Being much agitated, she in a few minutes retired to compose herself in her own apartment.
She signed to him to sit down, and was endeavouring to compose herself, when Mrs. Craycroft was shown into the room.
She ended these words with a deep sigh, and some tears; then laid the picture up, and endeavoured to compose herself as well as she could.
I heard him call Mrs. Bardell a good creature, and I heard him ask her to compose herself, for what a situation it was, if anybody should come, or words to that effect.
Dodson and Fogg entreated the plaintiff to compose herself.
As a means of giving Magdalen time to compose herself, this outburst of autobiographical information attained its object, but it answered no other purpose.
I deserve your suspicion," she said, struggling to compose herself.
After waiting a moment to compose herself, she read the announcement of her brother's relapse.
She tried to compose herself, and to think the whole affair over again; but she could not.
Helen was so excessively agitated that Beauclerc did not attempt to detain her from hurrying to her own room, where she sat down, and endeavoured to compose herself.
She lay down upon the sofa, and closing her trembling eyelids, she tried to compose herself sufficiently to think at least of what she was to say.
The stranger implored her to compose herself; and she had succeeded in assuming a collected and tranquil demeanour, when Mr. de Medina entered the room.
I suppose she was endeavouring to compose herself, and also deliberating what course she should pursue; while, on my side, I did not like to question her.
I begged her to compose herself, and go down to dinner.
The agitation of her mind had exhausted her strength, and I prevailed on her to refresh and endeavor to compose herself to rest, assuring her of my utmost exertions to find out Eliza's retreat, and restore her to a mother's arms.
Without stopping to think, without attempting to compose herself, she ran down the stairs of the first floor, and made straight for the housekeeper's room.
Did I tell you," she resumed, after waiting an instant to compose herself, "where I found the folded piece of paper which I put into your hand in the Myrtle Room?
She tried to compose herself, that she might be able to present comprehensively to his finite masculine mind the ache of today.
Cynthia's indignation against Mr. Sutton was very real, and it was some time before she could compose herself sufficiently to tell Jethro what had happened.
How she fought that day to compose herself, fought and prayed!
She was with difficulty brought to compose herself.
The lover used every effort to induce her to compose herself, and at length succeeded; but she only resumed her composure to express herself with the same positiveness as before.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "compose herself" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
