Melissa blushed to think that she could have mistaken Serenus Samonicus for this noble old man.
You’re labouring under a case of mistaken identity," said grandfather, not taking any notice of the intimation to give his address.
If my conscience couldn’t keep me out of this hole I should think he had mistaken his vocation.
He beheld, in the countenance which he had once loved, the scowl of an evil spirit, and the fire flashing from the general's eyes, was no longer to be mistaken for aught but the revelation of the deadliest hatred.
No sooner do we hear a sound, in most instances, than we form an opinion at once, from what direction it comes, and what produces it; nor are we often mistaken in our judgment.
Memory may possibly be mistaken as to the so-called positive knowledge of yesterday; and so sense may be mistaken as to the so-called positive knowledge of the present moment.
Napoleon was seldom mistaken as to the direction and distance of a cannonade.
He may have seen precisely what he describes; he may be mistaken in thinking it to have been an angel, or a spirit, or a ball of fire.
In proof of this they adduce the fact that we are frequently mistaken in our estimate of the distance of objects.
I doubt you aremistaken in that, Sir, for 'twas I was the Spark that writ the proper Stuff To do you service.
Till then, I'll letmistaken Parents know The mischiefs that ensue a broken Vow.
He looked again at the eager Gus, now hanging over him with an expression that could not be mistaken on his drawn face.
The point of light mistaken for the moon in this secondary reflection was caused by holding the mirror in an oblique position.
No one could have mistaken him for a Hebrew, even had the young man worn the garb of a Jew instead of that of a Grecian.
Will you kindly inform them, gentlemen, that Mrs. John has no child in board, and that they are quite obviously mistaken in the name.
And furthermore, as far as this excellent and sound-hearted young lady is concerned, you're quite mistaken in your ideas about waitresses and such like.
But he was mistakenin thinking himself more happy or more true when he expressed it.
The above quotation seems to me to answer indisputably the mistaken affirmation that “America First” could ever be a selfish slogan.
Many people misjudged his motives and thought that he went into it for selfish purposes; never was there a more mistaken conception of the actions of a patriot.
But so dead a silence ensued upon this imaginary sound, that she began to question whether she might not have mistaken the house, familiar as she thought herself with its exterior.
Her tone, as she uttered the exclamation, had a plaintive and really exquisite melody thrilling through it, yet without subduing a certain something which an obtuse auditor might still havemistaken for asperity.
She concluded that she must have mistaken some other sound for that of the human voice; or else that it was altogether in her fancy.
If we have not mistaken the relations subsisting even in Eden between the original pair, woman was not the ruler even there.
At sixty years of age Pascal was so fresh and vigorous that, though his hair and beard were white, he might have been mistaken for a young man with powdered locks.
In a hallucination of illness, he believed that he heard, outside his window, Roubaud arranging with Cabuche for the murder of Severine: his mistaken evidence was greatly instrumental in leading to the conviction of the two men.
He and Mrs. Wordsworth, but too naturally impressed with the mischief of overwalking in the case of women, took up a wholly mistaken notion that I walked too much.
I am not a preacher, but I have been telling Mr. Rhodes that he was mistaken if he thought that he had an enemy in the High Commissioner.
Intrigue is repulsive to him, and unless I am very much mistaken I venture to affirm that, in the 'nineties, because of the intrigues in which they indulged, he grew to loathe some of the men with whom he was thrown into contact.
In some places such animals have been mistaken for white goat and elsewhere, notably in Alaska, for the legendary ibex.
He had mistaken me for one of Miller's accomplices, and I was helpless in his revengeful hands.
Ha, have I, after all, Mistaken the wild nursling of my breast?
And, when fate shows him he's mistaken there, Die with all good men's praise, and yield his place To Paul and George intent to try their chance!
O you--less hard And hateful than mistaken and obtuse Unreason of a she-intelligence!
And for the ideals dear to us which he so savagely attacks, he so clears the air about some old familiar, mist-haunted ideal of duty, that we wonder if we have hitherto mistaken its meaning.
It has been mistakencriticism to range Beyle as only a "literary" man.
I did not in the least object to her thinking me horrid, but at nineteen one does object to being mistaken for a boy.
I should have recommended the holding up of feet under the table lest, mistaken for other feet, they should be trodden on and pressed.
But I would not have you sneer at them, thinking all pretence must spring from snobbishness and never from mistaken self-respect.
But now, having gained my own foothold, I could stretch out my hand without fear of the movement being mistaken for appeal.
It was the same clerk he had coerced with real cigars to enlighten him concerning Arlee Beecher, and he felt that that clerk was thinking things about him now, mistaken and misguided things, about his predilections for the ladies.
No one but a blind girl or a goose could have mistaken that look upon Billy B.
You are mistaken there," said Anna, very mildly, for the honest encomiums of the poor man had calmed her anger.
His good spirits brought much relief to Pierre, who concluded that he must have been mistaken in his surmises.
But, all the same, you render me very happy, for I am delighted to find that I was not mistaken concerning you.
So he had not beenmistaken in the matter, even Mere-Grand knew all about it.
She spoke the truth: he had never loved any one but her, and she was not mistaken in her anticipation of keeping him always to herself alone, as soon as they should be wedded.
