As we neared this new thing, I saw that I had not been mistaken in my first impression.

If it fails it will be because the moon was in the wrong quarter, or the mare was not sufficiently piebald, or the nail was not stolen with sufficient dishonesty, or some mistake of that sort.

The creature was exactly like a wax figure, one of the sort you meet in corridors of cheap museums and for a moment mistake for living beings.

There was no mistake about itsome one was gently tapping with his knuckles on the other side of the door.

"Will he help me, or does he think the work is done when we have learned where Joseph Brant has gone on his work of bloodshed?" I waited for the old soldier to make reply to this demand, and he hesitated so long that I began to fear I had been mistaken as to that which I had supposed was in his mind.

"I guess you've made no mistake on that.

'It's one of those sort of warm days that seem to have got mixed up by mistake with the winter.

"Do you mean to say that someone is courting someone around here?" "Of course, every man may be mistaken at times.

After the flood had subsided, the Great Spirit came to the conclusion that he had made man too large and powerful, and that he would therefore correct the mistake by creating a race of men of smaller size and less strength.

On a previous page I have given extracts from her autobiography which show pretty plainly the mistakes into which Madame Guyon fell at the outset of her Christian career.

He had been sent by mistake to Ship Island, near New Orleans, to join his regiment, and had only at the writing of the letter reached Washington, where the Caribees were expected every day to move to the Peninsula in McClellan's new campaign.

But I believe these good people make their mistake from forgetting this; that if the murderer be made in God's image and likeness, so is the man whom he murders; and so also is the jury who convict him, the judge who condemns him, and the nation (the society of men) for whom they act.

" "Well, I should like to know who has a better right to be mistaken than the public, Mr. Dodge.

Meanwhile our train had gone on to Mestre, owing to a mistake between two railway officials, and had to return next day.

It will help to prevent mistakes like this and more generally to make sharp and clear the fundamental relations which exist between demand, supply and price, if we exhibit them pictorially in the form of a diagram.

I think y is omitted by mistake before duelle.

But if in other pursuits also men would select all that was found most sensible from many sources, instead of devoting themselves to one fixed leader, they would err less on the side of arrogance; they would not persist so much in error, and they would make less enormous mistakes through ignorance.

If therefore, my lords, the princes, whose interest is contrary to our own, have been at any time served by honest and wise men, there was a time when our ministers could act only by conjecture, and might be mistaken without a crime.

The priest reciting is not bound to repeat even part of an hour, if he finds out his mistake during the recitation of even a small hour.

"My meaning being clear, no doubt, and there being no mistaking of 'emtheir tails and noses being of that order.

Nowhere is he more impressive than where he forces us to admit that we must all play the chess game of life against an opponent that never makes an error and never fails to count our mistakes against us.

This was "a bad break," but I did not learn of my mistake until next day, when at the Union Club House several gentlemen, among them Lawrence Jerome, inquired "where in the world I had been," and why I had not put in an appearance at Bennett's dinner.

At that time, and, indeed, until the storm burst, few of us had penetration to discern the cloud on the horizon,Colonel Washington, Mr. Franklin, and a few others, perhaps, but certainly not I. It is easy to detect mistakes after the event, and to conduct a campaign on paper, yet few who saw that martial array of troops, with its flying banners and bright uniforms, would have ordered the advance differently.

The executioner was generally forbidden to live within the precincts of the city, unless it was on the grounds where the pillory was situated; and, in some cases, so that he might not be mistaken amongst the people, he was forced to wear a particular coat, either of red or yellow.

No doubt, my picture had been stolen at the fire, or found its way by mistake among the "traps" of other people.