Our affairs began to wear a new aspect, and the enemy, not daring to venture on open war, practised secret mischief at times.
Their connections were dissolved, their armies scattered, and a future invasion put entirely out of their power; yet they continued to practise mischief secretly upon the inhabitants, in the exposed parts of the country.
Take this herb, which is one of great virtue, and keep it about you when you go to Circe's house, it will be a talisman to you against every kind of mischief.
She will then be frightened, and will desire you to go to bed with her; on this you must not point blank refuse her, for you want her to set your companions free, and to take good care also of yourself, but you must make her swear solemnly by all the blessed gods that she will plot no further mischief against you, or else when she has got you naked she will unman you and make you fit for nothing.'
"If you found him a billet where I should like to see him," Surgeon-Major Thomson observed bitterly, "he would never do any more
mischief in this world!
But the woman took off the great lid of the jar (3) with her hands and scattered all these and her thought caused sorrow and mischief to men.
And she, wrapped in mist, follows to the city and haunts of the people, weeping, and bringing mischief to men, even to such as have driven her forth in that they did not deal straightly with her.
About three quarters of a year after this separation, a new frolic took these rogues, which, together with the former villainy they had committed, brought
mischief enough upon them, and had very near been the ruin of the whole colony.
"Confound these check-reins!" he said to himself; "I thought we should have some
mischief soon.
"No," said the niece, "there is no reason for showing mercy to any of them; they have every one of them done
mischief; better fling them out of the window into the court and make a pile of them and set fire to them; or else carry them into the yard, and there a bonfire can be made without the smoke giving any annoyance." The housekeeper said the same, so eager were they both for the slaughter of those innocents, but the curate would not agree to it without first reading at any rate the titles.
And yet, angry as they were, they sometimes broke into a loud roar of laughter, as if
mischief and destruction were their sport.
If he isn't up to
mischief, what does he need all these things for - private telegraph line, private telephone, private wireless?