If I am to undertake an important artistic task, my immediate future-say for the current year, at least-must be secured; otherwise I shall lack the necessary cheerfulness and Collectedness.
"Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt, Volume 1"
Francis Hueffer (translator)
There was a grave dignity in her air, accompanied with a Collectedness and stillness in her before animated countenance, which astonished and chilled Thaddeus, though she had bowed her head and given him her hand to put her into the coach.
"Thaddeus of Warsaw"
Jane Porter
Fleda had sat with her a long time, patience and cheerfulness all the while unconsciously growing in her company; when, catching up her bonnet with a sudden haste very unlike her usual Collectedness of manner, Fleda kissed her aunt and was rushing away.
"Queechy, Volume II"
Elizabeth Wetherell