133 examples of misadventure in sentences

This left "Pen" to conjecture as to whether he should report his misadventure, and, if so, how best to go about it.

Posed with consummate grace in a comfortless chair, a figure of slender elegance in her half-mourning, she had narrated quietly her version of last night's misadventure, an occasional tremor of humour lightening the moving modulations of her voice.

There they published the news of this misadventure, and the death of their lord.

When this piteous woman beheld Bedevere upon the mount, "Oh, wretched man," she exclaimed, "what is thy name, and what misadventure leads you here!

With neither haste nor faltering, without the least misadventure, she let herself quietly out into the empty, silent, rain-swept street, and scurried toward the lights of Piccadilly.

But sorrowfully sighing this old man, returning home, declared his misadventure with all the words and circumstances above showed.

And as to Maskew, some of the soldiers said that Elzevir had shot him, and others that he died by misadventure, being killed by a stray bullet of one of his own men on the hill-top; but for all that they put a head-price on Elzevir of 50, and 20 for me, so we had reason to lie close.

It was decided to carry with us from the Base enough fuel and supplies to last through any possible misadventure, even of a week's duration.

SPARRMAN'S MISADVENTURE.

A visit to Lamb's cottage to-day, bearing in mind that the ribbon of green between iron railings that extends along Colebrooke Row was at that time an open stream, will make the nature of G.D.'s misadventure quite plain.

[Sidenote: A Misadventure] There was only a board partition between my room and Madame de Vermandoise's, so I could hear everything, and Tournelle said there was nothing for it but that "Antoine" would have to sleep in the other bed in her room.

Mrs. Heeny had behaved with extreme discretion, refraining from all direct allusions to Undine's misadventure; but her silence was obviously the criticism of a superior mind.

One step past the threshold brought him misadventure, for his foot drove straight through the rotten flooring and his leg disappeared up to the knee.

He cannot be preserved from criminal misadventure, either by altruistic sentiments or by intelligently egoistic ones.

At the telegraph office we received news that the voyage of Lauriado and Fiala down the Papagaio had opened with a misadventure.

A MISADVENTURE.

CHAPTER II A MISADVENTURE To be brought up short in an amorous quest by such a sight as that was a shock alike to Soane's better nature and his worse dignity.

On the journey up stream only one misadventure befell the party.

"We were so very jolly together, all three, that I made light of my misadventure about the picture.

The defenders seemed paralyzed by this misadventure.

There is no misadventure on the journey, they travel safely under the care of the king's guard; but surely Nehemiah saw a dark cloud on the horizon as he handed in his letters to the governors beyond the river.

The way he gnawed at his red mustache showed how misadventure had raveled his nerve.

Coronado now came up, ignorant of Texas Smith's misadventure, and puzzled at the escape of Thurstane, but as fluent and complimentary as usual.

Mrs. F and her boy he gave in charge to one of the sailors, and the coloured woman who was with her to the other; and they promised solemnly, in case of misadventure to the boat, to do their best to save these helpless creatures; and so they turned, as the sun was going down, the bows of the boat to the terrible shore.

And now the Lord Tristram and she have drunk it together, by misadventure, and can never be parted more!

133 examples of  misadventure  in sentences