It was heedlessness that got Whitefoot into one of the worst mishaps of his whole life.
The boys seconded the motion, and for a few minutes supper was the all-absorbing topic, as the cups went round and the goodies vanished rapidly, accompanied by the usual mishaps which make picnic meals such fun.
He is perfectly crazy about fish, and I've pulled him out of that old lobster-pot on the beach a dozen times," groaned Molly, much afflicted by the mishaps of her young charge.
Such mishaps can result in hard landings, runway overshoots or even crashes.
Some of the accusations may be based on individual cases or mishaps, which are being deliberately used to give China a bad name.
This includes drowning, traumatic brain injuries, and fireworks-related mishaps.
American history is filled with mishaps, wrong turns, and terrible decision-making, both at the national political level and at the business level.
In order to reach happiness, happy people accept this inevitable truth and learn to be proactive rather than reactive to life's surprises and mishaps.
But meeting the FT in a wood-panelled room at the Fed's headquarters on Constitution Avenue, he appeared as much preoccupied by the longer-term US growth outlook as by the potential for market logjams and mishaps.
When my three granddaughters were born four months apart and the twins moved into our house at eight months, my close friend offered me her secret to entertaining grandchildren with few mishaps.
In order to reach happiness, happy people accept this inevitable truth and learn to be proactive rather than reactive to life's surprises and mishaps.
This has the potential for some interesting mishaps; GLBT News, for instance, reports a character named "Dick" being converted to "groin.
Spilling food all over yourself, your date leaving halfway through dinner or being stood up are the UK's most feared dating mishaps.
Taylor suffered many mishaps in his life.
Some days his eyes were eloquent — laughing at our reported mishaps, listening alertly, revealing painful awareness of his inability to care for himself.
( L A) Mishaps are like knives that either serve us or cut us as we grasp them by the handle or blade.
The eggs, allowing for all mishaps, will produce two hundred and fifty chickens.
Their circumstances have become very much reduced, and are not likely to change for the better, until we are all riding on the red horse higher than the skies, where there are no haps and mishaps!
Yet for all the mishaps along the way, more Chinese are learning English and more Americans and other nationalities are learning to speak Chinese.
