All the servants have heard rumours of this cruel fable, and would ascribe the least misadventure to his goblin origin.

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.

Horace speaks of the matter, and laughingly confesses his own like misadventure.

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

While describing his misadventure he decided that Bud could not be a party to the father's crime.

But the certainty of encountering similar misadventures would have weighed little with me.

I have forgotten my misadventure and will consider it a warning against rose gardens.

He would lay his whole misadventure to the gold.

Mr. Timothy Shelley, after a while, pardoned his son's misadventure at Oxford, and made him a moderate allowance of £200 a-year.

I need not recount all the strange and various misadventures which the honest priest sustained in his endeavours to visit the castle, and its isolated tenants.

He seemingly referred his misadventure to some unseen enemy under the floor, and this in spite of the fact that he was given abundant opportunity to examine the floor of the box, but not until after the dangerous nails had been clinched.

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