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    1. "Things you won't make the mistake of telling me," she said


    2. Even constructive criticism can sting when it is delivered at the wrong moment, for example immediately after the mistake


    3. It is always a mistake to do that, she thought,


    4. ‘She was a mistake


    5. Maybe that was his mistake


    6. ‘He made the big mistake of implying that she worked as a waitress …


    7. It occurred to me that even if I could summon the strength to stand then the act of urinating in complete darkness would probably be a mistake


    8. I pulled my feet into my body, a simple nervous reaction, and in doing so realised that I was making a big mistake


    9. Why me? What did they want? Didn’t they realise I was Lebanese? Why were they holding me when they’d made such a simple, basic mistake? Did my parents know where I was? Didn’t they know that they could trust me, that I wouldn’t say a word?


    10. I relate this to Amy when I phone her for our usual catch up call, which is a mistake as I rapidly discover

    11. He wondered if he had made a mistake talking about that


    12. That's the main reason I believe leaving is a mistake


    13. That is one mistake that most couples make


    14. It was a mistake


    15. Yet, if you burn the clothes by mistake, you will soon feel sad and confused because of rivalry in love


    16. We mistake what repentance is by our if-then statements


    17. Okay, I made a mistake dating Erick, but as Mom says, any man could have done what he did


    18. Poor Samantha made that mistake in coming to you for justice


    19. mistake me, in my withered state,


    20. I staggered and to save myself from falling, shot a hand inside a thorny bush by mistake

    21. They were also yelling at her and abusing my mother on the phone, telling her what a mistake it was and what a mistake I was in so many words


    22. make the mistake of putting just anything into your profile header since this will leave you with responses to your online dating ad that you don’t want


    23. These are the small things that might catch you in making a big mistake with


    24. For a while, it looked like we'd miscalculated and made a huge mistake but we decided on one last effort even if it meant having to split up and to be safe we'd stick to the beach area


    25. Big mistake, (he chuckled), for you see it was the females of this species that evolved first; it was the females that understood what the Scathers were


    26. One of my girls makes a mistake in an important document during the afternoon and I snap her head off publicly … this is not normal for me, and I can see that people are commenting which makes it all worse than ever


    27. By the time they realized their mistake it was too late


    28. But it was then that I made the second mistake of my life


    29. I had to pay for the second mistake of my life


    30. One made the mistake of grabbing Mistress Sera by the arm and swinging her around

    31. Of course, I didn't know I had made a mistake then


    32. I once made the mistake of not breaking the connection


    33. realized my mistake, broke the connection, and she


    34. God could not make a mistake in anything it does, even if it tried


    35. this was a mistake


    36. It was a mile or so later when he realised his mistake


    37. As Alex turns to walk out of the club, Stevie starts to follow him and then realises that this would be a mistake


    38. It had been a bloody stupid mistake on his part to think that Tracey wouldn’t have reported the credit card missing … especially after he’d abandoned her like that


    39. A couple of happy shoppers mistake him for a tramp in someone's cast-offs, a missing person in a dead man's suit


    40. Was he making the same mistake Jorma was and thinking she had Tdeshi’s memories at her disposal? There was no one she knew, not the least babe of the poorest single peasant she’d ever met in the deepest countryside of this world, who grew up as poor as she did

    41. One mistake, either way, and the last thing that he and Helen taste will be cold, hard grit


    42. That was the biggest mistake I would ever make


    43. I made the mistake of suggesting that we ought to live together so I could look after him once … I won’t make that mistake again


    44. it would be a mistake, because we


    45. “We all know that now, but I would never be here if it wasn’t for that mistake


    46. It was a mistake, but they happen


    47. think it would be a mistake to limit your suspicions to those


    48. that he might have made a mistake in arresting the old


    49. Reynard made the mistake of trying to reach into his


    50. ‘It’s all water under the bridge – a mistake that












































    1. Carpenter ants are often mistaken for termites


    2. ‘I always assumed that they were mistaken


    3. He had been under the mistaken impression Tahlmute had the crate ready to load and go, not back in dead storage under a dozen decades build-up


    4. They were not mistaken in terms


    5. I think I heard her apologise for her bad manners later on, but I might be mistaken


    6. But you are mistaken


    7. " I can't mistaken that voice, "You just don't know how good it is to hear your voice, Nathan


