133 examples of misadventures in sentences

If his memory contained one record darker than another, it was the endless history of his misadventures with boots and shoes.

He compared the pale, aquiline features with the beauty of the woman who, centuries ago it seemed, was accustomed to take him in her lap and cuddle him and make him brave when childish misadventures came.

Having been deprived of the Paladin's assistance, her subsequent misadventures had brought her to this terrible pass.

It was to satirise this amiable weakness of his southern compatriots that the novelist created the character of Tartarin, but while he makes us laugh at the absurd misadventures of the lion-hunter, it will be noticed how ingeniously he prevents our growing out of temper with him, how he contrives to keep a warm corner in our hearts for the bragging, simple-minded, good-natured fellow.

Besides, you bound us to your praise With many strong indentures By limning Mr. Briggs, his ways And countless misadventures.

He regaled her with all kinds of newspaper yarns and related some of his own once semi-tragic but now humorous misadventures of his early cub days.

The success of these suggested to a firm of publishers the preparation of a number of similar sketches of the misadventures of cockney sportsmen, to accompany plates by the comic draughtsman, Mr. R. Seymour.

Now I learned better from my misadventures upon Vraidex, and from my talking with that insane Horvendile about the things which have been and some things which are to be.

"A bishop's daily round," they said, "his endless correspondence, his hurried journeyings, his weight of anxious cares, the misadventures of other men, ever returning to plague him,how can he bring himself to stoop and deal with these?"

THE MISADVENTURES of John Nicholson.

Amorous misadventures; translated by Keene Wallis.

WALLIS, KEENE, tr. Amorous misadventures.

HUDLESTON, F. J. Gentleman Johnny Burgoyne; misadventures of an English General in the Revolution.

The misadventures of Martin Guerre, translated from the French by Farrell Symons.

SEE Merezhkovsky, Dmitri S. The misadventures of Martin Guerre.

The misadventures of Martin Guerre.

Defy the foul fiend; or, The misadventures of a heart.

Follow the drum; being the ventures and misadventures of one Johanna Lovell, sometime lady of Catkept Manor in Kent County of Lord Baltimore's propriety in Maryland, in the gracious reign of King Charles the Second.

Amorous misadventures.

The misadventures of Martin Guerre, translated from the French by Farrell Symons.

SEE Merezhkovsky, Dmitri S. The misadventures of Martin Guerre.

The misadventures of Martin Guerre.

In telling me, one day, of these kitchen misadventures, she actually shed tears, which so roused my sympathies that, with surprise, I exclaimed: "Why do you not buy a new stove?"

He acquired the reputation of an eccentric, which he enhanced by wearing costumes of white velvet, and gold-embroidered waistcoats, by inserting, in place of a cravat, a Parma bouquet in the opening of his shirt, by giving famous dinners to men of letters, one of which, a revival of the eighteenth century, celebrating the most futile of his misadventures, was a funeral repast.

At first the old grievances still rankled; but in time even the wrongs of Maupertuis and the misadventures of Frankfort were almost forgotten.

133 examples of  misadventures  in sentences