| 1. | I put my question quickly and somewhat sternly, on purpose to disconcert him. - from Dracula by Bram Stoker |
| 2. | But the fact that Sergey Ivanovitch and the princess seemed anxious to get rid of him did not in the least disconcert Stepan Arkadyevitch. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |
| 3. | The absence of citizens and of a deputation, and even the burning of Moscow, did not disconcert him. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |
| 4. | The two women looked on without uttering a word, without a gesture, without a look which could disconcert the Bishop. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 5. | In his clear glance, in his firm tone, in the robust movement of his shoulders, there was something calculated to disconcert death. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 6. | "Young Edward" A burst of laughter from the auditors did not in the least disconcert the speaker, who continued,--"Yes, gentlemen Edward, the infant phenomenon, who is quite an adept in the art of killing.. - from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 7. | In Natasha Prince Andrew was conscious of a strange world completely alien to him and brimful of joys unknown to him, a different world, that in the Otradnoe avenue and at the window that moonlight night had already begun to disconcert him. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |
| 8. | It is a sort of derivative which disarranges and disconcerts the whole science of etymologists. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 9. | That which emerges from the cemetery intimidates and disconcerts that which emerges from the cave the ferocious fear the sinister wolves recoil when they encounter a ghoul. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |