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Definition of Mishaps
1. mishap [n] - See also: mishap
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mishaps
Literary usage of Mishaps
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English Poems by Walter Cochrane Bronson (1909)
"IF CROSSED WITH ALL mishaps BE MY POOR LIFE If crossed with all mishaps be my
poor life; If one short day I never spent in mirth; If my spright with itself ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1822)
"But who encounter'd these mishaps—and who caught cold and fever— And who drest
well—and who drest badly spite of best endeavour— And what new lights in love ..."
3. Canadian Wilds: Tells about the Hudson's Bay Company, Northern Indians and by Martin Hunter (1907)
"THE mishaps OF RALSON. Among the many young apprentice officers who have been
under my orders in the Hudson's Bay Company, none was so conspicuously ..."
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