All 26 Uses of
compose
in
Sense and Sensibility
- Yet she bore it with so much composure, she seemed scarcely to notice it.†
Chpt 3 *
- How cold, how composed were their last adieus!†
Chpt 8
- She was convinced that Margaret had fixed on a person whose name she could not bear with composure to become a standing joke with Mrs. Jennings.†
Chpt 12
- But how came the hand to discompose you so much, if it was only a letter of business?†
Chpt 13
- When Sir John returned, he joined most heartily in the general regret on so unfortunate an event; concluding however by observing, that as they were all got together, they must do something by way of being happy; and after some consultation it was agreed, that although happiness could only be enjoyed at Whitwell, they might procure a tolerable composure of mind by driving about the country.†
Chpt 13
- But the feelings which made such composure a disgrace, left her in no danger of incurring it.†
Chpt 16
- It suggested no other surprise than that Elinor and Marianne should sit so composedly by, without claiming a share in what was passing.†
Chpt 21
- "I did," said Elinor, with a composure of voice, under which was concealed an emotion and distress beyond any thing she had ever felt before.†
Chpt 22
- And as she could now have nothing more painful to hear on the subject than had already been told, she did not mistrust her own ability of going through a repetition of particulars with composure.†
Chpt 23
- Every thing in her household arrangements was conducted on the most liberal plan, and excepting a few old city friends, whom, to Lady Middleton's regret, she had never dropped, she visited no one to whom an introduction could at all discompose the feelings of her young companions.†
Chpt 27
- "Pray, pray be composed," cried Elinor, "and do not betray what you feel to every body present.†
Chpt 28
- This however was more than she could believe herself; and to be composed at such a moment was not only beyond the reach of Marianne, it was beyond her wish.†
Chpt 28
- During all this time he was evidently struggling for composure.†
Chpt 28
- With difficulty however could she prevent her from following him herself; and to persuade her to check her agitation, to wait, at least, with the appearance of composure, till she might speak to him with more privacy and more effect, was impossible; for Marianne continued incessantly to give way in a low voice to the misery of her feelings, by exclamations of wretchedness.†
Chpt 28
- A few minutes more of silent exertion enabled him to proceed with composure.†
Chpt 31
- She received the news with resolute composure; made no observation on it, and at first shed no tears; but after a short time they would burst out, and for the rest of the day, she was in a state hardly less pitiable than when she first learnt to expect the event.†
Chpt 32
- Miss Steele was the least discomposed of the three, by their presence; and it was in their power to reconcile her to it entirely.†
Chpt 36
- Elinor was to be the comforter of others in her own distresses, no less than in theirs; and all the comfort that could be given by assurances of her own composure of mind, and a very earnest vindication of Edward from every charge but of imprudence, was readily offered.†
Chpt 37
- The composure of mind with which I have brought myself at present to consider the matter, the consolation that I have been willing to admit, have been the effect of constant and painful exertion;—they did not spring up of themselves;— they did not occur to relieve my spirits at first.†
Chpt 37
- Elinor had some difficulty here to refrain from observing, that she thought Fanny might have borne with composure, an acquisition of wealth to her brother, by which neither she nor her child could be possibly impoverished.†
Chpt 41
- He had just settled this point with great composure, when the entrance of Mrs. John Dashwood put an end to the subject.†
Chpt 41
- …a book in her hand, which she was unable to read, or in lying, weary and languid, on a sofa, did not speak much in favour of her amendment; and when, at last, she went early to bed, more and more indisposed, Colonel Brandon was only astonished at her sister's composure, who, though attending and nursing her the whole day, against Marianne's inclination, and forcing proper medicines on her at night, trusted, like Marianne, to the certainty and efficacy of sleep, and felt no real alarm.†
Chpt 43
- He promised to call again in the course of three or four hours, and left both the patient and her anxious attendant more composed than he had found them.†
Chpt 43
- You are never like me, dear Elinor, or I should wonder at your composure now.†
Chpt 45
- She, who had seen her week after week so constantly suffering, oppressed by anguish of heart which she had neither courage to speak of, nor fortitude to conceal, now saw with a joy, which no other could equally share, an apparent composure of mind, which, in being the result as she trusted of serious reflection, must eventually lead her to contentment and cheerfulness.†
Chpt 46
- "I will not ask your opinion of it as a composition," said Edward.†
Chpt 49 *
Definitions:
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(compose as in: compose myself) to calm someone or settle something
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(compose as in: compose a poem) to write or create something with care -- especially music or a literary work, but could be other things as diverse as a plan or a letter