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It would be quite impossible for any one present to have misconducted himself in the manner in which the holder of those letters, Mr. Reynolds, accuses you of having done.

From The Conqueror by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn

Not that I have the vaguest notion as to how I have misconducted myself.

From Rossmoyne by Unknown

His defense was an alibi, an attempt, that is, to prove that he was elsewhere on the night when he was alleged to have misconducted himself at Rome.

From Roman life in the days of Cicero by Church, Alfred John

Papa, it is because I have misconducted myself.

From A Simpleton by Reade, Charles

"Do not wake her yet," answered Ulysses, "but tell the women who have misconducted themselves to come to me."

From The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Butler, Samuel