mischance

How To Use mischance In A Sentence

• But I didn't, thank God, and as any of you who have read my other memoirs will have guessed, I'd not have been within three thousand miles of Harper's Ferry, or blasted Brown, but for the ghastliest series of mischances: three hellish coincidences - three, mark you! THE NUMBERS
• The future Empress first gains access to the Blazing World by way of the romance trope of abduction, which, in this case, is a fortunate mischance.
• By an unfortunate mischance, the hospital had been placed immediately beside a large ammunition dump.
• By mischance the second not was omitted and gave the impression that the inhabitants of Pakistan were delighted with their meagre rations.
• He added: ‘Another aggravating factor is that I cannot accept, indeed I am not certain I am even invited to, that it is by mere mischance that you picked upon an elderly person.’
• By an unfortunate mischance, the hospital had been placed immediately beside a large ammunition dump.
• Further machinations of the Duke prevent this mischance.
• Edwin Bentham was a boy, thrust by mischance into a man's body, -- a boy who could complacently pluck a butterfly, wing from wing, or cower in abject terror before a lean, nervy fellow, not half his size. THE PRIESTLY PREROGATIVE
• Her mischance lay in that she bumped her head, and, before she could recover way, Forrest had circled the piano and cornered her under it. CHAPTER III
• If you want to take a very Christian view of it, our founder was nailed to a cross, and while that's not necessarily the inevitable end of the do-gooder, it's a fairly good example of if you like the mischances of life.