It stands to reason that the blackguards in these parts hate an Emergency man as the divil hates holy water; but ye may take it as a compliment that ye were mistook for one, for all that.
Why, I mistook you for Joe Striker, the prize-fighter!
He deposited the sausage on the table and asked them what was the matter, and then the secretary came in and said he mistook the sausage for a revolver.
Mistook the nature of the Irish questions, from the erroneous view that Irish Catholicism is ultramontane, which it certainly is not.
We can see now, what expert observers on the spot saw then, that the two Powers mistook the nature of the Arabist movement.
Both tried at it, said Dr Taylor, and both mistook the emphasis, which should be upon not and false witness.
And time would fail us to enumerate the hundreds of lesser spirits who have employed their small modica of light, which they mistook for genius, as lamps allowing them to see their way more clearly down to the chambers of death.
He had never watched Douglass's play before, but smiled confidently at what he mistook for awkwardness when Ken clumsily shuffled the cards, the deal having fallen to him.
Her lips curled at what she mistook for an implied threat.
The love of power prevailed in the mind of Archer; he was secretly flattered by the zeal of his PARTY, and he mistook their love of mischief for attachment to himself.
One small body of Lancers mistook an almost precipitous ravine for the bridle-path, and charged down it at a gallop; those who were not killed in the descent rushing headlong into the midst of an armed force of Basuto at the bottom.
He undoubtedly mistook me for another person, as you did last night.
It was not the cottage that he had occupied at the time Rose Alstine mistookit for the Bordine residence.
Evidently he mistook me for another person, since he addressed me as Andrew Barkswell.
She mistook me for her lover, that is evident," he mused.
Here her heart began beating so that it tolled like a bell in her brain--mistook her, oh, God, for her mother!
Surely it must have been some mistake--it was dark; perhaps he mistook her.
A worse fate than that of Aeschylus, who had his skull cracked by a tortoise dropt by an eagle that mistook his bald head for a stone.
What foolish fellows then the Athenians must have been, in the very meridian of their literature, to be so delighted with what they mistook for wit as to decree him a crown of olive!
From the dim light, and the many branching corridors, Magdalena mistook her way, and was just convinced of her mistake, when a sudden puff of wind put out her lamp.
I was lying one day in the mountains, stretched on the grass; a lizard came out of a hole and mistook my motionless body for a rock, and climbed up on my leg and stretched himself out to bask in the sun.
Besides, the evidence of Dicky Pental would implicate you, seeing that he mistook you in that fancy dress for Jeringham.
Of course your father's story corroborates Dicky Pental's, but the gardener mistook him for Jeringham by reason of the fancy dress.
The Reformers, when they pretended to appeal from the church to the Bible, mistook the question and proceeded on a false assumption.
Dick mistook the father's silence for hesitation, and his real impatience broke out.
I principally confined myself to my own inferences, which unfortunately my mother, with her eager habit of snatching at conclusions, in this instance, mistook for facts.
Woodward at first mistook him for a mendicant, but upon looking at him more closely, he perceived nothing of that watchful and whining cant for alms which marks the character of the professional beggar.
Stealing into the house in an undignified manner, the Duke was collared by the concierge, who mistook him for a thief.
On entering the drawing-room, she mistook him for his brother Joseph, and bowed to him.
The appearance of some treacherous ignes fatui, which he mistook for the watch-fires, led him off still farther.
Therefore this may have been a mere arm of the Arinos which I mistook for a tributary.
May I offer your Eminence a seat," continued I to a red sofa-cushion I mistook for a cardinal.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mistook" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
