"Misadventure" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and the Bellona, without further misadventure, reached Simon's Bay. The repairs, however, took longer than was expected, as the damage received was far more serious than at first supposed. However, the work was such as could be accomplished while the ship was in ...
— The Three Admirals • W.H.G. Kingston
... vexes fools; more vile they grow By being noble; and their luckless light With each new misadventure ...
— Sonnets • Michael Angelo Buonarroti & Tommaso Campanella
... of these matters and seeing them, knew them to be of great value; wherefore he praised God, who had not yet forsaken him, and was altogether comforted. However, as one who had in brief space been twice cruelly baffled by fortune, fearing a third misadventure, he bethought himself that it behoved him use great wariness and he would bring those things home; wherefore, wrapping them, as best he might, in some rags, he told the good woman that he had no more occasion ...
— The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio • Giovanni Boccaccio
... speaking with the utmost abruptness, and rising from the chair; "if you had only left this place at the end of the first term, it would have saved the whole of this abominable misadventure!" ...
— Cape Cod Folks • Sarah P. McLean Greene
... to tell of his misadventure with Winch, and Mr. Maydig, no longer overawed or scared, began to jerk his limbs about and interject astonishment. "It's this what troubled me most," proceeded Mr. Fotheringay; "it's this I'm most mijitly in want of advice for; of course he's at San Francisco—wherever San Francisco ...
— Tales of Space and Time • Herbert George Wells
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