For where it was well before, he applied no remedy, nor altered anything, for fear lest, Overthrowing altogether and disordering the state, he should be too weak to new-model and Recompose it to a tolerable condition; but what he thought he could effect by persuasion upon the pliable, and by force upon the stubborn, this he did, as he himself says, With force and justice working both one.
"Plutarch-Lives-of-the-noble-Grecians-and-Romans"
Clough, Arthur Hugh
But at that time the winds will have dissipated the last grains of your dust, and Isis herself, who knew how to recover the fragments of Osiris, would hardly be able to Recompose your being.
"Humorous Ghost Stories"
Dorothy Scarborough
There is not a single colonel or general whom I do not know, and I shall soon be able to Recompose their names."
"Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. I"
Pierre Antoine Edouard Fleury de Chaboulon