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  • She smiled and gave me a slow, lecherous looking over, laughing at my discomfiture.†   (source)
  • Her eyes gleamed as she took in Clary's discomfiture.†   (source)
  • Two notable exceptions were Bewt, who was openly smiling at the banker's discomfiture, and the smuggler, Tuek, who appeared to be watching Kynes for a cue.†   (source)
  • Surprise mixed with discomfiture.†   (source)
  • Discomfited by the strength of her sorrow, Eragon glanced away from her face.†   (source)
  • It seemed that ordinary citizens were discomfited by women leaders forced upon them, or resented the fact that the women leaders were less educated and experienced on average than male leaders.†   (source)
  • Gabby smiled at his obvious discomfiture.†   (source)
  • I do not doubt that news of the discomfiture of the Riders has already reached him, and he will be filled with wrath.†   (source)
  • I only know there is a pervasive weight of gentleness, even from Stephen, that is strange and discomfiting.†   (source)
  • Silence in the cramped compartment, the very young lieutenant still preoccupied with her discomfiture.†   (source)
  • That had sounded like the start of a threat; the fact that no actual threat followed made it, for some reason, quite discomfiting.†   (source)
  • He was clearly discomfited by my behavior.†   (source)
  • She knew such garb would discomfit her father when he came to chastise her for making off with Myrcella.†   (source)
  • A little ahead of the other men was a man who was neither grave nor discomfited.†   (source)
  • After Mrs. Wharton has thoroughly taken Ann to task for Charlotte's tantrum—in full view of the discomfited guests—she orders Ann back to her duties.†   (source)
  • And yet there is a discomfiting aspect to all this rapport.†   (source)
  • I cannot blame Jack Brown, whom I like so much, either for my discomfiture or for his own misconception.†   (source)
  • She remembered being told about the man who'd come face to face with a lion, and had stared it out, had caused it to slink discomfited away.†   (source)
  • …simply this: sitting in Clumly's office, soberly reasoning with a half-senile country cop on a case that would never have come up in a city like Buffalo, he had felt a burst of pleasure in his having escaped all that, having fled that cave of miscalculation and inevitable embarrassment that had once been his prison--the discomfiture summed up for him in his partnership with a small-town, old-fashioned attorney, Will Hodge Sr. It was almost frightening, when you thought about it.†   (source)
  • ...looking faintly embarrassed by his own discomfiture, [Alec] added quickly, "It's just—she won't even come out of her room for her own family."   (source)
    discomfiture = loss of composure
  • Mr. Dorrit, discomfited by finding that he was the questioned instead of the questioner, applied himself to the reversal of that unexpected order of things.   (source)
  • The Senator discomfits the more extreme members of her party.
  • She was discomfited by such a rude question.
  • It's nothing to do with blue fire," she said with a low chuckle at my discomfiture.†   (source)
  • Jaime gave no sign of his discomfiture, but only smiled.†   (source)
  • To the discomfiture of the Shirriffs Frodo and his companions all roared with laughter.†   (source)
  • "Now, Reverend Mother," the Emperor chided, but he smiled at the Baron's discomfiture, said: "First, you will tell me where you've sent your minion, Thufir Hawat."†   (source)
  • …and benign, so caring in his voice, and everything about his presence inspired such immediate trust, that when they got back to her room (hot and stifling in the slant of afternoon sunlight, where she again had a brief fainting spell and slumped against him), she had not the slightest trace of discomfiture in feeling him gently unbutton and remove her soiled dress and then with delicate but firm pressure push her slowly down to her bed, where she lay stretched out clad only in a slip.†   (source)
  • Bellatrix said nothing, but looked, for the first time, a little discomfited.†   (source)
  • The waiter's comment has discomfited him, making his attraction to Moushumi feel mildly illicit.†   (source)
  • For the first time, her mother seemed discomfited.†   (source)
  • He grinned at the knight's obvious discomfit.†   (source)
  • "Who are they?" she asked Ser Loras, her discomfit forgotten for a moment.†   (source)
  • If her dragons discomfited Daario Naharis, he hid it well.†   (source)
