When the time came that somebody had to say something she blinked her smarting eyes and said, with rigid self-control, 'The fire.

Then beginning his attack in a state of rigid self-control: precise, orderly, surgical.

That had surprised him; even broken through his rigid self-control a smidgen.

He remained calm only because he was a man of rigid self-control.

She had lost some of her rigid self-control.

He had placed himself under rigid self-control; he liked it no more than she.

He made a mental list: We started out with evidence of rigid self-control.

A sureness and a sense of rigid self-control.

Only rigid self-control kept him from moving.

Almost immediately he snapped back to rigid self-control.