"It will surely kill, it will possibly kill," she wrote, "or perhaps it merely hangs, poised and ready, over the head of the creature it can kill at any moment, which is to say, at every moment….
The great blunt-headed creatures reached the high point of the lift, hung poised, and then with a gentle vertical descent allowed themselves to slip beneath the water again.
We finished up as the sun set in dramatic, African fashion, turning deeply red, almost purple, as it hung poised over the horizon, lingering for a minute or two in the burnt orange sky before it plunged out of sight.
KA HANG, Cambodia, 31 March 2008 – The air is humid and the bright green rice fields of Ka Hang rustle gently, poised for another monsoon rain shower.
Poised to hang a broker's shingle in 1957, though, he received a foundation grant.
She was poised to hang up if her stepfather answered, but it was her mother, vague and slow, saying, Hello?
The phrases that Ms. Wilson seemed to exhale so naturally were poised to hang above exactly the offbeats that she chose.
Another small figure can be seen crucified and a second being hanged, and a man appears to be poised to stab a child.
The changes seem poised to continue: A "going out of business" sign hangs in the discount clothing store next door to the church.
They lost Battersea, Croydon Central and Finchley and Golders Green, yet hung on to most of a group of more finely poised marginals.
Boston, with three stars in their primes, is poised to push for a 17th banner to hang from the ceiling of the latest incarnation of the Garden.
