Mistaken
in sentence
628 examples of Mistaken in a sentence
He was
mistaken
with regard to the letter; Madame de Renal, under the influence of her friend Madame Derville, was entirely absorbed in her own profound remorse.
'I have left down in my Seminary a poor young man who, if I be not mistaken, is going to be brutally persecuted.
His provincial or English prudery went so far as to detect envy in it, wherein he was certainly
mistaken.
At first, he played with Julien's absurdities, for his own entertainment; soon he found it more interesting to correct, in the gentlest manner, the young man's
mistaken
view of life.
'I was mistaken,' was his next thought; 'this is not familiarity, I am only the listener to a tragic story, it is the need to speak.
'Can I have been
mistaken?
One cannot say that he is lacking in intelligence; he is shrewd and cautious; enthusiasm, poetry are impossible in such a nature: he is calculating; all the more reason why he should not be
mistaken.
He stood in amazement and listened again to establish whether he might not be
mistaken.
"You're
mistaken
about her," said the lawyer, but did nothing more to defend her; perhaps that was his way of indicating that she did not need defending.
He may have been mistaken, but thought the office director might well have been among the old gentlemen with the thin beards in the first row.
No a bad point of view, basically, but nothing could be more
mistaken
than to think from that that lawyers are not necessary for the accused in this court.
If a group of them ever thinks they have found something in common it soon turns out they were
mistaken.
That does not show that I'm not.""I wasn't trying to show that you were mistaken," said the lawyer, "but I wanted to add that I expected better judgement from you than from the others, especially as I've given you more insight into the workings of the court and my own activities than I normally do.
That would mean the doorkeeper is not a cheat but so simple-minded that he ought to be dismissed from his job immediately; if the doorkeeper is
mistaken
it will do him no harm but the man will be harmed immensely."
And then, just as I was landing the shirt, I noticed that it was not my shirt at all, but George's, which I had
mistaken
for mine; whereupon the humour of the thing struck me for the first time, and I began to laugh.
Of course their having
mistaken
him for a friend excused it.
"I really beg your pardon," he stammered confusedly, "but I took you for a friend of mine!"Harris thought it was lucky for him the man had not
mistaken
him for a relation, or he would probably have been drowned outright.
His children and sister believed Caesar to have been mistaken, and the evening passed off without any additional alarm.
"Our bargain went no further than to procure my disguise, and to let me know when the coast was clear; and in the latter particular, you were mistaken, Mr. Birch."
"You have
mistaken
an elder sister for the aunt," said Isabella, laying her fair hand on the mouth of the invalid.
His intrepidity was
mistaken
for ferocity; and his hasty zeal, for the natural love of cruelty.
"I have been mistaken, then.
Major Dunwoodie is
mistaken
when he says that I might openly have procured his pardon.
He pointed to the enemy, and assured his countrymen that they had
mistaken
the way.
So you see, Jock, I was not so much to blame, after all: the more so as she promised that she would let you see by her conduct that you were
mistaken
in thinking that you had any claim upon her.
At this meeting she had her full revenge of him; for she told him she wondered what he took her to be, that she should admit any man to a treaty of so much consequence as that to marriage, without inquiring very well into his circumstances; that if he thought she was to be huffed into wedlock, and that she was in the same circumstances which her neighbours might be in, viz. to take up with the first good Christian that came, he was mistaken; that, in a word, his character was really bad, or he was very ill beholden to his neighbours; and that unless he could clear up some points, in which she had justly been prejudiced, she had no more to say to him, but to do herself justice, and give him the satisfaction of knowing that she was not afraid to say No, either to him or any man else.
'The last is certainly the case,' said he.'But you may be mistaken,' said I.'No, no,' says he, 'how can you think so?
'I suppose,' says I, 'you are in no danger of what is to follow?''Nay,' says she, 'for you are
mistaken
there, I assure you, for I am under sentence, only I pleaded my belly, but I am no more with child than the judge that tried me, and I expect to be called down next sessions.'
He looked wistfully at me, and I thought I guessed at what he meant, that is to say, that he had no money; but I was mistaken, his meaning was another way.
It must be observed that when the old wretch my brother (husband) was dead, I then freely gave my husband an account of all that affair, and of this cousin, as I had called him before, being my own son by that
mistaken
unhappy match.
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