He came to a determination almost at a glance, and seldom erred in his judgment.

" Gifford was looking at her with some curiosity during her speech, and quickly came to the conclusion that Kelson's description of her had certainly not erred on the side of exaggeration.

But he perpetually errs by being too deep or too shallow for the matter in hand, and many a school-boy is a better reasoner than he.

The present condition of Europe, which ought to have been foreseen by those governments, exculpates me for having erred through expecting them to see their own interests.

It was but the other day that you wronged them by causing the horse Dahir to be wounded, and thus erred from the path of justice.

Mean time their very grandmothers will acquit us, and reproach them with their self-do, self-have, and as having erred against knowledge, and ventured against manifest appearances.

At the same time,while I do not presume to judge in the case of writers whom I know less fully than I happen to know Wordsworth and his contemporaries,it seems clear that the very greatest men have occasionally erred as to what parts of their writings might, with most advantage, survive; and that they have even more frequently erred as to what MS. letters, etc.,casting light on their contemporariesshould, or should not, be preserved.

hath your husband erred With other woman? Young Peasant.

When he erred, he erred like a child, not coldly and unscrupulously, but carried away by intensity of desire.

He cannot err before judgment, and then you see it, only writs of error are the tariers that keep his client undoing somewhat the longer.

Lewis saw, in his obstinacy, the unbounded ambition of the man; and as the barons insisted that the money due by treaty should be at their disposal, not at Henry's, he also saw, and probably with regret, the low condition to which this monarch, who had more erred from weakness than from any bad intention, was reduced by the turbulence of his own subjects.

Presently he said: 'Yet the eye of the King's axeman might err at the moment of his stroke or his arm fail him, and the eye of Welleran hath never erred nor his arm failed.

Although formed of the same substance, influenced by the same selfishness, and governed by the same passions, in nothing do men oftener err than in this portion of the exercise of their intellects.

So that practising thus (within certain rule and compass), we cannot err without great patterns, and mighty patrons.

Tradition may err about dates, details, and names.