attitudinize

He was compelled the while to attitudinize incessantly as a genius.

A bird seldom sings when watched, and Nature is no coquette, and will not ogle and attitudinize when stared at.

Then Ma, seizing a sword, began to attitudinize, smearing his face all over with coal-dust.

Ma then got up and began to attitudinize, singing a plaintive air like the girls with the turbans.

A jay would alight in the entrance of the hole and flirt and peer and attitudinize, and then flyaway crying "Thief, thief, thief!"