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.
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