But his left foot poised over the brake.

He stopped, foot poised in midair, as he saw her.

The man instantly froze, one foot poised outside a shellhole.

A sudden thought struck him so that he halted, foot poised briefly above the next step.

She halted, one foot poised above the water.

In a burst of feverish motion he locked his hands onto the banister and sprang astride it, right foot planted below the left, perfectly still and poised on the sloping plastic.

He threw the second corpse into the third man's incoming fists, then half turned, foot poised.

And his feet - like a dancer on point he poises them, but the moment is too intense for certainty.

The man's feet poised lightly on the ledge of an eighty-sixth floor window.

A great loathsome brown rat he held, its feet poised, its mouth agape, its great curved tail frozen in the air.