Just then his wife appeared, much provoked at some particularly shocking misdeed on the part of the maid to whom had been intrusted the arrangement of the guest-chambers, and she asked, "What is the matter?"
"Erlach Court"
Ossip Schubin
The law was plain enough, but the misdeed seems always to have been condoned.
"The Story of Malta"
Maturin M. Ballou
That his misdeed justified any extreme he knew, not conscious in his sore compunction of any right to resist even for his life.
"The Unknown Sea"
Clemence Housman