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compose as in:  compose a poem

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  • I use an electronic keyboard to help compose music.
    compose = write
  • I couldn't copy her essays, and I lacked the factual and stylistic know-how to compose my own.   (source)
  • On the reverse side was a handwritten composition: "How I Spent My Summer Vacation" by Turtle Wexler.   (source)
    composition = written essay
  • They'd been learning about composers in school, where despite his obvious stupidity, Rudy excelled.   (source)
    composers = people who write music
  • Near the entrance they painted a motto composed by Naeem Khan: WE ARE COMMITTED TO BUILD FOR YOU THE CALL OF THE NEW ERA.   (source)
    composed = written
  • I opened another window, displaying the brief e-mail I'd composed just before logging into the Basement.   (source)
  • Professor Binns had asked for a three-foot-long composition on "The Medieval Assembly of European Wizards."   (source)
    composition = written work
  • Finally, a letter arrived, composed by Harvey and dictated to a nurse from his hospital bed.   (source)
    composed = written
  • Roy had mentally prepared himself to be blindfolded and tied up again—he'd even composed a short speech for the occasion.   (source)
  • They began composing debates for their characters.   (source)
    composing = writing
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  • "You understand that if they don't have those books to study from, I'll have to fail them in both reading and composition, since I plan..."   (source)
  • Now I was lucky to get a D on a composition.   (source)
    composition = written essay
  • She's been nagging at him to compose a poem to the nape of her neck, or to some other part of her anatomy, as is the practice among the more foppish of the court lovers, but his talents do not lie in that direction.   (source)
    compose = write
  • Evenings, they listened to scratchy library records Henry brought home, music composed by Russian generals: Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Shostakovich.   (source)
    composed = written
  • We wrote compositions.   (source)
    compositions = essays
  • I shall compose an Ode.   (source)
    compose = write
  • She posted the data directly to internal servers and composed an e-mail to Dr. Kapoor.   (source)
    composed = wrote
  • Mrs. Grace Merriweather had composed an original pageant entitled Maycomb County: Ad Astra Per Aspera, and I was to be a ham.   (source)
    composed = written
  • Brinker Hadley could compose his Shortest War Poem Ever Written   (source)
    compose = write
  • The poem Father composed for my birthday is too nice to keep to myself.   (source)
    composed = wrote
  • Piped in from who knew where played the background music of Wondertropolis' free fall into decay. ... a composition on infinite repeat, featuring lyrics Redd had written herself, which sang her praises as Wonderland's savior.   (source)
    composition = musical work
  • I was trying to decide between "You Send Me" and an original composition, "I'm Your Poetry God, Baby," when a voice yelled, "HEY!"   (source)
    composition = written work
  • Maybe he writes up here, composes bad poetry.   (source)
    composes = writes
  • Compose sonnets?   (source)
    compose = write
  • The words of these songs were composed without any human intervention whatever on an instrument known as a versificator.   (source)
    composed = written
  • He wrote regularly for The Hourly Radio, composed feely scenarios, and had the happiest knack for slogans and hypnopaedic rhymes.   (source)
    composed = wrote
  • The nature of Mr. Tostoff's composition eluded me, because just as it began my eyes fell on Gatsby, standing alone on the marble steps and looking from one group to another with approving eyes.   (source)
    composition = written music
  • Mostly Miss Stacy lets us choose our own subjects; but next week we are to write a composition on some remarkable person.   (source)
    composition = essay
  • It is my belief, however, that had I attempted a different order of composition, my faculties would not have been found so pointless and inefficacious.   (source)
    composition = writing
  • He composed heroic songs and began to write many a tale of enchantment and knightly adventure.   (source)
    composed = wrote
  • As a landscape photography enthusiast, Wang often saw the sights around him as artistic compositions.†   (source)
  • Having studied the intent of the composer, collaborated closely with his conductor, trained his dancers, overseen the design of the costumes and sets, Gorsky also walked his ranks in the minutes before battle.†   (source)
  • I hadn't realized that music could unlock things in you, could transport you to somewhere even the composer hadn't predicted.†   (source)
  • Over the next half hour, Langdon showed them slides of artwork by Michelangelo, Albrecht Dürer, Da Vinci, and many others, demonstrating each artist's intentional and rigorous adherence to the Divine Proportion in the layout of his compositions.†   (source)
  • When she played a selection from Bach, I'd point to the correct composer, then once again touch the color blue on my board.†   (source)
  • He stared at the equations until they melded together, and then he began to scrawl furiously, a composer with a symphony moving too fast for his fingers.†   (source)
  • They were proud of me because Masterji said I wrote the best English compositions, and they had me translate instruction manuals and write school or job applications.†   (source)
  • I feel wonder, I feel awe, like a composer first discovering the works of Mozart.†   (source)
  • A modern novelist could no more write characters and plots than a modern composer could a Mozart symphony.†   (source)
  • Then he gives me special compositions to write and makes me read them to the class because of all I learned from him last year.†   (source)
  • But, writes the psychologist Michael Howe in his book Genius Explained, by the standards of mature composers, Mozart's early works are not outstanding.†   (source)
  • Standing backstage, listening to other kids play scratchy violin and clunky piano compositions, I'd almost chickened out.†   (source)
  • His marks often suffered in school because, although he did well in written tests and compositions, he was terrible in oral recitations, speeches, anything that required the spotlight of attention to be focused on him.†   (source)
  • Over the years, bands like El Chicano, Tierra, Los Lobos, Con Safos, Los Illegals and Califas carried forth the people's message through Latinized jazz-rock compositions, and later in punk and traditional corrido forms.†   (source)
  • Hebron prided itself on the number of scholars, artists, musicians, philosophers, writers and composers it sheltered as citizens and long-term residents.†   (source)
  • From early in the morning until I took this meal, as I lay there with my eyes closed, I went over in my mind all the compositions I had ever played, bar by bar.†   (source)
  • His handwriting is famously illegible; student compositions are regularly returned stamped with tan rings of coffee, sometimes golden rings of Scotch.†   (source)
  • JAMES MCBRIDE, B.A., Oberlin College; M.S.J., Journalism, Columbia University; writer, composer, saxophonist.†   (source)
  • Nineteenth-century composer Richard Wagner went back to the Germanic myths for the material for his operas, and whether the results are good or bad in either historic or musical terms, the impulse to work with his tribal myths is completely understandable.†   (source)
  • The Finnish composer's Second Symphony, more than a hundred years old, has swept up Mr. Ayers and carried him back to his youth.†   (source)
  • "I get wind of much misplaced criticism, by men as clever even as Burnham, because of impressions from incomplete work and undeveloped compositions," he wrote.†   (source)
  • The old myths and sagas from heathen times were rediscovered, and composers all over Europe began to incorporate folk melodies into their compositions in an attempt to bridge the gap between folk music and art music.†   (source)
  • He had only one tape of a Russian composer, the Nutcracker Suite, and had brought that along with four Bachs.†   (source)
  • There would normally be more than one choreographer, set designer, lighting designer and composer for any Chinese ballet, and the final product always looked as if the various parts didn't quite fit together.†   (source)
