Mischance

Instead, Mischance brought him again to New Orleans, and he was driven in desperation to seek the help of his former commander, Captain Spring, who had been cleared of slave-trading by a corrupt American court and was about to sail.

Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

It was one of those combinations of circumstances that makes one believe in a God of Mischance.

Dwellers in the Mirage 2004

Mischance surely was never further away as we conferred, saying that the current and not the breeze was to be depended on this preoccupied morning.

Last Leaves from Dunk Island 2003

Instead, Mischance brought him again to New Orleans, and he was driven in desperation to seek the help of his former commander, Captain Spring, who had been cleared of slave-trading by a corrupt American court and was about to sail.

Flashman And The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982

Instead, Mischance brought him again to New Orleans, and he was driven in desperation to seek the help of his former commander, Captain Spring, who had been cleared of slave-trading by a corrupt American court and was about to sail.

Flashman and The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982

Mischance brought three young Irishmen to her house, who pretended to be in daily expectation of remittances from their country, and of a pension from

Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete Various

Or one complaining to the other, that his Flock has had some Mischance, or the like; which is as much as can be gather'd out of the Pastorals form'd after the ordinary Way.

A Full Enquiry into the Nature of the Pastoral (1717) Thomas Purney

Mischance brought three young Irishmen to her house, who pretended to be in daily expectation of remittances from their country, and of a pension from

Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various

"Mischance rather than Misconduct hath been the cause of it," he asserted, explaining that he had made large purchases of land, that crops had been poor for three seasons and prices bad.

George Washington: Farmer Paul Leland Haworth

After that the Churl of the Townland of Mischance began to be afraid that Gilly of the Goatskin would be too wise for him, and would get away at the end of the three months with his wages, a guinea, a groat and a tester, in his fist.

The King of Ireland's Son Padraic Colum 1926