  • Though part of me was distracted by the idea that our neighbors might be peering out their windows at us, wondering what the exact nature of our relationship was, I was also, to be honest, almost discomfitingly flushed with a sensation I had not believed I would ever experience again.†   (source)
  • Others smiled at him like long-lost kin, though a few of those smiles discomfited Jon Snow more than any glare.†   (source)
  • The preserving medium slides out of throat and lungs easily on its own, but the first few times the experience is a discomfiting one.†   (source)
  • "It was no murder, ser," said Lord Rickard Karstark, no more discomfited by the ropes about his wrists than by the blood that trickled down his face.†   (source)
  • The great wrath of his onset had utterly overthrown the front of his enemies, and great wedges of his Riders had passed clear through the ranks of the Southrons, discomfiting their horsemen and riding their footmen to ruin.†   (source)
  • But even though Mary Alice, like Leslie, will permit me to lay not a finger on any of the more interesting crannies or recesses of her incredibly desirable body, why is it that I am discomfited by the bizarre fact that the one thing she will do, though in a pleasureless and rather perfunctory way, is to whack me off hour after hour until I am a lifeless and juiceless stalk, exhausted and even humiliated by this dumb pursuit?†   (source)
  • Betrayed the right amount of feeling-indignation, disgust-but no guilt, no discomfiture?†   (source)
  • Scarlett wanted to giggle at her discomfiture, for Rhett had caught her fairly.†   (source)
  • When he reported me the company commander laughed at him and told him he ought to keep his eyes open; he understood Himmelstoss, and apparently was not displeased at his discomfiture.†   (source)
  • The French, exultant as always at the discomfiture of their former friends, and transposing into their own precise terms our mistier notions from across the Channel, foretold revolution and civil war.†   (source)
  • Several times Madeline had gone against his advice, to her utter discomfiture and rout.†   (source)
  • Ethan smiled at the discomfiture he had caused.†   (source)
  • "Shut up!" returned Jett, in mingled anger and discomfiture.†   (source)
  • Helen recorded her first experience of Bo's utter discomfiture.†   (source)
  • The implacable faces of his employer and of the Madam stared upon his discomfiture.†   (source)
  • An interminable and sustained howl completed my discomfiture.†   (source)
  • Astonishment slowly merged into discomfiture.†   (source)
  • But now they flowed with an abundance in which the Countess Gemini found only another discomfiture.†   (source)
  • "How do you do, Mr. Krook?" says Mr. Guppy in some discomfiture.†   (source)
  • Mr. Wopsle, with a majestic remembrance of old discomfiture, assented; but not warmly.†   (source)
  • To court their own discomfiture by love is a common instinct with certain perfervid women.†   (source)
  • I drank sherry and Lafitte by the glassful in my discomfiture.†   (source)
  • Guillaume Rym was the only one who noticed his eminence's discomfiture.†   (source)
  • In a discomfiture of this sort, Artonge exclaims, "It was not a stag, but a sorcerer."†   (source)
  • That happy face—Henchard's complete discomfiture lay in it.†   (source)
  • This was such a great fall, that I said in discomfiture, "O, more than that."†   (source)
  • Much to the discomfiture of Mr. Dick, who knew this to be a bad symptom.†   (source)
  • The two officers laughed at Rawdon's discomfiture.†   (source)
  • But I took heart from the reasonable thought that the ship was like other ships, the men like other men, and that the sea was not likely to keep any special surprises expressly for my discomfiture.†   (source)
  • At such moments a great sympathy welled up within me, and I felt shame that I had ever joyed in his discomfiture or pain.†   (source)
  • He was laying up trouble for himself, for lack of food and short tempers went together; but with the boundless faith of youth he persisted in repeating the manoeuvre every little while, though it never succeeded in gaining anything for him but discomfiture.†   (source)
  • So terrible was his appearance that Spitz was forced to forego disciplining him; but to cover his own discomfiture he turned upon the inoffensive and wailing Billee and drove him to the confines of the camp.†   (source)
