At these words Mrs Bridget
discomposed her features with a smile (a thing very unusual to her).
The driver was evidently
discomposed by the lateness of my arrival.
Old Sharon was not in the least
discomposed by this fresh check.
The profound astonishment with which her son regarded her during this long address, gradually increasing as it approached its climax in no way
discomposed Mrs Nickleby, but rather exalted her opinion of her own cleverness; therefore, merely stopping to remark, with much complacency, that she had fully expected him to be surprised, she entered on a vast quantity of circumstantial evidence of a particularly incoherent and perplexing kind; the upshot of which was, to establish, beyond the possibility of doubt, that Mr Frank Cheeryble had fallen desperately in love with Kate.
The question
discomposed me, but I now felt plainly that my principal was endeavouring (for reasons best known to himself--at that time I could not fathom them) to excite ideas and wishes in my mind alien to what was right and honourable.
Price, coming abroad with a fine family of children, feeling a little respite of her weekly cares, and only
discomposed if she saw her boys run into danger, or Rebecca pass by with a flower in her hat.
In another minute I was walking side by side with the woman who had sternly repudiated me as a member of her family; feeling, I own, terribly
discomposed, and not knowing in the least whether I ought or ought not to assume the responsibility, in my husband's absence, of telling her who I was.
George Herbert, which used to be so trim and clean, came into that company so soiled and
discomposed. But he told them the occasion.
The woman had observed his entrance, although it seemed in no way to have
discomposed her.
It was granted immediately, though the lady still appeared much ruffled and
discomposed by the degrading supposition.
In Sun, Romero's control of his body allows him to achieve sustained, intimate contact with the bull ("Each time he let the bull pass so close that the man and the bull and the cape that filled and pivoted ahead of the bull formed one sharply etched mass" [SAR 173]) without "wasting the bull;" he kills the bull when it is "smoothly worn down," "not winded and
discomposed" (134).
(27) Whereas Wordsworth's famous sonnet on Westminster Bridge resolves instability into the composed stillness of the city scene he is about to leave behind, Landon stages, on the city's margins, a thrillingly
discomposed subjectivity whose mobility correlates with its openness to the city's immensity and roar.
