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Definition of Mischances
1. mischance [n] - See also: mischance
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mischances
Literary usage of Mischances
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1816)
"... failures and mischances revealed the. secret, that they were not invincible.
As the fear of the Greeks abated, their hatred increased. ..."
2. The Life of Joseph Hodges Choate as Gathered Chiefly from His Letters by Joseph Hodges Choate, Edward Sandford Martin (1920)
"... STOVES—DEATH OF QUEEN VICTORIA—A WREATH FROM THE PRESIDENT—A VISIT TO GEORGE
MEREDITH—ENTERTAINMENTS AND DISCOURSES—BLYTHSWOOD AND SOME mischances MRS. ..."
3. Village Life in Egypt: With Sketches of the Saïd by Bayle St. John (1852)
"... mischances—Treasure-Trove. I HAVE more than once in the course of the foregoing
pages alluded to the tremendous progress which the destruction of the ..."
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