What is "mishap"

Usage examples of "mishap".

Workthat is may be disfigured or misformed, by taking out some pieces, or adding mishapen parts thereto, or blind Ignorance may not perceive that Uniformity, or Composure thereof.

She was like a pouting teenager now, acting as if being told she might never have sex thanks to the mishaps of designer jeans.

Groves was, by day, strewn with drying films and mounts, and her old and favourite cat had a bald patch on his flank, the result of a mishap with the pyrogallic acid.

The quiet creatures who escape mishap Bear likeness to pure growths of the green sap: A picture of the settled peace desired By cowards shunning strife or strivers tired.

Biliktu had a sprinkle of freckles on the underswell of her left breast, and Buyantu had a tiny scar on her upper right thigh from some childhood mishap.

Eight-pounders were pointed at every opening, and in the event of any mishap, General Verdier had cannon in reserve to fire in flank upon the column which should have forced a passage.

Under all these influences, and in the particular atmosphere now created, the matrimonial mishap of Baronne Dudevant appeared to her of considerable importance.

Before finally going to New York and hiring a Bruja to sacrifice a chicken for her, she met with all manner of accidents and mishaps, some of which I had seen the proof of -- bruises from her fall down a flight of stairs, her dented car in the parking lot, the results of a fire that had started spontaneously in her pocket book.

Supposedly, Carnegie and Leland had been working the front gates of the neighborhood when this latest mishap had occurred.

The Ganymeans welcomed him in their characteristic easygoing manner, but it was clear that they were relieved to see him after his mishap of getting separated from the others.

The yetis perpetually unsanitary fur was clotted with foetid lumps of food that had somehow failed to make the journey to his mouth without mishap.

She returned her attention to the strange battle ahead, secretly relieved to have Jobs to blame for any mishaps with navigation.

By Day Thirty-three, sickness, mishaps, and one suicide had depleted the numbers such that all the survivors could be carried in the truck at once, so the leapfrogging was discontinued.

Hardy had brought up perhaps thirty examples of accidents at the Port, large or small, that might have been attributed to faulty equipment, but Mr Lowitz, when he answered intelligibly at all, had an alternate interpretation for every mishap.

If I had informed my maid of this mishap, I should have been unable to wear it again, for custom, I believe, forbids queens to wear mended dresses.