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an unfortunate accident — usually minor

mishap = minor accident

mishap = unfortunate accident

Barbless hooks are much easier to remove from the fish (and the person fishing, in the event of a mishap).

mishap = minor accident

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.
James Dashner -- The Death Cure

mishap = unfortunate accident

"Just a little mishap," Grace Wexler explained, taking her command post in the middle of the restaurant.
Ellen Raskin -- The Westing Game

mishap = unfortunate accident

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.
Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild

mishap = minor accident

I have met with grievous mishaps by sea and land, and have been long held in bonds among the heathen-folk to the southward; and am now brought hither by this Indian to be redeemed out of my captivity.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Scarlet Letter

mishaps = unfortunate accidents

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.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

mishaps = unfortunate accidents

We members of the Class of 1943 were moving very fast toward the war now, so fast that there were casualties even before we reached it, a mind was clouded and a leg was broken—maybe these should be thought of as minor and inevitable mishaps in the accelerating rush.
John Knowles -- A Separate Peace

mishaps = unfortunate accidents

I apologized by instinct to him for this mishap which discomforted only me.
John Knowles -- A Separate Peace

mishap = unfortunate accident

If she entered a church, trusting to share the Sabbath smile of the Universal Father, it was often her mishap to find herself the text of the discourse.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Scarlet Letter

mishap = unfortunate accident

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.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Scarlet Letter

mishap = unfortunate accident

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...
Herman Melville -- Moby Dick

mishaps = unfortunate accidents

No other ship mishap reported in area on that day, so ship-ship collision unlikely.
Yann Martel -- Life of Pi
And Severus, be very careful, they may not take kindly to your appearance after George Weasley's mishap — " Snape turned at the door.
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Some mishap had left one leg stiff.
George R.R. Martin -- A Dance With Dragons
THAT LITTLE MISHAP GOT ME IN A BIT OF TROUBLE AT home.
Chris Kyle -- American Sniper
That direful mishap was at the bottom of his temporary recluseness.
Herman Melville -- Moby Dick
Were all Helen's actions to be governed by a tiny mishap, such as may happen to any young man or woman?
E.M. Forster -- Howards End
But going straight, without mishap or losing our way, we shall take three or four marches, I expect.
J.R.R. Tolkien -- The Fellowship of the Ring

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