There was no mistaking the heavy tread and rush of Big Swankie as he made for the door.
On the one hand, there was the danger of mistaking the Dornoch Firth for the Moray, as it lies only a short way to the north of the latter; and, in the case of the Firth of Forth, there was the terrible Bell Rock.
Others, mistakinghis profession, often Approached him to be measured for a coffin.
There was no mistaking one for the other, either as to colour or size.
The latter, mistakingthe tone in which these last words were said, thought it an excellent occasion to make known his own proposals, and accordingly hastened to profit by it.
He walked up to the bed, there could be no mistake about the body under the sheet being that of a dead man; he lifted the sheet, there could be no mistaking that the dead body was that of Raoul de Vauparfond.
The Chinese merchant was sitting at ease, and there was no mistaking his portly figure.
But there was nomistaking the urgency of his friend's plea.
As soon as it was known that her brother had failed, a Jacobin mob broke her windows, mistakingthem for his.
Roesel's gardener, mistaking one of these caterpillars for a dead twig, started back in great alarm when upon attempting to break it off he found it was a living animal[325].
Even in that light, there was no mistaking his broad, sloping shoulders and his slovenly gait.
To anyone who had the smallest knowledge of the sea, there can be no mistaking signs so manifest.
There was no mistaking the gladness of her relief.
If Johnson and Faulks had been two several men, and then one hanged for the other, such a mistaking of the men or matter had been indeed an error, and to be prevented with some longer stay.
Either mistaking or misreporting the state of the question).
Many such things he said against "equivocatio," eithermistaking or misreporting wholly the state of the question.
And he was persuaded that, for once in a way, hers was not a case of a person mistaking the desire to be, for the power to be, because she was an actress born.
Are you quite sure you are notmistaking me for some one else?
Though, as we said, but a single one, yet there was no mistaking its double meaning.
He took Judge Thornton aside and whispered the important question to him,--in his distress of mind, mistaking pockets and taking out his bandanna instead of his white handkerchief to wipe his forehead.
When a nobleman mistakes the love of right in another for a hatred of refinement, he can not be far from mistaking insolence for good manners.
I am afraid my ear is out sometimes," said the man, mistaking her remark.
There was no mistaking the fact that this time the great Mr. Masters was genuinely pleased.
They just do quantities and quantities of stupid, commonplace things, like mistaking the young faculty for freshmen and expecting Miss Raymond to help them look up their English references.
Beside these was a bulky file of prescriptions, the learned documents of doctors of every country of Europe, all of whom had enjoyed their little sunshine of favor, and all of whom had ended by "mistaking his case.
Yet past ages have been proved over and over again, in course of time, to be wrong in their estimate of contemporaneous poetry, in consequence of their mistaking the passing for the permanent.
Yes, there is no mistaking him; part man, part god, part devil.
Beatrice's heart sank again at those words; there was no mistaking the bitterness in them.
There was no mistaking the import of the look of utter glorification that came over her face as she heard his hand on the doorknob; such an expression on the face of a human being could mean but one thing.
There was no mistaking the look in Lamberti's hard blue eyes.
She spoke quietly and steadily, trying to make her voice sound more gentle than ever before; but there was no possibility of mistaking her meaning.
I must needs own, Philonous, nothing seems to have kept me from agreeing with you more than this same mistaking the question.
Which indeed shews we are capable of mistaking a thing to be in motion which is not, and that is all.
Pious stimulants, devout drams, this is trying to do good, but I thinkmistaking the way.
There is no mistakinghis hand in the letter to Mary of Guise, or in the epistle to the Catholic clergy.
For this reason, Lord Seton, mistaking Whitelaw for Knox (who had set out on August 3 to join the brethren at Stirling), pursued and broke a chair on the harmless Brother Whitelaw.
There was no mistaking the daughter of Gustavus Adolphus, with her square face and red cheeks, her disagreeable eyes and her black wig, her short green skirt and her mannish bearing.
There was no mistaking the feminine voice now, broken as it was with sobbing, and Trombin made one step backward on the bridge and bowed to the ground.
He raised his eyes and met hers steadily, and she saw that there was no mistaking the truth.
There was no mistaking his square shoulders and back of his strong neck, where the closely cropped brown hair had an incorrigible tendency to be curly.
There is no mistaking him, sir, for any one else; besides it is a custom of his I am told, to saunter through the down town streets after the warehouses are all closed for the night.
No; I have had a talk with Fanning, and there was no mistaking his look of surprise when told the other had run away under suspicion of being connected with a robbery on the bank's effects.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mistaking" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
