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Enjoying the momentary discomfiture of her reluctantly invited guest, Aunt
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his confusion and discomfiture in his furs, backed out of the room without another
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She shuddered, discomfited in this instant of primeval terror
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Yet to others it represented an incursion into their determination to remain masters of their houses and homes and other discomfited intrusiveness
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She looked up quickly, momentarily forgetting her discomfiture
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Not only the discomfiture of having to wear that something, so far below her station
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was against his fellow, and there was a very great discomfiture
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15 And he sent out arrows, and scattered them; lightning, and discomfited them
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14 Yes, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them
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The size of our army did not seem to give him pause either, although he was a bit discomfited by our horses
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Theodore stuck by me, however, much to Buzun’s discomfiture
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When the unfortunate Chabi was sent there, all were removed back to Higuey and well compensated for their discomfiture, but warned of dire consequences should they ever return
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14 So they joined battle, and the heathen being discomfited fled into the plain
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Then said Judas and his brothers, see, our enemies are discomfited: let us go up to cleanse and dedicate the sanctuary
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fought many battles with them, till at length they were discomfited before him; and he struck them
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Nicanor's host was discomfited, and he himself was first killed in the battle
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came against them from the uttermost part of the Earth, till they had discomfited them, and given them a great overthrow, so that the
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rest did give them tribute every year: 5 Beside this, how they had discomfited in battle Philip, and Perseus, King of the Citims, with
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against them in battle, having an hundred and twenty elephants, with horsemen, and chariots, and a very great army, was discomfited
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to the mount Azotus; 16 But when they of the left wing saw that they of the right wing were discomfited, they followed onto Judas
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out of the city, and burned up the engines of war, 68 And fought against Bacchides, who was discomfited by them, and they afflicted
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had joined battle with him, both he and his host was discomfited by us, so that we sit in the throne of his kingdom: 54 Now therefore
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discomfited through the sudden silence of his enemies
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45 Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites which dwelt in that hill, and struck them, and discomfited them, even to Hormah
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(To discomfit is to crush
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14 So they joined battle and the heathen being discomfited fled into the plain
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36 Then said Judas and his brothers see our enemies are discomfited: let us go up to cleanse and dedicate the sanctuary
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7 So he fought many battles with them till at length they were discomfited before him; and he struck them
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21 Then went Simon into Galilee where he fought many battles with the heathen so that the heathen were discomfited by him
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43 So he went first over to them and all the people after him; then all the heathen being discomfited before him throw away their weapons and fled to the temple that was at Carnaim
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43 So the thirteenth day of the month Adar the hosts joined battle but Nicanor's host was discomfited and he himself was first killed in the battle
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It was told him also of their wars and noble acts which they had done among the Galatians and how they had conquered them and brought them under tribute; 3 And what they had done in the country of Spain for the winning of the mines of the silver and gold which is there; 4 And that by their policy and patience they had conquered all the place though it were very far from them; and the kings also that came against them from the uttermost part of the Earth till they had discomfited them and given them a great overthrow so that the rest did give them tribute every year: 5 Beside this how they had discomfited in battle Philip and Perseus King of the Citims with others that lifted up themselves against them and had overcome them: 6 Now also Antiochus the great King of Asia who came against them in battle having an hundred and twenty elephants with horsemen and chariots and a very great army was discomfited by them; 7 And how they took him alive and covenanted that he and such as reigned after him should pay a great tribute and give hostages and that which was agreed on 8 And the country of India and Media and Lydia and of the goodliest countries which they took of him and gave to king Eumenes: 9 Moreover now the Grecians had determined to come and destroy them; 10 And that they having knowledge of it sent against them a certain captain and fighting with them killed many of them and carried away captives their wives and their children and spoiled them and took possession of their lands and pulled down their strong holds and brought them to be their servants to this day: 11 It was told him besides how they destroyed and brought under their dominion all other kingdoms and isles that at any time resisted them; 12 But with their friends and such as relied on them they kept amity and that they had conquered kingdoms both far and near in as much as all that heard of their name were afraid of them: 13 Also that whom they would help to a kingdom those reign; and whom again they would they displace: finally that they were greatly exalted: 14 Yet for all this none of them wore a crown or was clothed in purple to be magnified by it: 15 Moreover how they had made for themselves a senate house in which three hundred and twenty men sat in council daily consulting always for the people to the end they might be well ordered: 16 And that they committed their government to one man every year who ruled over all their country and that all were obedient to that one and that there was neither envy nor emmulation among them