    8. It couldn't be mistaken


    9. If I am not mistaken, you are one of our brethren from the south


    10. Following a polite if sparse cremation service held in the clean but anonymous halls of blonde wood and magnolia paint at the local crematorium, and with the memory of the pastor’s mistaken belief that his wife’s name was Aileen twitching behind his eyes, Ken carried out Eileen’s last wish, which was to have her ashes scattered on the garlic beds

    11. We have mistaken your kingdom with another


    12. the pastor’s mistaken belief that his wife’s name was Aileen


    13. There are so many mistaken truths and outright lies about the Indians that prompt that wannabe phenomena


    14. fenced camp Tom had once mistaken for an Army base


    15. fenced-in base close to the causeway which Tom had mistaken for an


    16. box made of that curious material he had originally mistaken for


    17. “It appears that they were working on the – mistaken


    18. He was mistaken


    19. “I had hoped that it wouldn’t be necessary for me to explain that one does not talk during class hours, but clearly I was mistaken! You can finish your conversation at lunchtime!” Mrs


    20. It could’ve been mistaken as a scene for an old play, or a Curriers and Ives plate

    21. “Sir, if I am not mistaken, these buildings are cousins of each other


    22. are mistaken in this matter) – there is no reason for you


    23. But I was mistaken


    24. "If you think knowing more about me will lead you to Alan, you're mistaken," she said


    25. But the writers who have collected the prices of corn in ancient times seem frequently to have mistaken what is called in Scotland the conversion price for the actual market price


    26. ensure that he wasn’t mistaken for game - and found


    27. At first he thought he was mistaken


    28. mistaken me for the chap who draws the chalk-lines


    29. Those statesmen who have been disposed to favour it with particular encouragement, seem to have mistaken the effect and symptom for the cause


    30. When she’d slipped into his bed last night he’d clearly mistaken her for Xonia, and that hurt! She felt devastated

    31. “Once more, you’re sadly mistaken, my dear


    32. We are also subject to the mind’s negative bias and its mistaken beliefs about how to find happiness


    33. Or he could be mistaken for a mime artist 'leaning into the wind'


    34. Correct me if I am wrong, Mr Wanting, but am I mistaken in remembering that your assessment was interrupted?"


    35. Should the custom of weighing gold, however, come to be disused, as it is very likely to be on account of its inconveniency ; should the gold coin of England come to be received by tale, as it was before the late recoinage this great company may, perhaps, find that they have, upon this, as upon some other occasions, mistaken their own interest not a little


    36. The mistaken beliefs that we are limited to our material minds and bodies, and that happiness comes only from what happens to us, are deeply ingrained


    37. As we “go about our business,” everything we do, and everything that we think, reflects these mistaken beliefs


    38. We thirst for and seek out sense pleasures, in the mistaken belief that they will give us happiness, or as a substitute for the happiness that is out of reach for us


    39. “It’s the Castro Library, lady, if I’m not mistaken,” he abruptly said to her


    40. In the great landed estates, which the mistaken piety both of princes and private persons had bestowed upon the church, jurisdictions were established, of the same kind with those of the great barons, and for the same reason

    41. The Jews, on the other hand, reject this notion and they feel that Christians are mistaken in believing that Jesus is Israel’s Messiah and that passages in the Old Testament actually refer to Israel itself, whereas Christians would see those as references to Jesus Christ


    42. How could she have been so mistaken about him? Pa-


    43. It was the first thing he looked at as he entered the steeple room, and unless he was mistaken the eyes briefly turned to him, maybe seeing him in


    44. I do believe he was mistaken in his „For Whom the Bell Tolls," where he stated that the death of any man diminishes him


    45. Gardner was a clueless gardener who was mistaken for a Washington eminence


    46. He stared at Alexia’s blood-soaked body, trying to believe that it was all a dream, that somehow he was mistaken and he would see her tomorrow at lunch as usual


    47. But he was mistaken


    48. It was unlined and he had the speed and strength of youth, but he was too experienced at too many things to be mistaken for a young man


    49. Is it a question of mistaken identity that the nineteenth-century Populist has suddenly transformed himself into a twentieth-century Conservative? Not in every case, perhaps, although I am firmly convinced however, that provided a ―proper‖ education, William Jennings Bryan would have been a reliable advocate of socially conservative principles were he living today


