At the same time he was not wanting in good sense, and could bring himself to withdraw from an enterprise, when he had misjudged the fitting time for it, or greatly miscalculated its difficulties.
We were all trimmed and ready at the first break of day, for I expected to catch some ships which had tried to make the Thames in the darkness and had miscalculatedtheir time.
But one had miscalculated his time, and there she was, just abreast of Warden Point, when the daylight disclosed her to us.
He perceived at once that he had miscalculated the effects of his action.
It caused Sophia to perceive that she had miscalculated the importance of the elephant.
I had, however, miscalculated my strength, for having been pulling for so long during the night, I soon began to feel excessively fatigued, and longed to lie down and sleep.
I had miscalculated distances, for though, looking at the chart, as I frequently had done on board the Dugong, the sea did not appear of great width, yet when sailing across it in a small boat the matter was very different.
The conspirators miscalculated when they imagined that his murder would deter others from taking his place.
But they miscalculated the effect on those who did not know him, or whose interest it was to make the most of the advantage given them.
They miscalculated in supposing that the proofs of so much reality of religious earnestness would carry off the offence of vehement language, which without these proofs might naturally be thought to show mere random violence.
After a half-hour's walk across these, he saw, with delight, that he had not miscalculated his direction.
It was my own fault," said the captain, "but the lights on the pier dazzled me so that I miscalculated my distance.
He had miscalculated the anxiety she would feel to relieve him, if he ever had an attack again.
But he miscalculated her quickness as against his strength.
He was confused by the darkness, and found that he had miscalculated his powers.
The strength of the two republics had been utterly miscalculated by the home authorities, even when they saw war impending.
But the king had miscalculated the feeling of England.
This will show either what a bad sailer the vessel was, or how far the master had miscalculated the distance; for he imagined himself by this time to be quite clear of all the land, and considerably out to sea.
You have drafted what engineers call 'a parallelogram of forces'; but suppose you have miscalculated the velocity of the wind, or that it should change in velocity or direction?
He must have slightly miscalculated the velocity or direction of the side-wind.
There needed not one tenth part of the wisdom, which the arch-traitor really possessed, to shew him how much he had miscalculated the range of his daughter’s intellect; the fierce energies of her powerful but misdirected mind.
Leonhard describes the case of a mother of thirty-seven, who had borne six children alive, who was pregnant for the tenth time, and who had miscalculated her pregnancy.
In her sixth pregnancy she had miscalculated her time, and, in consequence, her uterus ruptured in an unexpected parturition, but she recovered and had several subsequent pregnancies.
It became, however, immediately apparent that the feeling of the country had been miscalculated by our diplomacy, and Arabi, by the manifest will of the nation, returned next day to power.
He throughout miscalculated the power of the National sentiment; and it was only when he saw that he had failed diplomatically that, following Colvin's lead, he prepared for force.
Germany, which has miscalculated so much in connection with this war and the part that the British Empire would play in it, miscalculated nowhere more than it did in the case of South Africa.
As always happens, he had miscalculated his expenses, and found that the money he had brought from England would hardly suffice till he arrived at Venice.
For a second time he had miscalculated odds; seemed at last to have met defeat.
Once the brute leader miscalculated the space between a striped maple and a pignut hickory; for a moment was caught and held in a vise-like grip.
Von Kluck's vanguard had been checked; it had hoped to rush the town easily, but it had miscalculated the strength of British valour and endurance.
It had miscalculatedthe strength of British valour and endurance.
The insurgents, however, had probably miscalculated the degree of concurrence or assistance they should meet with from their neighbours.
They had miscalculated their plans for conquest, and from that miscalculation arises our good fortune.
If Connie came by chance, this acme of bad luck was reached; if by design, then he had miscalculated somewhere.
He might have miscalculated the force of her attraction for Vardri, but he felt perfectly certain that she was reduced to a state of mechanical imbecility.
She jumped short, miscalculated distances, and once barely saved herself from a severe fall.
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