Fired off-target

Usage examples of missed.

My brother and my sister both missed them, but they go back in the family portraits for three hundred years.

Whenever this powdered and courteous old man, who never missed a Sunday at the convent chapel at Hammersmith, and who was in all respects, thoughts, conduct, and bearing utterly unlike the bearded savages of his nation, who curse perfidious Albion, and scowl at you from over their cigars, in the Quadrant arcades at the present day-- whenever the old Chevalier de Talonrouge spoke of Mistress Osborne, he would first finish his pinch of snuff, flick away the remaining particles of dust with a graceful wave of his hand, gather up his fingers again into a bunch, and, bringing them up to his mouth, blow them open with a kiss, exclaiming, Ah!

Rawdon, from flurry and excitement, missed his rat, but on the other hand he half-murdered a ferret.

He missed him sadly of mornings and tried in vain to walk in the park without him.

Poor little Amelia never missed one of these entertainments and thought them delicious so long as she might have Georgy sitting by her.

Some instinct warned her that she had missed something that might be important.

Or if she had not actually seen them go, she might have missed them both and guessed that they were together.

The heavy brass lamp missed her head indeed, but fell numbingly on her shoulder.

Arlbery, she had run out of the shop after Lionel, before she either knew what was reading, or was missed by those the reader had engaged.

Berlinton, who never before, since her marriage, had been of any party where her attractions had not been unrivalled, had believed herself superior to pleasure from personal homage, and knew not, till she missed it, that it made any part of her amusement in public.

She then gathered that, in coming out of the theatre, to get to the coach, they had missed her.

The blow missed him, and he sprang back, holding his cane like a rapier.

Verity because of all that she missed, all that she was so near to obtaining.

However, either because they had not yet arrived, or because the crowd was too dense to allow him to discover their position, he had missed them, and been forced to take up a place without them or lose his chance of seeing the fight.

It was soon seen that having been travelling there in the summer he now desired nothing better than to be allowed to describe the Lakes to everyone, and to tell those who had not had the good fortune to journey so far that they had missed something very fine.