  • He was fine, technically fine, but—" I don't remember the rest of the interview except that Dr. Udvarhelyi honed in on classical music and we talked for a long time, maybe an hour, about various composers and their different styles of music.†   (source)
  • On one of his last trips to Europe he brought back the first phonograph with a trumpet speaker, along with many of the latest popular records as well as those by his favorite classical composers.†   (source)
  • Then some Joplin, who's good, and then some Aaron Copland, who Mr. Russell said was his favorite composer even though he didn't write anything for a flutist.†   (source)
  • In the living room, the music she'd found on Grace's radio had given way to a learned discussion about some composer she'd never heard of.†   (source)
  • By high school, the nuns were reading her stories and compositions out loud in English class.†   (source)
  • He's my favorite composer.†   (source)
  • But Dexter and Ted, who had started the band during their junior year of high school, preferred their original compositions, the biggest and most ambitious of which were the potato songs.†   (source)
  • He pushes the note pages aside and opens the black-and-white-speckled cover of his "A-Plus Compositions" notebook.†   (source)
  • It was his music, his compositions.†   (source)
  • His favorite composer was Handel, but he adored also the music of Bach and in 1764 had taken tremendous delight in hearing the boy Mozart perform on the organ.†   (source)
  • This is how it goes: A certain Dembscher owed Beethoven fifty florins, and when the composer, who was chronically short of funds, reminded him of the debt, Dembscher heaved a mournful sigh and said,Muss es sein?†   (source)
  • It was a march, sprightly is the word, and it worked in ironic counterpoint to the foreground silhouettes on the screen, figures climbing in rote compliance, and Klara felt the music in her skin and could practically taste it on her tongue but wasn't able to name the piece or identify the composer.†   (source)
  • Later he moved on to darker, wilder versions, and at the very end he stopped playing things they recognized altogether, and as he held the long notes he wept, and no one needed to tell Misha and Svetya, even thick-headed as they were, that at last he'd become the composer he'd always wanted to be.†   (source)
  • me memorize the life works of his favorite composers.... Max grunted in sympathy as they entered the basement classroom, a large space whose floor was covered in firm, spongy mats.†   (source)
  • She found hundreds of Zalas—from an Italian athlete to a composer in Argentina.†   (source)
  • The First Lady is having a stage set up in the East Room, to allow performances by some of America's most notable musicians, such as cellist and composer Pablo Casals and singer Grace Bumbry.†   (source)
  • I mean I didn't have to do any work in English at all hardly, except write compositions once in a while.†   (source)
  • No more wonderful critical schools of experts to determine rationally where each composer had succeeded or failed.†   (source)
  • The one who called himself a composer was banging away the one wild piece he seemed to know on the out-of-tune piano, striking the keyboard with fists and elbows and filling in other effects in a bass voice that moaned like a bear in agony.†   (source)
  • Composer.†   (source)
  • Because of the sensitivity of the computer, rough percentage compositions could also be determined.†   (source)
  • SOME HISTORICAL NOTES The "ethnic" compositions of Rwanda and Burundi, past and present, aren't precisely known.†   (source)
  • He was a composer who wrote old-fashioned scores for motion pictures, and modern symphonies for sparse audiences.†   (source)
  • Later, with composer Richard Rodgers, Hammerstein wrote some of his greatest musicals, including Oklahoma!†   (source)
  • And I remember once asking why the composers were all mundanes.†   (source)
  • Should it happen that I am called to court, why, I will want to offer the king my very best compositions, songs I have sung a thousand times that are certain to please.†   (source)
  • She didn't miss a note, but the feeling in the playing was utterly perverse to what it should have been, as though she were critiquing rather than exploring the compositions.†   (source)
  • Perhaps the composer Paul Lincke understood something about American presidents.†   (source)
  • descended and dispersed again, shortly; and in the days and nights of their coming, it was said by the poet Adasay that they resembled at least six different things (he was always lavish with his similes): a migration of birds, bright birds, across a waveless ocean of milk; a procession of musical notes through the mind of a slightly mad composer; a school of those deep-swimming fish whose bodies are whorls and runnels of light, circling about some phosphorescent plant within a cold and sea-deep pit; the Spiral Nebula, suddenly collapsing upon its center; a storm, each drop of which becomes a feather, songbird or jewel; and (and perhaps most cogent) a Temple full of terrible and highl†   (source)
  • There were also two compositions whose titles had particular meaning for me, if only because of the meaning I knew they had possessed for Sophie and Nathan.†   (source)
  • A man is the player and the instrument in one, and most of the time he's the composer, note by note.†   (source)
  • There had been much wrangling among the various rival composers for the honour of being included in the programme, though a few cynics wondered if it would be an honour at all.†   (source)
  • There was to be a first performance of a violin sonata by a young composer, a pupil of Taneiev's, and a trio by Tchaikovsky.†   (source)
  • Listening is an art to be cultivated; and the symphonies of the desert or the forest demand a finer ear than do the symphonies of the composers.†   (source)
  • Somehow I had confiscated the "Fifty Favorites," a collection that included brief but famous fragments of the great composers.†   (source)
  • Then tell me if it is logical that the Martians should have: one, leaded-glass windows; two, cupolas; three, porch swings; four, an instrument that looks like a piano and probably is a piano; and five, if you look closely through this telescopic lens here, is it logical that a Martian composer would have published a piece of music titled, strangely enough, 'Beautiful Ohio'?†   (source)
  • In its place Minimus, the poet, had composed another song which began: Animal Farm, Animal Farm, Never through me shalt thou come to harm!   (source)
    composed = written
  • Above were the search laboratories and the padded rooms in which Sound-Track Writers and Synthetic Composers did the delicate work.   (source)
    composers = writers
  • She could describe the whole process of composing a novel, from the general directive issued by the Planning Committee down to the final touching-up by the Rewrite Squad.   (source)
    composing = writing
  • The general feeling on the farm was well expressed in a poem entitled Comrade Napoleon, which was composed by Minimus and which ran as follows:   (source)
    composed = written
  • The new tune which was to be the theme-song of Hate Week (the Hate Song, it was called) had already been composed and was being endlessly plugged on the telescreens.   (source)
  • Napoleon, with Squealer and another pig named Minimus, who had a remarkable gift for composing songs and poems, sat on the front of the raised platform, with the nine young dogs forming a semicircle round them, and the other pigs sitting behind.   (source)
    composing = writing or creating
  • Here were produced rubbishy newspapers containing almost nothing except sport, crime and astrology, sensational five-cent novelettes, films oozing with sex, and sentimental songs which were composed entirely by mechanical means on a special kind of kaleidoscope known as a versificator.   (source)
    composed = written
  • Afterwards there were recitations of poems composed in Napoleon's honor, and a speech by Squealer giving particulars of the latest increases in the production of foodstuffs, and on occasion a shot was fired from the gun.   (source)
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compose as in:  composed of many parts

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  • The group is composed of students who live in the same apartment building.
