Use composed in a sentence
Sentences starting with composed
- Composed and still she waited for him to come quite close to her, and the look in her face was like that of one who was scarcely conscious of what was passing around her, whose eyes saw distant things of infinite moment. [11]
Sentences ending with composed
- Perhaps the great works of art that have endured have been so composed. [4]
- Productions without talent, without spirit, without discrimination, flat and pitiful eulogies, exaggerations surpassing the limits of the most robust faith, invectives against such as dared to doubt the dogmas which had been proclaimed, or catalogues of remedies; of such materials is it composed! [3]
- No one in the house knew what comfort the widow had had recourse to; the physician and her son had been glad yesterday to find her more composed. [10]
- And Bilibin repeated the actual words of the diplomatic dispatch, which he had himself composed. [2]
- The only manuscript that we ever held of his, longer than to correct it, was one of perhaps a dozen pages, most of which we had composed. [5]
- When he turned round again his face was calm, his manner composed. [11]
- She was now perfectly composed. [11]
- Also, there was Mr. Watling's nominating speech to be gone over carefully, and Mr. Crewe's own speech of acceptance to be composed. [9]
- But just as in language certain diphthongs and syllables are frequently recurring, so we have in the body certain secondary and tertiary combinations, which we meet more frequently than the solitary elements of which they are composed. [3]
- At her suggestion he wrote the "Prophecy of Dante;" and the translation of "Francesca da Rimini" was "executed at Ravenna, where, five centuries before, and in the very house in which the unfortunate lady was born, Dante's poem had been composed. [4]
Short sentences using composed
- She was pale, composed now. [11]
- She became composed. [11]
More example sentences with the word composed in them
- She followed him with her eyes as he passed from her sight through the door, and when it closed after him sobbed tremulously once or twice, but stilled herself, and met Helen, as she entered, with a composed countenance. [6]
- She was composed, while Carnac was embarrassed. [11]
- I served two weeks in the beginning of our Civil War, and during all that tune commanded a battery of infantry composed of twelve men. [5]
- It is fortunate we have been spared in this country the formation of a political labour party, because such a party would have been composed of manual workers alone, and hence would have tended further to develop economic class consciousness, to crystallize class antagonisms. [9]
- Distressed as Madelinette was, she was composed and ready. [11]
- Although her face was wonderfully composed, it was apparent that she was wholly taken by surprise, and that what she had expected to be taxed with, in connection with her small servant, was something very different from this. [12]
- The usual mixture was composed of three-fifths water to two-fifths wine. [10]
- Half of each was composed of rummies and the other half of anti-rummies, after the moral and political share-and-share-alike fashion of the frontier town of the period. [5]
- The advanced guard was composed of legions of cavalry, heavily armed, looking like moving masses of polished steel. [4]
- The lad's greeting was a little shy until he saw that Gaston was cool and composed as usual --in effect, nothing had happened. [11]
- The young people tried to comfort him; and when at last he was more composed and had dried his tears, he said, in so melancholy and subdued a tone that the angry blusterer was scarcely recognizable: "There--leave me alone; it will soon be over. [10]
- Nor was the train composed only of servants of the deity. [10]
- He composed himself to sleep, but, as he lay waiting for that coverlet of forgetfulness to be drawn over him, he heard the sound of bells soft and clear. [11]
- He composed himself to rest and eat some bread and meat, while he waited for a sufficient time to elapse so that he could safely give the horses a drink. [13]
- She has come to realize that she has only one life to live, and she seems happier, more composed, more herself than she has ever been since our marriage. [9]
- It was objected to on the score of its pantheistic character, as Wordsworth's "Lines composed near Tintern Abbey" had been long before. [6]
- This temple is to me like some grand epode, and the poet who composed it conceived it not in feeble words but formed it out of almost immovable masses. [10]
- He was good to look at-clean-shaven, broad of brow, fine of figure, composed of carriage, though it was not the composure of the people by whom he was surrounded. [11]
- When she spoke to him--and she seemed to do that as by studied intention and with tact at certain intervals-- her manner was composed and kind. [11]
- He led me to a room which was composed of mats and bamboo pillars chiefly. [11]
- Finally he composed this message, which seemed to him to have a businesslike and innocent aspect: "Too late. [4]
- And to effect this mere holding on, with the vagabond crew that composed most of the colony, and with the extravagant and unintelligent expectations of the London Company, was a feat showing decided ability. [4]
- A soldier-lad composed this ditty Hans Eitelfritz he, fair Colln's son, His kindred dwell in the goodly city, But he himself in fortune, good fortune! [10]
- I learn that this body is composed of a majority of gentlemen who, in the exercise of their best judgment in the choice of a chief magistrate, did not think I was the man. [7]
- Their appearance, when they were encamped on the Bowling Green, recalls the Homeric age: "In the centre, then, was pitched the tent of the men of battle of the Manhattoes, who, being the inmates of the metropolis, composed the lifeguards of the governor. [4]
