Word: mishap
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...lower halls of Matthews and Holyoke, and a serious accident which occurred in the latter building one evening last week shows that our complaint is not an idle one. To have a front tooth knocked out by running against a projection in a dark hall is a mishap that we hope may soon be no longer possible...
...whether Antonelli had taken an extra dose of chain lightning by way of lightening his chains, remains a matter of doubt; but certain it is that he so far forgot himself as to give vent to one or two unmistakable guffaws at the mishap of his master...
...scathed in many a strange mishap...
...after breakfast, just to take a smoke, and as a matter of course read the morning paper first. Thinking possession as good as ownership, he appropriated my books without asking leave, and if in consequence of this appropriation I "deaded" or "fizzled," he expressed the liveliest sympathy for my mishap, and would offer the consoling advice that I ought to study harder. There was something strange about the fact that the day after I received a check he would invariably want to borrow a little money...