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Definition of Miscarried
1. miscarry [v] - See also: miscarry
Lexicographical Neighbors of Miscarried
Literary usage of Miscarried
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Spectator by Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1830)
"My author gives the most probable reason of this great disaster; for he affirms
that the general was brought to bed, or (as others say) miscarried, ..."
2. The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States by Horace Greeley (1867)
"... likewise miscarried. His next was made at 2 p. м. ; when Slocum's division,
of the 6th corps, was ordered to his support, arriving on the field at 3:30, ..."
3. The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England Begun in the Year 1641 by Edward Hyde Clarendon (1888)
"1623 desperate a condition himself and his kingdoms should remain, if the prince
miscarried, by such an unparalleled weakness oi' his, contrary to the light ..."
4. The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides (1855)
"Whenever these politic schemes succeeded, private persons carried "off all the
honour and advantage ; whenever they miscarried, the hard-, ships of the war ..."
5. History of the Jews in Russia and Poland, from the Earliest Times Until the by Simon Dubnow (1918)
"miscarried RELIGIOUS REFORMS The storm of pogroms not only broke many young twigs
on the tree of " enlightenment," which had attained to full bloom in the ..."
6. Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart by John Gibson Lockhart (1837)
"... grieved if they have miscarried. My health, thank God, continues as strong as
at any period in my life ; only I think of rule and diet more than I used ..."
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