"Discombobulate" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... by a jugful, but anger's all fiddle-de-dee; They may copy my style till all's blue, but they won't discombobulate me. Names and metres is anyone's props; but of one thing they don't get the 'ang; They ain't fly to good patter, old pal, they ain't copped ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 99., September 20, 1890 • Various
... ex-Emperor, with a grin; "but we can stop it in a minute. Artemas Ward told me once how a camp-meeting he attended in the West broke up to go outside and see a dog-fight. Can't you and I pretend to quarrel? A personal assault by you on me will wake these people up and discombobulate Goldsmith. Say the ...
— A House-Boat on the Styx • John Kendrick Bangs
... Canada, we shall not discombobulate Ourselves concerning JONATHAN. 'Tis true he tried to rob you late (That is if Tariff-diddling may be qualified as robbery), But BULL has learned the wisdom of not kicking up ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, VOL. 100. Feb. 28, 1891 • Various |
