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How to use mischief in a sentence

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She rubbed my arm comfortingly with a small twinkle of mischief that I had seen somewhere else.
He leaned towards Christopher, a glimmer of mischief sparkling in his blue eyes.
As a girl quietly in love, there is mischief in her graces, grace in her mischief.
This whimsical piece of mischief by his brother brought a quiet laugh from David.
It creates mischief and division in a good area where many people are working to eradicate those problems that do exist.
If these are not mischief enough to affright thee, I know not what thou art.
Sure, they created lots of mischief and unnecessary work which cost a buck or two to put right, but that's all.
Besides their potential role in identity theft and unauthorized purchases, the key cards can get up to other mischief.
Why create the mischief and then pretend that he was not the concocter of the trouble?
He wasn't creating any mischief, and he stayed on the cement next to his car.
New technology keeps showing up, making more mischief, or benefits, possible.
Otherwise, in solving this case, we might create mischief for many, many other provisions.
I suspect that this will in many respects backfire and is going to create a lot more mischief and a lot more misery.
I turned the photograph and looked at it, as though it might have changed through some process of mischief or alchemy.
Such a thing can cause huge mischief, when these contradictory streams collide.
He is not a wrangler, nor quarrelsome, and keeps himself out of all kinds of mischief, which other boys run into.
The former group are intent on making mischief, the latter on making meaning out of an event which still has none.
So this division has caused a great deal of mischief, a great deal of harm, a great deal of sorrow.
Instead, they face charges of criminal mischief, punishable by up to two years in the penitentiary.
Now, I can't say whether they intended mischief or not, but in my books they have the right to be presumed innocent only until proven foreign.
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I didn't relish the task very well, as I was rather cold, and old silvertail was full of his mischief.
More than a few of the fellows say he must have been a spy, and up to some mischief, because he slipped off so slickly.
Her twin in mischief is puck, and she, too, is fond of paying visits to the bungalow.
Unless they say something like that the spirit of the animal killed might do them some mischief.
At this, slyboots rushed off in such a haste, and with such a wicked gleam in his eye, that I smelt mischief immediately.
He is a traitor to affiance and abuse to employment, and a rule of villainy in a plot of mischief.
To keep me from mischief, the mate used to set me picking oakum, or ripping up an old sail for 'parceling,' as it was called.
Yes, he would brood upon it like a sage hen, until he had hatched mischief.
Playing the lonely martyr, too, wasn't much fun with this mischief working inside of him and swelling his lungs like barm.
It may just be that there was a confusion as to the origin of the indenture which caused the mischief.
With this studiousness was joined a gaiety and sprightliness that manifested itself in all sorts of fun and mischief.
But how the mischief even a raw Britisher could be soft-sawdered by Anstey is a stumper.
I left him, with a strong foreboding that he would work me some direful mischief.
Should it diverge widely from this, then it is likely some mischief is at work.
When it tries to do so by sumptuary legislation, nothing but mischief is invoked.
Then I knew why Opata smelled of mischief when he had caught snakes in the lagoon.
Every tooth of the dragon had produced one of these sons of deadly mischief.
It's just wild enough to get me put into a laughing academy, where I can't do them any mischief.
By many he is called the reviler of the gods, the author of all fraud and mischief, and the shame of gods and men alike.
Too much to lament a misery is the next way to draw on a remediless mischief.
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