    composed = made up
  • The ACT was composed of four sections: math, English, science and reading.   (source)
  • They are one of the new regiments, composed almost entirely of young fellows just called up.   (source)
  • A new subculture was born, composed of the millions of people who now devoted every free moment of their lives to searching for Halliday's egg.   (source)
  • Given the treacherous nature of the local topography (most of the cliffs that riddle the region are composed of Navajo sandstone, a crumbly stratum that erodes into smooth, bulging precipices) and Ruess's penchant for dangerous climbing, this is a credible scenario.   (source)
  • ...this preliminary list was composed of those accused of the worst crimes, including list-topper Hideki Tojo, mastermind of Pearl Harbor and the man on whose orders POWs had been enslaved and starved, and Masahuru Homma, who was responsible for the Bataan Death March.   (source)
  • The little village that had grown up between the Giant's ribs was composed of buggers now, and they saluted him gravely, like gladiators greeting Caesar before they died for his entertainment.   (source)
  • I am her outcome, the result of the life she once lived headlong; whereas she, if she can be said to exist at all, is composed only of what I remember.   (source)
  • Claude looked at her, his face carefully composed into a mask of surprise.   (source)
    composed = made
  • My grandparents were part of the second wave, composed of returning veterans and the rapidly rising number of young adults in 1940s and '50s Appalachia.   (source)
    composed = made up
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  • Why is our regiment composed entirely of kids like us, no one over the age of eighteen?   (source)
  • Behind her the walls of the room were flooded with green and yellow and orange fireworks sizzling and bursting to some music composed almost completely of trap drums, tom-toms, and cymbals.   (source)
  • They ate modestly, meals composed of grains and vegetables and some dairy, and when they were lucky, juiced fruit or a little meat.   (source)
  • Groves are typically composed of trees, rather than, say, Fudgsicles.   (source)
  • It aroused in Winston dim memories of something seen long ago on a wall or a hoarding — a vast bottle composed of electric lights which seemed to move up and down and pour its contents into a glass.   (source)
    composed = made
  • Not philosophers but fret-sawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone of society.   (source)
    compose = make up
  • They were composed of oddly familiar pieces of ivory.   (source)
    composed = made up
  • We were struck with the fact, that in all the mass of material of which the record is composed, there is hardly one authentic document.   (source)
  • The founders of the greater part of the families which now compose the aristocracy of Salem might here be traced...   (source)
    compose = make up
  • I found that I could not compose a female without again devoting several months to profound study and laborious disquisition.   (source)
    compose = create by arranging parts
  • She had on a mink stole composed of lustrous tails, and was extricating herself from her gloves.   (source)
    composed = made
  • That novel was composed of scratches on a page, dear.   (source)
    composed = made up
  • [tinder] An inflammable substance generally composed of partially burned linen, used for kindling fire from a spark struck with a steel and flint.   (source)
    composed = made
  • The dungeon floor was composed of floating circular platforms arranged end to end in a long line that stretched out into the darkness ahead.   (source)
    composed = made up
  • A third layer of nativeness was composed of those who others thought directly descended, even in the tiniest fraction of their genes, from the human beings who had been brought from Africa to this continent centuries ago as slaves.   (source)
  • The law office itself had a reception area that might as well have been that of a five-star hotel: a flower arrangement of eighteenth-century density and ostentation, thick mushroom-coloured wall-to-wall, an abstract painting composed of pricey smudges.   (source)
  • These instructions had to be very simple, usually composed of just two or three words, such as "go south" or "get sword."   (source)
    composed = consisting
  • "All of our oologists are voice-linked to a support team," he continued. "Composed of Halliday scholars, videogame experts, pop-culture historians, and cryptologists."   (source)
    composed = made up
  • They're composed of crystals in a high state of organization, and they attempt to establish communications with those Earth beings they've assumed are like themselves: eyeglasses, windowpanes, Venetian paperweights, wine goblets, diamond rings.   (source)
  • It was a foul day, torrid and hazy; hotter than the hinges of Hades, as Walter would say now Above the lakeshore there was an invisible but almost palpable fog, composed of stale perfume and the oil from tanned bare shoulders, mixed with the steam from the cooking wieners and the burnt tang of spun sugar.   (source)
    composed = made
  • Looked at so closely one sees the fine sand is composed of millions of the tiniest pebbles, as clear as if they had been made in a laboratory.   (source)
    composed = made up
  • I examined the materials of the fire, and to my joy found it to be composed of wood.   (source)
  • It was not alone that it was composed of all the ills of mortality and with the pungent, acrid smell of blood, but it seemed as though corruption had become itself corrupt.   (source)
  • But the pillar was composed of both the day and the night guiding, for the fire was in the red eye, which at the thought got a new fascination for me, till, as I looked, the fire divided, and seemed to shine on me through the fog like two red eyes, such as Lucy told me of in her momentary mental wandering when, on the cliff, the dying sunlight struck the windows of St. Mary's Church.   (source)
  • This body of soldiery—which still sustains a corporate existence, and marches down from past ages with an ancient and honourable fame—was composed of no mercenary materials.   (source)
  • You may remember that a history of all the voyages made for purposes of discovery composed the whole of our good Uncle Thomas' library.   (source)
  • They were her countrywomen: and the beef and ale of their native land, with a moral diet not a whit more refined, entered largely into their composition.   (source)
    composition = makeup (something composed of many parts)
  • Were we among the tamer scenes of nature I might fear to encounter your unbelief, perhaps your ridicule; but many things will appear possible in these wild and mysterious regions which would provoke the laughter of those unacquainted with the ever-varied powers of nature; nor can I doubt but that my tale conveys in its series internal evidence of the truth of the events of which it is composed.   (source)
    composed = made up
  • ...all such thoughts were wasted moments in a life composed of a definitionally finite set of such moments.   (source)
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compose as in:  compose myself

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  • She is admired for maintaining her composure under even the worse of circumstances.
    composure = calm state of mind
  • When she pulled up at her parents' house, she had to compose herself before she walked in.   (source)
    compose = calm
  • Rosa was still in shock, but she composed herself.   (source)
    composed = calmed or settled
  • I kept myself composed enough that no one saw the storm raging inside—a miracle in and of itself.   (source)
    composed = calm or settled
  • He lay back on the bed and tried to compose himself.   (source)
    compose = calm
  • Mama did not answer but maintained her composure.   (source)
    composure = calm state of mind
  • Then she composes herself and beams at me.   (source)
    composes = calms or settles
  • Moniba spoke well—she was very composed and her speech was more emotional and poetic than mine, though mine might have had the better message.   (source)
    composed = calm
  • His face twisted and strained to stay composed.   (source)
  • "When the scientists of the future show up at my house with robot eyes and they tell me to try them on, I will tell the scientists to screw off, because I do not want to see a world without him."
