"Someone has a sad mishap, Just when I try to take a nap.

While his instinct made him distrust an Englishman, he already had some measure of faith in me personally, yet this confidence was still so light as to be completely shattered by the slightest mishap.

You fellows are not going to leak about my little mishap?" "No," replied Darrin with great promptness.

And drives sad passions from his heavy heart, Presaging some good future hap shall fall, After these blust'ring blasts of discontent? Thanks, gentle Nymphs, and Satyrs too, adieu; That thus compassionate a loyal lover's woe, When heav'n sits smiling at his dire mishaps.

And we alone, that sudden mishap fell.

Dangerous mishap.

If the Athenian navy had already met with some explicable mishaps, it looked back with complacent confidence on the glorious achievements of more than half a century previously.

Till once, by a fatal mishap, The little unfortunate rover Perceived herself close in a trap, And felt that her race was now over.

And fend our princes every one, From foul mishap and trahison; But kings that harrow Christian men Shall England never bide again.

"Oh!" exclaimed more than one voice, as at some grave mishap.

Hypochondria not only makes us unreasonably cross and angry over things concerning the present; not only fills us with groundless fears of imaginative mishaps for the future; but also causes us to unjustly reproach ourselves concerning our actions in the past.

They sat together over their embroidery and various kinds of needlework, telling old tales of fearful interestthe strange mishaps of benighted travellersstories of witchcraft, and of mysterious murder.

But what a deplorable catastrophe!what a dire calamity!what an ironical mishap!' 'She means' began Mr. Purdie, noting his nephew's puzzled distress.

Only, he can't help feeling a little superior to the majority of men, and his artistic temperament leads him to magnify the lesser mishaps of lifesuch as the steak being overdone, or missing a train.

We made two efforts to reach this Church from the eastern side; once in the night time, during which, and particularly when within 100 yards of the building, we had to beat about mystically between Scylla and Charybdis, and once at day time, when the utmost care was necessary in order to avoid a mild mishap amid deep side crevices, cart ruts two feet deep, lime heaps, and cellar excavations.

After twice running on shore, and meeting with sundry other stoppages and minor mishaps, through the mismanagement of the two engineers, we reached the city of St. Louis, to the gratification of myself and fellow-passengers.

By an odd mishap of memory, Cordelia was apt to break the rule in moments of excitement, and she knew the penalty too well.

"The last one," says Saint-Simon, "was at Rambouillet; and, by a regrettable mishap, the Duchesse received a kick.

Well, by some unaccountable mishap the receiver's special was switched over to the Western Division at yard limits, and the engineer seems to think he has orders to proceed westward.

"An unco uncanny mishap," replied the tapster's wife.

"An unco uncanny mishap," replied the tapster's wife.

But he completely retrieved this academical mishap shortly afterwards by gaining an Oriel fellowship.

A fleet of seventy-three vessels, carrying eight thousand men, was soon equipped, under the order of Admiral Vander Goes; and, after a series of attempts on the coasts of Spain, Portugal, Africa, and the Canary Isles, this expedition, from which the most splendid results were expected, was shattered, dispersed, and reduced to nothing by a succession of unheard-of mishaps.

Hadn't been for that I'd dodged considerable mishaps.

I should hardly think you'll venture home again after such a cursed mishap.