Discomfiture

Discomfiture was extremely probable, as the affair was intellectual game, in which either the master laid himself out to pose the scholar, or a brace of scholars argued (or, as the phrase then ran, "disputed") by turns, under the supervision and correction of the master.

The Customs of Old England

Expressions of Discomfiture on the so-called Faces of Aunt Lib and

Ade's Fables George Ade 1905

As Master-Card, a suddenly changed Plan, a Discomfiture.

The Square of Sevens An Authoritative Method of Cartomancy with a Prefatory Note Edward Prime-Stevenson 1905

Expressions of Discomfiture on the so-called Faces of Aunt Lib and

Ade's Fables George Ade 1905

Discomfiture was manifest in his reluctant eyes, and the little tug of retraction with which he loosed his hold upon the notes.

Alec Forbes of Howglen George MacDonald 1864

Discomfiture fell on the Arabs, and they returned to their tents, pursued by the thrusts of Antar, for they were indeed annihilated, and their old and young were in amazement.

Antar : 1820

St. Paul's, on the Occasion of the Discomfiture of the English Boats by the Batteries of Boulogne.

Lines 1801

Discomfiture (Oh no, not John Doe again) can cause a person to feel pity, instead of taking action.

xml's Blinklist.com 2008

(Discomfiture) "Yes gentlemen; but a minor distraction which brought substantial profits to me and to you.

The War with the Newts 2006

Successes of Edward; Treaty with Sultan; Final Discomfiture of the Franks in Palestine, and Loss of Acre; State of Palestine under the Turks;

Palestine or the Holy Land From the Earliest Period to the Present Time Michael Russell 1814