mischievous

And the strangest thing about it is that all religions are erroneous and mischievous excepting mine.

Sometimes a mischievous child risked his skin and bones for the ineffable pleasure of driving a pin into Quasimodo's hump.

All this mad dashing and splashing of the waters of the big ocean, which the mischievous wind caused without any good reason whatever, resulted in a terrible storm, and a storm on the ocean is liable to cut many queer pranks and do a lot of damage.

But my excellent parent went on lecturing, and then came to coaxing, and began to stroke my hair; and I was getting to feel quite a good boy, but my mischievous brother, who was idling about the room, revived my corruption by suddenly calling out, -

Nay rather, vindictive persons live the life of witches; who, as they are mischievous, so end they infortunate.

Once upon a time there was a wicked sprite, indeed he was the most mischievous of all sprites.

"Do you know, Mary..." Natasha suddenly said with a mischievous smile such as Princess Mary had not seen on her face for a long time, "he has somehow grown so clean, smooth, and fresh- as if he had just come out of a Russian bath; do you understand?

When poverty shows itself, even mischievous boys understand what it means.

All sorts of rough jests and catchwords were bandied about among them; and the story of the Diamond turned up again unexpectedly, in the form of a mischievous joke.

In the same village there lived three brothers, who were all determined to kill the mischievous hawk.

In the next place, the abuses would often have completed their mischievous effects before the remedial provision would be applied.

Besides, we have the fact, averred to us by one of the partners, that some of them, who were young and heedless, took a mischievous and unwarrantable pleasure in playing upon the jealous temper of the captain, and affecting mysterious consultations and sinister movements.