Tweaty zoomed into the air without mishap as soon as Elephant's head went down in his bow.

For Daphne's wrongs and 'scapes in Thetis' lap, All gods are subject to the like mishap.

but I am visited with some mishap.

No one in the island, civil or military, seems to have been to blame for the mishap.

I thought it would be strange if she made the trip without some kind of a mishap.

His object was to exclude the horse of the garrison from the only pasturage in their possession; but by some mishap, the working party did not reach the spot till an hour before sunrise; and Jones, sallying from the walls, overpowered the guard, and raised an alarm in the camp.[b]

Our aim should be to look well about us, to ward off misfortune by going to meet it, to attain such perfection and refinement in averting the disagreeable things of life,whether they come from our fellow-men or from the physical world,that, like a clever fox, we may slip out of the way of every mishap, great or small; remembering that a mishap is generally only our own awkwardness in disguise.

Our aim should be to look well about us, to ward off misfortune by going to meet it, to attain such perfection and refinement in averting the disagreeable things of life,whether they come from our fellow-men or from the physical world,that, like a clever fox, we may slip out of the way of every mishap, great or small; remembering that a mishap is generally only our own awkwardness in disguise.

The first intimation the luckless spinster had of her mishap was conveyed in a stentorian laugh from Jack.

Profiting by her absence, Mr. Hardy leaned towards Miss Nugent, and in a low voice expressed his sorrow at the mishap to her father and his firm conviction that everything that could be thought of for that unfortunate mariner's comfort would be done.

She's a high-spirited girl, and all Sunwich is laughing over her father's mishap.

Kharzán, a miserable village under snow for six months of the year, was reached without further mishap.

The little blue auto might actually have gone a whole day without mishap, or might not have collapsed until after Mrs. May had lunched alone at the Glenwood.

After this mishap the wind abated, and having got my tent re-arranged, I again went to sleep.

" As we proceeded, her spirits revived somewhat, a circumstance that she graciously ascribed to the enlivening influence of my society; and I then told her of the mishap that had befallen my colleague.

A couple of days sufficed to prove that Thorndyke's mishap was not to be productive of any permanent ill consequences; his wounds progressed favourably and he was able to resume his ordinary avocations.

This mishap reduced her almost to tears, and it was when she was choking them weakly back and setting herself again to the cruel long vista of the Champs-Elysées that an automobile passed her at top speed with a man's face pressed palely to the panes.

He could not bring himself to await his turn when the potatoes were passed, and in his eagerness to get at them he overturned his coffee, which served to turn the tables a little, for Jack giggled at the mishap, while Jarley became the centre of Mrs. Jarley's displeasure.

"You don't seem to mind the mishap very much.

She realized that a while ago she had lied glibly to Markham about her mishap.

They travelled without further interruption or mishap, until they drew near to the open water, when suddenly they came upon a deep fissure or crack in the ice about four feet wide, with water in the bottom.

The boy had been near the receiver all the while, on the chance of being needed in case of mishap, or for a sharper "tuning in"; now he got what the others did not and rising he let out a yell: "Everybody quiet!

They strutted to and fro in their dirty finery, or lounged round the houses, inquisitive, importunate, and insolent, hardly concealing a lust for bloodshed and plunder that the slightest mishap was certain to render ungovernable.

The only mishap that befell the troops happened to McGarry, who had a subordinate command.

"But during this," says Joinville, "there took place a great mishap.