discomfit

It was supposed that the banquet was given to test the duke's popularity and to discomfit the Protestants and exclusionists.

Seeking now for further material with which to discomfit Aubrey he had remembered the volume.

Queen sends message to L. to come secretly and discomfit knights.

The patriarch and the bishops did not seek to discomfit me by learned arguments or flimsy excuses.

It contained a small table and a stove, the latter of diminutive size, but smoky enough to discomfit a host.

He had not known that a wisp of a girl could so discomfit a man.

During the balance of the evening nothing occurred to discomfit either Grace or Anne.

And thus did you discomfit the dark designs of your enemies.

God has strictly commanded him to discomfit the English and the Burgundians.

But it cannot be said that anything much happened to discomfit the publishing houses of little faith.