    I was kind of crying by then.
    "And then, having made my rhetorical point, I will put my robot eyes on, because I mean, with robot eyes you can probably see through girls' shirts and stuff. Augustus, my friend, Godspeed." ...  After he'd recovered his composure, he added, "I would cut the bit about seeing through girls' shirts."   (source)
    composure = calm state of mind
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  • Several of these images show McCandless's belongings inside the derelict vehicle; as soon as Franz realizes what he's seeing, his eyes mist over, he thrusts the photos back at me without examining the rest, and the old man walks away to compose himself as I mumble a lame apology.   (source)
    compose = calm
  • While another line of kids boarded, Dana composed himself as if he were a model citizen.   (source)
    composed = settled or calmed
  • The judge regained her composure.   (source)
    composure = calm state of mind
  • Lale stays sitting as he tries to compose himself.   (source)
    compose = calm
  • Once I figured this out and composed myself, I got a Ziploc-sized sample bag and waved it around a bit, then sealed it.   (source)
    composed = settled or calmed
  • Aunt Alexandra composed herself for a two-hour nap and dared us to make any noise in the yard, the neighborhood was resting.   (source)
  • For a brief moment the onrush of the egwugwu was checked by the unexpected composure of the two men.   (source)
    composure = calm state of mind
  • "I'm fine," she said, regaining her composure and keeping the subject on track.   (source)
    composure = control of emotions
  • He composed himself triumphantly, to hear the sounds of the hunt dying away.   (source)
    composed = settled or calmed
  • Without them I wouldn't be able to jump back into the fray with my usual composure.   (source)
    composure = calm state of mind
  • I felt tingly all over as I stared into the face of the prettiest girl I had ever seen. Without the girl knowing, I regained my composure as she began to talk.   (source)
    composure = calm (in control of emotions)
  • Regaining his usual composure, he took a seat next to the princess.   (source)
    composure = calm state of mind
  • She said, more composedly: "I don't think this place would be very agreeable in a storm."   (source)
    composedly = in a calm manner
  • Before my mother's tremulous anxiety I recover my composure.   (source)
    composure = calm state of mind
  • Jane and I sat together and Jane was so composed that I envied her.   (source)
    composed = calm
  • I drew a great couch out of its place near the corner, so that as I lay, I could look at the lovely view to east and south, and unthinking of and uncaring for the dust, composed myself for sleep.   (source)
    composed = calm or settled
  • "They are not unlike the Pack, these brothers of thine," said Akela, sitting down composedly.   (source)
    composedly = in a calm manner
  • "Drink, then," replied he, still with the same cold composure.   (source)
    composure = calm state of mind
  • Unable to endure the aspect of the being I had created, I rushed out of the room and continued a long time traversing my bed-chamber, unable to compose my mind to sleep.   (source)
    compose = calm
  • Maintaining her composure, she worked quickly and moved all of the received messages to a multiply-encrypted, invisible subdirectory.†   (source)
  • "No worries," said Chuck immediately, regaining his composure, but still massaging the hand the door had hit.†   (source)
  • "Yes, Miss Urbanova," said Oleg, who, having regained his composure, set a table for two, lit a candle, and backed out the door.†   (source)
  • Its people with their Hanseatic history and composure.†   (source)
  • As it turned out—perhaps because I had braced myself for the worst—I was able to keep my composure.†   (source)
  • I sat quietly while he forced himself back into composure.†   (source)
  • My face crumpled, my composure went and I held him tightly and I stopped caring that he could feel the shudder of my sobbing body because grief swamped me.†   (source)
  • Sophie had been remarkably poised all evening, but now, for the first time, Langdon saw the aura of composure beginning to crack.†   (source)
  • Thomas, still a bit queasy from the Changing, forced himself to take a second and gain his composure.†   (source)
  • No, I don't think so," said Hermione composedly.†   (source)
  • I decided I'm going to live—or at least try to live—the way I want, with dignity, with courage, with humor, with composure.†   (source)
  • When he regained his composure, he grinned.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Shigemura taught Hatsue how to sing with composure and how to sit, walk, and stand gracefully.†   (source)
  • So I admire Pattie's composure.†   (source)
  • Stenton seemed impressed with her composure.†   (source)
  • For three hours now, Alex had regained her composure, thanks to the anesthesiologist who'd given her an epidural.†   (source)
  • The donkeys swayed again, the cows—their horns falling about their heads—moved a little, and the kings and shepherds regained their usual lack of composure.†   (source)
  • I could tell he was struggling to maintain his composure.†   (source)
  • Even Septa Mordane noted her composure and nodded in approval.†   (source)
  • "It's a long story," Sticky said, regaining his composure.†   (source)
  • These two have a strange way of making me lose my composure.†   (source)
  • "Well," Rachel said, trying to regain her composure.†   (source)
  • That would shatter her pretense of calm and composure.†   (source)
  • Kit marveled at the ease and gentleness with which Mercy controlled her charges, her warm sweet voice never raised, her lovely composure never ruffled.†   (source)
  • Dr. Erland reassembled his composure.†   (source)
  • Latha stared at him with a composure and a lack of curiosity unusual in a thirteen-year-old.†   (source)
  • She was a masterpiece of composure; nothing ever ruffled her or made her upset, and though she was not beautiful her calmness had the magnetic pull of beauty —a stillness so powerful that the molecules realigned themselves around her when she came into a room.†   (source)
  • Beyond the telekinesis practice, most of our session was spent drilling technique in fighting—hand-to-hand combat, wrestling, mixed martial arts—followed by elements of composure—grace under pressure, mind control, how to spot fear in the eyes of an opponent and then know how best to expose it.†   (source)
  • By and large they carried these things inside, maintaining the masks of composure.†   (source)
  • Instead, he focused on what she had just said and regained his composure.†   (source)
  • At that moment, Rufus's composure broke.†   (source)
  • Kris struggled to regain her composure.†   (source)
  • I regained my composure.†   (source)
  • After she regains her composure, she lowers her voice in an attempt to avoid attracting the attention of the nine-year-olds who are somewhere within our vicinity.†   (source)
  • Only then did his composure break.†   (source)
  • "I'm not sad, Sister," I said when I had regained some composure.†   (source)
  • I recovered my composure and tried to make my smile warm.†   (source)
  • In the house eight sleeping segments woke instantly, and once I had recovered my composure they rushed to where Lieutenant Awn lay trying to sleep.†   (source)
  • And then, the storm in his eyes passed as quickly as it had come, and he regained his composure.†   (source)
