| 1. | With sweet austeer composure thus reply'd. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 2. | I wish the composure but not the depression of solitude. - from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe |
| 3. | As his composure must be rare indee. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 4. | "You are never like me, dear Elinor, or I should wonder at your composure now. - from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen |
| 5. | Why was it so unconscious and ladylike The composure of the eyes irritated him. - from Dubliners by James Joyce |
| 6. | Silver took a whiff or two of his pipe with great composure and then ran on again. - from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson |
| 7. | And in maintaining this attitude of external composure she was completely successful. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |
| 8. | But the feelings which made such composure a disgrace, left her in no danger of incurring it. - from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen |
| 9. | But, in the composure of his manner he was unaltered, except that to the shrewd glance of Mr. - from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens |