misadventure

But as it turns out, Brown had his own Latin misadventure, one that may have skirted the law.

Strange to say, he was none the worse of the misadventure, but did his part nobly at the Royal feast that followed.

With the Little Pal, no day had ever seemed too long, no misadventure but had had its spice.

Her death was, he said, the result of a misadventure, she having accidently taken the wrong medicine.