butcher's hook.†
Chpt 37
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.