discomfiture

• “I'm trying not to enjoy it, but the National Post's discomfiture is something to behold.”

  Archive 2009-05-01

• “Sir, if this be a sample of that discomfiture with which the honorable gentleman threatened me, commend me to the word discomfiture for the rest of my life.”

  Select Speeches of Daniel Webster

• “The devil, realising that he had been fooled, disappeared in an awe-inspiring cloud of smoke and sulphur fumes; but the bridge remained, and its name to this day recalls the discomfiture of his evil plans.”

  Legend Land, Vol. 1 Being a collection of some of the Old Tales told in those Western Parts of Britain served by The Great Western Railway.

• “The frank smile that told of his lordship's enjoyment of her discomfiture was the last straw.”

  Out of the Primitive

• “Whenever the hoax was spoken of, Judge Harvey writhed with personal humiliation, and with anger against the person who had recalled his discomfiture, and with a desire for vengeance against the perpetrator of the swindle.”

  No. 13 Washington Square

• “I recall the discomfiture of a certain well-known philanthropist, since deceased, whose heart beat responsive to other suffering than that of human kind.”

  XXIV. What Has Been Done

• “His discomfiture was the more complete since he felt that his defeat was owing to some mistake in his methods, and not the incorrigibility of his subject.”

  Selected Stories of Bret Harte

• “In a few minutes the flagstaff was well washed, and the derveesh too, and put to flight in discomfiture.”

  Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia

• “Koreish, compelled the Abyssinians to a disgraceful retreat: their discomfiture has been adorned with a miraculous flight of birds, who showered down stones on the heads of the infidels; and the deliverance was long commemorated by the aera of the elephant.”

  The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

• “a modest expression of "discomfiture" on reading of American authors”

  Complete Essays

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