With a full chest he breathed the blest air which he hadmissed so long.
Those gifts which by dint of their frequency in her own home seemed rather overdone were actually missed here!
This morning when the guard counted the officers out, they missed one; and after a long search, they found it to be Captain Lee.
You jump in and study all your back lessons that you have missed and catch up with your classes.
He missed however, and let go, and the snake got under a dead trunk close by.
Had I been able to obtain a passage direct to that place from Singapore, I should probably never have gone near them, and should have missed some of the most important discoveries of my whole expedition the East.
Yes; he has nevermissed one yet, in any year that he has been principal of Gridley High School.
And so you missedthe dance just because you could sympathize with some one else's worry?
When they came out of the water the third lady missedher clothes.
When the serpent awoke he missed them, and raising his head above the reeds and rushes, saw them flying far away, and set off after them at full speed.
She missedher Paris," said Raymond, "and her drive in the Bois.
If he attended the out-of-door reception at the house, it must have been but briefly: I quite missedhim there.
George may be wounded--he may be overpowered; or, which is most probable, he may have missed his way in the plantations.
The road was sufficiently plain," answered the Captain, "if we had not negligently missed it.
However, just before he left the boat, he missed his pet; for a cunning Yankee pedlar on board had stolen it.
The captain brought down one, the doctor another, while Steve, although he rested his heavy rifle on a stone in taking aim, missed an easy shot.
We may, perhaps, find a landing-place which we have missed coming down.
It weighed on her mind far more than it had done at sea, though there she had missed Denis dreadfully, and sometimes with a resentment which she could not help.
His heart had filled with prayer, his eyes with tears; he dug his knuckles into them, and missed the bloodstone signet-ring that he had worn since his father's death.
Perhaps they had missedsome warning shot or signal in their absorption; it certainly was as though a second Big Ben had clanged the hour from which no man might rock a cradle or fill a tub.
He missed the crowded hours, and the sense of responsibility so long associated with the sea; they had made his former ships fly their latitudes like hurdles, where this one crawled and climbed.
She seldom missed her old associates, busy as she was, and content with her simple tasks the whole day long.
Only in this way could they have missed the Indians roaming in the forest that day, as they made their preparations for the eventful morrow.
You remember Victor, and how he nearly missed the train.
I know; but I've always missed her, or, at all events, never been asked to meet her.
Is it Mrs. Talcott's tragedy to have missedeven a makeshift?
I am sorry, indeed sorry, that you and Karen missed La Gaine d'Or.
Unable to plead Karen as the cause for his abstention since Madame von Marwitz regretted that Karen had missed the piece, Gregory said that he had heard too much perhaps.
And she was, oh, so sorry to have missed you, Tante.
Captain Ashton and I have been comparing notes; we find that we have missed hardly any of Madame Okraska's concerts in London.
She had not gone to Helston, but had taken this cross-country way to Falmouth because she knew that at any hour of the night she might be missed and followed and captured.
Bird after bird rose and was fired at, but still pursued its flight untouched, till, at last, the pointer became careless, and often missed his game.
After the cattle had been quieted again, and I had looked over everything, I missed the sentry from before the tent, Jan Smit, from Antwerp.
His gun, a flint one, missed fire in both barrels.
Number Six missed the message, but the nearest gun caught the word and passed it along.
How they missed us so often, Heaven an' that German gunner only knows.
Effie came to him trailing the cloud of glory of his first romance, giving him back the magic hour he had missed and mourned.
He must 'a' come; and you've missed him along the road.
He said he'd be mighty sure to see it, because he'd be a free man the minute he seen it, but if he missed it he'd be in a slave country again and no more show for freedom.
I judged I better hide it outside of the house somewheres, because if they missed it they would give the house a good ransacking: I knowed that very well.
But she watched for a chance, and directly banged away at a rat; but she missed him wide, and said, "Ouch!
A case in point: I learned by chance that he never missed a Sunday at church since the death of his wife.
So then the princess threw the ball at one of her company; she missed the girl, and cast the ball into the deep eddying current, whereat they all raised a piercing cry.
Now oft as we took counsel around Troy town, he was ever the first to speak, and no word missed the mark; the godlike Nestor and I alone surpassed him.
My recollection is, it was a sub-agent in Cuba who turned evidence on Clyde at last, for a gunboat missed us by only a few miles coming down by St. Christopher, as I heard afterward.
Miao Shan cried for help, rushed up the steep incline, missed her footing, and rolled down into the ravine.
He was right with us till we got out to the elevators, and then I missed him.
The explosion was half a mile away, but the shell hadn't missed the target by more than a few yards.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "missed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
