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Sentences ending with mistake

I don't want you to make a mistake, Hugh, too great a mistake. [9]
But the philosopher will make no such mistake. [4]
I know exactly what to say, and we mustn't make any mistake. [11]
On the whole, we say that people get shaken into their right places, and the predetermined vocation is often a mistake. [4]
All day I walked towards the far end of a prodigious hall of the office, hoping to come out into heaven any moment, but it was a mistake. [5]
That is in truth all it was, just a mistake. [5]
I was going to stuff one of them for my collection, but she is prejudiced against it for some reason or other; so I have relinquished the idea, though I think it is a mistake. [5]
You ought never to have married me,--it was all a terrible mistake. [9]
And when, some time after, he bade Ruth good-bye, as she went with her father, it came to him with appalling conviction that his life had been a mistake. [11]
That is, she thought she knew her Jean Jacques after living with him for over thirteen years; but hers was a very common mistake. [11]

Short sentences using mistake

He had made that mistake. [9]
Yes, there was no mistake. [11]
Is there no mistake? [12]
There is some mistake? [11]
This was a mistake. [5]
This is a mistake. [5]
It was a mistake. [5]
It is a mistake. [5]
It's a great mistake. [4]
There is no mistake. [11]

Sentences containing mistake two or more times

How was she to know that she had made a mistake, if mistake it was? [4]
Your mistake is, that you didn't bring a man with you; that's one mistake, and the other is that you didn't come in the dark and fetch your masks. [5]
But you, you might have made a mistake where Rudyard was concerned, made the mistake once, but if you wronged him, you wronged me infinitely more. [11]
I thought I could weather it through, and so I could have done, if it hadn't been for a mistake and an accident; but the mistake was mine. [11]
Felix Marchand's profiting by a mistake of mine--a mistake in policy. [11]
My mistake had been in marrying Maude instead of Nancy--a mistake largely due to my saturation with a false idea of life. [9]
Even though it be a political mistake, and a thousand times a political mistake, that does not affect it; it is honorable always honorable, always noble--and privileged to hold its head up and look the nations in the face. [5]

