All self-collected natural fur and feathers get a 60 day quaratine in a ziplock with this powder to rid it of all the buggy goodness. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The features, with their self-collected composure, and noble contempt of whatever could have astounded or shaken an ordinary mind, formed a well-fitted capital to the excellently proportioned and vigorous frame which they terminated. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Florence was by nature steady and self-collected, and she at once felt that she was bound to be wary before she gave him any answer. ❋ Unknown (2005)
Remember that the ruling faculty is invincible, when self-collected it is satisfied with itself, if it does nothing which it does not choose to do, even if it resist from mere obstinacy. ❋ Unknown (2004)
He of the impossible gradients is the hero of a hundred committees, quite accustomed to legal artifice, cool, wary, and self-collected. ❋ Various (N/A)
Perfectly master of himself and of his countenance, sternly self-collected even in moments of the greatest danger; holding in perpetual balance the ardor of the warrior and the calm of the prophet, he impressed with awe all who came into his presence. ❋ John Milton Mackie (N/A)
During the last months he was often thankful for a crust of bread, in exchange for which he would bring a sack of acorns, self-collected, to feed the giver's pigs. ❋ Norman Douglas (1910)
In contrast to the defensive tactics which other ladies of his acquaintance had adopted, tactics of a patently coy and coquettish nature, this self-collected manner was new and spicy, challenging to powers never as yet fully exerted while beneath her manner he felt throbbing that rare and dangerous thing in women, a temperament, for which men have given their souls. ❋ Winston Churchill (1909)
And as the oppressive load of the body and social intercourse are most adverse to this design, therefore all sensual gratifications are to be avoided; the body is to be sustained, or rather mortified, with coarse and slender fare; solitude is to be sought for; and the mind is to be self-collected and absorbed in contemplation, so as to be detached as much as possible from the body. ❋ Unknown (1904)
It was a self-collected young woman, with a distinctly casual manner who crossed the stile and confronted her visitor. ❋ Charles Neville Buck (1904)
Let not our words be many, but simple and few; not using vain repetitions or indulging in vague emotions; not allowing ourselves in fantastic practices; but self-collected, firm, clear; not deeming that mere self-abasement can give any pleasure to God any more than to an earthly monarch. ❋ 1817-1893 (1901)
Her patience and steadiness are quite extraordinary however even in the less self-collected moments. ❋ Oliphant, Mrs. (1896)
In a few moments he had himself in hand again, cool and self-collected, resolved not to act like a fool before the others, but to help them if he could. ❋ Frank Norris (1886)
The tears rose to Fan's eyes, her strange self-collected mood seemed to be gone. ❋ Unknown (1881)
Nimbus took his visitors up the broad aisle, through an avenue of staring eyes, and introduced them awkwardly, but proudly, to the self-collected little figure on the platform. ❋ Unknown (1880)
