Missed

Examples

• If I _am_ missed, it will appear. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• I would not have missed it for worlds. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• When I missed understanding a word, there was no time to think what it was, so I made an illegible one to fill in, trusting to the printers to sense it. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• They were more mobile than his troops, but they missed their quarry in the darkness. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• A man may, from various motives, decline to give his company, but perhaps not even a sage would be gratified that nobody missed him. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Mrs. van der Luyden has driven over to see her old aunts at Rhinebeck and we shan't be missed at the house for another hour. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• He missed him sadly of mornings and tried in vain to walk in the park without him. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• It missed its mark, and completely failed, as is often the way with his tribe too. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• At last, there were no more to come; and then he turned away, saying in a tone of disappointment, 'Why, then, ha' missed her! Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• She will be missed every moment. Jane Austen. Emma.
• He sadly and sorely missed Little Dorrit. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• I would not have missed this meeting for the world. Jane Austen. Emma.
• You missed your epithet. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• I had missed him. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Even the sad, sour sisters should be kindly dealt with, because they have missed the sweetest part of life, if for no other reason. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• I sometimes feared we had missed the way and got into the ploughed grounds or the marshes. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Other packets had missed me, and I had received none for a long time. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• He was the Bulldog of Villaconejos and not for anything would he have missed doing it each year in his village. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• She never missed before, says a knitting-woman of the sisterhood. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Sometimes I missed the water with the oars in the dark as a wave lifted the boat. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• At breakfast, at each meal of the following day, she missed all sense of appetite. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Missed fire,' said Mr. Winkle, who was very pale--probably from disappointment. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• I had said nothing to my wife until I missed the paper this morning. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• A handsome mince-pie had been made yesterday morning (which accounted for the mincemeat not being missed), and the pudding was already on the boil. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Mr. Candy hearing of this, had himself driven over to Betteredge, to express his regret at our having missed each other. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• It would certainly have killed me if it had not missed. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Mr. Bennet missed his second daughter exceedingly; his affection for her drew him oftener from home than anything else could do. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Poor little Amelia never missed one of these entertainments and thought them delicious so long as she might have Georgy sitting by her. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Margaret missed them each and all, and grieved over them like old friends. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• I know'd if you wos missed to-day, you wouldn't be missed to-morrow. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.

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