  • Of this work of imagination poor Tess and her parents were naturally in ignorance—much to their discomfiture; indeed, the very possibility of such annexations was unknown to them; who supposed that, though to be well-favoured might be the gift of fortune, a family name came by nature.†   (source)
  • "I was reading a book about Napoleon and the Waterloo campaign only the other day, by Charasse, in which the author does not attempt to conceal his joy at Napoleon's discomfiture at every page.†   (source)
  • But, after having let herself be surprised in a falsehood, it was doubly stupid to snub the witness of her discomfiture.†   (source)
  • Seated at his ease, he could witness the Three Steps by which the Saviour ascended the universe to the discomfiture of Indra, also the death of the dragon, the mountain that turned into an umbrella, and the saddhu who (with comic results) invoked the God before dining.†   (source)
  • He turned and took a last look at the lonely bit of coast, where stood the wooden hut, now bathed in moonlight, the scene of the greatest discomfiture ever experienced by a leading member of the Committee of Public Safety.†   (source)
  • First of all Carrie Sloane dared Ruby Gillis to climb to a certain point in the huge old willow tree before the front door; which Ruby Gillis, albeit in mortal dread of the fat green caterpillars with which said tree was infested and with the fear of her mother before her eyes if she should tear her new muslin dress, nimbly did, to the discomfiture of the aforesaid Carrie Sloane.†   (source)
  • …the Rue du Saint-Esprit, who looked as if they were coming to see her, or heard her own door-bell ring, she would laugh far more heartily, as at a clever trick, at my aunt's devices (which never failed) for having them sent away, and at their look of discomfiture when they had to turn back without having seen her; and would be filled with secret admiration for her mistress, whom she felt to be superior to all these other people, inasmuch as she could and did contrive not to see them.†   (source)
  • For some unexplainable reason I know the story as well as though I had been a witness to my father's discomfiture.†   (source)
  • Rosedale, reddening to the roots of his glossy hair, received this announcement with a recoil which carried him to his feet, where he halted before her in an attitude of almost comic discomfiture.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, as she was human, she could not help thinking and being pleased and enjoying a little the discomfiture of the two coquettes.†   (source)
  • Stepney, since his marriage, had thickened and grown prudish, as the Van Osburgh husbands were apt to do; but his wife, to his surprise and discomfiture, had developed an earth-shaking fastness of gait which left him trailing breathlessly in her wake.†   (source)
  • He was not long disconcerted, but his discomfiture wore to a sullen fury, and his sharp features fixed in an expression of craft.†   (source)
  • He had been the author of our hero's discomfiture the first time he tried to present himself to Madame de Cintre.†   (source)
  • She was easily frightened, and she always carried off her discomfiture by a concession; a concession which was often accompanied, as in the present case, by a little nervous laugh.†   (source)
  • 'Heathcliff, you may come forward,' cried Mr. Hindley, enjoying his discomfiture, and gratified to see what a forbidding young blackguard he would be compelled to present himself.†   (source)
  • Signor Cavalletto took his cigarette from between his parted lips, and showed more momentary discomfiture than might have been expected.†   (source)
  • Just then she was both, for it was perfectly evident from the knowing glances exchanged among the gentlemen that her little fiction of 'my friend' was considered a good joke, and a laugh, produced by some inaudible remark of the editor, as he closed the door, completed her discomfiture.†   (source)
  • Other peasants, having heard of their comrades' discomfiture, came to town bringing rye, oats, and hay, and beat down one another's prices to below what they had been in former days.†   (source)
  • Fyodor Pavlovitch, who had given his word to sit still and be quiet, had actually been quiet for some time, but he watched his neighbor Miuesov with an ironical little smile, obviously enjoying his discomfiture.†   (source)
  • Yet I find it not to be an essential ingredient, and after going without it for a year am still in the land of the living; and I am glad to escape the trivialness of carrying a bottleful in my pocket, which would sometimes pop and discharge its contents to my discomfiture.†   (source)
