I see that in some external attributes they resemble me, but when, misled by that appearance, I have thought to appeal to something in common, and unburden my inmost soul to them, I have found my language misunderstood, like one in a distant and savage land.

He accused himself of having misunderstood her.

THE BRIDGE Ef thet's wilt you expect, you'll hev to wait: Folks never understand the folks they hate: She'll fin' some other grievance jest ez good, 'Fore the month's out, to git misunderstood.

And of the multitude, No man but in his hand Holds some great gift misunderstood, Some treasure, for whose use or good

You thus separate yourself entirely from those you have servedno one misunderstands youyou have declared yourself.

Amid the whirl of rout, and ball, and picnic, race-meeting, polo-match, and what-not, Paul Howard Alexis stalked misunderstood, distrusted; an object of ridicule to some, of pity to others, of impatience to all.

But he was made sufficiently acquainted with the contents from friends who had perused it, and who, having made the campaigns with him, could point to praise and blame equally undeserved, to designs misunderstood and misrepresented, as well as to supercilious criticism and patronizing approval, which could not but be painful to the great commander.

"Because of the course I had taken many misunderstood me and thought I was partially insane.

But the mystagogue succeeds because he gets himself misunderstood; although, as a rule, he is not even worth misunderstanding.