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14 Now when Judas perceived that Bacchides and the strength of his army were on the right side he took with him all the hardy men 15 Who discomfited the right wing and pursued them to the mount Azotus; 16 But when they of the left wing saw that they of the right wing were discomfited they followed onto Judas and those who were with him hard at the heels from behind; 17 Upon which there was a sore battle insomuch as many were killed on both parts
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67 And when he began to strike them and came up with his forces Simon and his company went out of the city and burned up the engines of war 68 And fought against Bacchides who was discomfited by them and they afflicted him sore for his counsel and travail was in vain
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51 Afterward Alexander sent ambassadors to Ptoleme King of Egypt with a message to this effect: 52 Forasmuch as I am come again to my realm and am set in the throne of my progenitors and have gotten the dominion and overthrown Demetrius and recovered our country; 53 For after I had joined battle with him both he and his host was discomfited by us so that we sit in the throne of his kingdom: 54 Now therefore let us make a league of amity together and give me now your daughter to wife and I will be your son in law and will give both you and her as according to your dignity
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82 Then brought Simon out his host and set them against the footmen for the horsemen were spent who were discomfited by him and fled
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17 Now Simon Judas' brother had joined battle with Nicanor but was somewhat discomfited through the sudden silence of his enemies
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The Primagnon apparently took no notice of the Senator’s discomfiture, but went on with his interview
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Aristotle would exhibit discomfiture with much of what public speaking stands for today, as would Plato and Cicero who subscribed to the same views
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And their discomfiture was all the more apparent when they returned to Jesus, saying: "Concerning the baptism of John, we cannot answer; we do not know
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3 When he had thus answered these young scribes and their Herodian accomplices, they withdrew from his presence, and the people, even the Sadducees, enjoyed their discomfiture
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He started by shunning food, by standing in awkward positions for many days, by kneeling in prayer for endless hours; in general he felt happiest when he was discomfitured in some way
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She then ignored the discomfited duty officer and placed a few more calls, alerting the various regional Army commands in the Philippines
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Millikin chuckled at the discomfiture of Byrd and patted his shoulder in encouragement
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“Yes, madame?” Answered the head of her bodyguards, who had stood behind his discomfited man
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“And here is another,” said Forsyth, adding to the man’s discomfiture, “which shows your agent – sorry, second secretary in your commercial department - having just replaced the phial in his pocket
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His voice was as soft as ever but the message was less comfiting:
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The retrospective tax, in particular, was seen to symbolize corporate India’s discomfiture with the UPA government
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The RJD leader, he felt, represented an old-style politics of caste and corruption that discomfited him
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Henri was discomfited by and uncomfortably aware of Falcon’s searing gaze focused on her
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He has bought a canoe, and has won the cup for swimming, wresting it from the reluctant hands of the discomfited Jena young men
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Even so, it was weird and discomfiting
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He often came home and the pair shut themselves in her room for hours and left a discomfited Nina to carry an uneasy, self-conscious conversation with me
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Only when you beat their hollow hiding places unexpectedly, only when they cannot predict when you will beat it, only when your beating is not regular and predictable: are they temporarily discomfited enough to leave
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It does us no good to be discomfited about missing some small thing as time
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Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them
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"It is all the same," said the spy, airily, but discomfited too:
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It would be so if its moral were that, in this world, true enthusiasm naturally leads to ridicule and discomfiture
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Don Quixote, who was not used to dismount without having the stirrup held, fancying that Sancho had by this time come to hold it for him, threw himself off with a lurch and brought Rocinante's saddle after him, which was no doubt badly girthed, and saddle and he both came to the ground; not without discomfiture to him and abundant curses muttered between his teeth against the unlucky Sancho, who had his foot still in the shackles
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Wopsle, with a majestic remembrance of old discomfiture, assented; but
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Poor Danglars looked so crest-fallen and discomfited that Monte Cristo assumed a pitying air towards him
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This was such a great fall, that I said in discomfiture, "O, more than that
