Being afterwards rallied, they returned to the charge; they miscarried again, and their loss was redoubled.
At present, the ships by which Goree was attacked were found unequal to the attempt, and the expedition miscarried accordingly, though the miscarriage was attended with little or no damage to the assailants.
If this nobleman miscarriedin the purposes of his last embassy at the court of Versailles, the agents of France were equally unsuccessful in their endeavours to retrieve their commerce with England which the war had interrupted.
Among the bills thatmiscarried in the course of this session, some turned on points of great consequence to the community.
Whatever defects there might have been in the plan, the execution, though it miscarried in some essential points, was attended with surprising success.
The occasion that produced the next bill which miscarried we shall explain, as an incident equally extraordinary and interesting.
The settlement of Darien was already planned and afterwards put in execution, though it miscarried in the sequel, and had like to have produced abundance of mischief.
The Electress of Bavaria, who was within the walls, miscarried from terror.
Within three days, therefore, Monmouth, the most ardent and restless man in the whole party, brought into the Upper House a bill substantially the same with that which had so strangely miscarried in the Lower.
But for some reason or other the plot miscarried the night when he destined to carry it out.
His health suffered from the bad air of the city almost as severely as before, and Lucia, who was at this time pregnant, miscarried at four months, and shortly afterwards had a second misfortune of the same kind.
As he withdrew with a very red face, some one shook the curtains with such vigour the tester miscarried and down rolled, one by one, the cocoanuts.
Thanks to heaven, both of thy infernal schemes miscarried and she is again in my keeping.
These schemesmiscarried owing to the impetuosity of their contriver.
Have you not heard speak of Mariana, the sister of Frederick, the great soldier who miscarried at sea?
His whole life has been a miscarried poem, miscarried by the inexorable demands of European politics.
Paul de Musset, perhaps as a kind of revenge for the wrongs suffered by his brother, once gave an amusing description of the miscarried attempt of George Sand "to net" Eugene Delacroix.
The lion beholding her at a distance, immediately gave the deadly sign; at which the poor creature (methinks I see her still) miscarried in a fright before us all.
Thus miscarried this popular Bill for appointing commissioners to examine into royal grants; but whether those chiefly concerned did rightly consult their own interest, hath been made a question, which perhaps time will resolve.
We went into it, he said, as knaves, and therefore no wonder if we miscarried in it as fools.
This matter having been for several years upon the very point of being carried in the General Assembly, hath strangely miscarried when it hath come to the birth.
The woman miscarried at the seventh month: delivery was obstructed by a cervical fibroid.
The patient miscarried a few hours after the operation, but recovered.
The sixth miscarried two months after the myomectomy.
He insists very strongly that the King's service never miscarried in his hands, for he simply carried out the King's wise counsels.
It cannot be denied, but that had he miscarried on the present occasion, nothing less could have been expected but that he must have been irrecoverably lost.
From this time Pope became an enemy to editors, collators, commentators, and verbal critics, and hoped to persuade the world that hemiscarried in this undertaking only by having a mind too great for such minute employment.
Lady Coventry hasmiscarried of one or two children, and is going on with one or two more, and is gone to France to-day.
Yet I must take the boldness to say I have notmiscarried in the whole, for the mechanical part of it is regular.
Tis an untimely fruit, and she has miscarried of her love.
I must confess there was some such thing more than suspected by one Sir William Cole, who presently sent away Letters to the Lord Chief Justices, but miscarried by the way.
Being thus resolved, I soon procured necessary Habiliments for these my contrivances; and never miscarried in any of them till now.
All this has miscarried and coldness has succeeded to civilities.
The plan miscarried because the King, instead of riding to the Chamber as he had intended, went in a carriage because of the frost.
However, many a weak Brother has ventur'd after you, and miscarried upon your Precedent.
This Ghost tells the Chorus that the Persian Army miscarried for the out-rages they did to Religion, for breaking down the Altars, and plundering the Gods.
If her designs miscarried with him, why then she spun her threads so as to make the other believe that the swain was false or fickle, full of guile or not dependable.
She would rack her poor brains, and give this advice or that how to mend things, and if it miscarried she would have something fresh to propose.
The French ruler miscarried also in an effort to excite an insurrection in Lithuania, although he named a provisional government in the province, and declared the country was free of the Russian yoke.
Thus an enterprise ably planned and bravely executed, miscarried even in the moment of victory, by accidents for which neither the general nor the officers immediately in command could be justly held responsible.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "miscarried" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
