1 "Drink, then," replied he, still with the same cold composure.
2 Yet she bore it with so much composure, she seemed scarcely to notice it.
3 She was convinced that Margaret had fixed on a person whose name she could not bear with composure to become a standing joke with Mrs. Jennings.
4 But the feelings which made such composure a disgrace, left her in no danger of incurring it.
5 "I did," said Elinor, with a composure of voice, under which was concealed an emotion and distress beyond any thing she had ever felt before.
6 And as she could now have nothing more painful to hear on the subject than had already been told, she did not mistrust her own ability of going through a repetition of particulars with composure.
7 During all this time he was evidently struggling for composure.
8 A few minutes more of silent exertion enabled him to proceed with composure.
9 He had just settled this point with great composure, when the entrance of Mrs. John Dashwood put an end to the subject.
10 You are never like me, dear Elinor, or I should wonder at your composure now.
11 Estella smiled with perfect composure, and said she had no doubt of my having been quite right, and of her having been very disagreeable.
12 Estella looked at her with perfect composure, and again looked down at the fire.
13 More composure came to me after a while, and we talked as we used to talk, lying on the grass at the old Battery.
14 I asked him, with a better appearance of composure than I could have thought possible a minute before, whether he had made his feelings known to Agnes.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 25. GOOD AND BAD ANGELS 15 Mr. Copperfield and myself,' said Miss Murdstone, with severe composure, 'are connexions.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 26. I FALL INTO CAPTIVITY