All 8 Uses of
compose
in
Main Street
- Her enthusiasm had become watery even before thirteen women resolutely removed their overshoes, sat down meatily, ate peppermints, dusted their fingers, folded their hands, composed their lower thoughts, and invited the naked muse of poetry to deliver her most improving message.†
Chpt 11 (definition 1)
- She read in the records of the Minnesota Territorial Pioneers that only sixty years ago, not so far back as the birth of her own father, four cabins had composed Gopher Prairie.†
Chpt 12 (definition 1)
- His liturgy was composed of intoned and metrical road-comments: "They say there's a pretty good hike from Duluth to International Falls."†
Chpt 16 (definition 1)
- The committee was composed of Carol, Vida Sherwin, Guy Pollock, Raymie Wutherspoon, and Juanita Haydock.†
Chpt 18 (definition 1)
- She hated him for his composure.†
Chpt 29 (definition 1) *
- They were composed of ornamented posts with clusters of high-powered electric lights along two or three blocks on Main Street.†
Chpt 35 (definition 1)
- When the baby was abed, and they sat composedly in canvas chairs on the porch, he experimented; "I had a hunch you thought Sam was kind of hard on that fellow they kicked out of Wakamin."†
Chpt 36 (definition 1)
- On the screen, in the role of a composer, appeared an actor called Eric Valour.†
Chpt 38 (definition 2) *
Definitions:
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(1) (compose as in: compose myself) to calm someone or settle something
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(2) (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