attitudinized

She attitudinized dramatically: '_Yes, in my first terror!

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He was soon landed by the stalwart Martha and Alec, and, while he attitudinized for draining, the Professor amused himself with taking an instantaneous photograph.

Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 Various

In his novels of this period, as in his dress and manner, he deliberately attitudinized, a fact which in part reflected a certain shallowness of character, in part was a device to attract attention for the sake of his political ambition.

A History of English Literature Robert Huntington Fletcher

There seems to me to be too much of the blown lock and the wistful glance, too much of the attitudinized poet, lacking, I may even say, in true refinement, often.

Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets Marsden Hartley

One evening when Lilly arrived home from the hospital she found Zoe squatting in bed, her face naughtily screwed into a little grimalkin knot, elbows pressed into her sides, palms up, and all attitudinized to emulate a Chinese god.

Star-Dust Fannie Hurst 1928

They attitudinized also, with a kind of childish poetry that did not quite convince, for the fountain rained on them, and some of them shivered as cold gouts of water smote their shoulder-blades.

We Can't Have Everything Rupert Hughes 1914

Even small Frances, most self-conscious of Madigans, in a costume so inadequate that Bep's doll would have been scandalized at the idea of wearing it, posed and attitudinized as a Dewdrop.

The Madigans Miriam Michelson 1906

There was nothing in the least melodramatic about him; he never posed or attitudinized -- it would have required too much patience; but he was always piquant.

Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 4 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History 1906

He posed, attitudinized and vapored, so that the camp and the country were filled with stories of the wonderful coolness with which he contemplated his approaching fate.

Andersonville John McElroy 1887

He posed, attitudinized and vapored, so that the camp and the country were filled with stories of the wonderful coolness with which he contemplated his approaching fate.

Andersonville — Volume 3 John McElroy 1887