The amusements of the day were under the management of Slingsby, the schoolmaster, who is not merely lord of misrule in his school, but master of the revels to the village.
"Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists"
Washington Irving
But now, in this later time, when the strength of the nation had been wasted, when victory itself was dark with mourning for sons slain, the loss of the one wise leader to whom all turned with uplifted hearts seemed the signal for annihilation; and then, indeed, it appeared that the prophecy of Mary Ballard's old grandfather had been fulfilled and the curse of slavery had not only been wiped out with blood, but that the greater curse of anarchy and misrule had taken its place to still further scourge the nation.
"The Eye of Dread"
Payne Erskine
When the authority comes, then will also come the happy life of rule, for the life of misrule can never be really happy-never for long.
"Girls of the Forest"
L. T. Meade