Besides, it is a well-known fact, that those who are in employ, are apt, from a feeling of misdirected kindness, to treat those who are out of work to a glass of ale or two, now and then; and it is very natural, too, that those who have been but ill-fed for a long time are not able to stand it well.

I told my aunt to misdirect him.

During the long period in which her mental energies were thus misdirected, a cloud of darkness enveloped her spirit.

Why should man escape the universal waste, when reason is ignored or misdirected?

He was a lover of order, economy, justice, and pure morals, but through lack of mental and physical strength his good qualities were misdirected.

and of Marlborough in the struggle against the French army; her contributions to the land war were for the most part misdirected and futile.

V. misinform, misteach^, misdescribe^, misinstruct^, miscorrect^; misdirect, misguide; pervert; put on a false scent, throw off the scent, throw off the trail; deceive &c 545; mislead &c (error) 495; misrepresent; lie &c 544; ambiguas in vulgum spargere voces

V. be unskillful &c adj.; not see an inch beyond one's nose; blunder, bungle, boggle, fumble, botch, bitch, flounder, stumble, trip; hobble &c 275; put one's foot in it; make a mess of, make hash of, make sad work of; overshoot the mark. play tricks with, play Puck, mismanage, misconduct, misdirect, misapply, missend.

It is not good to misdirect the great sun which drives away the night and gives us the seal, the salmon, and warm weather.

In the early part of his school-life, John gave no extraordinary indications of intellectual character; but it was remembered of him afterwards, that there was ever present a determined and steady spirit in all his undertakings; and, although of a strong and impulsive will, I never knew it misdirected in his required pursuit of study.

At least repetition, by some such attention to-our geographical names, to the liability of misdirecting letters, might be, to a great extent, avoided. 24th.

It has even been instructive, as showing to what extent it is possible for plain facts to be perverted by misdirected ingenuity.

It was misdirected, and is advertised in The Sacramento Union's list of uncalled-for mail.

You must pardon me if I say I think, in this case, your benevolence misdirected.

A little glimpse of the truth went home to her, and she beheld something of the misdirected idealism of the man, the intensity and steadfastness that were the dominant traits of his nature.

In the second place, plantation work as a rule had the limitation of daylight hours; in plowing, mules which could not be hurried set the pace; in hoeing, haste would imperil the plants by enhancing the proportion of misdirected strokes; and in the harvest of tobacco, rice and cotton much perseverance

The misunderstanding that has given rise to this proposition that this is an age of specialisation, and through that no end of mischief in misdirected technical education and the like, is essentially a confusion between specialisation and the division of labour.

Here is a man sending money, never asked for, to an unknown person, about whom he knew nothing; then misdirecting his letter, and then remembering and sending another message to go and find where the first had gone to.

They look upon that system as mischievous in its consequences to society, for many reasons,among others because it tends to divert and misdirect the most energetic faculties of human nature.

We have been minute in criticizing this part of Mr. White's notes, because we think his investigations misdirected, the results at which he arrives mistaken, and because we hope to persuade him to keep a tighter rein on his philological zeal in future.

Nothing but the influence of a misdirected or perverted education, or the most extreme degradation and ignorance, can in any one induce the belief that woman is the inferior of man, merely because she is a woman.

" I might go on for many pages painting this dreary picture of a misdirected life, but enough has been quoted at present to show Sarah Grimké's strong, earnest, impressionable nature, and the effects upon it of the teachings of the old theology, mingled with the narrow Southern ideas of usefulness and woman's sphere.

A misdirected letter.

It is not good to misdirect the great sun which drives away the night and gives us the seal, the salmon, and warm weather.

Everybody read the story, and most persons cried out against so ignoble a hero, so mean a history, and so misdirected a literary energy.