All self-collected natural fur and feathers get a 60 day quaratine in a ziplock with this powder to rid it of all the buggy goodness. From Wordnik.com. [Watch Out for Beetles in Your Fly Tying Gear] Reference
He of the impossible gradients is the hero of a hundred committees, quite accustomed to legal artifice, cool, wary, and self-collected. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845] Reference
Perfectly master of himself and of his countenance, sternly self-collected even in moments of the greatest danger; holding in perpetual balance the ardor of the warrior and the calm of the prophet, he impressed with awe all who came into his presence. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Schamyl And Narrative of the Circassian War of Independence Against Russia] Reference
Previously to it I was calm, considerate, and self-collected. From Wordnik.com. [Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker] Reference
In this large study, self-collected cervico-vaginal samples were used. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
"Hush, hush!" said Madame Rameau, rising, very pale but self-collected. From Wordnik.com. [The Parisians — Complete] Reference
Washington, self-collected, viewed the tremendous scene; his country called. From Wordnik.com. [Washington and the American Republic, Vol. 3.] Reference
The tears rose to Fan's eyes, her strange self-collected mood seemed to be gone. From Wordnik.com. [Fan : the story of a young girl's life] Reference
Why would the CDC use self-collected specimens to determine the prevalence of HPV. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Preventing Tobacco Addiction Among Our Women] Reference
Women returned a self-collected cervico-vaginal specimen and filled out a questionnaire. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
The soul, habituated to incessant and self-collected action, wakes and lives, while ordinary. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of St. Frances of Rome, and Others] Reference
She was still very pale, but now also very calm; the most self-collected one in that room of death. From Wordnik.com. [Cruel As The Grave] Reference
Her patience and steadiness are quite extraordinary however even in the less self-collected moments. From Wordnik.com. [Jeanne D'Arc: her life and death] Reference
It was a self-collected young woman, with a distinctly casual manner who crossed the stile and confronted her visitor. From Wordnik.com. [A Pagan of the Hills] Reference
Florence was by nature steady and self-collected, and she at once felt that she was bound to be wary before she gave him any answer. From Wordnik.com. [The Claverings] Reference
She was calm, self-collected, and possessed in full perfection her mental faculties, and her eyes shone with more than usual lustre. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Opinions of Julius Melbourn; with Sketches of the Lives and Characters of Thomas Jefferson, John Quincy Adams, John Randolph, and Several Other Eminent American Statesmen] Reference
She usually looked aslant while she spoke, and this, which with some appears but shyness, in one so self-collected had an air of falsehood. From Wordnik.com. [Lucretia — Complete] Reference
Amongst that assembly of soldiers, noiseless, self-collected, and conscious of his surpassing power over swords and mail, moved the SCHOLAR. From Wordnik.com. [Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete] Reference
Yet even there, reduced to that depth of degradation and misery, she was still calm and self-collected; evidently, by her manner, imposing a certain. From Wordnik.com. [The White Slave; or, Memoirs of a Fugitive] Reference
In a few moments he had himself in hand again, cool and self-collected, resolved not to act like a fool before the others, but to help them if he could. From Wordnik.com. [Vandover and the Brute] Reference
If we have a strong, self-collected faith, it matters not where we are; -- all visible things grow transparent, and unseen things shine through upon us. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons. [Vol. I.]] Reference
During the last months he was often thankful for a crust of bread, in exchange for which he would bring a sack of acorns, self-collected, to feed the giver's pigs. From Wordnik.com. [Old Calabria] Reference
Remember that the ruling faculty is invincible, when self-collected it is satisfied with itself, if it does nothing which it does not choose to do, even if it resist from mere obstinacy. From Wordnik.com. [Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius] Reference
To the indolent, careless grace of his movements had succeeded a certain indescribable energy, as quiet and self-collected as that which distinguished the determined air of Audley Egerton himself. From Wordnik.com. [My Novel — Complete] Reference
She had, as Aminta had, the self-collected and self-cancelled look, a realm in a look, that was neither depth nor fervour, nor a bestowal, nor an allurement; nor was it an exposure, though there seemed no reserve. From Wordnik.com. [Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Complete] Reference
So majestic, grave, and self-collected were the bearing and aspect of the Spartan general, that the hereditary awe inspired by his race was once more awakened, and the angry crowd saluted him, silent and half-abashed. From Wordnik.com. [Pausanias, the Spartan The Haunted and the Haunters, an Unfinished Historical Romance] Reference
"The courage of Lord Byron, as all his companions in peril testify, was of that noblest kind which rises with the greatness of the occasion, and becomes the more self-collected and resisting the more imminent the danger.". From Wordnik.com. [Lord Byron jugé par les témoins de sa vie. English] Reference
The features, with their self-collected composure, and noble contempt of whatever could have astounded or shaken an ordinary mind, formed a well-fitted capital to the excellently proportioned and vigorous frame which they terminated. From Wordnik.com. [Waverley Novels — Volume 12] Reference
His clear, sharp features, with the short hair and high brow -- the absolute plainness of his dress, and the noiseless, easy, self-collected calm of all his motions, made a strong contrast to the showy Italian, by whose side he now stood. From Wordnik.com. [Ernest Maltravers — Complete] Reference
But if one be, in the face of peril, at the same time calm and resolute, self-collected and firm, cautious and bold, fully aware of all that he must encounter and unfalteringly brave in meeting it, such courage is a high moral attainment. From Wordnik.com. [A Manual of Moral Philosophy] Reference
His long hair floated with a careless grace over a brow more calm and thoughtful than became his years; his manner was unusually quiet and self-collected, and not without a certain stateliness, rendered more striking by the height of his stature. From Wordnik.com. [Ernest Maltravers — Complete] Reference
"As," says he, "the depths of the sea always remain calm, however much the surface may be raging, so the expression in the figures of the Greeks, under every form of passion, shows a great and self-collected soul. From Wordnik.com. [The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VIII (of X) - Continental Europe II.] Reference
Near thee the self-collected soul. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow] Reference
Still in his stern and self-collected mien. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3] Reference
At this still hour the self-collected soul. From Wordnik.com. [Poems] Reference
He was absolutely sober and self-collected. From Wordnik.com. [Viviette] Reference
Though, self-collected from eternal time. From Wordnik.com. [Poetical Works of Akenside] Reference
Frugal, provident, watchful, self-collected, 'never was seen,' observes no partial witness, 'so extraordinary a man.'. From Wordnik.com. [Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes] Reference
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