self-command

Example Sentences

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"You know what I mean by what I said?" inquired Amy, still confused but regaining self command rapidly.

From The Choir Invisible by Allen, James Lane

The habits of active life and daily intercourse with the stir of the world, will tend to give you such self command, that the presence of your family will be no interruption.

From The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1838 by Gillman, James

If you unite with this the constant intercourse with ladies and gentlemen of refinement and education, you will add to the dignity of perfect self command, the polished ease of polite society.

From The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in all his Relations Towards Society by Hartley, Cecil B.

The Directors, in their fury, lost all self command, and, in their official letters, railed at the betrayers of Scotland, the white-livered deserters.

From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 5 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

She sat in the absolutest quiet, of face and figure both; looking into the fire that played in the chimney, with a fixedness that perhaps told—in the beginning—of some doubtfulness of self command.

From Say and Seal, Volume I by Warner, Susan