"Discomfit" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... to enter lists with God, His Deity comparing and preferring Before the God of Abraham. He, be sure, Will not connive, or linger, thus provok'd, But will arise and his great name assert: Dagon must stoop, and shall e're long receive Such a discomfit, as shall quite despoil him Of all these boasted Trophies won on me, 470 And with confusion blank ...
— The Poetical Works of John Milton • John Milton
... to discomfit them for a moment. They looked at each other, then at my passport. At length the alcalde, striking it with his finger, ...
— The Bible in Spain • George Borrow
... whether the numerous persons who went to see the body of M. Deslescluze when it was exposed in the church of St. Elizabeth, and who declared that they recognized it, were not the victims of a delusion, and whether that gentleman may not still turn up like Sir Roger Tichborne to discomfit the minds of his old friends, who now seem uncertain whether ...
— The Insurrection in Paris • An Englishman: Davy
... find her when I came; Death had the same design; But the success was his, it seems, And the discomfit mine. ...
— Poems: Three Series, Complete • Emily Dickinson
... fixedly with twinkling eyes at his interlocutor, and, evidently with a wish to discomfit him, ...
— Resurrection • Count Leo Tolstoy
... he by Sacripant was overtaken, And fought by him, to his discomfit sore, And how he lost his courser, how was taken, I say not now, who have to say before, With what disdain and with what anger shaken, Against his liege and love, the Sarzan Moor Forth from the Saracen cantonments sped, And what he of the one ...
— Orlando Furioso • Lodovico Ariosto |
