hit-or-miss

So, why no Jewess in the mix of more recent and diverse Miss Americas?

But Lucy had noted, out of the corner of her watchful eye, the arrival of Miss Grains, indignant and perspiring.

But with all her advantages Miss Solomonson failed with the old lord, and she abuses him to this day.

The strains of the syren at last woke her uncle, and brought back Miss Hood, who suggested that it was late.

He, with others, thinking the miss-sahib had gone to church, was smoking the hookah of gossip in a neighboring compound.

Many of us had been hit by the balls, but a bruise or a graze of the skin was the worst consequence that had ensued.