It was easy enough to make bitter speeches, and any fool and donkey could throw bombs; but the misadventures of the anarchists showed plainly enough that nothing could be done in that way.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
Peter read on through those pages where Lessingham, having found these words in some old book, takes courage after his many misadventures and starts again life-an old man, seventy years of age, but full of hope ...
"Fortitude"
Hugh Walpole
Nor to him alone have such misadventures happened.
"The Old Riddle and the Newest Answer"
John Gerard