More example sentences with the word mistake in them

If he liked you, there could be no mistake about it. [9]
I hope that you will think nothing of the--the mistake at the gate. [9]
And yet, once you start a mistake, the trouble is done and you never know what is going to come of it. [5]
Well, how can you mistake that insect for dried leaves? [6]
As for style, you can't mistake a man who is dressed in New York. [4]
Submit to what you cannot avert; just as I never complain when, if I make a mistake in reading, she snatches the book from my hand, or flings it at my feet. [10]
Seeing that it would be a mistake to arrest Marchand at that moment, he raised the struggling figure of the wrecker above his head and, with Herculean effort, threw him up over the heads of the Frenchmen in front of him. [11]
He stared, and wondered, and finally said-- 'Well, I thought I knew how to steer a steamboat, but that was another mistake of mine. [5]
It is no wonder that people constantly go into their neighbors' houses by mistake, just as, in spite of the Maine law, they wear away each other's hats from an evening party. [4]
The young fellow whom I have so often mentioned was a little free in his remarks, but very good-natured.--Sorry to have you go,--he said.--School-ma'am made a mistake not to wait for me. [6]
And another thing, when I make a mistake in Hadleyburg nature the man that puts that error upon me is entitled to a high honorarium, and some one must pay. [5]
The mistake came when he introduced another genius into the intracacies of his daily life. [5]
By mistake we were taken to see the new palace instead, and we used up the last remnant of our spare time there. [5]
Yet on I went, though wondering that the path along which I groped my way led upward, until the lightning showed me that, by mistake, I had taken the road to Greifenstein. [10]
I remember very well when it was common for people to mistake Bixby for your grandson. [5]
His one desire was to know what was happening and at any cost correct, or remedy, the mistake if he had made one, so that he, an exemplary officer of twenty-two years' service, who had never been censured, should not be held to blame. [2]
Whatever mistake he was thought to have committed was condoned by amicable treatment, neutralized by the virtual indorsement of the government in the instructions of the 25th of September, and obsolete as a ground of quarrel by lapse of time. [6]
If Mr. Vallandigham was not damaging the military power of the country, then his arrest was made on mistake of fact, which I would be glad to correct on reasonably satisfactory evidence. [7]
By mistake it was left at my house by M'sieu' Dolores. [11]
Even if it was a mistake for Ingolby to take away the offices from Manitou, he's done a big thing for both cities by combining the three railways. [11]
The little old volume,--he can't mistake it. [6]
That is the very mistake which was at first made in the Missourian village half a century ago. [5]
The eruption is usually about two or three weeks distant; and the hotel proprietors get this information from experienced guides, who observe the action of the water in the wells; so that there can be no mistake about it. [4]
There is an unusually fine railway station; so large is it, in fact, that it seemed somewhat overdone, in the matter of size, at first; but at the end of a few months it was perceived that the mistake was distinctly the other way. [5]
She read it twice before the full meaning of it came to her, and after that she could not well mistake it,--the language being so admirable in every way. [9]
At night he turned to the chain-man to ascertain what distance they had come, and found that by some mistake he had merely dragged the chain over the ground, without keeping any record. [7]
Was this a trial of his constancy and faith, or had he made a mistake, entered upon a slavish career, from which he ought to extricate himself at any cost of the world's opinion? [4]
It was the tragedy of the man stopped in his course because of one mistake, though he had done ten thousand wise things. [11]
Now we are told by the most accomplished English essayists that this is a mistake, that it is change, but no progress. [4]
I've seen enough to show me where my mistake was. [5]
If you choose to risk yourself on 'possibilities,' it is not my affair, and she's a beauty, there's no mistake about that. [6]
Sally had tried to make up to him once, by letter, in a bygone time, and had not made that mistake again. [5]
Sometimes he ventured to hope that he had made a mistake in estimating the direction which the vein should naturally take after crossing the valley and entering the hill. [5]
It had seemed to him then that his own mistake was not irreparable, and that the way was open to peace, if not to happiness. [11]
The Scientist hastened to Concord and told Mrs. Eddy what a disastrous mistake had been made, but he found to his bewilderment that she was tranquil about it, and was not proposing to correct it. [5]
Bennigsen loudly criticized this mistake, saying that it was madness to leave a height which commanded the country around unoccupied and to place troops below it. [2]
And then the thing'll be fixed all right, and no mistake. [9]
That's where the thing nips--the mistake was mine. [11]
Someone must go: there must be no mistake. [11]
In order that there may be no mistake about it, I have copied the interrogatories in writing, and also my answers to them. [7]
He went for the wrong tree, which was, of course, the right one by mistake, and up he started. [5]
It is always the way with lynchings: when they find out it is a mistake they are sorry, but it is too late--the same as it was with Mr. Holmes, you see. [5]
The dismissal of the teacher, indeed, was put down to a regrettable misconception on the part of "one of the prudential committee," who had confessed his mistake in "a manly and altogether praiseworthy speech. [9]
Kutuzov's expectations that the proposals of capitulation (which were in no way binding) might give time for part of the transport to pass, and also that Murat's mistake would very soon be discovered, proved correct. [2]
But not for the other Tower; it was a mistake. [5]
Besides, it attracted the new head-master's attention to my poetical tastes, for a number of verses had been left by mistake in an exercise-book. [10]
He only notices the mistake to which he pays attention, because his opponent took advantage of it. [2]
