This could be demonstrated in various areas of human endeavour - or mischance.
This must therefore be a case of legislative mischance.
We cannot, perhaps, always avoid mischance, but we should try to avoid miscalculation.
One could not conclude that the man who suffered that mischance had not been properly trained.
But those difficulties would have been compounded unutterably if by any mischance the other party had been in office at this time.
We need not allow anything for sickness or for the mischances that occur in the mines.
But, by some mischance or coincidence, he happened to come down against public ownership and did not believe that it was necessary.
Nothing must stand in the way; if by any mischance we fail, all is lost.