During a short time the garrison, many of whom had never before seen the effect of a cannonade, seemed to be discomposed by the crash of chimneys, and by the heaps of ruin mingled with disfigured corpses.
The wine being strong and heady, I was already a good deal discomposed by the dispatch we had made.
Even the Channel and the Bay, though they had been more than usually rough, had notdiscomposed him.
Thyrza, who was growing more and more discomposed at every fresh detail.
At that instant, Mr. Pickle's ears were saluted with such a strange noise, as even discomposed the muscles of his face, which gave immediate indications of alarm.
On reading these I was so shocked and discomposed that I could not refrain in my irritation from writing to him and pointing out what offended me in his writings, as if he were a friend and contemporary.
The queen laughed heartily at Xit's mischance, and even Courtenay, though discomposed by the accident, could not help joining in the universal merriment.
The preacher turned quickly; her quiet assent discomposed him, though in his heart he believed his own words: for the sake of the maid's good name there was no other way.
Occasionally her questions slightly discomposed him, "irresponsible" though he was.
You will not be discomposedby the Lord Chancellor, I dare say?
When the family assembled at dinner, and Mrs. Mowbray perceived the place of her son vacant, she changed colour, and appeared discomposed and absent during the whole time she remained at table.
The look he gave discomposed me, as though I had been responsible for his state he looked at me as if I had been the embodied evil of life.
Heyst's blue eyes went hard as he turned them on the discomposed Morrison.
Rose and May looked in wonder at their mother, discomposed enough in her own person, sitting leaning back in her chair doing nothing; she whose motherly hands were wont to be busy with some little bit of sewing or knitting.
Lord Curryfin's assiduities to Miss Gryll had discomposed Mr. Falconer more than he chose to confess to himself.
For your very great politeness, I am sure,' said Miss Murdstone; with an irony which no more affected my aunt, than it discomposed the cannon I had slept by at Chatham.
He takes his Place after having discomposed every Body, and desires there may be no Ceremony; then does he begin to call himself the saddest Fellow, in disappointing so many Places as he was invited to elsewhere.
There is no time to be lost," said Burr, coolly, measuring the possibilities with that keen eye that was never discomposed by any exigency.
At any rate the last was considerably startled; he had been fishing for mealies--the old woman was a mere accident, and one that greatly discomposed his nerves.
On the contrary, they accompanied us every foot of the way, keeping up a running fire of allusions to the 'Thing that bites' that jarred upon my nerves and discomposed my temper.
Come, let me place thee, in the foremost rank, With him whose dullness discomposed the bank; [A line illegible.
It was wondrous loyal and respectful, but, being an innovation, much discomposed the solemnity.
What was the little incident, which had so discomposed and ruffled him, when it was stripped naked?
Flora seemed a little--a very little--affected and discomposed at his approach.