  • "It seemed to me," he wrote, in a letter to John in Brookline, "that at the least it must have been extremely disquieting, gaudy & childish, if not savage and an injury to the Exposition, through its disturbance of dignity, and injury to breadth, unity & composure."†   (source)
  • It would be helpful to me, if she were indeed mad, or at least a little madder than she appears to be; but thus far she has manifested a composure that a duchess might envy.†   (source)
  • Several days later, once Father had regained his composure and both his eyes, he assured me that Mama Tataba hadn't meant to ruin our demonstration garden.†   (source)
  • I struggled to regain my composure.†   (source)
  • Sophie tried hard to maintain her composure when it turned out to be—yes, it was!†   (source)
  • What has died in this room tonight is the last vestige is me of what was human' "A shadow fell over her face; clear, as if the composure were rent like a veil.†   (source)
  • It's a girl," Jace said, recovering his composure.†   (source)
  • "My fault," he cried, shaking his head in rage, struggling visibly to regain his composure.†   (source)
  • When I recovered my composure, I had to leap onto the sidewalk at the risk of breaking all my bones, and run toward the street down which she had already turned.†   (source)
  • Luma had no doubt who would win the scrimmage, but she wanted to see how the 15s would react to the challenge of a superior team—to see if they would crumble and lose their composure or if they would keep fighting.†   (source)
  • After reading it he regained his composure.†   (source)
  • Not even her worst escapes from foster homes or her regular truancy from school had ever ruffled his composure.†   (source)
  • "Ay que Lupito," he shook his head, "the war made him crazy—" Chavez regained part of his composure.†   (source)
  • Her reserve had vanished, leaving behind only composure and determination.†   (source)
  • Yueh closed his eyes, fought to regain composure.†   (source)
  • Brittain has regained some composure.†   (source)
  • I tried to inject a measure of self-composure into my voice.†   (source)
  • Mia stumbles for a second then regains her composure.†   (source)
  • But almost immediately, she resumed her composure and asked in a steady voice: "Will you come up and see him?"†   (source)
  • A white-haired man sitting erect in the old wicker chair, a figure of eerie stillness and composure.†   (source)
  • Juliet's yelling, and when I sit up her face has finally lost its composure and is twisted with anger.†   (source)
  • "They used me to the point where I had no body parts left to give," Kenny said, struggling to maintain his composure.†   (source)
  • Finished with her planned tirade, Kelley regained her composure and drove to the east side of Hot Springs to comb the streets.†   (source)
  • I have the blessing of carrying a purse sewn by a woman waiting for fistula surgery at the hospital and watching how these new skills have changed her whole composure and confidence, of celebrating with my Congolese friend who was accepted for a job right after he graduated from university, of seeing children in school who previously never had the chance, of rejoicing with a family over their improved harvest, of dancing with my coworkers over a grant awarded for a program.†   (source)
  • My dad's eyebrows come together, as if he's struggling to keep his composure.†   (source)
  • Suddenly I found myself fighting for composure.†   (source)
  • Maria Freeman turns pink, then regains her composure.†   (source)
  • After the departure of the detectives, the composure that had impressed Nye faltered; a familiar despair impended.†   (source)
  • He had a tear in his eye, and I must admit I was fighting to control my composure as well.†   (source)
  • It was like Cinderella in reverse: if I was a princess for my daylight hours, at night I let myself and my composure go, just until the stroke of midnight, when I turned back to princess again, just in time.†   (source)
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  • With every camera gleefully trained on him, I have just enough time to release the small, choked sound in my throat and compose myself.†   (source)
  • But this document was composed in a cool, experienced, meticulous style.†   (source)
  • After a moment of bewilderment, the Count attempted to compose himself.†   (source)
  • The city is ruled by a council of fifty people, composed entirely of representatives from Abnegation, because our faction is regarded as incorruptible, due to our commitment to selflessness.†   (source)
  • It was done in a way that was leisurely, yet alert and composed.†   (source)
  • Before I could compose myself, he spoke again.†   (source)
  • He took a deep breath, as if he were trying to compose himself.†   (source)
  • Andrew Brown's print shop smelled of ink and grease and the sweat of muscular apprentices carrying trays of lead type from the composing table to the printing press.†   (source)
  • Putting the SmartCar in reverse, she performed a composed three-point turn and reversed her direction.†   (source)
  • My mother struggled not to let it show, but underneath her composed expression was a growing smile.†   (source)
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  • Every single space on my talking board got filled with names and pictures of people in my life, questions I might need to ask, and a big variety of nouns and verbs and adjectives, so I could actually compose something that looked like a sentence!†   (source)
  • He stopped, took a breath to compose himself.†   (source)
  • It changed the chemical composition of the oil.†   (source)
  • She didn't look nearly as composed as usual, but rather pale and clammy.†   (source)
  • Everything is composed of webs and lattices and upheavals of sound and texture.†   (source)
  • It was a complex composition that involved the blending of many hues and tints.†   (source)
  • In this case the official cause of death, he wrote, was anoxia—a deprivation of oxygen to the brain—as well as an acute disturbance to the composition of the blood.†   (source)
  • I start to think about soil composition.†   (source)
  • He exhaled loudly, composing himself.†   (source)
  • And there sat Erik—composed, casual, wearing his football-hero smile.†   (source)
  • At that sight, I gave up my last reservations, felt the thrust of real confidence, so when she stepped onto the porch, composing herself to be conciliatory—I could see that—I opened the door for her.†   (source)
  • I'll see you later," she mumbled, and before Aria could compose herself, Emily was biking furiously away.†   (source)
  • What would an anthropologist say about the student body of Sterling High, based on the Wonder-bread sandwiches scarred by only one bite; the tub of Cherry Bomb lip gloss with a fingerprint still skimming the surface; the salt-and-pepper composition notebooks filled with study sheets on Aztec civilization and margin notes about the current one: I luv Zach S!†   (source)
  • On the first page of his book, Colonel Summers tells a story about President Franklin D. Roosevelt at the Yalta Conference in 1945, when the Allied powers were trying to decide the composition of the postwar world.†   (source)
  • The giant circular targets were composed of five colored rings—yellow marking the center, with only a tiny black dot to mark the bull's-eye.†   (source)
  • "The composition of the human species is infinitely more diverse than most humans suspect," she began.†   (source)
  • Robb composed himself with an effort.†   (source)
