Chippenfield, who missed it, didn't half like my discovery, and all along he underestimated the value of it as a clue.

In the enumeration of them two dangers are to be avoided: we must neither raise contingent principles to the position of axioms, nor, from an exaggerated endeavor after unity, underestimate the number of these self-evident principles.

But it would be unwise to underestimate the gigantic difficulties with which this growing national consciousness has to contend.

It is probable that before Verdun, as at St. Privat, the leaders underestimated the defenders' strength, especially in cannon and machine guns.

And for these reasons, we have been inclined to underestimate the importance of Pepys' diary.

One view underestimates the power of the logical Idea, the other overestimates it.

" "You underestimate Monohan," Fyfe returned.

But if Ina thought him so, he had probably underestimated the danger.

"You underestimate my courage," Wingate assured them with a smile.

Simultaneously then, being yourself only a fool after all, you flatter me and underestimate my intelligence.

It was not that he lacked sympathy for the German people, but he misjudged and underestimated the new forces that were coming into play.

Let me go further and say that you have underestimated, or miscalculated, the effect of this primitive wild life upon all of you.

" The success of my Gray's Inn lectures convinces me that Dr. Sarolea underestimates the interest in America and its history in England.

If they think you are weary and tired, and you ask your distance from the place you may be wishing to reach, they will ridiculously underestimate the length of road.

And yet the subsequent history of pastoral reminds us that it is quite possible to underestimate Guarini's merits as a playwright.

Mahomet knew perfectly well that this attacking force was unlike the last, which had been gathered together hurriedly and had underestimated its opposition.

Now, as it is admitted that our dense atmosphere, however dry and clear, absorbs and reflects some considerable portion of the solar heat, we shall certainly underestimate the radiation from the moon's surface during its long night if we take as the basis of our calculation a lowering of temperature amounting to 100° F. during twelve hours, as not unfrequently occurs with us.

It was a wild guess, but I don't think that I underestimated my new client's rank, for he did not wince.

It is for this reason only, and not because I underestimate for a moment the vast resources, the splendid organisation, the military valour of Germany, that I restrict myself in the following pages to a consideration of the possible effects of victory rather than of defeat.

It is possible that I have underestimated the role of Li Yüan.

She did not dream of disbelieving them, or of underestimating their significance.

And though he retained all his self-control and outward composure, so strange a smile played about his lip and so meaning an expression came into his eye as caused no little surprise to St. Aulaire, who had entirely underestimated the spirit that lay beneath so calm and boyish an exterior.

To underestimate one's thirst, to pass a given landmark to the right or left, to find a dry spring where one looked for running waterthere is no help for any of these things.

He had not underestimated the time; in a little less than his five minutes the doors at the end of the arena were thrown wide and Werther reappeared.

The philosophy of experience had overestimated sense and underestimated the understanding, when it found the source of all knowledge in the faculty of perception and degraded the faculty of thought to an almost wholly inactive recipient of messages coming to it from without.