But they made the mistake of waiting to hear what he had to say first. [5]
I mean, is the man so well-known to you that no mistake is possible? [10]
Some believed that the higher you build your levee, the higher the river's bottom will rise; and that consequently the levee system is a mistake. [5]
He browsed around the cupboard after essence-of peppermint, and didn't make a mistake and drink aqua fortis. [5]
Will you, while the certain ills you fly to are greater than all the real ones you fly from--will you risk the commission of so fearful a mistake? [7]
Oh, this is the boss dodge, ther' ain't no mistake 'bout it. [5]
It is true that young men too often mistake civil politeness for the finer emotions of the heart, which is tantamount to courtship; but, ah! [5]
Let us admit that we have made a mistake. [4]
Why is it that to do the right thing is often to make the mistake of a life? [4]
Do not mistake that the ballot is stronger than the bullet. [7]
It is possible that our constellations have been so constructed as to be invisible through smoked glass; if this is so it is a great mistake. [5]
Their mistake is that of all peoples who have made money their first object. [4]
She also knew that neither her father nor her brother would refuse to help the peasants in need, she only feared to make some mistake in speaking about the distribution of the grain she wished to give. [2]
The subject of that letter is exceedingly painful to me, and I cannot but think there is some mistake in your impression of the motives of the old men. [7]
I told him that in theory a dry battery was just a curled darling and no mistake, but when it come to practice, sho!--and here's the result. [5]
He felt instantly that he had made a mistake, had been cruel, though he had not intended it. [11]
It was evident that he had long been convinced that it was impossible for him to make a mistake, and that in his perception whatever he did was right, not because it harmonized with any idea of right and wrong, but because he did it. [2]
It seems curious that Canton should make a second mistake and refuse it again, but publishers were wary in those days, and even the newspaper success of the Frog story did not tempt him to venture it as the title tale of a book. [5]
I wish to thank you, and to apologize for any hasty expressions I may have dropped by mistake, and I would it were possible to convince you that I am neither a maniac nor an embezzler. [9]
I had been telling his life history by mistake. [5]
He is a teetotaler, and was elected through a mistake. [5]
I am no teacher; to look on me in that light is to mistake me. [14]
I have no sympathy with those who, living out their dreams, turn regretfully to another course or another aim, and wonder-wonder, if a mistake hasn't been made. [11]
They had been surprised, mystified; it was not what they had expected; there must be some mistake. [8]
I am not sure but the notion is growing in what is called the intellectual class, that it is a mistake to intrust the government to the ignorant many, and that it can only be lodged safely in the hands of the wise few. [4]
He did not suppose you gave him so much money purposely, so he hurried back to return you the coin lest you might get away before you discovered your mistake. [5]
It was a stately truth, a lofty truth --a Tower; and I think it was a mistake to go on and distract attention from its sublimity by building another Tower alongside of it fourteen times as high. [5]
And now I state it as a fact, to be taken back if there is any mistake about it, that Judge Douglas and those acting with him voted that amendment down. [7]
So the dervish starts along again, and says: "All right, if you want to take the risk; but I reckon you've made a mistake this time, and missed a chance. [5]
The train had started but a short time when the conductor came in and said that there had been a mistake made, and asked that we vacate the apartment. [5]
Then a man spoke from the crowd, and said that while he was very sorry that the mistake had been made, it would not be possible to rectify it at the present meeting. [5]
There is no sort of mistake about it, it is the Big Bonanza. [5]
Well, it was something to have seen the mistake at last. [11]
There evidently was some trick, some strange mistake, about the Morgue and the burial. [11]
Some cruel misunderstanding, some pitiable mistake must have been at work here, and he came upon the right trail speedily enough. [10]
He had made some mistake in detail. [11]
There must be some mistake about Walter Davis saying I promised him the post-office. [7]
Or is there some mistake about our ideal of civilization? [4]
The boom was so high, and everything so ripe, that we saw that it would be a mistake not to strike now, right away, without waiting any longer. [5]
On the contrary, she seems more of a person than she was; she has clearer, saner views of life; she has made her mistake and profited by it. [9]
For long years she had paid the price of her mistake. [11]
It did n't seem much to them to condemn a few thousand millions of people to purgatory or worse for a mistake of judgment. [6]
You make the same mistake in a less degree, when you bend to the popular ignorance and conceit so far as to direct your college education to sordid ends. [4]
Henry Irving once said to Mark Twain: "You made a mistake by not adopting the stage as a profession. [5]
It is a sad thing to mistake friend for enemy. [11]
There is a roof, and there is that woman at Ward's Mistake, and the brats--eh, by and by? [11]
The mistake was repeated and repeated--just as France is doing in these later months. [5]
But in this remark of the Judge there is a significance which I think is the key to the great mistake (if there is any such mistake) which he has made in this Nebraska measure. [7]
He said he reeled toward home late at night; made a mistake and entered the wrong gate; thought he saw a dog on the stoop; and it was--an iron one. [5]
There is no reason why we should suffer all our lives for a mistake. [9]
That is the reason that some clergymen refuse to marry a divorced woman; they see that she has made one electric mistake, and fear she will make another. [4]
Our State Department realises the mistake which we are making, and would like to rectify it, but it has not the power. [5]
Liholiho could have qualified as a reformer, perhaps, but as a king he was a mistake. [5]

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