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Her expression composed itself to instant formality, and she tilted her head.

Thin Air Rachel Caine 2007

Cody stared at his green pencil, engraved with the Mirador Marlin and an acronym composed of the first letters of the ESLR headings.

High School Confidential Jeremy Iversen 2006

The Vulcan stepped inside, his expression composed but his tone hesitant.

Bloodthirst J. M. Dillard 1990

She was careful from then on to keep her expression composed and not look directly at him, for when she turned and curtsied and glanced up at him, he tripped all over again.

Rebellious Desire Julie Garwood 1986

It took all she had to keep her expression composed.

Castles and The Lion’s Lady Julie Garwood 1993

I believe you'll find the Hannibal of this novel to be a complex character composed from a variety of known facts and imagined possibilities, a person more interesting than either the villain or the hero that some camps wish to reduce him to.

David Durham explains his interest in Hannibal and refutes the historical concept of him as a brutish barbarian. 2010

The deleted scenes were more interesting than on most discs, since they were composed from a collection of sketches, animatics and otherwise unfinished pieces of animation.

9 DVD Review – Collider.com 2010

The fact that monks wrote down these stories hundreds of years after they were composed is effectively a “Get Out of Jail Free” card for an author.

Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Interview with Jules Watson, Part 2 2009

I think it does take practice to remain composed - a little maturity helps too!

Failure is the Mother of Success Candid Engineer 2008

If someone needs to remain composed and functioning despite internal urges to do otherwise, a few tricks to neutralise despair come in handy. on March 24, 2008 at 1: 28 pm | Reply Noddy

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