  • "Under favour, sir," replied the yeoman, "I have another reason for refraining to shoot, besides the fearing discomfiture and disgrace."†   (source)
  • Though it told against themselves, the joke was too good, and Becky burst out laughing at Rawdon's discomfiture.†   (source)
  • The gallant colonel glanced at Messrs Pyke and Pluck as if he thought they ought to laugh at his joke; but those gentlemen, being only engaged to laugh for Sir Mulberry Hawk, were, to his signal discomfiture, as grave as a pair of undertakers.†   (source)
  • Here Mrs. Sparsit ceased; for Mr. Bounderby's visage exhibited an extraordinary combination of all possible colours and expressions of discomfiture, as old Mrs. Pegler was disclosed to his view.†   (source)
  • Cedric the Saxon, overjoyed at the discomfiture of the Templar, and still more so at the miscarriage of his two malevolent neighbours, Front-de-Boeuf and Malvoisin, had, with his body half stretched over the balcony, accompanied the victor in each course, not with his eyes only, but with his whole heart and soul.†   (source)
  • Long before Billy' reached the village, however, the news of his danger, and of Natty's disrespect of the law, and of Hiram's discomfiture, were in circulation.†   (source)
  • Sir Leicester is whipped in to the rescue of the Doodle Party and the discomfiture of the Coodle Faction.†   (source)
  • But since he had always, with marvellous skill, avoided any quarrel with Mr. Donnithorne, he could not allow himself the pleasure of laughing at the old gentleman's discomfiture with any one besides his mother, who declared that if she were rich she should like to allow Mrs. Poyser a pension for life, and wanted to invite her to the parsonage that she might hear an account of the scene from Mrs. Poyser's own lips.†   (source)
  • This interruption about the bad bread afforded infinite satisfaction to the loungers outside, several of whom were in the mood which finds its pleasure in others' discomfiture; and hence they echoed pretty freely, "Hey!†   (source)
  • If this were so, the fact must be known to Gride; and to Gride's house he directed his steps; now thoroughly alarmed, and fearful that there were indeed plots afoot, tending to his discomfiture and ruin.†   (source)
  • Mr Baptist, releasing the paper very slowly and with much discomfiture, and drawing himself back two or three paces, and making as though he dusted his hands, returned, very much against his will: 'At Marsiglia—Marseilles.'†   (source)
  • Now, as I dislike him, and hope his railway, his electric telegraph, or his search for baths, will ruin him, I am watching for his discomfiture, which must soon take place.†   (source)
  • If it were dashed upon, discomfiture of man and horses might be apprehended; on the other hand, to approach it timidly was to incur the hazard of being thrown behind in the beginning of the race; and that was certain forfeit of the great advantage always striven for—the position next the division wall on the inner line of the course.†   (source)
  • Venturing one day to substitute deeds for words, he turned up his cuffs, seized a plasterer's board, and having loaded his trowel without mishap, with a complacent look toward the lathing overhead, made a bold gesture thitherward; and straightway, to his complete discomfiture, received the whole contents in his ruffled bosom.†   (source)
  • I could make nothing of this, except that it was meant that I should make nothing of it, and I went home again in complete discomfiture.†   (source)
  • While Albert was lashing the front of his carriage in the same manner that he had the newspapers which were the innocent agents of his discomfiture, as he was crossing the barrier he perceived Morrel, who was walking with a quick step and a bright eye.†   (source)
  • This tends to the discomfiture of Mr. Smallweed, who finds it so difficult to resume his object, whatever it may be, that he becomes exasperated and secretly claws the air with an impotent vindictiveness expressive of an intense desire to tear and rend the visage of Mr. George.†   (source)
  • Unwilling, even under this discomfiture, to resign the ingrate and leave her hopeless, in case of her better dispositions obtaining the mastery over the darker side of her character, Mr Meagles, for six successive days, published a discreetly covert advertisement in the morning papers, to the effect that if a certain young person who had lately left home without reflection, would at any time apply to his address at Twickenham, everything would be as it had been before, and no…†   (source)