  • Be composed—be at ease with me...Not till the sun excludes you do I exclude you,Not till the waters refuse to glisten for you and the leaves to rustle for you, do my words refuse to glisten and rustle for you.†   (source)
  • The society was composed of a group of white-haired American missionary ladies from the First Chinese Baptist Church.†   (source)
  • In his mind he began composing a letter.†   (source)
  • To achieve vision in this way, this journey into a darkness that is composed of women, a woman, who can see in darkness while he himself strains blindly forward.†   (source)
  • Six months ago, when we'd parted in Sydney, she'd given me a tight hug and cried, but now we were all grown up and composed.†   (source)
  • He had the same face, the same brilliant white smile, but his whole form was suddenly composed of swirling black vapor, his eyes like electrical sparks in a living storm cloud.†   (source)
  • I took a couple of deep breaths to compose myself.†   (source)
  • Her face was expressionless, almost composed, and she looked right ahead to the door she was about to leave by.†   (source)
  • So, McCourt, you are to go home and write that composition and bring it in tomorrow.†   (source)
  • The older kids scattered to quiet spots around the Center to compose poems.†   (source)
  • RHAPAW was a fifteen-year-old Buick that had been driven with impunity by all three of Ben's older siblings and was, by the time it reached Ben, composed primarily out of duct tape and spackle.†   (source)
  • I must have been listening to his hints on camera angles and composition when I took the pictures he held now.†   (source)
  • She must have been sweltering, but she looked fully composed.†   (source)
  • She tried to compose herself before she went to take the new order.†   (source)
  • The beach they were on was composed of tiny yellow and green pebbles, presumably terribly precious stones.†   (source)
  • I continued to breathe slowly, and once I felt composed, I carried on.†   (source)
  • Juliet placed both hands over her mouth, composing herself.†   (source)
  • PROFESSOR McGONAGALL (composes herself for a moment): Your intentions to save Cedric were honorable, if misguided.†   (source)
  • It was only a snapshot but for a sense of foreshadowing, of transience and doom, no master of Dutch genre painting could have set up the composition more skillfully.†   (source)
  • 9, K. 271) was not composed until he was twenty-one: by that time Mozart had already been composing concertos for ten years.†   (source)
  • I don't like that she's standing there, composed and detached, evaluating me like I'm a taxidermy specimen.†   (source)
  • The walls were composed of dirty white cinder blocks.†   (source)
  • I have fifteen minutes before sophomore composition begins.†   (source)
  • The meal was composed only of bread, cheese, and an onion, but the smell made his stomach grumble hungrily.†   (source)
  • Her face had a dreamy look, quiet and composed.†   (source)
  • She told of the math test for which he had received a B+; the English composition that Mr. Parker had asked him to read aloud to the class, bringing him both embarrassment and triumph; she told her what he ate, what he wore, the new shoes he had bought—all the trivialities of his life, with no mention of the things that mattered: Amy or the poetry he wrote late at night in his room, his longings, his hopes ...."...he's such a good boy.†   (source)
  • He tried to sound composed, ironic, like a man amused at some childish prank, but his face told a different story.†   (source)
  • Some called it the country's first "multi-ethnic" revolt; the common link was the class composition of the combatants.†   (source)
  • A fractal ....something considered simple and orderly that is actually composed of repeated patterns no matter how magnified.†   (source)
  • More composed, I went back to the beginning, to the first dizziness, and remembered it all for him—relived it all in detail.†   (source)
  • You can't c-c-c-compose this poetry unless your m-m-muse is shedding blood, can you?†   (source)
  • From the looks of things, Ambrose had been trying to compose a poem.†   (source)
  • I took a few more moments to compose myself, and then finally swallowed and managed to say, "Mother tells me that within a month it's likely I'll have a danna."†   (source)
  • By 1939 he had composed scores for a number of films, as well as many lieder, chansons and songs which were very popular at the time.†   (source)
  • And as they spoke, I was composing in my head how that last afternoon went.†   (source)
  • And then his fingers flowed swiftly across the ivory, and the room was filled with a composition so complex, so luxuriant, it was impossible to believe only one set of hands played.†   (source)
  • For the next twelve years lived abroad, in Paris, Rome, and elsewhere, composing the first volume of Dead Souls, the novel considered to be his finest work.†   (source)
  • You'd think he'd composed it just for you, my dear.†   (source)
  • He played violin and read music and composed it, mostly classical and religious music.†   (source)
  • If I were a musician, I would have composed music.†   (source)
  • Heraclitus—who lived around 500 B.C.—composed a number of adages, what are called his "apothegms of change," all of which tell us that everything is changing at every moment, that the movement of time causes ceaseless change in the cosmos.†   (source)
  • The Third was once described as a composition in which dark clouds dissolve into sunshine.†   (source)
  • She approved, with a quick twitch of her fingers, the message I had composed for the district magistrate, and then opened the most recent message from her young sister.†   (source)
  • He snatched the phone off the floor and, avoiding Perenelle's eyes, took a moment to compose himself.†   (source)
  • I could tell he was taking great efforts to compose himself.†   (source)
  • He was angry, barely able to keep himself composed.†   (source)
  • When Mama wasn't supplying the neighborhood with caps and baby dresses from her flying needles, she was composing cheery messages for shut-ins all over Haarlem.†   (source)
  • Ripe fruits, acrid sweat, urine, flowers, dark spices, and other things I've never even seen—I can't say what goes into the composition, or why it rises up to confront me as I round some corner hastily, unsuspecting.†   (source)
  • He guided it back onto the road, feeling the rear end fishtail for a moment before regaining the composition surface.†   (source)
  • I composed the story in a way that would make my day sound okay.†   (source)
  • That's a very, very rough approximation both of the area—contained between Baghdad, Ramadi, and Baqubah—and the ethnic composition.†   (source)
  • Finally they had composed the invitation.†   (source)
  • And Lestat sat composed beside her, like a mourner.†   (source)
  • I sit down on the bed and flip open my laptop, log in to my email account and start to compose a note to my mother.†   (source)
  • But just in case some dark soul wanted to make that case, Sean began to compose the rebuttal in his head.†   (source)
  • "Can you blame them, Comrade?" the driver asked, taking all of this in, filing, analyzing, composing his independent report to Moscow Center.†   (source)
  • Rina had recovered, at least temporarily, and was completely composed as she was escorted to the stage and our seats there, in a quick rearrangement, by a defensive back.†   (source)
  • The Kabbalists referred to this alphabet as 'eye writing,' because the letters were composed of lines and small circles, which resembled eyes.†   (source)
