The mischiefs which resulted from their method are patent and undeniable.

Whatever it is, it is within his desert, for what is observed of some creatures that at the same time they trade in productions three stories high, suckling the first, big with the second, and clicketing for the third: a committee-man is the counterpoint, his mischief is superfoetation, a certain scale of destruction, for he ruins the father, beggars the son, and strangles the hope of all posterity.

Some opposition was always going forward, some mischief was every day done or meditated, and the borderers were always better pleased with what they could snatch from their neighbours, than what they had of their own.

Then with pure eyes thou shalt behold How the first goodness doth infold All things in loving tender arms; That deeméd mischiefs are no harms, But sovereign salves and skilful cures Of greater woes the world endures; That man's stout soul may win a state Far raised above the reach of fate.

He had scarce time to ask what great mischief was this which they had done unto him, when behold, a prodigy!

'Tis manifest there were among them from the beginning a party who aimed at the very root of the government, and at the very thing which they brought to pass, viz., the deposing and murdering of their sovereign; and, as the devil is always master where mischief is the work, this party prevailed, turned the other out of doors, and overturned all that little honesty that might be in the first beginning of this unhappy strife.

The only mischief of this is the effect at this time.

So that the mischief done by them, their ravages, devastations, and robberies, must be only the consequences of cowardice in the sufferers, who are harassed and oppressed, only because they suffer it without resistance.

Mischief the pilot is the ship to steer.

O, these little mischiefs are meat and drink to me.

The serious mischief is the eventual miscarriage and loss and prodigal waste of good ideas.

She could not kill outright, to be sure, but even so, these lesser mischiefs were not despicable accomplishments in a young girl.

A danger is always great so long as we are afraid of it; and mischief like that now gathering head in South Carolina may soon become a danger, if not swiftly dealt with.

Where, though we may have suspected the foot, we have not been able to definitely assure ourselves that there the mischief is to be found, a further method of examination presents itselfnamely, subcutaneous injections of cocaine along the course of the plantar nerves.

But who is this witching beauty at his side, who would fain impress you with a belief that that mischief which will not remain concealed for the briefest period, is not her entire composition?