Sample Sentences for
mishap
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    It probably happened as he traversed a series of melting beaver ponds just beyond the Teklanika's western bank, but there is nothing to indicate that he suffered any harm in the mishap.  (source)
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    "Just a little mishap," Grace Wexler explained, taking her command post in the middle of the restaurant.  (source)
    mishap = unfortunate accident
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    We're dealing with your mind, and the slightest mishap in what you're thinking or interpreting or perceiving can render the resultant findings worthless.  (source)
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    I apologized by instinct to him for this mishap which discomforted only me.  (source)
    mishap = unfortunate accident
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    I sometimes thought of asking her if she would let me sit at the big table with the rest of them just once, I would prove to her how civilized I could be; after all, I ate at home every day with no major mishaps.  (source)
    mishaps = unfortunate accidents
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    Along this they could carry no bundles or packs, so narrow and breathless was it, with a fall of a hundred and fifty feet beside them on to sharp rocks below; but each of them took a good coil of rope wound tight about his waist, and so at last without mishap they reached the little grassy bay.  (source)
    mishap = unfortunate accident
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    But as this conductor must descend to considerable depth, that its end may avoid all contact with the hull; and as moreover, if kept constantly towing there, it would be liable to many mishaps, besides interfering not a little with some of the rigging, and more or less impeding the vessel's way in the water; because of all this, the lower parts of a ship's lightning-rods are not always overboard; but are generally made in long slender links, so as to be the more readily hauled up into…  (source)
    mishaps = unfortunate accidents
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    The chief tragic event of the old man's life, so far as I could judge, was his mishap with a certain goose, which lived and died some twenty or forty years ago: a goose of most promising figure, but which, at table, proved so inveterately tough, that the carving-knife would make no impression on its carcase, and it could only be divided with an axe and handsaw.  (source)
    mishap = unfortunate accident
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    We thaw, begin to laugh a little, as we relate mishaps with bees and wild dogs and skunks.†  (source)
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    The first time I saw him do it, I thought it was an accident, a mishap that would be corrected.†  (source)
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    Though they had a few mishaps—Phil once taxied Super Man straight into a telephone pole—in aerial gunning, they nailed targets at a rate more than three times the squadron average.†  (source)
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    On the other hand, she'd gone in to fix a toilet on several previous occasions without mishap.†  (source)
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    After a week of mishaps such as these, the two little fellows began to learn the ways of the trade—the names of the different papers, and how many of each to get, and what sort of people to offer them to, and where to go and where to stay away from.†  (source)
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