mislaid

It was, in effect, that the cook had mislaid the beef.

The man who had operated without the quiver of a finger, when not only his patient's life but his own reputation and future were at stake, was now shaken to the soul by a mislaid book or a careless maid.

The hostler had somehow or other mislaid the key of the stable, and even when that was found, two sleepy helpers put the wrong harness on the wrong horses, and the whole process of harnessing had to be gone through afresh.

Then there was a black bonnet which had to be adjusted carefully, and an umbrella which was mislaid, and a bag full of necessaries which had to be collected from here and there--the man being nearly crazy with anxiety in the meantime.

I remember your telling me years ago that you had sent it down to Selby, and that it had got mislaid or stolen on the way.

A key was mislaid, Betsey accused of having got at his new hat, and some slight, but essential alteration of his uniform waistcoat, which he had been promised to have done for him, entirely neglected.

They'd probably mislaid the papers," I said, and I told him the story of a three-million pound insurrection caused by a deputy Under-Secretary sitting upon a mass of green-labelled correspondence instead of reading it.

All through dinner--which was long, in consequence of such accidents as the dish of potatoes being mislaid in the coal skuttle and the handle of the corkscrew coming off and striking the young woman in the chin--Mrs.

Given avian incubation is energetically expensive (Deeming and Reynolds, 2015), and eggs are nutritionally costly to produce (Monaghan and Nager, 1997; Monaghan et al., 1998), the waste of reproductive resources through mislaid eggs could reduce the reproductive success of colonially nesting birds.

IN a covert recording that emerged yesterday, Jeremy Corbyn appears to admit that Labour may have "mislaid or ignored" evidence of anti-Semitism within its ranks.

We're just softies really, and we're doing everything we can to make sure more bears don't get mislaid, which is why we're introducing our new teddy bear tags.

A less kind interpretation is that since Theresa May mislaid her majority the whole Whitehall shebang is bloody chaos.

THE STORY: Mislaid is an absurdist Southern satire about Peggy Vaillancourt, a white lesbian who identifies as a boy, and Lee Fleming, a gay male professor at the Virginia college Peggy attends in the mid-1960s.

With no staples to get detached and mislaid the contamination risk is eliminated.

Promises by various politicians are at present being made Some conveniently forgetting that many previous ones were cynically mislaid Manifestos are being introduced with smug triumph and pride Leaving the electorate wondering just how much each party has to hide But surely the main ambition of each party must definitely be To help create a society that is compassionate and caring and fair for all to see One in which the elderly, the sick and infirm are always given pride of place And never placed second to selfish greedy materialism in the cruel capitalistic race To achieve this type of society must be every Government's main aim So that the poorest and most vulnerable among us do not suffer yet again by John Wall, Wavertree