mischievous trick
Example Sentences
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Barnes played a mischievous trick one day—in fact, Barnes was always into mischief. d.
From The Century Handbook of Writing by Garland Greever
Not for a single instant did Mr. Comyn suspect a hoax, or imagine the affair to be only the mischievous trick of some idler.
From The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 1, August 1850 of Literature, Science and Art. by Various
In Scotland he had met Cydonia, through a mischievous trick of Lady Leason's.
From The Man with the Double Heart by Muriel Hine
To climb a wall, to break a branch, to purloin apples, is a mischievous trick in a child; for a man it is a misdemeanor; for a convict it is a crime.
From Les Misérables by Isabel Florence Hapgood
Claxton had hitherto done nothing that was criminal within the eye of the Law, though while at sea he was continually employed in some mischievous trick or other.
From Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences by Arthur L. Hayward
