All 25 Uses of
compose
in
Emma
- Her father composed himself to sleep after dinner, as usual, and she had then only to sit and think of what she had lost.†
Chpt 1.1-2
- They remained but a few minutes together, as Miss Woodhouse must not be kept waiting; and Harriet then came running to her with a smiling face, and in a flutter of spirits, which Miss Woodhouse hoped very soon to compose.†
Chpt 1.3-4
- There were not merely no grammatical errors, but as a composition it would not have disgraced a gentleman; the language, though plain, was strong and unaffected, and the sentiments it conveyed very much to the credit of the writer.†
Chpt 1.7-8 *
- They had not been long seated and composed when Mr. Woodhouse, with a melancholy shake of the head and a sigh, called his daughter's attention to the sad change at Hartfield since she had been there last.†
Chpt 1.11-12
- CHAPTER XIV Some change of countenance was necessary for each gentleman as they walked into Mrs. Weston's drawing-room;—Mr. Elton must compose his joyous looks, and Mr. John Knightley disperse his ill-humour.†
Chpt 1.13-14
- …she could suppose herself but an indifferent judge of such matters in general, and very inadequate to sympathise in an attachment to Mr. Elton in particular; but it seemed to her reasonable that at Harriet's age, and with the entire extinction of all hope, such a progress might be made towards a state of composure by the time of Mr. Elton's return, as to allow them all to meet again in the common routine of acquaintance, without any danger of betraying sentiments or increasing them.†
Chpt 1.17-18
- With this treatment, Mr. Woodhouse was soon composed enough for talking as usual.†
Chpt 2.7-8
- Mr. Woodhouse soon followed; and the necessity of exertion made him composed.†
Chpt 2.11-12
- It was some days before she saw Jane Fairfax, to judge of her honest regret in this woeful change; but when they did meet, her composure was odious.†
Chpt 2.11-12 *
- With Mr. Weston's ball in view at least, there had been a great deal of insensibility to other things; but it was now too evident that she had not attained such a state of composure as could stand against the actual approach—new carriage, bell-ringing, and all.†
Chpt 2.13-14
- From Harriet's happening not to be at Hartfield, and her father's being present to engage Mr. Elton, she had a quarter of an hour of the lady's conversation to herself, and could composedly attend to her; and the quarter of an hour quite convinced her that Mrs. Elton was a vain woman, extremely well satisfied with herself, and thinking much of her own importance; that she meant to shine and be very superior, but with manners which had been formed in a bad school, pert and familiar;…†
Chpt 2.13-14
- Mr. Woodhouse was quite at ease; and the seeing him so, with the arrival of the little boys and the philosophic composure of her brother on hearing his fate, removed the chief of even Emma's vexation.†
Chpt 2.15-16
- She felt as if the spring would not pass without bringing a crisis, an event, a something to alter her present composed and tranquil state.†
Chpt 3.1-2
- I should not like a man who is so soon discomposed by a hot morning.†
Chpt 3.5-6
- With some there was great joy at the sight of Frank Churchill; others took it very composedly; but there was a very general distress and disturbance on Miss Fairfax's disappearance being explained.†
Chpt 3.5-6
- Such another scheme, composed of so many ill-assorted people, she hoped never to be betrayed into again.†
Chpt 3.7-8
- Time did not compose her.†
Chpt 3.7-8
- Composure with a witness! to look on, while repeated attentions were offering to another woman, before her face, and not resent it.†
Chpt 3.9-10
- "She could not compose herself— Mr. Woodhouse would be alarmed—she had better go;"—with most ready encouragement from her friend, therefore, she passed off through another door—and the moment she was gone, this was the spontaneous burst of Emma's feelings: "Oh God! that I had never seen her!"†
Chpt 3.11-12
- When it came to such a pitch as this, she was not able to refrain from a start, or a heavy sigh, or even from walking about the room for a few seconds—and the only source whence any thing like consolation or composure could be drawn, was in the resolution of her own better conduct, and the hope that, however inferior in spirit and gaiety might be the following and every future winter of her life to the past, it would yet find her more rational, more acquainted with herself, and leave…†
Chpt 3.11-12
- Emma was quite relieved, and could presently say, with a little more composure, "You probably have been less surprized than any of us, for you have had your suspicions.†
Chpt 3.13-14
- The hasty engagement she had entered into with that woman—Here, my dear madam, I was obliged to leave off abruptly, to recollect and compose myself.†
Chpt 3.13-14
- "Oh!" cried Jane, with a blush and an hesitation which Emma thought infinitely more becoming to her than all the elegance of all her usual composure—"there would have been no danger.†
Chpt 3.15-16
- — But Mrs. Elton was very much discomposed indeed.†
Chpt 3.17-18
- "I am afraid," said he, composing his features, "I am very much afraid, my dear Emma, that you will not smile when you hear it."†
Chpt 3.17-18
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