  • He soon mastered his right hand and expanded his use of the two fingers that remained, continuing to compose songs about hens and hunted foxes.†   (source)
  • He laughed anxiously, then composed himself.†   (source)
  • But instead I left after a few minutes, and composed myself before heading to the next class.†   (source)
  • Across the country, ministers stayed up late Saturday night and by candle or lamp wrote out the final words of sermons they began composing as soon as they heard the terrible news of the president's death.†   (source)
  • More astonished than flattered, he composed an identifying phrase: Tell her that I swear by the crowned goddess.†   (source)
  • A hastily composed lunchtime update from the TT wire service had the headline A TOWN IN SHOCK, and it summed up the problems of the Vanger Corporation.†   (source)
  • The girls had set up all the stuff in the auditorium; and they had, with Miss Violet's help, composed the story about the three wise men.†   (source)
  • If she had told me the night before I would have lain awake all night, of course, full of dread and foreboding, but by morning I would have been composed and ready.†   (source)
  • For someone who has spent his entire life avoiding attention from the Officials, he seems remarkably composed about this.†   (source)
  • People come and go, changing the composition but not the shape of the crowd.†   (source)
  • She'll compose herself in bindu suspension to reduce her oxygen needs.†   (source)
  • As soon as he heard their retreating footsteps, he flew around the remaining desks until, oh, joy, he found one with a composition book that had Janice Avery's name on it.†   (source)
  • When she spoke again, her voice was more composed but still held a wavering note.†   (source)
  • And run I do, leaving almost everything I possess in the world behind me my brown suitcase, the three dresses I made at the Byrnes', the fingerless gloves and change of underwear and the navy sweater, my schoolbooks and pencil, the composition book Miss Larsen gave me to write in.†   (source)
  • Taking a step back, Dan imagined the infamous Brookline warden sitting at this desk, adjusting his spectacles and poring over research or composing a letter, maybe even this letter, the one stained with spilled black ink.†   (source)
  • The Mountain Madness team-composed of guides Fischer, Beidleman, and Boukreev; six Sherpas; and clients Charlotte Fox, Tim Madsen, Klev Schoening, Sandy Pittman, Lene Gammelgaard, and Martin Adams-left the South Col half an hour after us.†   (source)
  • She was still trying to compose herself when the door from the vestibule to the waiting room swung open.†   (source)
  • Clancy was lean but not slight, well-kept but not groomed, composed but not comfortable.†   (source)
  • Indeed, in the moment or so that it took for me to perceive this and compose a suitable response, I may even have given the outward impression of struggling with the question, for I saw all the gentlemen in the room exchange mirthful smiles.†   (source)
  • Its composition depended on the kind of vegetable provided that winter.†   (source)
  • The scene of injured people, medics, smoking steel, all washed in a strong and eerie light, to ok on the eloquence of a formal composition.†   (source)
  • I'm not lying, the So-Called Gym Teacher knew something about Composition on Several Planes at once.†   (source)
  • She was composing an important memo to all her key people on how they should handle interference from Crawford Gates.†   (source)
  • "The fallacy of composition" is a logical error — a mistaken belief that what seems good for an individual will still be good when others do the same thing.†   (source)
  • Then she composed herself and insisted on cleaning the house.†   (source)
  • He also won first prize that winter for an original piano composition.†   (source)
  • After she had composed herself, she came out and kneeled on the floor and begged forgiveness.†   (source)
  • "Luis and Carlos, go to your bedroom," she orders, stepping into the room and composing herself.†   (source)
  • She could rattle off the composition of mistura carminativa (one gm of soda bicarb, two ml each of spirit of ammonia and tincture cardamom, point six ml of tincture of ginger, one ml of spirit of chloroform, topped off with peppermint water to thirty ml) for dyspepsia.†   (source)
  • An infinitely long train, composed of roofless cattle cars.†   (source)
  • I'm already composing a letter in my head.†   (source)
  • Among them was a badly typed composition entitled "A History of My Boy's Life.†   (source)
  • They composed it in four hours, and many many times she said, "I could never get through this without you" and the Prince was always most modest, asking little helpful personal questions about Westley as often as was possible without drawing attention to it, and in this way, well before dawn, she told him, smiling as she remembered, of Westley's early fears of Spinning Ticks.†   (source)
  • The only subjects that came easily were those taught by Writing Mistress: composition and ciphering.†   (source)
  • He tries to remain composed, again rustling pages on the lectern.†   (source)
  • They were picking their way along one of those rutted gullies of which the town was composed when they saw the horse looking out of the sashless window of an abandoned mud house.†   (source)
  • Yet the letter he composed, though he had labored over it several nights, was such a poor composition that he debated sending it.†   (source)
  • Then she managed to say in a fairly composed tone.†   (source)
  • McMurphy composed more notes for the nurse to find in the latrine with her mirror.†   (source)
  • It was on its way to being a good composition.†   (source)
  • It takes me a moment to compose myself.†   (source)
  • A deportment so firm, so dignified, but yet so modest and composed, I have never seen in any other person.†   (source)
  • And then I compose the most difficult letter I've ever written.†   (source)
  • Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress.†   (source)
  • The front of the woman was composed of two hinged doors.†   (source)
  • It was the music composed by J. Rosamond Johnson.†   (source)
  • He had composed a poem, called "The Mango Lady," dedicated "To Ophelia."†   (source)
  • Each site operates a bit differently, but the gist is this: You compose a personal ad about yourself that typically includes a photo, vital statistics, your income range, level of education, likes and dislikes, and so on.†   (source)
  • Will you please hand me that small composition gasket that rolled over there?†   (source)
  • "You have to compose yourself," said Brave Orchid to her sister.†   (source)
  • He finished up the morning's work, and because he couldn't get his mind off it, composed a quick e-mail to Gage.†   (source)
  • It was a black-and-white composition book.†   (source)
  • Max glowered at the two of them, sitting so calm and composed.†   (source)
  • This was a difficult letter to compose, especially with Moody at my shoulder reading every word.†   (source)
  • Wonderful composition, with the balance of the mirror and the woman, who is rendered in the style of the pre-Raphaelite brotherhood, I believe.†   (source)
  • She had the clear air of someone who knows how to do time and was immaculately groomed, with "good" unis, pressed and sharp, and she was generally very composed.†   (source)
  • He was a judge, as open, tolerant, and fair-minded as he could possibly be, given his upbringing and genetic composition.†   (source)
  • Madam — my dear young lady — for heaven's sake — compose yourself.†   (source)