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I could make nothing of this, except that it was meant that I should make nothing of it, and I went home again in complete discomfiture
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Phial of cachous, kissing comfits, in her satchel
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Needless to say the cries of discomfited Master Tommy drew the attention of the girl friends
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While Albert was lashing the front of his carriage in the same manner that he had the newspapers which were the innocent agents of his discomfiture, as he was crossing the barrier he perceived Morrel, who was walking with a quick step and a bright eye
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This point of union was Noirtier, and it was he who had just sent for Morrel, with the request that the latter would lose no time in coming to him—a command which Morrel obeyed to the letter, to the great discomfiture of Barrois
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Though palpably a radically altered man he was still a commanding figure though carelessly garbed as usual with that look of settled purpose which went a long way with the shillyshallyers till they discovered to their vast discomfiture that their idol had feet of clay after placing him upon a pedestal which she, however, was the first to perceive
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might have been hanging up too on the line on exhibition for all hed ever care with the ironmould mark the stupid old bundle burned on them he might think was something else and she never even rendered down the fat I told her and now shes going such as she was on account of her paralysed husband getting worse theres always something wrong with them disease or they have to go under an operation or if its not that its drink and he beats her Ill have to hunt around again for someone every day I get up theres some new thing on sweet God sweet God well when Im stretched out dead in my grave I suppose 111 have some peace I want to get up a minute if Im let wait O Jesus wait yes that thing has come on me yes now wouldnt that afflict you of course all the poking and rooting and ploughing he had up in me now what am I to do Friday Saturday Sunday wouldnt that pester the soul out of a body unless he likes it some men do God knows theres always something wrong with us 5 days every 3 or 4 weeks usual monthly auction isnt it simply sickening that night it came on me like that the one and only time we were in a box that Michael Gunn gave him to see Mrs Kendal and her husband at the Gaiety something he did about insurance for him in Drimmies I was fit to be tied though I wouldnt give in with that gentleman of fashion staring down at me with his glasses and him the other side of me talking about Spinoza and his soul thats dead I suppose millions of years ago I smiled the best I could all in a swamp leaning forward as if I was interested having to sit it out then to the last tag I wont forget that wife of Scarli in a hurry supposed to be a fast play about adultery that idiot in the gallery hissing the woman adulteress he shouted I suppose he went and had a woman in the next lane running round all the back ways after to make up for it I wish he had what I had then hed boo I bet the cat itself is better off than us have we too much blood up in us or what O patience above its pouring out of me like the sea anyhow he didnt make me pregnant as big as he is I dont want to ruin the clean sheets I just put on I suppose the clean linen I wore brought it on too damn it damn it and they always want to see a stain on the bed to know youre a virgin for them all thats troubling them theyre such fools too you could be a widow or divorced 40 times over a daub of red ink would do or blackberry juice no thats too purply O Jamesy let me up out of this pooh sweets of sin whoever suggested that business for women what between clothes and cooking and children this damned old bed too jingling like the dickens I suppose they could hear us away over the other side of the park till I suggested to put the quilt on the floor with the pillow under my bottom I wonder is it nicer in the day I think it is easy I think Ill cut all this hair off me there scalding me I might look like a young girl wouldnt he get the great suckin the next time he turned up my clothes on me Id give anything to see his face wheres the chamber gone easy Ive a holy horror of its breaking under me after that old commode I wonder was I too heavy sitting on his knee I made him sit on the easychair purposely when I took off only my blouse and skirt first in the other room he was so busy where he oughtnt to be he never felt me I hope my breath was sweet after those kissing comfits easy God I remember one time I could scout it out straight whistling like a man almost easy O Lord how noisy I hope theyre bubbles on it for a wad of money from some fellow 111 have to perfume it in the morning dont forget I bet he never saw a better pair of thighs than that look how white they are the smoothest place is right there between this bit here how soft like a peach easy
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But although it behoved me to sink down with the rest, I was but little hurt: on the contary, I had a good laugh in my sleeve at the time; and afterwards, many a merry tumbler of toddy with my brethren, when they had recovered from their discomfiture
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He glanced down at it, frowning slightly, and I had the slightly discomfiting sensation that he knew something of what had just passed through my head
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had penetrated more deeply than ever before into this intricate affair, and that he had originated a leading idea— he could say it without self-flattery—calculated to clear up the whole business, to strengthen him in his official career, to discomfit his enemies, and thereby to be of the greatest benefit to the government
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Almost every event out of the usual daily course "marked an epoch" for him or else was "history"; unless with his pomposity struggling with a discomfited droop of his rubicund, rather handsome face, set off by snow-white close hair and short whiskers, he would mutter—
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"Ribiera had yielded to the urgent solicitations of his friends, and had left the headquarters of his discomfited army alone, under the guidance of Bonifacio, the muleteer, who had been willing to take the responsibility with the risk
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A heavy sense of discomfiture crushed him: the loss of the silver, the death of Nostromo, which was really quite a blow to his sensibilities, because he had become attached to his Capataz as people get attached to their inferiors from love of ease and almost unconscious gratitude