    50. “If you think you’ll sneak up on us, you’re mistaken







































    1. She always did that when I made mistakes


    2. We should not commit the same mistakes while dealing with children and grand children in our present age


    3. "We all make mistakes but sending me off in your coach is not one of them


    4. We all commit mistakes but God only wants us to learn from our ‘mistakes


    5. they are; repent for our mistakes on the spot; and ALWAYS, ALWAYS,


    6. According to the state pathologist there were no mistakes here


    7. One of the common mistakes many preachers make in beginning with a


    8. But then, when you got a handle on things you realised that we were all mistakes


    9. had a PBS show said there were no such thing as mistakes or


    10. And, of course, he learned by his past mistakes and profited greatly from his now well-proportioned good looks

    11. We humans have made so many arrogant mistakes


    12. However, there are some mistakes a man can make when giving his


    13. Were they doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past; or had they learned something from almost becoming extinct as a race


    14. that's how mistakes are made, and so, at last, she set off for


    15. He added, '1 made the same mistakes, wanting to kill myself for the game I


    16. And, of course, he learned by his past mistakes and profited


    17. It is more wrong not to admit mistakes and correct them,” Righli finished for him


    18. Mistakes he had made, things that he had done that couldn't be undone


    19. A stand off, and the boys from the North are making basic mistakes


    20. But still, even under the close scrutiny of the Death Guards, mistakes were made – the Plague found its way into the city, scattered outbreaks flared up

    21. So many times we see each generation making the same mistakes as the fathers, but our ceiling should be the next generations floor


    22. mistakes and give yourself grace


    23. Mistakes have been made along this prophetic journey, and


    24. brother would hopefully want to overlook mistakes and restore


    25. out, make mistakes and be loved


    26. ourselves firstly) not to fall again in the mistakes, but to


    27. mistakes provoked all kind of schisms, ending with all


    28. “You mean the flat end? That’s for rubbing out mistakes


    29. all his mistakes, and there were a lot, we must


    30. monument of catastrophic mistakes

    31. The cause of many mistakes is the lack of some correct


    32. In the process, all my mistakes would be corrected and replaced with more gratifying stuff


    33. Associating the ultimate goal to your daily acts will help you avoid serious mistakes


    34. steps as they did, you can get the general gist and shortcut the mistakes


    35. If she had taken the time to really think about her situation in that fort, being widely outnumbered and outmatched in pure brawn, it might have made her sloppy and prone to mistakes that could easily have gotten her killed


    36. I’m sorry to say that I’ve made a lot of misjudgments, bad decisions, and mistakes in general


    37. “Ah, my good man, there are no mistakes in life


    38. Every attempt has been made to ensure that the information provided within this ebook is accurate however, we are human and sometimes we make mistakes therefore we cannot assume responsibility for any inaccuracies within this document


    39. Yet what was the point of going over mistakes and miscalculations? He said only, ‘We have to repeat the process, don’t we?’


    40. One can choose to rely on people’s philosophical interpretations of what they saw around them, which we know is subject to human limitations, not only in space-time, but also the human quality of being prone to making mistakes

    41. will perfect those mistakes in us and in those listening


    42. Mistakes with regard to this sometimes ruin the custom-house officer, and frequently occasion much trouble, expense, and vexation to the importer


    43. They had both made mistakes with suits!


    44. Did you spend the rest of the game making up for some poor strokes early on? The warm up is a chance to make those mistakes before they’re being engraved on a score card


    45. I didn’t want to make the same mistakes with him that my mother did with me


    46. You have to make the mistakes to learn it


    47. It was as if they had no regard for the mistakes of history


    48. She remembered his dark eyes and their sincerity, his broad smile as they spoke, and the way he laughed when they made mistakes in rehearsals


    49. without any glossing over because in sales as in other areas of life we should learn from our mistakes


    50. My mistakes taught me how to














































    1. There was no mistaking the


    2. mistaking the Knight's interest


    3. It took awhile before she understood that he was mistaking a syllable for a letter


    4. no mistaking the hatred in his eyes – the man seemed


    5. mistaking that the man was genuinely terrified for his wife


    6. reassuring – mistaking the cause of her concern


    7. there was no mistaking the challenge behind them as


    8. There was no mistaking the underlying


    9. there was no mistaking it – the choir was singing two


    10. There was no mistaking his nature,

    11. there was no mistaking where Heather obtained her beauty


    12. There was no mistaking the ill-


    13. offering, but there was no mistaking that the efforts of the


    14. Even in the caricature of native cold-weather costume that he was dressed in, there was no mistaking the machine that had pretended to be his father thru his childhood


