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self-possession
1. complete disregard of policy, that we had the self-possession to
2. 10 His love for ignorant mortals is fully disclosed by his patience and great self-possession in the face of the jeers, blows, and buffetings of the coarse soldiers and the unthinking servants
3. For the first time that day, Puree - generally the embodiment of confidence, élan and self-possession - looked rather uncertain and even anxious, as if sensing that something was amiss and at odds with his expectations
4. I control the resources to keep myself alive, but also creating oneself, because one cannot create oneself, unless one owns oneself, and self-possession begins with self-perpetuation
5. He did not seem to notice how his closeness subdued all of her strength, and liquefied everything that was frozen and hard in her self-possession
6. My lack of self-possession and my eagerness did me in
7. If you will stay in the middle of this struggle for true self-possession, not asserting your individuality but allowing it to flourish and to blossom -- bearing what you must bear by refusing to submit yourself to negative, self-betraying influences -- you will come to know the highest approval that Life can award
8. Devoutly thankful to Heaven for his recovered self-possession, he thought, "There is but another now," and turned to walk again
9. Having done this, he directed one of the ladies to gird on his sword, which she did with great self-possession and gravity, and not a little was required to prevent a burst of laughter at each stage of the ceremony; but what they had already seen of the novice knight's prowess kept their laughter within bounds
10. Self-possession depends on its environment
11. But she was rather afraid of the self-possession of the Morels, father and all
12. In that moment of surprise, the self-possession of Heyward did not desert him
13. Still Dantes could not view without a shudder the approach of a gendarme who accompanied the officers deputed to demand his bill of health ere the yacht was permitted to hold communication with the shore; but with that perfect self-possession he had acquired during his acquaintance with Faria, Dantes coolly presented an English passport he had obtained from Leghorn, and as this gave him a standing which a French passport would not have afforded, he was informed that there existed no obstacle to his immediate debarkation
14. Owen had by this time recovered his self-possession
15. Then, recovering his self-possession, he faced his companions, and, pointing toward the corpse, he said, in the language of his people:
16. But neither the presence in which he found himself, nor the exclusive attention that he attracted, in any manner disturbed the self-possession of the young Mohican
17. The major recovered his self-possession
18. His card, which seemed too small to carry the weight of his academic distinctions, preceded him by a few seconds, and then he entered himself—so large, so pompous, and so dignified that he was the very embodiment of self-possession and solidity
19. All his urbane self-possession had vanished
20. It might be dangerous to ask whether she remembered "Hyzenthlay?" said Bigwig, startled out of his self-possession
21. All the skaters, it seemed, with perfect self-possession, skated towards her, skated by her, even spoke to her, and were happy, quite apart from her, enjoying the capital ice and the fine weather
22. She vividly recalled his manly, resolute face, his noble self-possession, and the good nature conspicuous in everything towards everyone
23. For a moment she regained her self-possession, and realized that the thin peasant who had come in wearing a long overcoat, with buttons missing from it, was the stoveheater, that he was looking at the thermometer, that it was the wind and snow bursting in after him at the door; but then everything grew blurred again
24. But Vronsky gazed at him exactly as he did at the lamp, and the young man made a wry face, feeling that he was losing his self-possession under the oppression of this refusal to recognize him as a person
25. Dressing without hurry (he never hurried himself, and never lost his self-possession), Vronsky drove to the sheds
26. Golenishtchev recovered his self-possession and readily agreed
27. And when Will had left the room, she looked with such calm self-possession at Sir James, saying, "How is Celia?" that he was obliged
28. It was a pity that, somehow, to settle this once for all, I had equally to re-enumerate the signs of subtlety that, in the afternoon, by the lake had made a miracle of my show of self-possession
29. He had only thought it was not the treasure, however—he had not known that it wasn't—and so the suggestion of a captured bundle was too much for his self-possession
30. Anatole was not quick-witted, nor ready or eloquent in conversation, but he had the faculty, so invaluable in society, of composure and imperturbable self-possession
31. Her alarm grew to critical proportions during the first week, when she became aware of the familiarity and self-possession with which Florentino Ariza came into the house, and the whispers and fleeting lovers’ quarrels that filled their visits until all hours of the night
32. Rushworth looked when your name was mentioned? I did not use to think her wanting in self-possession, but she had not quite enough for the demands of yesterday
33. But she was in the middle stage between these two; she was excited, and at the same time she had sufficient self-possession to be able to observe
34. For a moment she regained her self-possession, and realized that the thin peasant who had come in wearing a long overcoat, with buttons missing from it, was the stoveheater, that he was looking at the thermometer, that it was the wind and snow bursting in after him at the door; but then everything grew blurred again…
35. And meanwhile all sorts of worthless fellows far inferior to me knew how to behave with wonderful aplomb—arid that's what exasperated me above ever3'thing, so that I lost my self-possession more and more
36. Yashvin overtook him with his cap, and led him home, and half an hour later Vronsky had regained his self-possession
37. “Of my words later,” Ivan broke in again, apparently with complete self-possession, firmly uttering his words, and not shouting as before
38. He was himself very pale; his dark eyes sparkled with fire, he had bitten his under lip till the blood came; he wasn't one of those who expected the Major without losing self-possession
39. He evidently had sudden fits of returning animation, when he awoke from his semi-delirium; then, recovering full self-possession for a few moments, he would speak, in disconnected phrases which had perhaps haunted him for a long while on his bed of suffering, during weary, sleepless nights
40. But probably feeling himself that his fluster with the money made him look even more foolish, he lost the last traces of self-possession
41. The colonel told his story so impressively, with such self-possession and dignity, that no one had the courage to interrupt him
42. Feeling that Nekhludoff wanted to lead her out into another world, she resisted him, foreseeing that she would have to lose her place in life, with the self-possession and self-respect it gave her
43. A strange feeling of exasperation and yet of respect for this man’s self-possession mingled at that moment in Rostóv’s soul
44. ' In such cases our bourgeois paterfamilias waves his hands and exclaims: 'What a terrible thing! If only their abilities were turned to good—their inventiveness, their amazing knowledge of human psychology, their self-possession, their fearlessness, their incomparable histrionic powers! What extraordinary benefits they would bring to the country!' But it is well known that the bourgeois paterfamilias was specially devised by Heaven to utter commonplaces and trivialities
45. If, on the contrary, I take no kind of notice of the man I fancy guilty, if I do not have him arrested, if I in no way set him on his guard—but if the unfortunate creature is hourly, momentarily, possessed by the suspicion that I know all, that I do not lose sight of him either by night or by day, that he is the object of my indefatigable vigilance—what do you ask will take place under these circumstances? He will lose his self-possession, he will come of his own accord to me, he will provide me with ample evidence against himself, and will enable me to give to the conclusion of my inquiry the accuracy of mathematical proofs, which is not without its charm