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  • On one such raft voyaged a living specimen of the white and black banded snake, one of the most singular of the family, for Nature has bestowed on it a placid disposition, and provided it with an unmischievous mouth and fangs so minute that, although classed as venomous, it is not considered injurious to man.

    Tropic Days 2003

  • It may be proper to observe in this Place, that the _Business_ of COMEDY is to exhibit the whimsical _unmischievous Oddities_,

    An Essay towards Fixing the True Standards of Wit, Humour, Railery, Satire, and Ridicule (1744) Corbyn Morris

  • On one such raft voyaged a living specimen of the white and black banded snake, one of the most singular of the family, for Nature has bestowed on it a placid disposition, and provided it with an unmischievous mouth and fangs so minute that, although classed as venomous, it is not considered injurious to man.

    Tropic Days 1887

  • Somehow, just knowing no Jews or homosexuals worked on these unmischievous films makes them completely uninteresting to me.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed MATTHEW HAYS 2012

  • Somehow, just knowing no Jews or homosexuals worked on these unmischievous films makes them completely uninteresting to me.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed MATTHEW HAYS 2012

  • "Nothing-plotting, nought-caballing, unmischievous synod! convocation without intrigue! parliament without debate! what a lesson dost thou read, to council and to consistory!

    Country Life in Canada Fifty Years Ago Personal recollections and reminiscences of a sexagenarian Canniff Haight 1863

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