  • He narrated the circumstance a dozen times to Horrocks in the course of the evening, and greatly to the discomfiture of Miss Horrocks.†   (source)
  • My poor little wife was in such affliction when she thought I should be annoyed, and in such a state of joy when she found I was not, that the discomfiture I had subdued, very soon vanished, and we passed a happy evening; Dora sitting with her arm on my chair while Traddles and I discussed a glass of wine, and taking every opportunity of whispering in my ear that it was so good of me not to be a cruel, cross old boy.†   (source)
  • Mr Squeers, plying Mrs Sliderskew freely with the liquor, and sustaining himself under the exertion of speaking so loud by frequent applications to it himself, complied with this request by describing the discomfiture of Arthur Gride, with such improvements on the truth as happened to occur to him, and the ingenious invention and application of which had been very instrumental in recommending him to her notice in the beginning of their acquaintance.†   (source)
  • Richard pursued this advantage; and, after a long and close examination, he succeeded in getting out of Benjamin all that he knew, not only concerning the misunderstanding, but of the attempt to search the hut, and Hiram's discomfiture.†   (source)
  • …provision for all my possible wants during my month of trial; that Steerforth, to my great disappointment and hers too, did not make his appearance before she went away; that I saw her safely seated in the Dover coach, exulting in the coming discomfiture of the vagrant donkeys, with Janet at her side; and that when the coach was gone, I turned my face to the Adelphi, pondering on the old days when I used to roam about its subterranean arches, and on the happy changes which had brought…†   (source)
  • She might tear her long hair and cry her great eyes out, but there was not a person to heed or to deplore the discomfiture.†   (source)
  • This point of union was Noirtier, and it was he who had just sent for Morrel, with the request that the latter would lose no time in coming to him—a command which Morrel obeyed to the letter, to the great discomfiture of Barrois.†   (source)
  • So, Nicholas opened the door and walked in; and very quickly he turned to walk out again, when he saw, to his great astonishment and discomfiture, a young lady upon her knees at Mr Cheeryble's feet, and Mr Cheeryble beseeching her to rise, and entreating a third person, who had the appearance of the young lady's female attendant, to add her persuasions to his to induce her to do so.†   (source)
  • …servant was disposing of his master's baggage previous to the Captain's departure: for in the first place he hated Mr. Osborne, whose conduct to him, and to all inferiors, was generally overbearing (nor does the continental domestic like to be treated with insolence as our own better-tempered servants do), and secondly, he was angry that so many valuables should be removed from under his hands, to fall into other people's possession when the English discomfiture should arrive.†   (source)
  • But though Amelia told all these stories, and wrote home regarding her guests' rudeness, and her own discomfiture, old Mrs. Sedley was mightily pleased nevertheless, and talked about Emmy's friend, the Countess of Bareacres, with such assiduity that the news how his son was entertaining peers and peeresses actually came to Osborne's ears in the City.†   (source)
  • Miss Sharp put out her right forefinger, and gave him a little nod, so cool and killing, that Rawdon Crawley, watching the operations from the other room, could hardly restrain his laughter as he saw the Lieutenant's entire discomfiture; the start he gave, the pause, and the perfect clumsiness with which he at length condescended to take the finger which was offered for his embrace.†   (source)
  • "I always give my dog dinner from my own plate," said Rebecca, laughing mischievously; and having enjoyed for some time the discomfiture of my lord, who hated poor Briggs for interrupting his tete-a-tete with the fair Colonel's wife, Mrs. Rawdon at length had pity upon her admirer, and calling to Briggs, praised the fineness of the weather to her and bade her to take out the child for a walk.†   (source)
  • What recklessness in Herakles, champion though he was at labors, to shrug at impious acts and bend his bow for the discomfiture of Olympians!†   (source)
  • How a senator told to Lucius of their discomfiture, and also of the great battle between Arthur and Lucius.†   (source)
