I would not have you otherwise, and we must not misunderstand each other.

My friend didn't want me to speak about it at all, for he was afraid you might misunderstand us.

Oh, how people misunderstand each other!

Do not misunderstand me, as I know you will.

Can we misunderstand each other's hearts?

" "No, no, you misunderstand," burst forth Mary; and then, forgetting all her awkwardness, she made her little statement over again, and this time succinctly and clearly.

Eh? You needn't pretend, for my sake, to misunderstand me.

That he could thus misunderstand her set her heart bleeding afresh.

The ladies move to us, in return, with a winning graciousness of gesture: all smile on each side in a way that nobody could misunderstand, and that nothing short of a grand national sympathy could so instantaneously prompt.

It asserted the law in a manner which offended no one; and it made a precedent for placing the spirit of statesmanship above the letter of the law, and for forbearing to put forth in its full strength the prerogatives whose character was not fully understood by those who might be affected by them, and also could plead that Parliament itself had contributed to lead them to misunderstand it by its own conduct in never before exerting it.

To understand this as a belittling of his art is to misunderstand the nature of art in general.

"Surely you misunderstand me.

"My dear cousin, I have written you very frankly, but I trust you will not misunderstand me as having any personal reproaches to make for the part you have taken in the matter.

Do not misunderstand me as disparaging or disregarding the labors and ingenious modifications of others in various countries employed in the same field of invention.

The empiricists hold to the result, while they either weaken or completely misunderstand the rationalism of the method: the a priori factor, says Fries, was not reached by a priori, but by a posteriori, means, and there is no other way by which it could have been reached.

" They strangely misunderstand and grossly misrepresent this doctrine, who charge upon it the absurdities and mischiefs which any "levelling system" cannot but produce.

"Why do you" "Do not misunderstand me.

You, gentlemen, doubtless intended to be clear and explicit, and yet, without further explanation, I fear I may misunderstand your meaning, for if by my executing that treaty you mean that I should make it (in a more particular and immediate manner than it now is) the act of Government, then it follows that I am to ratify it.

She knows that Sholto and I have been intimate since we were children; and there is something odious in her, of all people, pretending to misunderstand us.

I have to learn all the names of all the countries that misunderstand the All-Highest."

Don't misunderstand me again.

Oh, Grizel, my love, how could you misunderstand me so!

By a similar allusion, which, however, the Jews chose wilfully to misunderstand, Christ declared, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up."

But she did not, and Gotzkowsky said to himself, in the bitterness of his heart, "Why should I speak to her?she would only misunderstand me.

He," she declared, "will not misunderstand you.