Directly we begin to protest, to attitudinise, to lay down laws, we perish.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Common Reader] Reference

"A few strange gentlemen attitudinise in Westminster on principle, but these men would cut capers of principle in any case, like Mr. Snodgrass when he went skating.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 150, February 2, 1916] Reference

They can call up the figure of a friend and make it sit on a chair or stand up at will; they can make it turn round and attitudinise in any way, as by mounting it on a bicycle or compelling it to perform gymnastic feats on a trapeze.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development] Reference

If we are not ashamed to do things, and let Him note them on His tablets that they may be for the time to come, for ever and ever, it is strange that we should be more careful to attitudinise and pose ourselves before one another than before Him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V)] Reference

Now takes place the scientific part of the ballet; and here might Bias, or Noblet, or Ronzi Vestris, or her graceful husband, or the classical Albert, or the bounding Paul, vault without stint, and attitudinise without restraint, and not in the least impair the effect of the tragic tale.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vivian Grey] Reference

"And it follows that to one who believes in the teaching of earth so whole-heartedly earth is not a painted back-cloth for man to strut against and attitudinise, but a birth-place from which he cannot escape, and in relation with which he must be considered, and must consider himself, on pain of becoming absurd.    From Wordnik.com.  [From a Cornish Window A New Edition] Reference

Elena, ‘but I like her a thousand times better than some conceited second-rate celebrity who would grimace and attitudinise all the while for effect.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Eve] Reference

How we all attitudinise to ourselves!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Elsmere] Reference