1 She said nothing, curling her toes in the loose slippers in an effort at controlling her quivering.
2 She felt that she was no longer analyzing and controlling forces, but swept on by them.
3 "No, papa, I'm not nervous," said Eva, controlling herself, suddenly, with a strength of resolution singular in such a child.
4 I've been trying to cure it for forty years, and have only succeeded in controlling it.
5 It was, he supposed more of a force or a radiance, controlling the thrush and the worm; the tulip and the hound; and himself, too, an old man with swollen veins.
6 She blushed, pressed her clasped hands on her knees, and then controlling herself with an evident effort lifted her head and began to speak rapidly.
7 For government consists in nothing else than in so controlling your subjects that it shall neither be in their power nor for their interest to harm you.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXIII. 8 He paused to control his voice.
9 He was in his mid-thirties, older than any beau she had ever had, and she was as helpless as a child to control and handle him as she had handled beaux nearer her own age.
10 Heretofore she had never bothered to control her temper except in Ellen's presence.
11 Prissy had recovered her breath and a small measure of control but her eyes still rolled.
12 she began desperately, her courage and control breaking.
13 Any other Atlanta woman would have expired in rage at having to listen to such bigoted ignorance but Scarlett managed to control herself.
14 Sue had been the cause of her father's death, whether she intended it or not, and she should have the decency to control herself in front of the hostile neighbors.
15 For the greater part of three years, the state's capitol had remained in the control of white men and Democrats.