753 examples of self-controlled in sentences

' She ran into the nursery and found Archie and Dilly both looking rather excited; Archie, fairly self-controlled, with a paper in his hand on which was a rough sketch which he would not let her see, and hid behind him.

Such children will inevitably become intellectually independent and morally self-controlled.

He was at that point of passion which dulls the most self-controlled to all sense of propriety.

Mrs. Mitchell was a woman of strong character, very dignified, honest almost to an extreme, and perfectly self-controlled where control was necessary.

In a recent volume entitled, "Human Nature and its Remaking," Professor William Ernest Hocking of Harvard contends that Man, all axioms about his nature to the contrary, is but a creature of habit, and so the most plastic of living things, since habit is self-controlled and self-determined.

If this is not possible and the adrenals have to predominate, a lower, more animal and less self-controlled type of mentality is produced.

He was back again in formelectricand self-controlled.

Only the very self-controlled can refrain from improving the occasion and scoring off the convert.

In repose his face was that of an ordinary business man, sane and self-controlled, and when he rose to go his agitation was over, and he looked like a man who had won his point.

Self-denying; always intent upon the one idea of duty; self-controlled to an extent that many thought him cold, his feelings were really warm, and his heart melted freely at the sight of a wounded soldier, or the story of the sufferings of the widow and orphan.

Although considerable excitement pervaded those assemblages, the people remained quiet and self-controlled.

Where, I wondered, had those two met and in what circumstances, that the mere sight of the stranger caused such emotion in the unusually self-controlled wife of Cyrus Staten.

His self-controlled companions wondered, ridiculed, misinterpreted, and made fewer hits as well as fewer misses.

Mary Selincourt was a reserved, self-controlled girl, but it is her sort of nature which sometimes betrays itself most completely in moments of emotional strain, and Katherine at this time was very much like an ostrich, being disposed to believe that the thing she could not see did not exist.

She wondered if such moments ever came to the two quiet, self-controlled men who came and went, with cordial, easy friendliness, in and out of the appartement on the Rue de Presbourg.

And in the same breath she found herself wondering if,with their status reversed,Walter Monohan would be as patient, as gentle, as self-controlled with a wife who openly acknowledged her affection for another man.

There may be men strong enough and self-controlled enough to resist but we haven't found such a person yet.

He used the term of endearment in the tone of calm, moderate reproof which a justly displeased, but self-controlled husband sometimes uses.

They were still quiet, self-controlled, unemotional.

Here, free from excitement and self-controlled, we must spend six nights.

He insists repeatedly upon the fact that before any one can taste of these joys of the spirit, he must be purified, disciplined, self-controlled.

Her panic of the morning had passed, and she was perfectly self-controlled.

The following are specimens of the communications which were written by the Medium's controlled, possibly self-controlled, free, right hand, at my first visit: (In a fine, light, legible hand.) Cannot say wether we can control the slate or no. will do our utmost to do so there are times when we cannot get the proper influences nor find the right conditions.

The rules of kinship determined eineachlann (ain-yach-long)"honor value", the assessed value of status, with its correlative rights, obligations, and liabilities in connection with all matters civil and criminal; largely supplied the place of contract; endowed members of the clan with birthrights; and bound them into a compact social, political, and mutual insurance copartnership, self-controlled and self-reliant.

Mr. Brownley," the voice was now calm and self-controlled, "tell me what you have done.

753 examples of  self-controlled  in sentences