mistook

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Examples of mistook

  • However, they mistook a limited portion of the juridical resources of each community to be the entire, immutable code.

  • Some mistook the word for holiday, fellowship or membership.

  • If a physician mistook a syphilitic chancre for a smallpox pustule, he might extract material that, when injected into a patient, would infect him with the deadly venereal disease.

  • First, males sometimes apparently mistook newly-emerging males for females and would attempt copulation with the just-emerged male, who would show his refusal by kicking at the male behind him.

  • They mistook a non-person for a person.

  • In this they mistook their king.

  • He also mistook my noble friend's name in a letter that he very kindly wrote to me.

  • He would be making a major miscalculation if he mistook our reluctance to use force for a lack of determination to use it if necessary.

  • They would include those who, perhaps, mistook their first choice of career, or whose career prospects have been damaged by economic or technical change.

  • The tragedy of 1945 was that we mistook the military victory for the end of the battle.

  • But where he mistook the point is that we have the highest rate of marginal tax, which is quite a different story.

  • In the course of answering, he entirely mistook its purpose.

  • I suggest that this afternoon he mistook criticism for what should have been confession.

  • With characteristic pettiness, he mistook courtesy for weakness.

  • Yes, mistook it, because it is intended only to prevent an employee of the club from playing.

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