I had one small mischance in my race for the gold medal but it did not keep me from my goal. From LearnThat.org.
Debts are mischances, and I am in mischance with you. From Wordnik.com. [The Wit of Porportuk] Reference
By some terrible mischance, the signal was misunderstood. From Wordnik.com. [How to Tell Stories to Children, And Some Stories to Tell] Reference
Then did a grievous mischance befall them, for the men of. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Tales of Fact and Fancy Myths and Legends of the Nations of the World Retold for Boys and Girls] Reference
I, by what mischance it was that you lost your right hand?. From Wordnik.com. [The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01] Reference
What mischance prompted this title will never now be known. From Wordnik.com. [A Tramp Through the Bret Harte Country] Reference
Through some mischance I have lost the address of Donaldson's son. From Wordnik.com. [The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier] Reference
Madame Desvarennes, quite discomfited by this mischance, reflected. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
To prevent the recurrence of such a mischance the couple now have to walk. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
"And are not mischances misfortunes in those matters wherein we mischance?". From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Morals] Reference
Bolli answers: "That mischance would abide with me, without thy speaking of it.". From Wordnik.com. [Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature] Reference
My wrath is hot at this vile mischance, and my spirit revolts at the thought that I. From Wordnik.com. [The Frogs] Reference
By some mischance, it had been left lying on the parlor floor, and become forgotten. From Wordnik.com. [How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success] Reference
When they were near them, by some mischance the lantern broke, and the ruins caught fire. From Wordnik.com. [Children's Edition of Touching Incidents : and Remarkable Answers to Prayer] Reference
I had barely escaped the filthy claws of an old fury, when another mischance overtook me!. From Wordnik.com. [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2] Reference
By some mischance the duke failed to appear at the proper moment, and the effect was lost. From Wordnik.com. [London and the Kingdom - Volume I] Reference
"Nay, nay," said she, "this unlucky kitchen-knave hath slain your brother through mischance.". From Wordnik.com. [Stories of King Arthur and His Knights Retold from Malory's "Morte dArthur"] Reference
He was all ready to leave for Arriba County when one more black mischance came to bedevil him. From Wordnik.com. [The Blood of the Conquerors] Reference
No glory of martyrdom dignified his forcible detention; he was merely the victim of mischance. From Wordnik.com. [The Letter-Bag of Lady Elizabeth Spencer-Stanhope — Volume 1] Reference
At the very outset a grave mischance befell the Turks; Dragut was a fortnight late at the rendezvous. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Barbary Corsairs] Reference
Mathematics, which he invoked, was in his favor after all, and chance frequently corrected mischance. From Wordnik.com. [The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism] Reference
I had grown to like him so much, that the idea that he had met with any mischance knocked me over completely. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Pirate] Reference
He rode off the field, desiring that the mischance might not be disclosed, and fainting, dropped from his horse. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II.] Reference
Pity it was his mischance of being a scholar; for it does only distract and irregulate him, and the world by him. From Wordnik.com. [Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters] Reference
It pleased him to repair the injustices of fortune, to bring tears of happiness in families pursued by mischance. From Wordnik.com. [The Simple Life] Reference
By some mischance he happened to pick up a journal in which was an article on the Government by Mr. ARNOLD WHITE. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 29, 1914] Reference
Still, they remembered the fate of the provision boats, and were worried lest mischance should befall the schooner. From Wordnik.com. [Four American Indians King Philip, Pontiac, Tecumseh, Osceola] Reference
The hours slipped past without any word from Major Jowitt and we began to fear that some mischance had befallen him. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918] Reference
But for a second it struck me that by some mischance he might be showing the caricatures in place of the serious portraits. From Wordnik.com. [The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 (of 2)] Reference
They seemed to belong to another body -- beautiful, swift, and strong, and grafted by some foul mischance onto this rotten hulk. From Wordnik.com. [Riders of the Silences] Reference
By some terrible mischance, the acknowledgment I had given for this lump sum was lost, and his relatives were in ignorance of it. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance Of Giovanni Calvotti From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.)] Reference
Each afternoon I ride, praying for some mischance, some prodigy, to wash from my mind away the bloody question for some little space. From Wordnik.com. [No Great Magic] Reference
Shenandoah, which before Sheridan's campaign had been a region of fatal mischance to the national cause from the beginning of the war. From Wordnik.com. [The County Regiment A Sketch of the Second Regiment of Connecticut Volunteer Heavy Artillery, Originally the Nineteenth Volunteer Infantry, in the Civil War] Reference
For six days these conditions had been changing, with all their attendant incidents and chances, and the time was ripe for a mischance. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905] Reference
It was on the Sunday following, the ninth day clear from the date of the mischance, that the great event of the seven years took place. From Wordnik.com. [Schwartz: A History From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray] Reference
I dined with them and spent a very pleasant evening, and I am sure that no visible shadow of mischance was then hanging over the household. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile] Reference
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