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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

In watching his face, I made quite a firework of the Aged’s sausage, and greatly discomposed both my own attention and Wemmick’s; for which I apologised.

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens




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