  • This detection gave many of our party disgust, who accordingly abandoned his cause, and occasion'd our more speedy discomfiture in the synod.†   (source)
  • Discomfited by this hard defiance, the rich man's son drew back.†   (source)
  • "Ha," he said to the Duke of Cambenet, "we must be discomfited."†   (source)
  • While she did not regret her decision one whit, the matter in its true light discomfited her.†   (source)
  • She sank into the proffered chair, glaring at the discomfited fat captain, and gave her name.†   (source)
  • When, discomfited, he came and asked once more for the friendship which, in his prosperity, he had not thought it worth his while to preserve.†   (source)
  • Lord Alloway looked discomfited, and Poirot continued: 'Tell me, milor', was any reference made in her hearing to the subjects you and the Admiral were going to discuss together?'†   (source)
  • Chance is discomfited.†   (source)
  • I've never backed down from male relatives, either calf or bull, or let father and guardians discomfit me.†   (source)
  • Shefford was somewhat amazed and discomfited to have his polite and friendly overtures repulsed.†   (source)
  • He vied with Pearce in his attention, and the two of them discomfited the others.†   (source)
  • He pictured the ground before it as strewn with the discomfited.†   (source)
  • Jude looked discomfited, and the boy distressed.†   (source)
  • And so well did he face it, that at the end of half an hour the wolves drew back discomfited.†   (source)
  • "It is all the same," said the spy, airily, but discomfited too: "good day!"†   (source)
  • It was Traddles; whom Mr. Mell instantly discomfited by bidding him hold his tongue.†   (source)
  • The bystanders approved the shrewdness of their chief; yet Gesius did not seem discomfited.†   (source)
  • Mr. Gradgrind was extremely discomfited by this unexpected question.†   (source)
  • Phoebus, much discomfited, followed her.†   (source)
  • Mr Dorrit also had been utterly discomfited, and quite unable to assert himself in any way.†   (source)
  • "Ay, ay!" said she, looking at the discomfited and envious Sarah, with delight.†   (source)
  • Young Barnacle seemed discomfited at this, as not having at all expected him to go.†   (source)
  • "If Miss Havisham wished to see me," returned Mr. Pumblechook, discomfited.†   (source)
  • 'Agnes,' said I. As we had arranged to say nothing at first, my aunt was not a little discomfited.†   (source)
  • He remained in silence; and seeing how discomfited he was she put her face against his cheek, murmuring, "Don't be vexed, dear!"†   (source)
  • "How could you think she was defending them?" said Miss Bartlett, much discomfited by the unpleasant scene.†   (source)
  • Piute's expressive doubt discomfited Hare, but only momentarily, for Mescal's silvery peal of laughter told him that the incident had brought them closer together.†   (source)
  • Mary said nothing at all, and Mrs. Medlock looked rather discomfited by her apparent indifference, but, after taking a breath, she went on.†   (source)
  • Tom had to tell the story of his exploit, and was somewhat discomfited by the scout's remark that he should have killed several of the bulls.†   (source)
  • He seemed curious, discomfited, surlily annoyed, and yet fascinated by her statement or else by the quality and appearance of her as she spiritedly defended her cause.†   (source)
  • But, though discomfited and disappointed, he could still do something for his own interest and his own enjoyment.†   (source)
  • Poor Danglars looked so crest-fallen and discomfited that Monte Cristo assumed a pitying air towards him.†   (source)
  • He felt that he had penetrated more deeply than ever before into this intricate affair, and that he had originated a leading idea—he could say it without self-flattery—calculated to clear up the whole business, to strengthen him in his official career, to discomfit his enemies, and thereby to be of the greatest benefit to the government.†   (source)
  • At the sound of Mr. Jones' voice, the steward ceased his employment, and Hiram had an opportunity of raising his discomfited visage toward the mediator.†   (source)
  • With this final sentence, Bartle Massey gave a sharper rap than ever with his knobbed stick, and the discomfited lads got up to go with a sulky look.†   (source)
  • A boy who can dodge over the roofs of Lahore city on a moonlight night, using every little patch and corner of darkness to discomfit his pursuer, is not likely to be checked by a line of well-trained soldiers.†   (source)