- The first of these accounts is taken from "The True Relation," written by Captain John Smith, composed in Virginia, the earliest published work relating to the James River Colony. [4]
- I would compose the story, and learn it by heart, sentence by sentence, as I so composed it. [11]
- The nurse heard the gate click lightly, but she was only half-awake, and as all was quiet in the next room, she composed herself in her chair again with the vain idea that she was not sleeping. [11]
- The Virgin composed the difficulty in Marquette's case; the pipe of peace did the same office for La Salle. [5]
- To account for the cry that was raised when first she attacked the Richard, it must be borne in mind that the crew of the 'Alliance' was largely composed of Englishmen. [9]
- Iras had ordered the commander of the Mellakes, or youths, a body-guard composed of the sons of aristocratic Macedonian families, to expel the troublesome creatures, and it diverted the thoughts of these devoted soldiers of the Queen to strike at them with their swords. [10]
- One stretch of that platform, two hundred feet long, is composed of blocks of stone as large, and some of them larger, than a street-car. [5]
- Next, they will take you to the scaffold, with great eclat, at the head of an imposing procession composed of clergymen, officials, citizens generally, and young ladies walking pensively two and two, and bearing bouquets and immortelles. [5]
- But watch her, study her, and you will find her to be the perfection of a type--the finest expression of a decorous convention, a perfect product of social conservatism; unaffected, cheerful, sensitive, composed, very talented, altogether companionable. [11]
- A wide, lofty structure, composed of masses of stalactites and unhewn blocks of stone, formed a deep grotto at the end of the hall, whence peered the gigantic head of a monster whose open jaws formed the fireplace of the chimney. [10]
- He wanted to state to gentlemen who might have entertained such impressions, that the Committee on the Post-office was composed of five Whigs and four Democrats, and their report was understood as sustaining, not impugning, the position taken by the Postmaster-General. [7]
- Mr. Trollop's Great Speech--which speech was written and composed by Miss Laura Hawkins under a secret understanding for one hundred dollars--and the money has not been paid. [5]
- He had a sovereign balm for "colds," composed of camomile flowers, boneset, liquorice, pennyroyal and gentian root, which he sold to all comers; and it was not unnatural that a visitor with weak lungs should lodge with him. [11]
- Besides, her adopted son Erasmus, the new Wittenberg master of arts, had devoted himself eagerly to music, and composed several hymns which, if Damian Feys permitted it, would be sung in the Convivium musicum. [10]
- Her bonnet was slung on her arm, her hair had broken a little loose and made a sort of hood round the face, so still, so composed, into which the light of steady, soft, apprehending eyes threw a gentle radiance. [11]
- Many were the skits I composed, and Tom sang them.... During that freshman year we often encountered Hermann Krebs, whistling merrily, on the stairs. [9]
- The hymn to Sabina, composed by Mesomedes, is to be performed with the chorus, as soon as the Empress visits the theatre, and I am to lead the upper part of the old men, who grow young again at the sight of her. [10]
- Mighty walls of rock composed the view, looking as if they were formed of angular masses of hewn stone piled up in rows; and of all the miners one, and one only, had eyes for these curious structures of the ever-various hand of Nature. [10]
- Set in a recess of the wall and illumined with electric light was an oil-painting the show-woman seriously declared to be a lifelike and realistic picture of the Chair in which the Mother sat when she composed her 'inspired' work. [5]
- There is no reason to doubt that his epitaph was composed by one who knew him well. [6]
- He gave a reading one evening before a large audience composed of university students and professors. [5]
- There was a police force, but it was composed of Boers, it was furnished by the State Government, and the city had no control over it. [5]
- Her face was pale though composed, yet her eyes had a look of abstraction or detachment. [11]
- There had been only the one lightning instant in which he had felt a kind of suspension of her breath and being, but when he had looked her in the face, she was composed and smiling. [11]
- The nearest that one can come at it is to say there are two --the composed Northern and the impetuous Southern; and both are found in other countries. [5]
- The main battery, on the deck above, was composed of twenty-eight twelve-pounders. [9]
- She was lying on a purple couch in her dressing-room; a thin silken chemise and yellow slippers thickly sown with turquoises and pearls composed her entire dress. [10]
- It is composed of young ladies who dress in a uniform costume, and go through the infantry drill, with broom in place of musket. [5]
- He was thinking of the tragedy of the woman he had left tearless and composed beside the bedside of the man who had so vilely used her. [11]
- Gemini, the Secretary of State and his whole corps could not have composed the like in a day. [9]
- How many millions of letters are composed in this way! [4]
- In the stillness of his tread and the composed sorrow of his face he seemed like one long dead who "revisits the glimpses of the moon. [11]
- The society, composed of free men, conceals itself only with the free. [7]
- Are ministers composed of finer clay than the rest of mankind, that entitles them to this preeminence? [6]
- It was composed of both parties, and he could stimulate his own side, and, perhaps, win the other. [11]
- He was ignorant of anthropology, psychology, and the phenomena of environment; but bits of "knowledge" --which he embodied in a newspaper article composed that evening stuck wax-like in his brain. [9]
