posin

Updated: June 2, 2025

For every gas jet in the room was a-blazin' high. Sez he, "I am posin' for a statute, Samantha." And come to look closter, I see he had took off the blanket and bedspread and had swathed 'em round his form some like a toga. And I see it wuz them that he wuz apostrofizin' and orderin' to lay down in folds and fall graceful.

Marietta Holley - Samantha at the World's Fair

"Dan and me 'll finish the job; all the rest of you may go off," said Sneak, releasing the rest of the party from any further participation in the depositing of the remains of Posin in the earth. "Glenn does not yet understand Ringwood and Jowler," said Boone, still listening to the chase.

J. B. (John Beauchamp) Jones - Wild Western Scenes : A Narrative of Adventures in the Western Wilderness, Wherein the : Exploits of Daniel Boone, the Great American Pioneer are Particularly : Described

The chief had not thought there would be any necessity for bloodshed so soon, and perhaps not at all, if Glenn could be enticed from his house, while Posin and his comrades might obtain his money. His rage grew intense on finding himself outwitted and defied. When the gate was secured, the inmates of the little fort crowded about Boone and overwhelmed him with questions.

J. B. (John Beauchamp) Jones - Wild Western Scenes : A Narrative of Adventures in the Western Wilderness, Wherein the : Exploits of Daniel Boone, the Great American Pioneer are Particularly : Described

She had come to grief about her quilt patching, having sewed the squares together in such a way that the corners wouldn't hit, and Mammy had made her rip it all out and sew it over again, and had boxed her soundly, and now said she shouldn't go with the others to the quarters; but here Dumps interfered, and said Mammy shouldn't be "all time 'posin' on Chris," and she went down to see her father about it, who interceded with Mammy so effectually that, when the little folks started off, Chris was with them.

Louise Clarke Pyrnelle - Diddie, Dumps, and Tot : Or, Plantation Child-Life

"Let it remain!" said Boone, in a commanding tone, looking in and discovering a skull; "I once buried a friend here he was shot down at my side by the Indians." "Fill up the hole agin! Posin shan't lay on top of any of your friends!" exclaimed Sneak, likewise leaping out of the grave.

J. B. (John Beauchamp) Jones - Wild Western Scenes : A Narrative of Adventures in the Western Wilderness, Wherein the : Exploits of Daniel Boone, the Great American Pioneer are Particularly : Described

"See here, my chap," said Sneak, rising up and casting a furious glance at him, "if you don't mean to hand that out again, one or the t'other of us must be put in the ground with the traitorious Posin and if it is to be you, it'll be a purty thing for it to be said that you brought a spade to bury yourself with." "Didn't I find the body?" said Joe. "But burn me if you found the gold," said Sneak.

J. B. (John Beauchamp) Jones - Wild Western Scenes : A Narrative of Adventures in the Western Wilderness, Wherein the : Exploits of Daniel Boone, the Great American Pioneer are Particularly : Described

"And that explains," Vee goes on, "why I happened to remember the Stribbles today. I must have seen her there. Yes, I'm sure I did that pale gold hair and the old ivory complexion are too rare to " "Why!" I breaks in, "that's the description Crosby Rhodes gave me of this show window charmer of his." "Was it?" says Vee. "Then perhaps " "But what could she have been doing, posin' in the window?"

Sewell Ford - Torchy and Vee