"Mischievously" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... think really he could find a fault," says Mr. Browne mischievously. "I should think there will be a good deal of ...
— April's Lady - A Novel • Margaret Wolfe Hungerford
... Great Britain is that we are such hero-worshippers by nature that we can only believe in one man at a time. We get hold of a Palmerston or a Gladstone, and set him on a pedestal, and think that everybody else is a pygmy. It may be that our idol is a tolerably good one—that is, not mischievously active. In that case he cannot do much harm. But when, as in the case of Gladstone, you have a national idol who is actively mischievous, it is impossible to exaggerate the evil which may be done. Therefore the object ...
— Name and Fame - A Novel • Adeline Sergeant
... the litter as it is," he cried, mischievously. "Your tidiness won't bear much strain, after all, Watson. But I should be glad that you should add this case to your annals, for there are points in it which make it quite unique in the criminal records of this or, I believe, of any other country. ...
— The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 29, May 1893 - An Illustrated Monthly • Various
... inconvenient times and under regrettable circumstances, he never recognized this foreign side of his character. His excellent spirits, his quick sympathies, his bright mutability of mind—all those qualities, in short, which were most mischievously ready to raise distrust in the mind of English clients, before their sentiment changed for the better under the light of later experience—were attributed by Mr. Sarrazin to the exhilarating influence of his happy domestic circumstances and his successful professional ...
— The Evil Genius • Wilkie Collins
... to invite him here, Mrs. Arles," said Eloise, mischievously, "and show him that there are two ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 13, No. 79, May, 1864 • Various
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