self-collected

All self-collected natural fur and feathers get a 60 day quaratine in a ziplock with this powder to rid it of all the buggy goodness.

Watch Out for Beetles in Your Fly Tying Gear 2010

All self-collected natural fur and feathers get a 60 day quaratine in a ziplock with this powder to rid it of all the buggy goodness.

Watch Out for Beetles in Your Fly Tying Gear 2010

The features, with their self-collected composure, and noble contempt of whatever could have astounded or shaken an ordinary mind, formed a well-fitted capital to the excellently proportioned and vigorous frame which they terminated.

Count Robert of Paris 2008

Florence was by nature steady and self-collected, and she at once felt that she was bound to be wary before she gave him any answer.

The Claverings 2005

Remember that the ruling faculty is invincible, when self-collected it is satisfied with itself, if it does nothing which it does not choose to do, even if it resist from mere obstinacy.

The Meditations 2004

He of the impossible gradients is the hero of a hundred committees, quite accustomed to legal artifice, cool, wary, and self-collected.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 Various

Perfectly master of himself and of his countenance, sternly self-collected even in moments of the greatest danger; holding in perpetual balance the ardor of the warrior and the calm of the prophet, he impressed with awe all who came into his presence.

Life of Schamyl And Narrative of the Circassian War of Independence Against Russia John Milton Mackie

During the last months he was often thankful for a crust of bread, in exchange for which he would bring a sack of acorns, self-collected, to feed the giver's pigs.

Old Calabria Norman Douglas 1910

Remember that the ruling faculty is invincible, when self-collected it is satisfied with itself, if it does nothing which it does not choose to do, even if it resist from mere obstinacy.

VIII 1909

In contrast to the defensive tactics which other ladies of his acquaintance had adopted, tactics of a patently coy and coquettish nature, this self-collected manner was new and spicy, challenging to powers never as yet fully exerted while beneath her manner he felt throbbing that rare and dangerous thing in women, a temperament, for which men have given their souls.

Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909