- Looking at Jo now, he was possessed by a composed intoxication like that in which he had moved during that last night at the Cote Dorion. [11]
- Believe it or not, I composed the merry little thing when in great sorrow and poverty, just to warm my heart. [10]
- These reflections did not remove her own alarm, for she had been too much terrified to be easily composed, and felt as if she were hemmed in by a legion of Quilps, and the very air itself were filled with them. [12]
- Luke Claridge--he could not help but smile cynically, for he was composed and calculating now. [11]
- With trembling hands Natasha held that passionate love letter which Dolokhov had composed for Anatole, and as she read it she found in it an echo of all that she herself imagined she was feeling. [2]
- No matter how much more bunting they had cut up in honour of the Saxon duke than of the Emperor, how bombastic were the verses composed and repeated in praise of Maurice, this paean of homage put all their efforts to shame. [10]
- The body is mostly composed of water and about one half is avaricious tissue. [5]
- The captains and ministers form one-half of the population; the third fourth is composed of common Kanakas and mercantile foreigners and their families; and the final fourth is made up of high officers of the Hawaiian Government. [5]
- The captains and ministers form one-half of the population; the third fourth is composed of common Kanakas and mercantile foreigners and their families, and the final fourth is made up of high officers of the Hawaiian Government. [5]
- Others consider it merely the acquisition of a habit of taking every morning before breakfast a dose of bitters, composed of whiskey and assafoetida, out of the acclimation jug. [5]
- So that the meeting should not be composed only of the roughest elements, they privately urged all responsible citizens to attend, and if possible capture the meeting for law and order and legitimate agitation. [11]
- Having by this means composed his spirits and put himself in a pleasant train, he returned to his unsuspicious companion, whom he found looking at the tide with exceeding gravity, and thinking of that same gold and silver which Mr Quilp had mentioned. [12]
- This portion, it may be surmised, was composed of such persons alone as were likely to be welcomed by the postmaster. [9]
- Better an hour's mad revel, E'en a kiss from a Moenad's lip, Than a year of timid doubting, Daring only to taste and sip, were the closing lines of a song which I composed at this time. [10]
- They became a little more composed in a short time, and went away, not so much hand in hand as clinging to each other. [12]
- On the salver lay some verses composed and printed in the hero's honor. [2]
- It was a jury composed of two desperadoes, two low beer-house politicians, three bar-keepers, two ranchmen who could not read, and three dull, stupid, human donkeys! [5]
- When and where it was written, and whether it was all composed at one time, are matters much in dispute. [4]
- He had composed it long before, and seized the first opportunity--the report had reached his ears while breakfasting in Kanopus--to try its effect. [10]
- How I composed it in the state of mind I was in, I have no conception to this day. [9]
- Of course, it is well that his immortal production was not composed on this roof, and in sight of these seductive shores, or it would have been more strongly flavored with classic mythology than it is. [4]
- On the sarcophagus is the epitaph, composed in Latin by Dante himself, who seems to have thought, with Shakespeare, that for a poet to make his own epitaph was the safest thing to do. [4]
- The third fourth is composed of Kanakas and mercantile foreigners and their families. [5]
- However, the Trust is composed of human beings; and this justifies the conjecture that if it had a charity on its list which it was proud of, we should soon hear of it. [5]
- However, the Trust is composed of human beings; and this justifies the conjecture that if it had a charity on its list which it did not need to blush for, we should soon hear of it. [5]
- Taking the hint, I threw myself upon my couch, and composed myself. [11]
- The next moment, however, she was composed again, and said in explanation that she had been half asleep, and he had startled her. [11]
- He composed himself, however, and tore off the end of the envelope, taking out the letter. [11]
- I kept my hold of him, and employed the time until he should be more composed peering into the darkness. [9]
- Next he satisfied his own hunger, fed Ring and Whitie and, with them curled beside him, composed himself to await sleep. [13]
- He left behind him an awe-stricken gathering at the store, composed of inhabitants who had recently spoken slightingly of the volcano. [9]
- Again she composed herself to sleep, lying now with her face turned to the window and the door. [11]
- The man watched her until she drew away behind a group, which was composed of Ferrol, her brother and her sister Sophie. [11]
- Then, half-turning on her side with her face to the wall, she composed herself to sleep. [11]
- She let off her ecstasy in "Balerma," and "Arlington," and "Silver Street," and at last in that most riotous of devotional hymns, which sounds as if it had been composed by a saint who had a cellar under his chapel,--"Jordan. [6]
- And now, when he made trips to New York and Boston, combining business with pleasure, there were no questions asked, no troublesome fictions to be composed. [9]
- And Hodder, as he made his way towards it, recognized the faces of some of those who composed it. [9]
- Picking it up, he introduced his suit, after a brief explanation, by reading aloud the lines which he had composed in Brussels to accompany his gifts to her. [10]
- It would indeed have been difficult to analyze the new relationship that had sprung up between us, to say what elements composed it. [9]
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