With a bold effort, however, I told what I had come for; not very collectedly, indeed, nor perhaps very intelligibly, but in such a way as to convey that I had not courage to face what might look at least like a false position, and was almost sure to entail all the unpleasant relations of such.
"That Boy Of Norcott's"
Charles James Lever
But if Martin should chance to connect her neighbourhood with the boat, when he met her, and her sending of a message to Peter here- "I think there's a boat at eleven something," she said, collectedly.
"Sisters"
Kathleen Norris
He was tearing off his collar in order to answer more calmly and collectedly when Ole came into the room.
"At Good Old Siwash"
George Fitch