Has mischievousness left logic behind here somewhere?. From Wordnik.com. [POW! WHAM! Marvel sues NCSoft] Reference
Edwina smiled with a gleam of mischievousness in her eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Hearts] Reference
In a fit of mischievousness, I invited them to play with us. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-04-01] Reference
She giggled again with the mischievousness of using his first name. From Wordnik.com. [Soul of the Fire]
Faustian in its mischievousness, this scenario is totally plausible. From Wordnik.com. [Joaquin the Koan] Reference
With a mischievousness little short of cruelty, the water was poured on. From Wordnik.com. [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference
He looked at her with an expression of combined contrition and mischievousness. From Wordnik.com. [A Kiss Remembered]
His eyes glowed with mischievousness, and we headed toward the Vrindavan bazaars. From Wordnik.com. [A World Apart: My uncle is a Hare Krishna spiritual master] Reference
The mix is potentially explosive, thanks perhaps to the mischievousness of history. From Wordnik.com. [The Coming Power Struggle] Reference
Occasionally, people will just hand you money for no reason except mischievousness. From Wordnik.com. [Come Hither] Reference
Come out to celebrate the squalor, the possibilities, and the mischievousness of cities. From Wordnik.com. [Fall Finch/Booklife Endurance Tour Update (want to help?)] Reference
There was a trace of her old mischievousness, a hint of a smile, and Sharpe was glad of it. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Rifles]
His cleverness at times suggested reasoning power, and his mischievousness a sense of humour. From Wordnik.com. [Among the Tibetans] Reference
Her transient irresponsibleness and mischievousness are then cited as everyday, persistent vices. From Wordnik.com. [The Confessions of a Beachcomber] Reference
By the time the Beatles broke up, Lennon's mischievousness and his distrust of fame were in full bloom. From Wordnik.com. [Imagine All The Outtakes] Reference
Bean always seems to radiate a sort of mischievousness and disdain, that would better suit Benjen I think. From Wordnik.com. [Our Poacher] Reference
In the middle ages fairies were infamous for their mischievousness, and were generally regarded as troublemakers. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-05-01] Reference
The red-headed boy was a mixture of good-heartedness and mischievousness that both delighted Nancy and horrified her. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Miss Nobody Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall] Reference
Then a bit of her old mischievousness returned to light up her eyes and she added, “Or are we just talking about Angel?”. From Wordnik.com. [Solitary Man] Reference
He had a slightly crooked front tooth that added to the mischievousness of his smile, which he probably thought was disarming. From Wordnik.com. [The crush]
There was some mischievousness, some resolution, some story lines that were closed out and a bit of facing-up to do for a few. From Wordnik.com. [Observations on HOUSE M.D.'s Episode titled "Lockdown" & Preivew Pics of upcoming Episodes] Reference
She laughed with a girlish mischievousness, and ran on rapidly, as if she must talk, as if a pause were to be averted as a peril. From Wordnik.com. [Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden] Reference
Your playful spirit, your mischievousness leads you into many actions that pain us all greatly but I am sure you do not intend to be bad. From Wordnik.com. [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference
He half smiled, though only at my mischievousness. From Wordnik.com. [John Halifax, Gentleman] Reference
It was undoubtedly the playful mischievousness of the vivacious. From Wordnik.com. [The Bell-Ringer of Angel's] Reference
There is his warmth mixed with mischievousness and forthrightness. From Wordnik.com. [Site Root] Reference
It is not virtue that triumphs, but helplessness; it is not malice, but mischievousness. From Wordnik.com. [Uncle Remus, his songs and his sayings] Reference
But he stands out from the crowd for the quality, mischievousness and erudition of his writing. From Wordnik.com. [International Herald Tribune - World News, Analysis, and Global Opinions] Reference
A very large proportion of the acts of mischievousness and wrong which boys commit arise from this cause. From Wordnik.com. [Rollo in Scotland] Reference
Ketcham captured the mischievousness, rambunctiousness, and anarchy of a kid's world better than any other cartoonist. From Wordnik.com. [ComicList Headlines] Reference
"Never in all my life saw I child that gat into more mischievousness, nor gave more trouble to them that had her in charge.". From Wordnik.com. [Clare Avery A Story of the Spanish Armada] Reference
There's not a lot of text, but what's here has little sense of a child's imaginative mischievousness or pride of authorship. From Wordnik.com. [Publishers Weekly - Children's Books News] Reference
He was always sending impossible offerings to the magazines; innocently enough sometimes, but often out of pure mischievousness. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Twain, a Biography — Volume II, Part 1: 1886-1900] Reference
Hence, given the strength of the temptation, the mischievousness of the disposition is as the apparent mischievousness of the act. From Wordnik.com. [The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics] Reference
Philosophy, fallen into such hands, seems to parody itself; and nothing equals its emptiness, unless it be its mischievousness and success. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution - Volume 1] Reference
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