To all offers of assistance, the Squire replied that it was not a matter of importance: he had merely mislaid his handkerchief.
I mean, there was no chance of Mrs. Armitage having mislaid it?
And the time we went to Ellen's Isle and I mislaid the vital portion of my traveling suit half an hour before the train started and had to go in a borrowed suit that didn't fit?
These other four servants will have the sole charge of the articles required for eatables and wine; and should any get mislaid compensation will have likewise to be made by them.
Two circumstances in particular recalled my recollection of themislaid manuscript.
No treasure-vaults," with a groping attempt to resume the language of which he had so patently mislaid the cipher.
In accordance with directions, she examined them all and laid aside all the business letters, (meaning the package lost,) which in some way have been mislaid or stolen.
They are a sort of nervous shock and you always feel that you are looking for something that you've mislaid and that you don't seem able to find again until you've parted.
Perhaps he may have mislaid the little parcel of rice among his baggage.
Franklin, and he mislaid it, so that it could never be found.
MY DEAR SIR, I received a letter from you a long time ago, but unfortunately, as it was in the time of my peregrinations and journeyings through Scotland, I mislaid or lost it, and by consequence your direction along with it.
I shall send it by a careful hand, as I would not for anything it should be mislaid or lost.
I am afraid I have mislaid or lost Collins' Poems, which I promised to Miss Irvin.
For example, I don't know exactly how much it cost our good friends of the 'vested interests' to have that bill mislaid in the committee room.
Having unluckily mislaid his letter, and being totally unable either to recollect the name of the proprietor or the professional gentleman, I returned this day the piece of antiquity to Mr. Riddoch, who sent it to me.
Set about making up the Appendix, but found I had mislaid a number of the said postliminary affair.
But Ben, making an excuse that he thought he must have mislaid his pocket-knife in the house, hurried through the woods to the beach at the northern end.
It is certainly the key which father mislaidsix months ago," she declared.
I heard him scolding you over a book you'd mislaidone day, and he nearly jumped down your throat about Miss Loder this very morning.
But after the boats stop running our mails are carried so irregularly that whole bags of mail matter are often mislaid at way stations for weeks and some finally lost or otherwise destroyed.
Wills are quite frequently lost or mislaid and sometimes months elapse before they are discovered.
I think I must have left my symphony in E flat, that you returned to me, in my room at home, or mislaid it on the journey.
Ch'hanno perduto il ben del intelletto" all these periods had mislaid the light of the XVIIIth century; though in the symbolistes Gourmont had his beginning.
I return the lists, and having by some unaccountable accident mislaid and lost the paper you gave me, containing what Count de Vergennes said to me yesterday, I must beg the favor of you to repeat it, and send it by the bearer.
I am much indebted to your good brother for a very kind and obliging letter, which was mislaid when it should have been answered.
By some fatality, unusual with me, I havemislaid the list of books which you want.
If you have sent Charles any commissions he has not executed, write me word--he says he has lost or mislaid a letter desiring him to inquire about a wig.
He smiled dourly when he remembered the mislaid key.
He was really thinking about the mislaid key; not for an instant did he imagine that by that simple gesture he had almost eradicated from Steingall's mind the germ of doubt which events had certainly conspired to plant there.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mislaid" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
