11615 examples of mistaking in sentences

There was no mistaking the set of that head and those shoulders.

As I approached the church, a man stopped me, mistaking me for Sir Percival Glyde.

"Perhaps you're mistaking me for somebody else.

"You're mistaking me for somebody else, that's what you are doing.

Henry reached his hand across the table, and laid it so kindly on Esther's that a hovering waiter retreated out of delicacy, mistaking the pair for lovers.

This time there was no mistaking the effect she produced.

This time there was no mistaking his eagerness to be recognized.

Certainly there was no mistaking the fact that his liking for her and his delight in her society were wholly genuine.

There could be no mistaking the exertions of the crews of the two boats; the pursuers seemingly doing their best, as well as the pursued.

In the inky blackness the garrison, mistaking the approaching troops for Belgians, opened a deadly fire upon them.

There was no mistaking who it was.

One small Arab vessel that rashly attacked the Harwich, mistaking it for a merchant vessel, was disposed of with a broadside.

There was no mistaking those snowy mountains.

It is well to write the subject of the measurement on the paper before beginning to use it, then more than one set of records can be kept in the pocket at the same time, and be severally added to as occasion serves, without fear of mistaking one for the other.

Mr. Lewisham was wearing his mortarboard cap of officethere was no mistaking him.

[mistaking the gesticulation].

One may mistake many signs on the road, but there is no mistaking the spirit of sane and realised nationality, which fills the land from end to end precisely as the joyous hum of a big dynamo well settled to its load makes a background to all the other shop noises.

"I should say," I replied, "if the guess savor not of insolence, that one might be forgiven for mistaking you for the Fool of the Family!"

First, 'ghosts' are shown to be, when not illusions caused by mistaking one object for another, then hallucinations.

No other sound followed, no repetition, and yet there could be no mistaking what he had heard.

There is therefore no mistaking the time when the scenes here described took place.

" There is no mistaking the import of this language: No matter if the Jew does not secure equal rights with others.

As to mistaking any one else for him, the Bishop remembered enough of the queer changeling elf to agree with her that it was not a very probable contingency.

" Harriet understood at last; there was no mistaking now.

" There is no mistaking the national attachment so strong in the Scottish character.

11615 examples of  mistaking  in sentences