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

The conduct of an husband can not discompose a Lady of sense.

From The Sylph, Volume I and II by Cavendish, Georgiana

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.

Of course the failure did not discompose me, nor shake my belief.

From There is no Death by Marryatt, Florence

And often, when her father was talking to her and she giving mechanical replies, suddenly her cheek would burn like fire, and the old man would wonder what he had said to discompose her.

From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Reade, Charles