204 adjectives to describe mistaking

" "You can't try to hush it up; that would be a fatal mistake," Gifford said thoughtfully, "and would immediately arouse suspicion.

As the result of deliberating fully upon the anxious problem before them, he and Gifford had come to the conclusion that it might be a grave mistake to try to keep secret the maid's discovery.

But I'm sure it's all a sad mistake.

" "Butsee here!" cried Patsy; "that's a dreadful mistake.

Dance, and again dance, and if you make a little mistake, dance again!

Grievous mistakes of the same sort had been made repeatedly in the public journals.

"Vad, darling, I have made an awful mistake!

Then he told her the story of the cow, and of how the twins, endeavoring to follow the example of some of the Canadians whom they had seen locking their wagon-wheels with a chain when going down the Souris hill, had made a slight mistake in the location of the chain and hobbled the oxen, with disastrous results.

"You must be making some ridiculous mistake," I said.

The American experts saw the gross mistake of the other delegations, and put down as the maximum payment 325 milliard marks up to 1951, the first payment to be 25 milliard marks in 1921.

How large a portion of folly, vice, and wickedness, have arisen from mere mistakes concerning this most important of human qualities!

But looking into the future with my brother's blood between us I think it might have turned out a hideous mistake.

But six months before, Winfield Scott had landed on the Mexican coast; since then he had stormed the two strongest places in the country, won four battles in the field against armies double, treble, and quadruple his own, and marched without reverse from Vera Cruz to the City of Mexico; losing fewer men, making fewer mistakes, and creating less devastation, in proportion to his victories, than any invading general of former times.

So many absurd or perverting mistakes are still made about the life and times of Carleton, and a full understanding of his career is of such vital importance to Canadian history, that no accounts given in the general run of booksincluding many so-called 'standard works'should be accepted without reference to the original authorities.

And thus, in spite of recurring worries, strokes of bad luck and inevitable mistakes, fortune smiled on them athwart all worries and losses, so brave and sensible did they prove in their incessant daily struggle.

A ludicrous mistake, which came near being fatal to Fernando's respectability at Mariana, resulted from this incident.

"Here is some horrible mistake!"

As an instance of the numerous mistakes occurring daily, may be mentioned the following: The General told the interpreter to say to Nettetok Emathla, that 'patience and perseverance would accomplish everything.'

If I had a daughter who was frivolous, or worldly, or selfish, or cold, or unthoughtful,who regarded life as a pleasantry, or fell into the still more stupid mistake of thinking it not worth living,I should not (at first) make her read the Bible, or teach in the Sunday-school, or call on the minister, or request the prayers of the congregation, but I should put her in a good Kindergarten Training School.

Now, this is a most egregious mistake; for in some of the best houses here you will find tobacco two and even four years old, which is not yet worked up into cigars, and which, consequently, has to be re-damped for that purpose.

The high probability is, that the obvious mistake, of assuming the year 1250 as the era of the first journey, arose from a careless substitution of the figure 5 for 6 in transcription.

It seemed an extraordinary mistake to have made.

There is one grand mistake, however, against which I must caution young mothers; which is, not to indulge the vain expectation that feeble infants will become robust, in proportion to their indulgence.

" "Yes," cried Lady Nora, "and, but for a cruel mistake, you would have married my grandmother.

It then struck me that, though I felt pretty certain of her identity, marriage under such conditions might occasionally lead to awkward mistakes.

204 adjectives to describe  mistaking