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Mansfield Park tells the story of protagonist Fanny Price as she navigates her adolescence and young adulthood. As a child, Fanny is sent to live with her aunt, Lady Bertram, and her uncle, Sir Thomas, at their country estate, Mansfield Park. Mrs. Price, Fanny’s mother and Lady Bertram’s sister, is of a lower class and struggles financially ...
Times, Sunday Times. (2014) It was exactly the same ploy they used with the choirboy. The Sun. (2009) They can now breathe easy as the bold ploy clearly worked. The Sun. (2016) They also deny that delaying the pain until after the election is a cynical political ploy.
Even then, it came by courtesy of a misfield. Every half-chance or misfield was met with a wince, a bellow of 'darn it' and another glug. There's the misfield and the overthrow; there's the loss of a wicket to a run-out, or to a part-time bowler.
The earliest known use of the noun misfield is in the 1880s. OED's earliest evidence for misfield is from 1886, in Sport (Dublin). It is also recorded as a verb from the 1850s.
The earliest known use of the verb misfield is in the 1850s. OED's earliest evidence for misfield is from 1851, in Huddersfield Chron. misfield is formed within English, by derivation.
The term “misfield” is a combination of “mis-”, a prefix meaning “badly” or “wrongly,” and “field,” which refers to the act of fielding in sports. The term began to be widely used in the context of cricket during the late 19th century.
Following his initial failure, Henry finds himself unexpectedly in love with Fanny. The shallowness of Henry Crawford's feelings is finally exposed when, having promised to take care of Fanny's welfare, he is distracted by Mary's ploy to renew his contact in London with the newly married Maria.
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