23 collocations for misconstrue

Or if they talk with him, he is ready to misconstrue every word they speak, and interpret it to the worst; he cannot endure any man to look steadily on him, speak to him almost, laugh, jest, or be familiar, or hem, or point, cough, or spit, or make a noise sometimes, &c.

"Circumstances have given me a claim to your confidence," she faltered, "and you will not misconstrue my motive, when I ask you whether you still retain the same affection as formerly for Amabel?"

The works of this author which are printed in the Mirror of Magistrates, are as follow; The Fall of Robert Tresilian, Chief Justice of England, for misconstruing the laws, and expounding them to serve the prince's affections.

But the greatest risk of all is that the jury themselves may misconstrue the circumstances, and draw unwarranted conclusions therefrom.

Do not misconstrue my true-meaning heart. CLIN.

Like her sex, she took the benefit of the doubt, and intensified her perplexity and misery by reading and misconstruing the all but unintelligible contents.

With regard to the Duke of Leeds, I think you have misconstrued the decency of my expression.

I had taken advantage of her kindness, her sympathy, her trust, and openly misconstrued womanly friendliness into a stronger emotion.

Do not misconstrue my true-meaning heart. CLIN.

The poor fool misconstrued my instructions to make himself agreeableI am so taken up with the gravest matters at present, I didn't want you to feel lonely or neglectedand, it appears, felt it incumbent upon him to flirt with you as a matter of duty.

She would willingly have done the good she did in secret, partly from her constant feeling that charity was not charity if it were boasted of, partly from a fear that those ready to misconstrue all her acts would find pretexts for evil and calumny even in her bounty.

"And now that I have the courageor effronteryto write you once more, will you misconstrue my letterand my motive?

Secure in the convictions of his own debased mind, as to her relation to the artist; and misconstruing her very manner in his presence; he was not long in putting his proposal into words that she could not fail to understand.

nichered McMurdie, misconstruing the Laird's meaning.

I may have misconstrued your remarks, but I thought you still doubted me.

He said that the gentleman who had left so abruptly had quite misconstrued the tenour of his paper.

Thus you misconstrue all things, Master Arthur.

" "You laugh," indignantly, "believing me a coquettea girl to play with men?" "No; that misconstrues my thought.

A London journal of influence, speaking of the British population as affected by the measure in question, said: 'They are tolerably able to take care of themselves, and we very much misconstrue the tone adopted by the English press and the English public in the province, if they do not find some means of resisting the heavy blow and great discouragement which is aimed at them.'

And here it may be suggested, although with the hesitation that is natural in impeaching such high authority, that the commissioners under the fifth article of the treaty of Ghent in all probability misconstrued that instrument when they reopened the question of the forty-fifth parallel.

After Rose had struck her blow at the secretary, the old gentleman noted all of Peter's permutations and misconstrued a dozen quite innocent actions on Peter's part into signs of bad faith.

It was not only Bob Evers who was misconstruing my little attentions to Mrs. Lascelles.

" "You are very good, Monsieur Howell," replied the Frenchman, with a polite bow and forced smile, misconstruing ill-judged benevolence into a wish for his person to grace a

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