How To Use Mischance In A Sentence
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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
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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.
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By an unfortunate mischance, the hospital had been placed immediately beside a large ammunition dump.
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By mischance the second not was omitted and gave the impression that the inhabitants of Pakistan were delighted with their meagre rations.
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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.’
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By an unfortunate mischance, the hospital had been placed immediately beside a large ammunition dump.
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Further machinations of the Duke prevent this mischance.
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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
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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
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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.
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This is not entirely mischance, for if in the sixties the focus remained in the south, determined by the shadow of the past, in the fifties it moved decisively north.
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Saying this as much to protect himself from guilt over any mischance, as from concern for Cousins.
STONE CITY
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By dramatic mischance, two days after agreeing he was abruptly removed from his post in unexplained circumstances.
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His offended love, and Malvolio's humiliated suffering, are reminders of the harm done by mistake, mischance, drink, thoughtlessness and unkindness.
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Some learned to use the mischance for favors... few of us begrudged them the extra rations or trivial treats so dearly bought.
THE CURSE OF CHALION
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I lost your file by pure mischance.
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By some mischance one of the great owls, called horned owls, had come from the neighboring woods into the barn of one of the townsfolk in the night-time, and when day broke did not dare to venture forth again from her retreat, for fear of the other birds, which raised a terrible outcry whenever she appeared.
Household Tales
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Should there be a mischance resulting in a Kerry administration, indiscretions will not be allowed to count.
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She believed herself indispensable, but she knew that in such a mischanceful world as this the very powers of darkness might rise to separate her from this pearl among jobs.
A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays
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Four had perished by mischance in the bleak, uncharted vastness.
Chapter 1
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In the case of "gentlefolks" the question is generally solved to the satisfaction of everybody by the man marrying the woman, and by his gracefully presenting "veils of friendship" to all her relations and friends, together with articles of food; but if by mischance she should be placed in an awkward position before the eyes of the world, and the man will not hear of a matrimonial union, then efforts are made to prevent the birth of the child alive.
In the Forbidden Land
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Belianis, Bevis, or his own Guy of Warwick, had ever been subjected to — Captain Coxe, we repeat, did alone, after two such mischances, rush again into the heat of conflict, his bases and the footcloth of his hobby-horse dropping water, and twice reanimated by voice and example the drooping spirits of the English; so that at last their victory over the
Kenilworth
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Death by disease, death by mischance, death by accident or indifference - these were part and parcel of life, but never impacted on my day-to-day life.
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By an unfortunate mischance, the hospital had been placed immediately beside a large ammunition dump.
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But the youngest said, ‘I don't know why it is, but while you are so happy I feel very uneasy; I am sure some mischance will befall us.’
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It's an infernal mischance; I've done my best to discourage it.
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For to speak in a word, envy is nought else but Tristitia de bonis alienis, sorrow for other men's good, be it present, past, or to come: et gaudium de adversis, and [1697] joy at their harms, opposite to mercy, [1698] which grieves at other men's mischances, and misaffects the body in another kind; so
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Despite the subsequent labours of his brother Peter on his behalf, his reputation never fully recovered from this mischance.
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Can't possibly be Satan, you think He has time for facilitating the tiny sin of being tempted to blaspheme by the mischance of a wayward round?
Bullets Do Odd Things at Different Ranges
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By an unfortunate mischance, the hospital had been placed immediately beside a large ammunition dump.
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They encounter a ship in a lonely solar system, but through a freak mischance, are bonded to the other ship on a path towards the system's star.
REVIEW: The World Turned Upside Down edited by David Drake, Eric Flint and Jim Baen
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These are the folks who, either by accident of birth or mischance, are sufficiently different from the rest of us to attract attention.
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If, by dire mischance, a mishap occurs, we can forget this entire conversation.
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By some mischance, the false bottom of the bag had become dislodged in the fall.
CONFESSIONAL
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When I came back to thinking about horseracing 30 years later, it was by means of a horse who had avoided all those tragic mischances.
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As he points out, the abnormalities we see here are not the result of heredity or some other mischance.
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Bravery, mischance, well-trained American units, poorly trained Iraqi units, superior coalition leadership, and superior technology are all part of the calculus that made up what appeared to the world as an easy 100-hour rout.
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A thousand different accidents and mischances could happen to divert me on the way.
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She lets him secretly witness her mistress transform herself into an owl; but when Lucius tries the spell on himself, by some calamitous mischance he is changed into an ass.
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Debts are mischances, and I am in mischance with you.
The Wit of Porportuk
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By the same token, organizations resort to sorcery to explain mischance.
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‘Rob,’ I called, attempting to tap him on the shoulder, but by mischance hitting him on the head with the paddle still clasped in my hand.
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His rise coincides with Tom's life falling apart - his wife leaves him, and by mischance he becomes prime suspect in a horrific crime - and their stories intersect.
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It will be recalled that the Army, through unpredictable mischance, which is a euphemism for French defection, had lost all its equipment-tanks, guns, transport, and even rifles had gone.
The Navy
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When the Warden of the Houses of Healing in Gondor laments to Lady Eowyn that ‘the world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them,’ Eowyn responds tartly: ‘It needs but one foe to breed a war, not two.’
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And if by mischance we misjudge it and present a flat hand to the other's fist we make nothing of the advantage or pretend that it hasn't happened, scrap that game and start again.
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He is not liable for mischance, or misadventure.
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As mischance would have it, Michael did not reach the ground.
CHAPTER XXXVI
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Learning upon a mischance that I am a direct descendent of the line of Syed Shah Abd'al Razzak Banswi, she would always kiss my hands and touch them to her eyes in a salute upon visiting.
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This dictum makes a crucial distinction between the work that time or mischance has made a fragment, and the work composed as fragment.
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Even trolls will only venture through there at great need, though I have never heard of any great danger or mischance occurring there.
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And it's about the huge swathes of sin and ignorance and mischance that shadow even our best attempts at truth and right action.
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To date, the inventors of the voting systems and the jurisdictions now eager to adopt them have resisted calls for paper backup - without which opportunities for either mischief or mischance abound.
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I lost your file by pure mischance.
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Only a serious mischance will prevent them from getting there in time tomorrow.
