Great Expectations vocabulary

It was very curious to see the contrast of expressions of the white men and of the black fellows of our crew, who were as much strangers to that part of the river as we, though their homes were only eight hundred miles away. The whites, of course greatly discomposed, had besides a curious look of being painfully shocked by such an outrageous row.

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she had merely intended to discompose Elizabeth by bringing forward the idea of a man to whom she believed her partial,

Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice (1813)

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In watching his face, I made quite a firework of the Aged's sausage, and greatly discomposed both my own attention and Wemmick's; for which I apologized.

Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)