Mistaking

Examples

• A brougham was coming down it, and there could be no mistaking those gray horses. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• He had hinted, beyond the possibility of mistaking him, that he suspected her of being the thief. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• But anyone who makes the tariff the principal concern of statecraft is, I believe, mistaking the hedge for the house. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• There was no mistaking the expression on her face. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The merely practical man loses much by not knowing the backgrou nd of his activities; the mere theorist fails by mistaking the shadow for the substance. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• But there was no mistaking it now. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• They came back, walking separate, as grave as grave could be, and looking straight away from each other in a manner which there was no mistaking. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• His dress was slightly improved, and he wore boots; but there was no mistaking him. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• There was no mistaking this simplicity, and Will was won by it into frankness. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• There was no mistaking the change that passed over the villain's face. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Mr. Ablewhite, I have either expressed myself very badly, or you are purposely mistaking me. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• There was no mistaking it as an article of dress. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• It is what Bernard Shaw calls the reformer's habit of mistaking his private emotions for a public movement. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• There's no mistaking that fluffy ash upon your coat. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Don't be angry with me, Marian, she said, mistaking my silence. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.

Edited by Dorothy