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She remarked a singular composure of countenance, voice, and even position, which seemed idiosyncratic, and was directly opposed to the stern rigidity and cynicism of her guardian. She shrank from the calm, steadfast gaze of his eyes, which looked into hers with a deep yet gentle scrutiny, and resolved ere the close of the evening to sound him concerning some of the philosophic phases of the age.
Some had dropped on their knees and were praying with uplifted hands, or murmuring incantations; and a poet, who had been crowned for a poem entitled: "Man the Lord and Master of the Gods," had fainted with fear, and his laurel-wreath had fallen into a dish of oysters. Olympius had risen from his place as Symposiarch and was leaning against a door-post awaiting death with manly composure.
It was base and contemptible to sully the memory of a great and extraordinary man with such a charge, but it is still more so to hand it down uncontradicted to posterity. Granvella submitted to the royal command with a dignified composure.
At the same moment the gathering mist began to obscure Alppain's disk, changing it from blue to a vivid jale. "What do you want with us, Krag?" asked Maskull with simple composure. Krag looked at him strangely for a few seconds. The water lapped around them. "Don't you comprehend, Maskull, that your death has arrived?" Maskull made no response.
"I've been taking boxing lessons and I want to teach you one or two things." "I haven't been taking any boxing lessons lately," Dick remarked with composure. "Oh, that's why you're afraid to act at all like a man, is it?" scoffed Bert in his harshest voice. "No; my main reason for not caring to fight you, Dodge, is that I don't like the idea of soiling my hands."
It was not for some hours after he had left the field of battle that Abdullah realised that his army had not obeyed his summons, but were continuing their retreat, and that only a few hundred Dervishes remained for the defence of the city. He seems, if we judge from the accounts of his personal servant, an Abyssinian boy, to have faced the disasters that had overtaken him with singular composure.
At last he got up, closed the lid of the casket, and rushed headlong out of the house, into the open country, moving aimlessly forward, whither he knew not. By degrees, the fresh air did him good. He grew calmer, and began to consider his position, and his means of escape from it, with some composure.
And afterwards, with perfect composure, they began to discuss what would be the result of all these dark goings-on so far as he and Gavard were concerned; certainly it would be no pleasant one if there was any gossiping.
Wade felt her usual composure gradually return, nor did it again desert her during the long evening through which it seemed to her as if her husband must be some stranger. THE human animal is a strange spectacle to behold, let alone comprehend.
I spoke this so fast as to be almost unintelligible; they listened in silent dismay. My father, then bidding me be seated, desired me to go over the whole matter from the beginning, with composure and method.
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