Anatole France, or when it is only the record of a series of adventures and misadventures passing before the eyes of the chief personage, like the 'Huckleberry Finn' of Mark Twain.
The more we consider his misdeeds and his misadventures the more shocking they are to our moral sense.
His feelings were too deeply involved in the fate of the unhappy individuals, whose misadventures he could, or thought he could, so clearly trace to his own indiscretion, to suffer him to rest, while it was yet wrapped in obscurity.
I ordered a brisk fire made, to dry our clothes, and requested the host to serve whatever he had ready, for our misadventures had not taken away our appetites.
Since it was written that I should not attend Madame de Marsan's entertainment, I made the best of it and decided to endure as philosophically as possible the further misadventures into which Raymond was sure to lead me.
Still, he was not the man to allude to the misadventures of his guest.
A sarcastic account of the misadventures of a military officer in Palestine, which was written in the time of Ramses, is an evidence of the complete occupation of that country by the Egyptians.
In the end, for so God suffers misadventures to occur, they were discomfited.
Again, the most ludicrous or infamous tales may be current about the adventures and misadventures of the grasshopper or the hawk.
It is chiefly by their misadventures and violations of the Indian theories, that the laugh is sought to be raised.
Endeth here the first day of the Decameron; beginneth the second, in which, under the rule of Filomena, they discourse of the fortunes of such as after divers misadventures have at last attained a goal of unexpected felicity.
The example and the exposure of Schlegel's misadventures in this line have not sufficed to warn off minor blunderers from treading with emulous confidence "through forthrights and meanders" in the very muddiest of their precursor's traces.
And some odd spirit of contrariety to which all women fall victims whirled me intomisadventures with the wrong men.
Henceforth we have to follow the spectacle of a man who was a mere whip-top for calamity; on whose unmerited misadventures not even the humourist can look without pity, and not even the philosopher without alarm.
Habitually, his fellow-countrymen entertained him with accounts of their misadventuresin reaching him.
The misadventures of Cook alone would fill volumes.
The "silly Xmas story" is The Misadventures of John Nicholson; the "volume of verse" appeared later in the year as Underwoods.
The characters and pictures of his friends furnish material for his poem; he does not mind touching on the misadventures of Ralegh, and even of Lord Grey, with sly humour or a word of candid advice.
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