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

Oh, come—we must be calm; it will never do to discompose ourselves.

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

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

But Ruxton had no desire to discompose him.

From The Men Who Wrought by Cullum, Ridgwell

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