Citations:composure


 * 1719 — Daniel Defoe. Robinson Crusoe.
 * In the midst of the greatest composure of my mind, this would break out upon me like a storm, and make me wring my hands and weep like a child.
 * It is not easy to imagine what confusion this sight put me into, especially seeing them come on my side of the island, and so near to me; but when I considered their coming must be always with the current of the ebb, I began afterwards to be more sedate in my mind, being satisfied that I might go abroad with safety all the time of the flood of tide, if they were not on shore before; and having made this observation, I went abroad about my harvest work with the more composure.