And Susan now begins to fear Of sad mischances not a few, That Johnny may perhaps be drowned; Or lost, perhaps, and never found; 180 Which they must both for ever rue.

Thankless I call her, and to her own pain The nurse of fell mischance; for sign take this, That ever to the best she deals more scorn:

Oh! the horrible mischance!

But the slightest mischance now, a meeting at the door of the pavilion, an altercationface to face, eye to eyeand Richard Lambert would be on the alert.

Meanwhile Mr. Sloane, having decided to treat himself to a private secretary and suffered dreadful mischance in three successive experiments, had heard of Theodore's situation and his merits; had furthermore recognized in him the son of an early and intimate friend, and had finally offered him the very comfortable position he now occupies.

" "Surely your father's not angry" cried Mrs. Whitney, in a tone intended to make Hiram ashamed of taking so narrow, so rural, a view of his son's fashionable mischance.

No such fatal mischance had happened since the Second Punic War, when Marcellus and Crispinus fell in one day.

First, honour'd Virgin, to behold thy face Where all good dwells that is: Next for to try The truth of late report was given to me: Those Shepherds that have met with foul mischance, Through much neglect, and more ill governance, Whether the wounds they have may yet endure The open Air, or stay a longer cure.

He had shrunk from exposing them to the ups and downs of business life, its trying fluctuations, its frequent cruel mischances.

240 Of trecherie or traines nought tooke he keep, But, looslie on the grassie greene dispredd, His dearest life did trust to careles sleep; Which, weighing down his drouping drowsie hedd, In quiet rest his molten heart did steep, 245 Devoid of care, and feare of all falshedd: Had not inconstant Fortune, bent to ill, Bid strange mischance his quietnes to spill.

He shared with Napoleon and other remarkable men, says Von Müller, the conceit that little mischances are prophetic of greater evils.

His general views were theirs: poetry is in his mind associated with wonder and ecstacy; and it finds its true themes, as the Ode on Popular Superstitions shows, in the weird legends, the pathetic mischances, and the blameless manners of a simple-minded folk remote from cities.

how fast they rolled away: But, through severe mischance, and cruel wrong, My father's substance fell into decay; We toiled, and struggledhoping for a day When Fortune should put on a kinder look; But vain were wishesefforts vain as they: He from his old hereditary nook Must part,the summons came,our final leave we took.

Toward mid-afternoon a solitary mischance threw a passing shadow upon his content.

One can hardly believe such a stupid mischance to be possible.

It was on this occasion that the patient and long-enduring editor ventured mildly to suggest, that when, by a thrilling and horrible mischance, Seraphina's lovely hand came between a log of wood and the full force of Theodore's hatchet, the result might have been more disastrous than the loss of a finger-nail.

This will not be found a very difficult member of the poultry family to carve, unless, as may happen, a very old farmyard occupant, useless for egg-laying purposes, has, by some unlucky mischance, been introduced info the kitchen as a "fine young chicken."

That horseman, Who at full speed swept by us where the wood Roared in the tempest, was within an ace Of sending to his grave our precious Charge: That would have been a vile mischance.

He had shrunk from exposing them to the ups and downs of business life, its trying fluctuations, its frequent cruel mischances.

"He is far too fine a fellow to be lost for a youthful mischance.

The commission for the delimitation, at the head of which was General Hamley, met at Athens with the intention of beginning the trace from the Epirote side, and I had made all my preparations for accompanying it, when there happened one of those curious mischances which are possible only in the East.

What a cursed mischance!" Diego instantly withdrew, apparently to obey his lord's command; but he had scarcely entered the little passage when two ladies pushed past him, and made their way into the room.

The end will indeed have come to our courage and to us when we are afraid in dire mischance to refer the final appeal to the arbitrament of arms.