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discomfiture, for Rhett had caught her fairly
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She sank into the proffered chair, glaring at the discomfited fat captain, and gave her name
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The French, exultant as always at the discomfiture of their former friends, and transposing into their own precise terms our mistier notions from across the Channel, foretold revolution and civil war
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No one spoke, but there was a shift in the texture of the silence, a discomfiture that passed for assent
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The great wrath of his onset had utterly overthrown the front of his enemies, and great wedges of his Riders had passed clear through the ranks of the Southrons, discomfiting their horsemen and riding their footmen to ruin
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And so well did he face it, that at the end of half an hour the wolves drew back discomfited
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Reason teaches us that there must be a First Cause of all Things, an Ens Entium, which we, all unreasoningly, call God, but this First Cause is perfectly indiff’rent to our Fates, for as He is wholly self-sufficient, happy, perfect, and neither loves nor hates, why should He be concern’d with us? And why indeed should He be affected in any Way by our Beseechments? Our Sins neither discomfit Him nor do our Adorations please Him
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Other growth stocks have been even more vulnerable to adverse developments; in some cases not only has the price fallen back but the earnings as well, thus causing a double discomfiture to those who owned them
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We have had a like discomfiting experience with our own “central value method” of determining indicated buying and selling levels of the Dow Jones Industrial Average
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This past ability to earn in excess of interest requirements constitutes the margin of safety that is counted on to protect the investor against loss or discomfiture in the event of some future decline in net income
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Other peasants, having heard of their comrades’ discomfiture, came to town bringing rye, oats, and hay, and beat down one another’s prices to below what they had been in former days
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In a discomfiture of this sort, Artonge exclaims, "It was not a stag, but a sorcerer
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was croquant—(overlook the barbarism)—croquant chocolate comfits, and smoking alternately, watching meantime the equipages that rolled along the fashionable streets towards the neighbouring opera-house, when in an elegant close carriage drawn by a beautiful pair of English horses, and distinctly seen in the brilliant citynight, I recognised the ‘voiture’ I had given Céline
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Venturing one day to substitute deeds for words, he turned up his cuffs, seized a plasterer's board, and having loaded his trowel without mishap, with a complacent look toward the lathing overhead, made a bold gesture thitherward; and straightway, to his complete discomfiture, received the whole contents in his ruffled bosom
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So he promised to enter Duke Hoël’s keep and to swear homage again, and to restore what he had wasted; and by his order the battle ceased, and his host went off discomfited
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But on this occasion the thought that I was covered with fluff contributed to my discomfiture so that, in fact, I floundered a little and dropped into being over-
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He felt that he had penetrated more deeply than ever before into this intricate affair, and that he had originated a leading idea—he could say it without self-flattery—calculated to clear up the whole business, to strengthen him in his official career, to discomfit his enemies, and thereby to be of the greatest benefit to the government
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In a word, Jolkin was utterly discomfited in a surprisingly clever way, so Koulikoff's side was quite well pleased
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To her surprise and, later on, her extreme discomfiture (to anticipate things) he vanished for the whole morning and did not make his appearance at the literary matinée at all, so that no one met him till evening
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But to his discomfiture he found none of them at home except Erkel and Lyamshin
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“I loved you, Alexey Ivanovitch; all that year at T—— I loved you—you did not observe it,” continued Pavel Pavlovitch, his voice trembling with emotion, to the great discomfiture of his companion
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I undertook to tranquillize him, and bring him down to terms of cordial confidence and friendship, but he repelled these attempts with trenchant disdain, and, to my great discomfiture, continued to show indications of a passion, silent, indeed, as yet, but momentarily threatening to break forth
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The doctor, a tall man of forty-five, seemed discomfited by the visit, and passed unfriendly side glances at his guest
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In the Revolutionary war how did England stand—how her islands? For several years she was at war with America, with Holland, with Spain, with France, whose fleets in the East and West Indies were often equal, sometimes superior to her own, and an armed neutrality in the North—during this period a French fleet blockaded the Chesapeake, and aided the capture of Cornwallis, and threatened the British islands—but how was this conflict with the world sustained? Were the islands starved during these years? did they fall? No, sir; the British nation braved the storm, and was only conquered by her sons—America was victorious and independent; but Europe retired discomfited
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Nor did he dream that in the silence that followed, as he sat comfortably certain of the discomfiture of the man who had flung at him the two-edged taunt of age and childlessness, his nephew was saying to himself that surely Elenore’s father must be a reasonable man, that there must be some rational basis on which he and John Carrington could meet as friends