"Discomfiture" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... spotted egg is seen within. A three-storied nest! A nest full of stories—certainly. I recently read of a specimen containing four stories, upon the top of which downy pile the little warbler sat like Patience on a monument, presumably smiling at the discomfiture of the outwitted cow-bird parasite, who had thus exhausted her powers of mischief for the season, and doubtless convinced herself of the folly of "putting all her ...
— My Studio Neighbors • William Hamilton Gibson
... better so, for otherwise I should not have come, and then, perhaps, you would have been all alone in your discomfiture at the bank." ...
— Phineas Redux • Anthony Trollope
... to Johnny's lengthened ride, which he (Johnny) resented by pushing her most stoutly away, when she attempted to remove him from his post; and victoriously shouting over her discomfiture, he shook the bridle with exultation, and we proceeded towards the village. As we arrived in sight of Bridman Cottage, the boy who had preceded us came running back to meet us; and I heard him say ...
— Ellen Middleton--A Tale • Georgiana Fullerton
... flashing eyes and proud scorn of his intended victim; his discomfiture, however, lasted but for a moment. His red face grew black with the passions of rage and lust combined; he muttered a fierce curse, and springing forward, seized her in his vice-like grasp, and forced ...
— Venus in Boston; - A Romance of City Life • George Thompson
... to set out at once for his quondam foe, and in ten minutes was driving down the road to Warchester. Vincent's bruises were nearly healed, and he saluted Jack as a "chum" rather than as the agent of his late discomfiture. ...
— The Iron Game - A Tale of the War • Henry Francis Keenan
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