He was rather flushed, but did not look seriously ill, and greeted Doctor Mary with dignified composure.

she managed finally to say with some composure.

It is like, and yet, in some particulars, it is unlikeit scarcely does Miss Effingham justice about the nose and forehead!" John Effingham started when he saw the miniature in Paul's hand, but recovering himself, he smiled at the eager delusion of his young friend, and said with perfect composure

He testified calmly and boldly the habitual serenity and peace which he now felt in his own breast, (for the most elevated delights he did not think fit to plead, lest they should be esteemed enthusiasm,) and the composure and pleasure with which he looked forward to objects which the gayest sinner must acknowledge to be equally unavoidable and dreadful.

"Now we shall catch larks," said he; and dressed in a new suit, whose gray tint set off the smoothness of his tanned cheek with the color sometimes mantling through the brown, he entered the house with all the composure of a gentleman used to nothing but high days and holidays.

Stone and iron are made to do their best-armed sentries walking night and daywhen all the time I have, with the coolest composure, been daily wallowing in the best of every thing.

" "As far as I am concerned, you are most welcome to do so," said her rival, with perfect composure.

Her face had regained its composure, and her eyes were bent vacantly upon her tapestry frame as she turned over in her mind all that was involved in the suggestion.

We were not surprised at the effect of grief upon Ellen, for I have told you she was not educated to bear human misery with much composure.

His anguish overcame her composure.

She sat by her husband as serene and collected as if her babe only slept; not a tear swept her cheek, not a tremulous word fell from her lips, as she soothed her stricken companion; her pale face wore no look of despair, and she directed every funeral preparation with as much composure as if her heart had not felt the awful wound.

Theodore turned pale, stared a moment, and then, recovering his color and his composure, declared that he should have no objection in life to coming back.

All things considered, she took her defeat with admirable composure.

He told us the circumstances of his being caught and enslaved, with as much composure as he would any common occurrence, not seeming to think of the injustice of the thing nor to speak of it with indignation....

" When Norma Berwynd and her husband arrived Phillips had completely regained his composure, and he greeted them cordially.

He looked her up and down with a resentful stare as she mounted the stile, and Juliet flushed in spite of the most determined composure.

She swallowed her dinner with apparent composure.

It should also be observed that notwithstanding their frigidity and statuesque composure, the pictures of "S. Andrew" and "S. Christopher" in the chapel of the Eremitani reveal minute study of real objects.

With the most admirable tact and self-composure, he kept the whole party entertained for half an hour.

"Now I am proud to be presented to you," said the aunt to Lady Tilchester, with perfect composure.

But for this, Hamlet would have made a hole in his uncle in the first act, and with the greatest composure taken possession of the throne.

I who never yet had lost all my self-possession, I who was used to play upon heartstrings, who at a fencing match of that kind, if not cleverly, at least with perfect composure guarded myself against the most masterly strokes, I was as deeply moved as a lad in his teens.

But my aunt's composure was only put on, at the bottom she felt as frightened as myself.

The arrival of one of Uncle Caragol's acolytes made them recover their composure.

The stolidity and patience of the "Cracker" is equalled only by that of "their cousins, the Indians"; I have seen one of them sit for twelve hours continuously in one place fishing without being encouraged by even a little nibble; his face was as placid as that of a mummy which he closely resembles; then suddenly he would pull in scores of trout, but with the same imperturbable composure as before.