mischief

How To Use mischief In A Sentence

• This done with expedition, like men skilful in such mischief, as they took their cockboat to go aboard their own ship, it was overwhelmed in the sea, and certain of these men there drowned; the rest were preserved even by those silly souls whom they had before spoiled, who saved and delivered them aboard the _Swallow_. Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage to Newfoundland
• Here's a story of mischief and mayhem to brighten up your Monday morning lecture.
• And it is the treachery of his appetite which inveigles him into the mischief, which cheats, and abuses, and by deceitful overtures trapans him into a perpetual calamity. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. IV.
• She rubbed my arm comfortingly with a small twinkle of mischief that I had seen somewhere else.
• He turned, mischief in his eyes, and pitched it at her head.
• The best course in dealing with both countries is to limit their wherewithal for strategic mischief.
• But he was not to enjoy himself long, for the duck was telling all her neighbours about the ill-usage her little one had received; and the mischief-making little wagtail thought as he had seen the lanky bird eating what he called the kingfisher's fishes, he would go and tell, and then sit on the bank and see the quarrel there would be; for he considered that the heron had no more business to take the fish out of the pond than the toad had to catch flies. Featherland How the Birds lived at Greenlawn
• But there is still room for considerable mischief by those who oppose the rush to negotiating glory in Clinton's final days.
• While his peers were busy making mischief and thinking about the opposite sex, he became withdrawn.
• Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live! Bob Marley