Misled

Examples

• Considering the risk that person ran, it's likely enough that Mr. Luker purposely misled you, by previous arrangement between them. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• But the example of Sparta, and perhaps in some degree the tendency to defy public opinion, seems to have misled him. Plato. The Republic.
• His manners, however, must have been unmarked, wavering, dubious, or she could not have been so misled. Jane Austen. Emma.
• In their observations upon the prices of corn, three different circumstances seem frequently to have misled them. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The circumstances have misled you. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I dare not ask you to do what I think right, for I may still be misled by passion. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• If she has fancied otherwise, her own wishes have misled her, and I am very sorryextremely sorryBut, Miss Smith, indeed! Jane Austen. Emma.
• For my own part, I will neither be patronized nor misled for no man's pleasure. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I swear by the Talmud, said the Jew, that your valour has been misled in that matter. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Among insects there are innumerable instances; thus Linnaeus, misled by external appearances, actually classed an homopterous insect as a moth. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• The following very short and plain argument, however, may serve to explain more distinctly the fallacy which seems to have misled those gentlemen. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Hoo were mistook, and I were misled. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• If it be so, if I have been misled by such error to inflict pain on her, your resentment has not been unreasonable. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Upon which, misled no doubt by the word Banker, he directed me to the Bank. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• But I'm not the first man as is misled by a woman. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Why not say, the circumstances have fatally misled me? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• But have we not all been misled about our heroes and changed our opinions a hundred times? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The spectacle of a suspicious nature so far misled by its own inventions, tickled me much. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• I am sure, beforehand, that (with all your experience) the circumstances have fatally misled you in this case. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• It serves to remind us that democracy may be misled by feelings in themselves noble, and may, by grasping what seems good, miss what is best. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• I had purposely misled them, that I might have the pleasure of taking them by surprise. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Everywhere else the mind is distracted and misled by false valuations and false perspectives. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• But I, misled by the action, and confused by the occasion, shook hands with him with every testimony of warm affection. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.

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