"Pose" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... people ever go to school?" she says. "I s'pose they did, though, or they wouldn't know how to read and write, and ...
— Hollow Tree Nights and Days • Albert Bigelow Paine
... the nineteenth century, and regretted that the way had not been prepared, as in Germany, by a critical movement. It is true that the English romantics put forth no body of doctrine, no authoritative statement of a theory of literary art. Scott did not pose as the leader of a school, or compose prefaces and lectures like Hugo and Schlegel.[26] As a contributor to the reviews on his favourite topics, he was no despicable critic; shrewd, good-natured, full of special knowledge, anecdote, and illustration. But his criticism was never polemic, ...
— A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century • Henry A. Beers
... thus revealed failed to startle me seriously. Vaguely I had suspicioned the possibility before, not really believing it could be so, and yet struck by the similarity in circumstances of the two women. Consequently the shock of final discovery was somewhat deadened, and I retained the pose of thought. Moreover, to know her identity was an actual relief. Before, I had half doubted the righteousness of my cause, at times almost felt myself a criminal. Now that I could openly associate myself with Philip ...
— Gordon Craig - Soldier of Fortune • Randall Parrish
... contest and not a massacre. Enraged at its former treatment the lion dashed out of its den with a sudden spring, made three or four leaps forward, and then paused with its eyes fixed on the man standing in front of it, still immovable, in an easy pose, ready for instant action. Then it sank till its belly nearly touched the ground, and began to crawl with a stealthy gliding motion towards him. More and more slowly it went, till it paused at a distance of ...
— Beric the Briton - A Story of the Roman Invasion • G. A. Henty
... reply; "all they're waiting for is some occasion like this, when they can put the Company in a hole, and pose as benefactors in taking ...
— The Moneychangers • Upton Sinclair
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