I got up feverish and nervous. I walked out before breakfast, striving to collect my thoughts and tranquilize my feelings.

I took a moment to collect my thoughts, and likewise to frame in French the sentence by which I proposed to open business.

She fell sprawling upon a green meadow and was so dazed and bewildered by her bumpy journey across the Merry-Go-Round Mountains that she lay quite still for a time to collect her thoughts.

"I'm a believer, umm," Mr. Bloomberg said before standing silently at the lectern for seven seconds as he collected his thoughts.

Collect one's thoughts

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