But when he had finished, all he said was, "You havemisread the lines, Peace.
Pepperton misread my agitation, and with a hearty laugh clapped me on the shoulder.
I was bending over now, watching the three men pick up the cards, and once, when I misread the jack of spades for the jack of clubs, a shudder passed over me.
Semti of the same dynasty, misread "Hesepti" by the list-makers.
Pierce had utterly misread her at first; that was plain.
He smiled feebly and shrugged, whereupon the former speakermisread his apparent indifference and flashed him a smile.
It was quite natural, therefore, that the fellow with whom Kirby was gambling should interpret her effort to claim attention as an attempt to interrupt the game, and that he should misread the meaning of her imploring look.
Unless I misread her, there is no room in her for anything but Lena Quincy Percival.
Nor with the possibility that he had misread her mind.
She read it--misread it luckily--and her own lighted amazingly with a beam of pure amusement.
And when once she sat up to ease cramped limbs, he misread her intention and, catching her viciously by an arm, threw her back into her corner and advised her not to play the giddy little fool.
It may be that something of the bitterness of the thought asserted itself on Evander's face, and that Halfman misread it thinking he read the prisoner's thoughts clearly.
Such was the theory, the most solid foundation of which was a humorous treatise,[4] misread and misapplied.
Perhaps she, like many others, had misread the essay 'Of Love,' and felt herself bound in honor to bring the philosopher to his knees at her feet.
But he hadmisread the symptoms, and had misread also the fretfulness of her impatience.
Those who proclaim it strangely misread the processes and the conditions of our spiritual life.
To make the love of man the essence of religion is to misread the latter and to divest the former of its supreme spiritual dynamic.
Perhaps I have misread Mr. Craig Brown, and am wrong in believing that he regards it as commemorating a famous football match played in 1815 between Souters and men under the leadership of Lord Home.
This gentlemanmisread a letter, in which the Scottish writer spoke of his "tweels.
But Adam Olliver knows it, and misreads my heart as much as one man can misread another's.
To overlook that series of cases is really to misread a change of the first importance, a change which almost amounted to a legal revolution.
The truth is that if we content ourselves with the supposition of an access of exceptional unscrupulousness on the part of lords of manors which was favoured by contemporaries, we shall misread the situation.
My opponent saw the look, and misread it; being much accustomed, I imagine, to a one-sided battle.
He misread the gesture, and retreating a step, with the greatest suddenness whipped out his sword, and in a moment had the point at my breast, and his wrist drawn back to thrust.
But King James' translators have misread their text.
As a matter of fact, David was not just a servant who had broken away from his master, and if Nabal had only lived a little longer he would have seen how completely he had misread the signs of the times.
If he dreamed that she loved him, if he fancied her a victim of his bow and spear, he strangely, most strangely, misread her.
Was it possible that he had misread the girl; whom he had deemed characterless, when she was not shy?
That they, that he should hold her so cheap, deem her so smirched by what had passed, misread her so vilely as to think that she had fallen to this!
He saw her look doubtfully at the closed lodge-door; and hemisread the look.
He did not know her, as she said; and, small blame to him, he misread her.
But your political leaders, ever at work for themselves, misread these words for you, even as your priests misread Christ's Gospel.
T was such a miz-maze o' crooked words he let fly 'pon us, that perhaps us misread un.
To misread her blush seemed in his humility a crime.
Henry was neither a genius nor a hero; but they who deny that he was a singularly able man will probably misread his character; misread his ideals, his conduct, and his various attitudes.
As they were driving along Schulze misread a mournful look which Arthur cast at his bandaged hand.
But the next morning her sore and anxious mother's heart misread the gloom of his strong face into sternness toward her only son.
It is clear that Chaucer has misread ruines for crimes, or his MS.
Chaucer seems to have met with this explanation, and perhaps misread it as 'sans iuge'; i.
Then he gave the word to dismount; so far, even the Countess and her women had kept their saddles, lest the movement which their retreat into the inn must have caused should be misread by the mob.
How could he so have misread her meaning even for a moment?
At once he perceived how she hadmisread the scene she had witnessed.
