Example Sentences

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It was at such times that the staff of “The Opp Eagle” misconducted itself.

From Mr. Opp by Rice, Alice Caldwell Hegan

“Lady Ongar has never misconducted herself—” said Harry.

From The Claverings by Trollope, Anthony

The practice of compelling girls who had misconducted themselves to stand in church for three Sundays was only given up at Pickering in the first quarter of the nineteenth century.

From The Evolution of an English Town by Home, Gordon

The British force remained in Cabool two years, where officers and men alike misconducted themselves, as soldiers always do in a conquered country.

From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 425 Volume 17, New Series, February 21, 1852 by Chambers, William

You know as well as I do, that unless you had misconducted yourself, you might have been as happy now as you were when I saw you after your return from Bury.

From The History of Margaret Catchpole A Suffolk Girl by Cobbold, Richard