All 26 Uses of
compose
in
The Brothers Karamazov
- After listening attentively and respectfully Ivan went on, addressing the elder with perfect composure and as before with ready cordiality: "The whole point of my article lies in the fact that during the first three centuries Christianity only existed on earth in the Church and was nothing but the Church.†
Chpt 2
- "As for being a rascal, wait a little, Grigory Vassilyevitch," answered Smerdyakov with perfect composure.†
Chpt 3 *
- Arina Petrovna, compose your countenance.†
Chpt 4
- "Will my brother Dmitri soon be back?" asked Alyosha with as much composure as he could.†
Chpt 5
- In our monasteries the monks busied themselves in translating, copying, and even composing such poems—and even under the Tatars.†
Chpt 5
- "I'm bound to admit the fact," Smerdyakov drawled with pedantic composure, "that I have a secret with Fyodor Pavlovitch in this business.†
Chpt 5
- You don't know in what need he is," Smerdyakov explained, with perfect composure and remarkable distinctness.†
Chpt 5
- The peasant was silently and slyly watching him, with insulting composure, and even a sort of contemptuous condescension, so Mitya fancied.†
Chpt 8
- "Be calm, Dmitri Fyodorovitch," said the investigating lawyer evidently trying to allay Mitya's excitement by his own composure.†
Chpt 9
- "No, I didn't go home," answered Mitya, apparently perfectly composed, but looking at the floor.†
Chpt 9
- The prosecutor watched him the whole time and only when he had ceased speaking, observed, as though it were the most ordinary thing, with the most frigid and composed air: "Oh, about the open door of which you spoke just now, we may as well inform you, by the way, now, of a very interesting piece of evidence of the greatest importance both to you and to us, that has been given us by Grigory, the old man you wounded.†
Chpt 9
- She entered with a stern and gloomy face, that looked almost composed and sat down quietly on the chair offered her by Nikolay Parfenovitch.†
Chpt 9
- I answered with the utmost composure that I hadn't egged him on, that I simply stated the general proposition, had spoken hypothetically.†
Chpt 10
- But the boys stared at him, stared at him for a whole minute, and then all the staring eyes turned at once and were fastened upon Kolya, who was still scanning the audacious boy with disdainful composure.†
Chpt 10
- Well, I was lying here alone and suddenly Rakitin comes in, and only fancy! brought me some verses of his own composition—a short poem, on my bad foot: that is, he described my foot in a poem.†
Chpt 11 *
- For the rest of the time he was struck, on the contrary, by Smerdyakov's composure.†
Chpt 11
- Smerdyakov queried with composure.†
Chpt 11
- "Why should I play with you, when I put my whole trust in you, as in God Almighty?" said Smerdyakov, with the same composure, only for a moment closing his eyes.†
Chpt 11
- Smerdyakov's eyes gleamed resentfully, his left eye winked, and he at once gave his answer, with his habitual composure and deliberation.†
Chpt 11
- It must be noted that Grigory entered the hall with a composed and almost stately air, not the least disconcerted by the majesty of the court or the vast audience listening to him.†
Chpt 12
- Grigory's description of the scene at the dinner-table, when Dmitri had burst in and beaten his father, threatening to come back to kill him, made a sinister impression on the court, especially as the old servant's composure in telling it, his parsimony of words and peculiar phraseology, were as effective as eloquence.†
Chpt 12
- She expressed herself with composure, or at least tried to appear composed.†
Chpt 12
- She expressed herself with composure, or at least tried to appear composed.†
Chpt 12
- But before every one had completely regained their composure and recovered from this scene, it was followed by another.†
Chpt 12
- We peep into the Gospel only on the eve of making speeches, in order to dazzle the audience by our acquaintance with what is, anyway, a rather original composition, which may be of use to produce a certain effect—all to serve the purpose!†
Chpt 12
- And after looking at the grave, and as it were, satisfying himself that everything had been done and the bread had been crumbled, he suddenly, to the surprise of every one, turned, quite composedly even, and made his way homewards.†
Chpt Epil.
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