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    misadventure


    1. The inquest eventually returned a verdict of death by misadventure, and the


    2. It would undoubtedly be a difficult time for him as was evident by his rash actions at the place where his wife had met with her act of misadventure, and the curiosity of the other guests would certainly not be beneficial in helping him to recuperate from his loss


    3. Obviously, he had either underestimated these people and their civility or Terence and his enigmatic, multifaceted behaviour that had an overriding effect on the public and their lust for the sordid details of Faye’s misadventure


    4. The last time he had been to this spot the conditions had not warranted a thorough investigation or search of the vicinity; the scarf had been enough evidence to reach the conclusion of misadventure leading to her death


    5. “I was perfectly prepared to let this pass as an act of misadventure, until one of the guests who knew the victim, Faye Underwood, said she thought the husband, Terence, had killed her


    6. Immediate misadventure evolves through and through without hesitative


    7. misadventure, such is making the best of a bad situation


    8. Let it be so, if that’s the way it should be to keep her away from any amorous misadventure


    9. and misadventure had become the determining influences in his life


    10. After all, it was his Sri Lankan military misadventure, meant to tame the Tamil Tigers, which outraged the ruthless Prabhakaran, the overlord of the Tamil Elam, and it was only time before Dhanu, the human-bomb, exploded in Rajiv’s face at Sriperumbudur

    11. Even before the umma could recover from the Hindu shock, the Nasser misadventure that followed in the Middle East, instead of resuscitating the power of the Arab Sword ended in the fiasco of a Six Day War with the hated Jews


    12. I mean if one freezes to death because you are lost on the moors in the snow when your car has broken down and the heaters out of order, is that death by misadventure or double pneumonia


    13. way after you went up to fix the aerial because everyone on Emmerdale had a two shadows, is that death by misadventure or a broken neck?


    14. Death by adventure seems a much more plausible and possibly more exciting way to go: eaten by a lion on an African Safari; Killed by an avalanche on a mountaineering expedition, whatever, perhaps it is just semantics, but does qualify as a misadventure? John Simmons it appears did take amphetamines on a regular basis


    15. “We physics of Athens call it epilepsia; convulsion-illness caused by a misadventure of the brain


    16. I had gotten used to him, to the routine of seeing him, to the moderate sexual encounters which were a pleasant bonus to the continuing good chemistry that developed between us ever since that first day of our misadventure on leaving the Irothio


    17. After yesterday's misadventure, Abdullah probably refused to let her go out


    18. And when he was released he would no doubt relate the tale of his misadventure


    19. landlord, so he determined to cut matters short and confer upon him at once the unlucky order of knighthood before any further misadventure could occur; so, going up to him, he apologised for the rudeness which, without his knowledge, had been offered to him by these low people, who, however, had been well punished for their audacity


    20. "for from straight you have made me crooked, leaving me with a broken leg that will never see itself straight again all the days of its life; and the injury you have redressed in my case has been to leave me injured in such a way that I shall remain injured for ever; and the height of misadventure it was to fall in with you who go in search of adventures

    21. She, with broken sobs and half-suppressed sighs, went on to say, "My misfortune, my misadventure, is simply this, that I entreated my brother to dress me up as a man in a suit of his clothes, and take me some night, when our father was asleep, to see the whole town; he, overcome by my entreaties, consented, and dressing me in this suit and himself in clothes of mine that fitted him as if made for him (for he has not a hair on his chin, and might pass for a very beautiful young girl), to-night, about an hour ago, more or less, we left the house, and guided by our youthful and foolish impulse we made the circuit of the whole town, and then, as we were about to return home, we saw a great troop of people coming, and my brother said to me, 'Sister, this must be the round, stir your feet and put wings to them, and follow me as fast as you can, lest they recognise us, for that would be a bad business for us;' and so saying he turned about and began, I cannot say to run but to fly; in less than six paces I fell from fright, and then the officer of justice came up and carried me before your worships, where I find myself put to shame before all these people as whimsical and vicious


    22. And in a sad plight he was too after his misadventure


    23. He saw him once on the auspicious occasion when they broke up the type in the Insuppressible or was it United Ireland, a privilege he keenly appreciated, and, in point of fact, handed him his silk hat when it was knocked off and he said Thank you , excited as he undoubtedly was under his frigid exterior notwithstanding the little misadventure mentioned between the cup and the lip: what's bred in the bone


    24. She put her hair behind her shoulders and turned attacking her salad into a shared misadventure, with widened eyes and about six different kinds of half-smiles, ranging from rueful and self-effacing to amused anticipation, as Reacher picked up his burger and tried to take a bite


    25. He’d done what he could after that misadventure to stiffen the hulls, but there was a limit to what he could accomplish without the steel and wrought-iron frames available to Sir Dustyn Olyvyr


    26. As it was, he thought that on the attendant's evidence he could give a certificate of death by misadventure in falling from bed


    27. Laigle de Meaux was pondering without melancholy, over a little misadventure which had befallen him two days previously at the law-school, and which had modified his personal plans for the future, plans which were rather indistinct in any case


    28. We got to Hampton Court without misadventure, our minds full of strange and unfamiliar appearances, and at Hampton Court our eyes were relieved to find a patch of green that had escaped the suffocating drift


    29. Fortunately her equipage was now seen approaching in the charge of two park policemen, who had stopped the horses about a mile further on, righted the sleigh and now brought it back not much the worse for the misadventure


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    Synonymes pour "misadventure"

    misadventure mischance mishap hazard casualty accident calamity catastrophe