  • She looks as usual, composed and neat, and I want to ask her if she gets up before dawn or hasn't been to bed at all.†   (source)
  • Five thousand miles away, in Moscow, a furious Nikita Khrushchev composes his response to JFK's televised message.†   (source)
  • Some of these were composed or begun by Meriadoc himself, though in the Shire he was chiefly remembered for his Herblore of the Shire, and for his Reckoning of Years m which he discussed the relation of the calendars of the Shire and Bree to those of Rivendell, Gondor, and Rohan.†   (source)
  • In fact he himself seemed composed and even detached, which was more than could be said for any other rabbit in the audience: but Pipkin was hardly to realize this.†   (source)
  • A Roman spear of a make and composition that hasn't been forged in over a thousand years.†   (source)
  • And he plays her the song he has composed upstairs in his bedroom over the past week.†   (source)
  • Upstairs, I took a minute to compose myself before I knocked on the door.†   (source)
  • Henry Clinton's class in Law School at the University was composed of bright, humorless young veterans.†   (source)
  • Indeed, Mira had been up most of the night, reading reports, using her training and her psych diagnostics to compose a profile.†   (source)
  • "It wouldn't have been any disgrace at all," he told The New Yorker in its April 7 issue, "to figure out a composition like that.†   (source)
  • Well, I noticed that composition notebook you're always scribbling in is looking pretty ratty.†   (source)
  • Anyway, that's what I wrote Stradlater's composition about.†   (source)
  • Black powder is composed of three basic ingredients in roughly the following proportions: 15 percent charcoal, 10 percent sulfur, and 75 percent saltpeter.†   (source)
  • Mortenson padded up to the kitchen to make a pot of coffee, then returned to the basement to compose the first e-mail of the day: "To: All CAI Board Members," Mortenson typed.†   (source)
  • When I turn to face her, I'm hastily composing a fleet of explanations, none of which make any sense.†   (source)
  • In the library, it monitored the molecular composition of every person who exited, to make sure no one left with a book in their hands or hidden under their clothes.†   (source)
  • It is an electronic graphic, digitally composed, a fusion of Caucasian, Hispanic, and Asian features.†   (source)
  • She sat back on her bench and composed herself.†   (source)
  • He wrote: "(1) Every instructor of English composition knows what quality is.†   (source)
  • I looked at her thinking of what I'd tried to do and of where it had gotten me, seeing her heavy, composed figure before me.†   (source)
  • Finally, there was the composition of the court itself.†   (source)
  • He discovered a number of workers from the editorial and composing rooms still in the building.†   (source)
  • All proteins were composed of the same freight cars, the same units.†   (source)
  • The High Organ was the source of some controversy because of its ethnic composition: all four permanent members were from Xhosa backgrounds.†   (source)
  • We batted it around much of that night, in room L of Raffles—argued it between decisions on a hundred things that came up and people wanted to know what to do, while "Adam" through other voices handled other decisions that did not require talk, composed phony news to send Earthside, kept Complex isolated, many things.†   (source)
  • In an area composed of a few modular buildings and a covered motor pool, they had carved out a small patio with a brick pizza oven and a large gas grill.†   (source)
  • They prefer not to compose the story of their own exploits.†   (source)
  • Cherryl's face was composed and unsmiling.†   (source)
  • She composed her essay in her car and practiced reading it aloud in the phone company's utility closet.†   (source)
  • My seeds were the nu shu characters I composed.†   (source)
  • He composed at night using ACIDPlanet audio software and played his tracks on an endless loop during the day for his captive audience.†   (source)
  • She was red-eyed but composed, Henry wrote.†   (source)
  • The floor was composed of pieces of brick and stone and artificial stone cleverly fitted together.†   (source)
  • Juggle, jest, or recite the poems composed by your betters.†   (source)
  • He was overwhelmed by the smoothness of the photograph, but also by the thousands of microscopic pits in the film surface that were invisible to the unassisted eye, and by the feel of the dyes and fixatives and other chemicals of which the graveyard image was composed.†   (source)
  • Alec watched her as she moved, catlike and composed, her face blank of anything now but a curious sympathy.†   (source)
  • I write them anyway and then slip the composition book into my backpack, behind my trig book, like it's homework.†   (source)
  • Puller waited until she'd composed herself and turned back to him.†   (source)
  • Out of breath, she lunged into the short lobby, composing herself as best she could to deflect the glances directed at her by five or six tenants, some entering, some leaving.†   (source)
  • I read aloud a thought unit that consisted of a citation from the Mishnah—the Mishnah is the written text of rabbinic oral law; in form and content it is for the most part terse and clipped, a vast collection of laws upon which are based almost all the rabbinic discussions which, together with the Mishnah, compose the Talmud.†   (source)
  • My American one is still composed of delicate halves.†   (source)
  • She might have seen it to be the garish shade that could bring a planned composition to life.†   (source)
  • I leaned back, closed my eyes, and tried to compose myself, the mention of Raymond's name still ringing in my ears.†   (source)
  • Misty screamed and began wiping her composition notebooks on the car seat.†   (source)
  • But the face was calm, composed, watchful.†   (source)
  • And worse, they might split the community into violent and irreconcilable factions that support the different individuals who compose the executive.†   (source)
  • 'Minor planet composition determination by solar pumped spectroscopy' has a nice ring, don't you think?†   (source)
  • How could you hear a composition from Mozart's childhood and not feel sure that he had been drawing on several lifetimes' worth of experience?†   (source)
  • I appreciated my sister giving me at least a short while to compose myself before plunging back into the affairs of the island.†   (source)
  • I leave the cigarette in my mouth unlit, trying to chew the nicotine out, and pick up the guitar, play along, then give it up and sit down at the computer, swinging my chair around so it's backward, the only way I can compose.†   (source)
  • He composed himself for sleep again.†   (source)
  • All that remained was the winged angel of the Lord, an ivory-skinned boy who floated in the upper reaches of the composition.†   (source)
  • Pause; she composes herself.†   (source)
  • And by enlisting Pig and Mark, I was adding strength and virility to the composition of the room.†   (source)
  • The nearest village, Bucktown, was little more than a settlement composed of post office, church, crossroads store, and eight or ten dwelling houses.†   (source)
  • She said, "It's got good composition and good colouring.†   (source)
  • He was a musician from the start, and when I last saw him he was deep in composition which seemed, to my partially instructed ear, bold and original and good.†   (source)
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