The chance of a triple tragedy in the event of a misstep made the tight-wire walk a right diverting spectacle, and thrilling withal, to the good folk of Dublin.
"Superwomen"
Albert Payson Terhune
At last, Katharine's cautious passage came to a pause as her fingers touched the ladder, but she realized that a misstep would send her over that precipice of hay into the bay below, which now seemed a gulf of unfathomable depth.
"The Brass Bound Box"
Evelyn Raymond
He would have to keep on the move every instant, and death might be the penalty of a misstep.
"Grenfell: Knight-Errant of the North"
Fullerton Waldo