His letter was misunderstood by the authorities of the Navy Department to mean a resignation from the navy, and was, as such, accepted.
Somers's mildness seems to have been misunderstood for weakness, and on hearing of some aspersions upon him, Somers determined, in his cool and deliberate manner, to show the stuff that was in him.
Lady Deppingham and Mrs. Browne should not bemisunderstood by the reader.
The subdued, sullen air of the men who filled the torchlighted market-place brooded ill for any attempt Chase might make to reconcile them to his peculiar views, no matter how thoroughly they may have been misunderstood by the people.
Footnote 67a: A very curious, but obscure, passage of Eunapius, appears to me to have been misunderstoodby M.
Footnote 177: A few days before his death, he published a very ample edict of toleration, in which he imputes all the severities which the Christians suffered to the judges and governors, who had misunderstood his intentions.
He was always crippled by poverty, almost wholly unappreciated in the world of art and letters of his day, consistently misunderstood even by his best friends, and pronounced mad by those who most admired his work.
It's no use making excuses, pleading that you misunderstood this or mistook that, Boyd,' said I.
Lady Byron had stood all these fourteen years slandered by her husband, and misunderstood by his friends, when, had she so chosen, this opinion of Dr.
He knew that the slightest communication between them would be misunderstoodand magnified by the witnesses.
He laughed in pure delight; she misunderstood his mirth and was conscious of a new and an almost unendurable pang.
He thought the Antinomians were either misunderstood by people who had no conception of the Gospel and of evangelical liberty, or they were grossly slandered by persons ill-disposed to them because of their successful preaching of the Gospel.
They misunderstood the principle of all legislation of this kind.
There is a tragic instance of that insight which is not foresight in the correspondence of Castlereagh, and it shows how completely the English Government misunderstood what they had done.
These diversities in some localities prevented for a time cordial union, correspondence and coöperation, chiefly because they misunderstood each other in their modes of explanation.
But theymisunderstood my case, and got some of the neighbors to watch the house on Sunday night; imagining I was a robber, and had accomplices to aid in robbing the house.
How you have misunderstood me, and Mrs. Archbold, and all we intended to bring to you!
At the instant of seeing, came that swift and mighty revulsion that follows surely when we have misprized and misunderstood those dear to us.
I believe there is no one more bitterly persecuted, harshly condemned, woefully misrepresented and misunderstoodthan this fearless, conscientious man of God.
Although Calvin misunderstood and misapplied them, yet he constantly appealed to the Scriptures as the support for his theories.
Sometimes I've thought you misunderstood me--" "I never shall again!
But though he correctly repeated the phrase to me in Turkish, I felt certain he must have misunderstoodwhat was said, and that what he had heard was something else, similar in sound, which he had construed into Turkish words he knew.
But the fact that He was actually misunderstood by all seems to exclude this hypothesis.
You completely misunderstood me, my dear Stainville," broke in M.
Duc d'Aumont felt ashamed that he could ever have misunderstood his daughter.
Yet at this moment when he so obviously misunderstood her, when he thought that her attitude with regard to the King's proposals was one of acceptance, or at least not of complete condemnation, her pride rose in violent revolt.
Milton had a wife who utterly misunderstood that her husband was a genius.
No poet had been more misunderstood than Browning; no poet had been more attacked for his grotesque style; no critic has written with the understanding of Browning as has Chesterton.
I venture to say that the three oak trees are emblems of our destiny so far as our inner lives are concerned, which have been ignored and misunderstood by men, but which like Nature remain confident in God.
Can I go down to the grave, misunderstood and slandered?
Songs 256/1, where the writer has evidentlymisunderstood l.
Possibly L has misunderstood cortoier or cortois in his original.
Albert Duerer, and even Marc Antonio, despised or misunderstood this essential quality of art.
Its claims as an archaeological specimen, and the value that four centuries have added to this small piece of perishable paper, must assuredly neither be forgotten nor misunderstood by any one.
After a bit I got rather ashamed of myself for having lost my temper; besides, I thought I might have misunderstood him, and I wanted his help in the fund we are raising.
In my former volume on the Lepadidae, I quite misunderstood the course of these splanchnic nerves.
But it appears to me that in one or two instances I have been misunderstood in the letters which I have addressed [to you] on the subject of Graydon.
Yet this article, sadly misunderstood in England, gave rise to communications from home highly mortifying to myself and ruinous to the Bible cause.
With such resourceful impudence," he said, "you cannot be misunderstood among the Six Nations.
I heard what he said, but Sir William misunderstood him.
He took it fretfully, complaining that all the world had always misunderstood him as I had, and vowing he would never more do kindness to man or beast or good red herring!
