discompose
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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
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
"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 Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Oh," says Poole with a great laugh, "don't let that discompose you.
From A Day with Samuel Taylor Coleridge by May Clarissa Gillington Byron
The presence of Frederick did not discompose him.
From Sentimental Education Vol 1 by Gustave Flaubert
Without the injured Albiston, who had failed to emerge after the half-time break, they were crucially discomposed when Sulley took a corner in the sixtieth minute.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 9, 2016
As the poison of jealousy moves through his blood, Leontes’s seething monologues are accompanied by eerie, high-pitched strains in Keith Clouston’s score that cannily evoke the warped perspective of a discomposed mind.
From New York Times ● Jul. 24, 2011
I found Senator Glass lying on top of his counterpane, angrily nursing a bandaged toe, his hair and his pillow and his pajama coat and the bedding discomposed as he tossed to and fro.
From Time Magazine Archive
He would call himself a Radical, and would not be greatly discomposed if someone called him a Socialist.
From Time Magazine Archive
She saw how Romero avoided every brusque movement and saved his bulls for the last when he wanted them, not winded and discomposed but smoothly worn down.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
Here, lines define the two figures while simultaneously discomposing and merging them.
From New York Times ● Nov. 18, 2021
It was a little discomposing on account of there being so little time to get your breath in.
From The Very Small Person by Elizabeth Shippen Green Elliott
What was extraordinary was its discomposing effect upon her on this particular afternoon.
From A Love Story Reversed 1898 by Edward Bellamy
There is nothing quite so discomposing as the scornful rejection of proffers of self-seeking philanthropy.
From The Blue Goose by Frank Lewis Nason
They could then concentrate their minds upon their art free from those hundred-and-one discomposing and disconcerting influences which are the concomitants of modern civilisation.
From The Empire of the East by H. B. (Helen Barrett) Montgomery