  • Outside the barred door, where discomfited kine came to ask for their old stable, Shamlegh and the coolies gave itself up to plunder and riotous living.†   (source)
  • He imagined himself to be as accomplished as Linton, I suppose, because he could spell his own name; and was marvellously discomfited that I didn't think the same.'†   (source)
  • —"Rebecca, in those lists shalt thou produce thy champion; and if thou failest to do so, or if thy champion shall be discomfited by the judgment of God, thou shalt then die the death of a sorceress, according to doom.†   (source)
  • "Well, then, David, ye're the lad to sing," said Ben, willing to show that he was not discomfited by this check.†   (source)
  • The scholar remained silent for a moment, with his finger in his ear, his eyes on the ground, and a discomfited mien.†   (source)
  • Looking round, he beholds the young man of the name of Guppy, much discomfited and not presenting a very impressive letter of introduction in his manner and appearance.†   (source)
  • Before the discomfited tragedian could raise his head from the boards, Mrs Lenville (who, as has been before hinted, was in an interesting state) rushed from the rear rank of ladies, and uttering a piercing scream threw herself upon the body.†   (source)
  • Mr. Weevle and Mr. Guppy look at each other, the former as having relinquished the whole affair, the latter with a discomfited countenance as having entertained some lingering expectations yet.†   (source)
  • They always received a reference of this kind with a low murmur of response, as if it were convincing; and the Defaulter, however black and discomfited before, always cheered up a little in making it.†   (source)
  • Miss Murdstone merely answers with a frown and a formal bend: Mr. Chillip, discomfited, goes into a corner, keeping me with him, and opens his mouth no more.†   (source)
  • Mr Dorrit, discomfited by finding that he was the questioned instead of the questioner, applied himself to the reversal of that unexpected order of things.†   (source)
  • I fancied she was jealous even of the saucepan on it; and I have reason to know that she took its impressment into the service of boiling my egg and broiling my bacon, in dudgeon; for I saw her, with my own discomfited eyes, shake her fist at me once, when those culinary operations were going on, and no one else was looking.†   (source)
  • The turnkey was discomfited.†   (source)
  • What shall we say, sir, for the elephant?" but the Captain, blushing in a very hurried and discomfited manner, turned away his head.†   (source)
  • This triumph over a lady who had been very haughty and cruel in her behaviour to Miss Briggs, would have rejoiced most women; but the truth is, Briggs was a woman of no spirit at all, and the moment her enemy was discomfited, she began to feel compassion in her favour.†   (source)
  • He was deaf to the waltzes; they grew fainter and fainter; the discomfited performer left the huge instrument presently; and though her three friends performed some of the loudest and most brilliant new pieces of their repertoire, she did not hear a single note, but sate thinking, and boding evil.†   (source)
  • …was the real hour of the morning, he broke out into a volley of bad language, which we will not repeat here, but by which he gave Dobbin to understand that he would jeopardy his soul if he got up at that moment, that the Major might go and be hanged, that he would not travel with Dobbin, and that it was most unkind and ungentlemanlike to disturb a man out of his sleep in that way; on which the discomfited Major was obliged to retreat, leaving Jos to resume his interrupted slumbers.†   (source)
  • "About George?" she said in a tone so discomfited that Maria and Miss Wirt laughed at the other side of the door, and even that abandoned wretch of a Dobbin felt inclined to smile himself; for he was not altogether unconscious of the state of affairs: George having often bantered him gracefully and said, "Hang it, Will, why don't you take old Jane?†   (source)
  • "I think it's very cruel of you to laugh, George," she said, looking particularly unhappy; but George only laughed the more at her piteous and discomfited mien, persisted in thinking the joke a most diverting one, and when Miss Sharp came downstairs, bantered her with a great deal of liveliness upon the effect of her charms on the fat civilian.†   (source)
