Many more were chatting in an undertone, grumbling over their sore feet and other discomfits, chaffing each other, and laughing.
"The Brigade Commander"
J. W. Deforest
He comes to his senses, is armed and clothed, undertakes the lady's defence, and discomfits the earl: but is as miserable as ever.
"The English Novel"
George Saintsbury
Those songs of the dolorous discomfits in battaile, and other desolations in warre, or of townes saccaged and subuerted, were song by the remnant of the army ouerthrowen, with great skrikings and outcries, holding the wrong end of their weapon vpwards in signe of sorrow and dispaire.
"The Arte of English Poesie"
George Puttenham