That in the United States, the Mastodon giganteus was very abundant after the drift period is evident from the fact that entire skeletons of this animal are met with in bogs and lacustrine deposits occupying hollows in the drift.
There he halted to collect the straggling fugitives and to endeavor from the wreck of his discomfited army to form a force with which he might check or impede the advancing foe.
Yet the work was over in less time than it takes to tell, the discomfited regulators driven pell-mell down the hill and back into the town, the eager cavalrymen halting only at the command of the bugle.
Here and there down the street, but especially about the steps of the Occidental, were gathered the discomfited vigilantes, busily discussing the affair, and cursing the watchful, silent guard.
Discomfited they watched the blazing mass of Jinnai's once establishment; watched it until it was a mere mass of ashes and charred beams.
On we moved, Beatty's and Growes' lines giving way seemingly to allow the jaws of the trap to press with more and ever increasing vigor upon its unfortunate and discomfited victims.
Her listener heard with a slight smile of amusement and of surprise that bitterly discomfited the speaker.
On quitting the royal presence, the discomfited courtier hastened to confide his sorrows to M.
She accordingly summoned her attendants, and without having been permitted to hold any private communication with her equally discomfited friends, she entered the carriage assigned to her, and was rapidly driven-to the palace.
It seemed ridiculous, contemptible and pitiable to think of hate in connection with the melancholy figure of this discomfited intriguer, this fallen leader of revolutionary France.
An irresistible desire seized him to go and have a look at his discomfited enemy, and from the latter's attitude make a shrewd guess as to what he meant to do to-night.
Discomfited for the moment, he was not, however, beaten.
He then returned, in transports provided by the English general, a much discomfited man, to Spain instead of converting Ireland into a province of the universal empire.
Therefore theydiscomfited them, by the will of God, and David slew Jalut.
But they who considered that they should meet God at the resurrection, said, How often hath a small army discomfited a great army, by the will of God?
Wherefore Rinaldo left the court, discomfited of his foolish enterprise; and the lady blithe and free, as if rendered back to life from the burning, went home triumphant.
Which affair has brought to my mind one that fell out contrariwise, inasmuch as the guile of one discomfited the good sense of another to the grievous loss and shame of the discomfited: the manner whereof I am minded to relate to you.
These orders were promptly executed, the discomfited Frenchmen being permitted to pass out of the galley only one at a time.
No;" and Bobby hurried home, leaving the bully astonished, and discomfited by the winding up of the morning's sport.
Were I not writing facts this brave but discomfited eagle should have a nobler end--there to meet old Janet with a broom-handle!
And when the moon rose that night and shone quietly down on the waters, the Snowbird was bravely holding on her course, and the discomfited pirate was far away.
Tom Murdock had no fixed purpose in anywhere he went after Winny Cavana left him discomfited upon the road.
When I was sure the fire was out, I lifted the pot and revealed the discomfited wizard, but without his elaborate head-dress.
Chartism is defunct, notwithstanding the efforts made by its dishonoured and discomfited leaders to revive it.
Whether thediscomfited farmer knew or not, we could not tell; but he looked as if he wished the Injins anywhere but in their "happy hunting grounds.
Walking up to one of the prisoners, he first disarmed him, and then removed his calico hood, exposing the discomfited countenance of Brigham, Tom Miller's envious laborer.
Certain it is, that the siege of Badon was raised by the Britons in the year 520; and the Saxons were there discomfited in a great battle.
Cerdic was not wanting to in good fortune; and in order to extend his conquests, he laid siege to Mount Badon or Banesdowne, near Bath, whither the most obstinate of the discomfited Britons had retired.
He landed with a greater force; and though he found a more regular resistance from the Britons, who had united under Cassivelaunus, one of their petty princes, he discomfitedthem in every action.
When he had seen in a corner of the gallery the simple but rather piteous and discomfited face of the Nabob, he had thought it cowardly to receive him there, and had sent him up to his private room.
Ah, pardon," and his face assumed a rather discomfited expression in the presence of the stranger.
