discompose

Example Sentences

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This did not seem to discompose him; on the contrary, he looked rather amused.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling

Small changes in the household arrangements were likely to discompose him.

From The Preliminaries And Other Stories by Comer, Cornelia A. P.

His complexion may trouble the physiologists; but is not likely to discompose the poetical reader under the tuition of Christopher North.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845 by Various

The islanders gave Leha and his a cold welcome, but this did not discompose him.

From Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast by Drake, Samuel Adams

From her apartment she was attended by several of the principal gentlemen of the neighborhood, who had come to protect her from the approach of any thing that might discompose her.

From Lives of Celebrated Women by Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold)