He who is an ass and thinks himself a stag, finds his mistake when he comes to leap the ditch.
The remarkable feature about this mistake was that both men had been under the police control at the same time.
In most of the important criminal trials the scientific evidence is given by more than one witness, and the possibility of mistake is thus greatly reduced, but this is not invariably the rule.
Mistake on the part of the seller, warranty with goods obtained from abroad, and the shop-boy as scapegoat are among the most common forms of defence.
In 1797 a mistake as to identity resulted in the death of two men.
In the case of old inks it would only have been possible to distinguish between writings done with different kinds where some mistake had been made in the preparation of the ink, and a large excess of iron or of galls had been used.
No doubt his grave and unaccountable mistake killed the production, and from it the Bancrofts must have suffered not only bitter disappointment, but heavy pecuniary loss.
Apparently the actor had made the fatal mistake of thinking that Shylock was one of those strong parts that would--in theatrical parlance--"play itself.
That he did not mean to be unkind, and that if he felt he had made a mistake or had gone too far he was deeply penitent and anxious to make any atonement in his power, I, who knew him so intimately, can asseverate.
I mistake much if he is not conceited--you know I pretend a little to be a physiognomist as well as a botanist.
A person maymistake in fixing love without knowledge of the party, but he cannot err that finds cause to dislike from woeful experience.
If I liken thy shape to the bough when green * My likeness errs and I sore mistake it; For the bough is fairest when clad the most * And thou art fairest when mother naked.
Do you think I've grown childish, that I should mistake a horn for a pipe?
The remedy appeared to me good, but extreme; and I confess I hesitated, for fear of committing a mistake which would be irreparable.
As a matter of fact, the one mistakewe have made most in this blasted war, and during the years leading up to it, too, has been to underestimate the strength and ability of the enemy.
Had Bostworth's agent made that mistake when he entered the Devil's Den, and it had proved to be a fatal one?
In a flash, though, he realized his mistake and hastened to cover it up.
It is a mistake to shun our fellow-travelers, from whom we should rather try to learn something.
So soon as his wound was cured he recommenced his solitary night-rambles; and it would be a mistake to suppose that a man can walk about alone in the uninhabited regions of Paris without meeting with some adventure.
Did I mistake you, young gentleman, or did you tell me, that you were a son of the late Edward Moncton?
You were strong enough, and bold enough to take your own part, and if I mistake not, did take it.
He's like his grandfather, and if I mistake not, will be just as obstinate and self-sustained.
You mistake me, Sir--I think such glaring imperfections as yours will not be of so much disadvantage to society as those of a less-faulty man.
The regiments waited impatiently for the moment when they would be led against the enemy, but we dared not again make the mistake of leading an unprepared army against such an experienced foe.
That was the fatal mistake committed in the year of our Lord 1909.
At all events, this carelessness or mistake on the part of the enemy proved the salvation of the Mindoro.
The Japanese had made no mistake in relying on the traditional love of sensation of the American press.
One of these accidents occurred at Swallowtown, where the mistake was made of attacking the express-train to Umatilla instead of the local train to Pendleton.
Certainly it would be a mistake to forget that Frederick the Great once lived in Germany.
It would be a mistake to suppose that Beyle displayed in his private life the qualities of the superman.
You Christians mistakeour position in regard to Jesus.
But the path showed plainly and the familiarity of the guide prevented any mistake on his part.
Every one displayed side arms, and there could be no mistake in setting them down as a reckless lot, whom a peaceable citizen would not care to meet anywhere.
The lieutenant's memory of places was good, and, having a number of hours of daylight at command, he escaped the mistake of his pursuers.
That's what they done; the tracks of the horses were so plain there couldn't be anymistake 'bout it.
As if to obliterate the memory of his words, the captain said in the most matter of fact tone he could assume: "The mistake we made has taken us from the right spot; they must have been near the rocks where Timon showed himself.
Wade Ruggles and Felix Brush saw with noonday clearness the dreadful mistake they had made in the past in hoping to win the heart of the maiden who had declared that if her beloved was to die she would die with him.
My conclusion is that you have made a mistake in being a botanist, you ought to have been a lawyer.
It has been a mistake of my publisher not thinking of sending over the sheets.
You have ignored this link; and, if I do not mistake your meaning, you have done your best in one or two pregnant cases to break it.
I was very sorry about your reclamation, as I think it is in every case a mistake and should be left to others.
It is a mistake to suppose that because Society cannot affect Art directly, it cannot affect it at all.
If the producers mistake it for art sometimes, they do so in all innocence: they have no notion of what art is.
The mistake that the vulgar make is to suppose that "right" means the solution of one particular problem.
That is the right way to treat the human figure; the mistake lay in making these shapes retain the characteristic gestures of Classical rhetoric.
Certainly the neglect of history is the last mistake into which a modern speculator is likely to fall.
There is no mistake about the ring of a man who comes with important intelligence.
If wealth leads to presumptuous reckoning on the future, and because we have 'much goods laid up for many years,' we see no other use of leisure than to eat and drink and be merry, we fatally mistake our happiness and our duty.
That does not mean, remember, that there are to be no other desires, for it is a great mistake to pit religion against other things which are meant to be its instruments and its helps.
It was the same mistake (and bore the same fruits) as Austria pursued in sending Hungarian regiments to keep down Venice, and Venetian-born soldiers to overawe Hungary.
It is not true, and it is a dangerous mistake to suggest that it is true, that a man in this world never loses by being a good, honest, consistent Christian.
It is always a mistake to try to buy happiness by doing wrong.
So natural was the position of old Joseph in his chair that Black Hood, too, had made the mistake of thinking that the watchman was alive.
It would be a grave mistaketo kill Black Hood, Brayton," the Eye said.
So drunk, he disavows it With badinage divine; So dazzling, we mistake him For an alighting mine.
Rupert Littman, dear heart, had been very much concerned that Otto did not "take" to Sabinsport, and he had confided to Dick once that he feared he had made a mistake in sending him back to Germany so long.
As she went along, slackening her pace a little as she passed the dear old Abbey Church, Nora thought over the last year, deciding in her own mind that it had been a great mistake to try their fortunes in England.
Perhaps in my pride I made a mistake when I first knew of your trouble.
And yet, how do I know even that, for I have only been told so; and the tellers themselves were only told so by this Unseen Power; and suppose it has made a mistake or has some private ends to serve!
For they took drives in a small victoria, Frances Freeland holding her sunshade to protect him from the sun whenever it made the mistake of being out.
He neither believed nor disbelieved her, but he knew that he had made a mistake in asking; he never had known, never would know, what she was thinking.
Soames often reflected on the mistake it was to dote on his daughter.
The thing," went on Stephen, "has been a mistake from first to last.
Old Jolyon stepped out, and, in paying the cab fare, for the first time in his life gave the driver a sovereign in mistake for a shilling.
Of course, I think he made a greatmistake to bring her down here.
