Land leeches await their victim in damp vegetation, poising one end in the air.
Rossini's Otello (1816), the first opera seria with a tragic ending, poises three tenors Iago (the villain), Rodrigo (the rejected lover), and Otello (the interloper)—against a besieged Desdemona who outweighs them all and her basso father, Brabantio, to boot.
These independent molecules need to be juxtaposed in order to poise three CARDs to form the first layer of the filament.
For all the posturing, the bellowing and the hatred, he remains an utterly individual literary presence - one poised between two countries and two worlds.
One of the counters, Leandra Alvarez, positioned her fingers poised over two rows of four keypads at the top of a clipboard, with keys for cars and two-axle, three-axle and four-axle trucks.
Straight-A student Rami Makarem, 11, had three words to say as his fork was poised over two pancakes on the paper plate Friday morning before class.
We are trapped in history, poised between two world wars.
This was Barafundle, poised between two gorse-covered headlands on the south coast of Pembrokeshire.
The bridge, a beam poised on two Vs, is rightly Grade I listed.
But the sense of an artist poised between two worlds haunts Konnichiwa.
The diagnosis leaves Sister John poised between two equally unpalatable options.
