"Mistaken" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... on. Captain Worse is going away. Martha says so, but I think she must be mistaken. What is ...
— Skipper Worse • Alexander Lange Kielland
... the recovery of her property would give her peace of mind, she soon discovered how grievously she was mistaken. ...
— Sparrows - The Story of an Unprotected Girl • Horace W. C. Newte
... on, in no very connected manner; stringing together those remarks which, unless I am mistaken, show how much better an uneducated, clever girl, whose very nature is a quick perception of art, can play the critic, then the pedants who assume ...
— Godolphin, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... July 7th, 1827, on the ship "Comet," from Bordeaux, and soon gathered a congregation. They were members of the so-called "Picpusian Order," or "Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary." Unfortunately, misunderstandings arose, and from a mistaken belief that they were fomenting discord and sedition, the chiefs caused them to be deported to San Pedro, California, in ...
— The Hawaiian Islands • The Department of Foreign Affairs
... grew to months, and still no help came. It was inexplicable to John's honest heart, and suggested the fear that he had been mistaken after all. We can sympathize in this also. Often in our lives we have counted on God's interfering to deliver us from some intolerable sorrow. With ears alert, and our heart throbbing with expectancy, we have lain in our prison-cell ...
— John the Baptist • F. B. Meyer
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