He knew that no woman could ever forgive the blunder he had made--not a blunder of love but a blunder of self-will and an unmanly, unmannerly conceit.
The breath of the blindfolded buffalo was in his face, he drew himself up lightly and quickly beside the buffalo--he was making no blunder now.
It is absurd the way we blunder on in a scientific age.
I cannot but regard it as a blunder in statesmanship to give suffrage without an educational qualification, and to deem it possible to put ignorance over intelligence.
Eilakes is probably a blunder in the copies of Dion; and it is conjectured that he is the Sillakes mentioned by Plutarch (c.
Each of these Roman subjects is like a language with a delicate accidence, which is always presenting the unwary with pitfalls into which they are sure to blunder unless they have a thorough mastery of it.
By the blunder of an early English publisher of Paine's writings, one essay in the London "Crisis" was attributed to Paine, and the error has continued to cause confusion.
Besides, the American administration has blundered so much in the business of treaty-making, that it is probable it will blunder again in making another with France.
Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
In this blunder still you find, / All think their little set mankind.
Bis peccare in bello non licet=--It is not permitted 30 to blunder in war a second time.
Although there is a blunder in the affidavits I do not disguise the matter of fact.
There is a blunder in the statement that of the seven modifications of Matter Science knows only four, and till lately knew only three; these four are sub-states only, sub-divisions of the lowest plane.
He knew now that Crespin knew, and he knew that he had tortured him, inflicting a needless pain—the last blunder or malpractice any true physician should forgive himself.
But if English men proverbially blunder and aggravate their own dilemma when they stand with their backs to a wall and fight against overwhelming odds, an English woman may be forgiven for doing it now and then.
But, to descend from these heights, it will be a thousand pities if a vulgar blunder compels us to abandon the excellent tenement in favour of the feeble holding or the over-worked estate.
His mistake of fact was great, but it shrank to nothing before the immensity of his blunder in estimation.
I think there’s only one solid blunder been made about man--he oughtn’t to have been able to think.
And my thought," said the younger, "was, what a blunder it is to come here at all.
Better far to consider the Meccan pilgrimage rites in the light of Evil-worship turned into lessons of Good than to philosophize about their strangeness, and to blunder in asserting them to be insignificant.
Hamid corrected my blunder with tartness, to which I replied as tartly, that in our country—Afghanistan—we burned the body of every heretic upon whom we could lay our hands.
It is a blunderof Mormesnil (the minister of justice).
It happens that in my own experience I have known precisely that same blunder made by an American in England.
It would be a capital blunder to refuse to copy, and thereafter to adapt to your own needs, what has raised the Occident in the scale of power and justice and clean living.
But it would be a no less capital blunder to copy what is cheap or trivial or vicious, or even what is merely wrongheaded.
Cromwell, even if he had wished to oppose the army to the Parliament, would have had nothing to do but to sit still, whilst his opponents accumulated blunder after blunder.
A further question which has been often mooted is whether Cromwell--whatever may be said on the purity of his motives--did not commit a blunder in respect of the interests of himself and his cause.
I imagine that Mr. Darwin, casting about for a substantial difference, and being unable to find one, committed the Gladstonian blunder of mistaking an unsubstantial for a substantial one.
A very curious psychological blunder made by many of our younger writers is the attributing to women of the particular kind of sex emotion which belongs essentially to men, an emotion penetrated by lust and darkened by feverish restlessness.
Her blunder in marrying an inefficient man for love.
By a unique blunder in legislation, authority was given to hold a lottery under an act of 1831 which provided a scheme for the improvement of the city of Glasgow.
Paul never cares whether he commits the rhetoricalblunder of mixing up metaphors or not.
And, note, last of all, about this matter, the singular grammatical irregularity in my text, which is something much more than a mere blunder or slip of the pen.
They changed the umpire; but the blunder lost the match.
But, often do we see a wicket saved by the leg and pads, when both the skill of the bowler and the blunder of the batsman deserved falling stumps.
