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keep your composure
Definition
to calm someone or settle something
- He gave his friend a few seconds to recover his composure, and then approached the question he had come to put.p. 14.4
- So far the letter had run composedly enough, but here with a sudden splutter of the pen, the writer's emotion had broken loose.p. 57.4
composedly = calmly (under control)
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- "Compose yourself," said I. He turned a dreadful smile to me, and as if with the decision of despair, plucked away the sheet.p. 78.5
- Yet the creature was astute; mastered his fury with a great effort of the will; composed his two important letters, one to Lanyon and one to Poole; and that he might receive actual evidence of their being posted, sent them out with directions that they should be registered.p. 103.2
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