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He saw, too with the fact made more vivid by Gordon's standing there beside her in his manly sincerity and throwing it into contrast that Blanche was the same little posturing coquette of a Blanche whom, at Baden, he would have treated it as a broad joke that Gordon Wright should dream of marrying. He saw, in a word, that it was what it had first struck him as being an incongruous union.
He will never be content till He has made you like Himself; and side by side with His holiness, never fail to remember His gentle, tender love. This is what the apostle calls taking upon Himself the form of a servant. The charm of the scene is its absolute simplicity. You cannot imagine Christ posturing to the ages.
At first that was all. She merely turned and panted. But as she whirled and whirled, new moods and figures seemed to force themselves upon her. She lifted her hands and swayed them about above her head gracefully. She was posturing she knew, but why she had no idea. It all came upon her as suddenly and as uncontrollably as a blush.
And though it be a folly what I here seek and do, it is better so than that down below I should become solemn with waiting, and green and yellow A posturing wrath-snorter with waiting, a holy howl-storm from the mountains, an impatient one that shouteth down into the valleys: "Hearken, else I will scourge you with the scourge of God!"
Nick confessed to an infatuation, but did his best to show her it wasn't base; that it wasn't since Julia had had faith in his loyalty for the person of the young lady who had been discovered posturing to him and whom he had seen but half-a-dozen times in his life.
Roderick lost his temper, time and again, with his models, who offered but a gross, degenerate image of his splendid ideal; but his ideal, as he assured Rowland, became gradually such a fixed, vivid presence, that he had only to shut his eyes to behold a creature far more to his purpose than the poor girl who stood posturing at forty sous an hour.
Was the comedy on HER side and not on the girl's, and was she posturing as a magnanimous woman at poor Linda's expense?
'Don't go on posturing like a Deaf and Dumb School, said the ingenious Fledgeby, 'but express yourself like a Christian or as nearly as you can. 'I had had sickness and misfortunes, and was so poor, said the old man, 'as hopelessly to owe the father, principal and interest. The son inheriting, was so merciful as to forgive me both, and place me here.
Steele Selections from the Tatler, Spectator, and Guardian, edited by Austin Dobson. AS you have already guessed by the number of prose writers you have been reading about, this age, the age of the last Stuarts and the first Georges, was not a poetic one. It was an age of art and posturing.
It couldn't however be contagious: too great was the limit of her sense of what painters call values. Her colours were laid on like blankets on a cold night. How indeed could a person speak the truth who was always posturing and bragging?
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