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

It is, and looks, German, and is of an extravagant nature that would utterly discompose an English herald.

From The Dover Road Annals of an Ancient Turnpike by Harper, Charles G.

"It is so, in truth," said Sancho, "since the noise of the hammers of a fulling-mill were sufficient to disturb and discompose the heart of so valorous a knight as your worship."

From The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha by Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de

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)

You may answer, perhaps, that you did not like to make a fuss, or seem squeamish, or discompose the company; and so, from timidity, you said ‘the thing that was not.’

From Talkers With Illustrations by Bate, John