Composing [verb]

She lay wide awake composing a letter which was nothing like the one which she wrote next day.

The men composing the regiment were fighters, but in their tactics differed little from the guerrillas.

It was enough to give a man nightmares, to watch that line of High-Pockets Joneses advancing across an open composing-room.

An hour later, with a nice, shiny new padlock, I went back to the composing-room.

Kashkin was one of the friends who dissuaded Tchaikovsky from composing Mandragora.

Others say, still more malignantly, There is a certain man who labors with him in composing the Koran.

Your composing-room door is locked, and the present item of news destined for your readers is not likely to leak out.

Then, as though grown weary of the idyllic romance she was composing, Fortune donned the tragic robes of Nemesis.

She feared that Hadria spent too many hours over her composing; she sat up at night, perhaps.

Ere long, the individuals composing the caravan were slumbering, with the exception of two, the Captain and the guide.