    15. There could be no mistaking the glut of stolen goods, equipment and as it turned out enslaved peoples from the majority of the closest systems and beyond


    16. The pupils - and there was no mistaking this - twisted around in their


    17. No mistaking it was Johan, trying to use sign language since that was the only safe method of communication


    18. There was no mistaking their destination, the Kingarin Forest, where they would attempt to recruit Dremelden Immortals


    19. ” Mistaking the action, Raga threw up his pistol and shot Ord through the head


    20. There could be no mistaking the cats intentions

    21. spiritual and intuitive limitations, ―understanding‖ what seems ―apparent‖ however mistaking its essential elements that remain hidden from (us) although existing within (us)………


    22. He realized this lady was mistaking him for Clarence


    23. "Oy, watch out yer bleedin' stupid bugger!" There was no mistaking the voice issuing from the dark shadowy opening


    24. There was no mistaking the driver’s intention this time


    25. “Are you one of those transvesters…?” The woman uttered, mistaking the


    26. ” His mother criticized, mistaking his painful tears


    27. We were mistaking when we thought that witches could never predict anything in relation to us and we were mistaking when we thought that we could handle by ourselves anything that comes our way


    28. Isis: They are mistaking


    29. There was no mistaking my own face tattooed on his back, for a moment I blinked thinking my eyes were deceiving me


    30. One can be forgiven for mistaking the soldier caste for another species when comparing a soldier with a worker

    31. I also mowed the lawn, often mistaking her strawberries (too damn close to the house!) for weeds and cutting them, too


    32. There was no mistaking it


    33. mistaking some of the things we’ve done as ‘progressive’, it is


    34. Mistaking her stiffness for hurt rather than anger, Trask went over and put a sympathetic hand on her shoulder


    35. Mistaking my actions for alarm, Sarah went on


    36. Bryony blinked, but there could be no mistaking the beautiful features that looked down at her from the heavens


    37. Besides, with an all knowing air, the banker was wont to aver that mistaking ripples for the waves would only lead to the lowering of the standards


    38. There was no mistaking that tall brown figure with its springy step


    39. There was no mistaking its great antiquity


    40. There’s no mistaking the huddle of ancient shapes that emerged suddenly on the horizon

    41. Mistaking his accent, the locals


    42. mistaking Liz for my Mom? Liz says that sometimes she's not clear what role I


    43. But by the fifth day the symptoms were so unique there was no mistaking it for something else


    44. She heard the sound again, but this time there was no mistaking the source


    45. you’re mistaking me with another kitty


    46. Quietly, he said, “Come with me,” but there was no mistaking his authority


    47. This time there was no mistaking it for imagination or dream and it came from the far side of the house where Nicholas's studio was situated


    48. There is no mistaking that the tree of knowledge of


    49. There could be no mistaking her for anyone other than the woman in


    50. � While small in comparison with adult Global Council citizens, there was no mistaking her for a young teenager, as she had a very feminine, well developed body










































    1. No-one that knew her mistook this for either weakness or friendliness


    2. Most were the undead – which were spiritually drained the moment they mistook him for a snack


    3. Her wide brown eyes a mix of compassion, sadness, and something that Alec might have mistook for love


    4. It was worth it though just to see Nobby Clark’s jaw hit the deck if it had gotten any wider the train might have mistook it for a tunnel


    5. Apparently he mistook her breathless state as an indication of passion


    6. ‘You mistook pity for a genuine need as if I needed you then, but of course it had been the reverse


    7. Proving that bigots do not have the best grasp of other cultures, they also imprisoned many people they mistook for Germans and Austro-Hungarians: Greeks, Dutch, French, Belgians, Ukrainians, Polish, Serbs, and Italians


    8. Yes, off-worlders have roamed about your world, filling it with with their junk, which you Curators then mistook for important


    9. I once mistook them as Akito's junk collection and I was subjected to a three hour lecture about the importance of every one


    10. HIM REALIZE HOW HE MISTOOK OF HIM BEING COMPLETE

    11. He told Correlli about how Shawn's untrained eye mistook the holed hull of the M113 command vehicle for a bus and the VC in the open as the passengers


    12. Unbeknownst to our acquaintance, Rapsar’s spirit had entered her body when she had visited the peak, and she mistook his memories as her own from another lifetime


    13. He dropped his eyes, and she mistook it as a reference to her waistline


    14. In ‘The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat,’ Oliver Sacks wrote about the twins who amused themselves for hours trading six-digit prime numbers — although they were incapable of performing even simple multiplication


