Thus was he served, and yet too well And more mischances yet befell.
And are not slips mischancesin those matters wherein we slip?
And are not mischances misfortunes in those matters wherein we mischance?
But still, even in these, nobleness shines through when a man bears contentedly many and great mischances not from insensibility to pain but because he is noble and high-spirited.
Life is nothing but a long and harassing journey, with accidents at every stage, and mischances at every halt; meanwhile, for whom do you act?
While upon the subject of stage accidents, we may remark, that very few of these mischances befel Grimaldi, considering the risks to which a pantomime actor is exposed, and the serious injuries he is constantly encountering.
The result of this combination of mischances was, that he did not reach Salt Hill until seven o'clock on the following evening; having been nineteen hours on the road.
I saw that it would be fruitless to ask for any account of his past calamity, or by what series of mischances he had fallen so low.
The unlucky expedition afforded him great amusement, and he was never weary of laughing at all our adventures and mischances in Ireland.
Sir," saith the hermit, "Now God give you grace and courage to ask the question that the others to whom the Graal hath appeared would ask not, whereof have many mischances sithence befallen much people.
Other men as well as I had their mischancesand surmounted them: why should not I?
There is indeed little more to tell, for from that time, thank God, there have been no mischancesin my life.
Of all the mischances I had suffered, this was, I thought, the most afflicting.
He knew, I suppose, that I should not wish the tale of my mischances to be told by any lips but my own, and could not have pleased the captain more than by declining to answer his questions.
I could not be more than thirty miles from Shrewsbury, and if I told my name perchance it might travel back, and I was in no mind to have my mischances retailed in the town.
Thus our poet has suffered all the mischancesof faithless scribes, unintelligent printers, and uncritical editors.
By his own experience of the blunders and the mischances of the typographer, to which we may add also a little sagacity, he recovered some of the lost text.
With his audience he was unquestionably popular; we hear of none of his plays having been condemned, though such mischances are recorded of his rivals, and, above all, of his great compeer Jonson.
I must not forget to mention the first mischances that befell her at her setting out.
Except for a set of mischances that would only occur once in a billion billion times, the letter would never have been conceived or sent.
It was one of those combinations of mischances that come up only once in a billion billion times.
For all its mischances and melancholy ending the Greeley campaign had shortened the distance across the bloody chasm.
Or that they will escape for so long a term the many mischances that befall soft-wooded trees?
Such a frail shell is subject to many mischances before it reaches the beach, and a few hours of exposure to the sun tarnishes its lustre.
Come, Master," says I, "have you no more heart than to make merry at the mischances of three poor wretches such as we?
In spite of all these mischances Raleigh would not give up his great idea.
But in spite of all mischances hundreds and thousands reached the gold fields, and all over the Sacramento Valley, or wherever gold was found, little towns sprang up.
During the dinner he talked constantly of the dangers and trials and amusing mischances of his voyage, laughing at them all now they were over, and laughing at Greeba, too, for the woeful face with which she heard of them.
So implicit had been his belief in her acquired equipment for applying accepted remedies to the mischances of life, that he was amazed at seeing her devastated, overthrown.
He had shed blood and, by one of the savage mischances of life, the blood of a man innocent of offense against him.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mischances" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
