mischancy

But circumstances were mischancy with Mr. Nogo, and all he said redounded only to the credit of our friend Charley.

The Three Clerks 2004

A few seconds only elapsed when there came round the corner a strange mischancy creature, with loose hide and hanging horns, long tail and clattering hoofs.

Border Ghost Stories Howard Pease

Majesty's Signet, a dour man, with a mischancy temper.

Stories of the Border Marches Jeanie Lang

More than once in fierce or drunken escapades they came into the place in their _mogans_ at night, quiet as ghosts, mischievous as the winds, and set fire to wooden booths, or shot in wantonness at any mischancy unkilted citizen late returning from the change-house.

John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro

I feel strange airs come whipping up their long or crooked lobbies at night; the number of their doors are, to my Highland instinct, so many unnecessary entrances for enemies and things mischancy.

John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro

The ancient warlock possessed indeed a most mischancy visage: hard, curious, inhuman eyes he had, thin, sunken cheeks, and a black straggling moustache, the whole surmounted by a great bald dome of brow.

Border Ghost Stories Howard Pease

I am not a believer in the ghostly -- at least to the extent of some of our people; yet I was alarmed, till my reason came to me and the badinage of the professors at college, who had twitted me on my fears of the mischancy.

John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro

He knew for the first time, despite many previous mischancy happenings, what real terror was.

The Certain Hour James Branch Cabell 1918

I begin to suspect, also, that kitchen-gossip is a mischancy petard, and rather more than apt to hoist the engineer who employs it.

The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking James Branch Cabell 1918

Yet my objection to this silly nickname was a mischancy matter to explain.

The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking James Branch Cabell 1918