Sentence example with the word 'mischance'

mischance

accident, blow, casualty, catastrophe, contretemps, crash, grief, misadventure, mishap, pileup, shock, smashup, tragedy

Definition n. an unpredictable outcome that is unfortunate

Last update: November 2, 2016


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It was a mischance that he had not expected.   [noun]

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By mischance i lost the lottery   [Please select]

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These facts and this opinion were at once sent to the law officer& They reached the queens advocate on Saturday the 26th of July; but, by an uoforttinate mischance; the queens advocate had just been wholly incapacitated by a distressing illness; and the papers, in consequence, did not reach the attorney- and solicitorgeneral till the evening of:,the following Monday, when.   [Please select]

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He watched the fussy customs officials, who, by some strange mischance, overlooked his belongings.   [Please select]

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He had seen more than one man, splendidly qualified otherwise, passed over because of that mischance.   [Please select]

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"No; I tell you we had not been long in the town when this mischance befell."   [Please select]

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He quite fretted if, by some mischance, he lost one.   [Please select]

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By a great mischance Lord Comyn had fallen into the tender clutches of my Aunt Caroline.   [Please select]

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Then came Nicholas again to babble of some possible mischance having overtaken his master.   [Please select]

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"Oh, Gregory, I am so sorry," said Karen, taking upon herself the responsibility for Victor's mischance.   [Please select]

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And he will wonder if his boy, by any sad mischance, Will find his stocking empty just because he serves in France.   [Please select]

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