    15. The king mistook him to be a deer and shot Shravan with his arrow


    16. When in the end, they joined the queue to the sanctum sanctorum, the devotees around mistook them for newly weds


    17. She beheld in the Master's face the countenance of an upright and holy man, but she mistook friendliness for commonplace familiarity, and she misinterpreted his figure of speech as a form of making advances to her


    18. A passing hunter mistook his feet for the ears of a deer and killed him with a single arrow


    19. This spirit was bestowed for the purpose of qualifying believers more effectively to preach the gospel of the kingdom, but they mistook the experience of receiving the outpoured spirit for a part of the new gospel which they were unconsciously formulating


    20. Now how in the world can the clap be mistook for being pregnant?

    21. mistook it for nerves


    22. He had called the police for protection, but some of the black men taking refuge there mistook them for the mob and shot at them


    23. Strangely, they mistook me (Jody Wilson) for my mother


    24. I suspect that because of his brilliance and accuracy on the map, that the other side, the active, paid for, counter intelligence of the corporatocracy has hassled him endlessly and that he mistook me for one of them


    25. the mountain that the disciples mistook for Moses and


    26. They of course, mistook him for a lost hunter


    27. We’d find out later that Clydie mistook a red light on a third floor whore house on 11th Avenue


    28. Knowlan at first mistook him for a tumbleman, a man who’d fallen so low from his station in life that all he possessed were breeches, tunic, and perhaps a stolen tool


    29. Hence, the umma mistook the bravado of Saddam Hussein, in leading up to the fiasco of the ‘Mother of All Battles’, for the bravery of Saladin at the Horns of Hattin


    30. That is, it denied the truth and mistook the way of its happiness as it mistook the right way which leads to its advantage and its real life

    31. Herne mistook her shivering for the cold, “Come inside,” he said quickly,


    32. The meaning is that it denied the truth and mistook the way of its happiness, just as it mistook the right way which would lead to its advantage and its real life


    33. The Moslem scholars and the Christian ones mistook the Hour of the returning of the Messiah Master (cpth) for the Hour of resurrection


    34. Darkside hatred and righteous indignation welled up to overflow in screams of agony which the audience mistook as a spiritual sign from heaven


    35. He mistook the action and bent down and kissed it


    36. Segall mistook the man's restraint to be a form of approval


    37. he would have missed them altogether, or mistook


    38. Though he claimed he mistook her for a burglar


    39. The reader, however, was not to suppose they were his last word or final effort in the drama, for he had in hand a comedy called "Engano a los ojos," about which, if he mistook not, there would be no question


    40. And, in this upshot, purposes mistook

    41. She meant it kindly, but Amy mistook her meaning, and said quickly


    42. gentleness he mistook for coy encouragement; and he would not be diverted


    43. He mistook it for


    44. She mistook this to mean he


    45. I mistook her for an au pair


    46. At instants of momentary wakefulness he mistook a bush for his associate sentinel; his head next sank upon his shoulder, which, in its turn, sought the support of the ground; and, finally, his whole person became relaxed and pliant, and the young man sank into a deep sleep, dreaming that he was a knight of ancient chivalry, holding his midnight vigils before the tent of a recaptured princess, whose favor he did not despair of gaining, by such a proof of devotion and watchfulness


    47. Conseil, whom I hadn't alerted, mistook it at first for a gigantic sea snake and was gearing up to classify it in his best manner


    48. For several minutes they mistook the form of David for that of the prisoner; but the very accident which Hawkeye had foreseen occurred


    49. What I know is, that, like a fool, a greater fool than he of whom I spoke just now, I mistook for this peasant girl a young bandit of fifteen or sixteen, with a beardless chin and slim waist, and who, just as I was about to imprint a chaste salute on his lips, placed a pistol to my head, and, aided by seven or eight others, led, or rather dragged me, to the Catacombs of St


    50. He thought himself strong enough, for he mistook fever for energy



















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    Synonyms for "mistake"

    error fault mistake misapprehension misunderstanding err slip misidentify aberration misconception delusion misinterpretation perplexity bewilderment blunder erratum inaccuracy oversight misprint overlook confound trip misapprehend misconceive

    "mistake" definitions

    a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention


    an understanding of something that is not correct


    part of a statement that is not correct


    identify incorrectly


    to make a mistake or be incorrect