  • The Captain, with a half-guilty secret to confess, and with the prospect of a painful and stormy interview before him, entered Mr. Osborne's offices with a most dismal countenance and abashed gait, and, passing through the outer room where Mr. Chopper presided, was greeted by that functionary from his desk with a waggish air which farther discomfited him.†   (source)
  • That espied Sir Lamorak, that Arthur and his blood were discomfit; and anon he was ready, and asked Palomides if he would any more joust.†   (source)
  • For when I sought worldly adventures for worldly desires, I ever enchieved them and had the better in every place, and never was I discomfit in no quarrel, were it right or wrong.†   (source)
  • Then Joseph, the son of Joseph of Aramathie, went to King Evelake and told him he should be discomfit and slain, but if he left his belief of the old law and believed upon the new law.†   (source)
  • For when Evelake was in the battle there was a cloth set afore the shield, and when he was in the greatest peril he let put away the cloth, and then his enemies saw a figure of a man on the Cross, wherethrough they all were discomfit.†   (source)
  • …of them smote down a knight, and Sir Gawaine smote down four knights; and then there began a strong medley, for then there came in the knights of Launcelot's blood, and Sir Gareth and Sir Palomides with them, and many knights of the Table Round, and they began to hold the four kings and the mighty duke so hard that they were discomfit; but this Duke Galahad, the haut prince, was a noble knight, and by his mighty prowess of arms he held the knights of the Table Round strait enough.†   (source)
  • And so upon a day it befell that King Labor and King Hurlame had assembled their folk upon the sea where this ship was arrived; and there King Hurlame was discomfit, and his men slain; and he was afeard to be dead, and fled to his ship, and there found this sword and drew it, and came out and found King Labor, the man in the world of all Christendom in whom was then the greatest faith.†   (source)
  • With that Merlin was vanished, and came to King Arthur aforehand, and told him how his most enemy was taken and discomfited.†   (source)
  • Ha! a! said King Lot, we must be discomfited, for yonder I see the most valiant knight of the world, and the man of the most renown, for such two brethren as is King Ban and King Bors are not living, wherefore we must needs void or die; and but if we avoid manly and wisely there is but death.†   (source)
  • And with you will I be, said the damosel, for with Sir Gawaine I may not find in mine heart to be with him; for now here was one knight discomfited ten knights, and at the last he was cowardly led away; and therefore let us two go whilst they fight.†   (source)
  • And this was his message, greeting well King Arthur in this manner wise, saying that King Rience had discomfited and overcome eleven kings, and everych of them did him homage, and that was this, they gave him their beards clean flayed off, as much as there was; wherefore the messenger came for King Arthur's beard.†   (source)
  • Though palpably a radically altered man he was still a commanding figure though carelessly garbed as usual with that look of settled purpose which went a long way with the shillyshallyers till they discovered to their vast discomfiture that their idol had feet of clay after placing him upon a pedestal which she, however, was the first to perceive.†   (source)
  • May thy grandest adventures Discomfitures prove, May thy joys be all dreams, And forgotten thy love.†   (source)
  • Don Quixote, who was not used to dismount without having the stirrup held, fancying that Sancho had by this time come to hold it for him, threw himself off with a lurch and brought Rocinante's saddle after him, which was no doubt badly girthed, and saddle and he both came to the ground; not without discomfiture to him and abundant curses muttered between his teeth against the unlucky Sancho, who had his foot still in the shackles.†   (source)
  • The woman of Endor, who is said to have had a familiar spirit, and thereby to have raised a Phantasme of Samuel, and foretold Saul his death, was not therefore a Prophetesse; for neither had she any science, whereby she could raise such a Phantasme; nor does it appear that God commanded the raising of it; but onely guided that Imposture to be a means of Sauls terror and discouragement; and by consequent, of the discomfiture, by which he fell.†   (source)
  • Nor there was holden no discomforting, But as at jousts or at a tourneying; For soothly there was no discomfiture, For falling is not but an aventure*.†   (source)
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