We might as well, he said, laugh at our poor ancestors, the ancient Britons, for all their mistakes and follies.
But these negative statements only safeguard against mistakes by telling us what to avoid.
If he confessed him, self-liable, like the rest of us, to mistakes and shortcomings, we must remember that the great officers of the government who decreed his downfall were not less the subjects of human infirmity.
With my turn of mind, and with the preposterous habits which I had been daily acquiring, I could not fail to make as gross mistakes in the pursuit of this as of other branches of knowledge.
You will be indulgent to my mistakes and shortcomings,--and who can expect to avoid them?
I forbear to comment upon mistakes which I was in time wise enough to retrieve.
Like men who were fighting for their lives but who were cool in danger, they made no mistakes in reloading their rifles.
A few years more of mistakes and losses, Hope, and you'll make quite a farmer," he condescended to acknowledge.
Such mistakes would not occur if the telegraphists were better paid.
Sometimes these mistakes assumed a more serious character, but if she was found out in any of them she merely laughed.
See how wonderfully she recovers hermistakes and picks up the tracks again.
Perhaps there had been mistakes between them;--a mistake in his manner of addressing her, and another in hers of addressing him.
Such mistakes made at my time of life cannot be wholly rectified; but, being convinced of my error, I must do the best in my power to put myself right again.
The fact that double letters only exist in Esperanto when two roots, the one ending and the other beginning with the same letter, are compounded (such as hommano) is frequently overlooked, and orthographical mistakes result.
She made two rather curious mistakes in this experiment.
Mistakes are rare or frequent according as it happens to be a good or bad day with the horse; but, when he is told of them, he nearly always corrects them.
But, notwithstanding these distinctly-graded visions, she also is incapable of naming her dates exactly; in fact, her mistakes in this respect are so general that Dr.
How are we to separate the mistakes of man from the thoughts of God?
There should be no mistakes in astronomy, geology, or as to any subject or science.
We know that the books were not written in the same generation; that they were not all written by one person; that they are filled with mistakes and contradictions.
She was in a kind of dreamlike state--a state, however, in which no mistakes are ever made.
Submission to evils God ordains is the height of energy and nobility; submission to the mistakes we ourselves make is the climax of weakness and cowardice.
The style of Gomara is easy and flowing, but his work was of no permanent authority, in consequence of the great and frequent mistakes into which he was led by those who were too much a part of the story to relate it fairly.
Two great mistakes were made at the outset and were never retrieved.
Mistakes which have lost battles and campaigns innumerable, and in this instance lost a war.
An image is a mode of teaching," he said; "do you mean to say that a person is a sham merely because he mistakes the particular mode of teaching best suited to his own country?
The next effort is to protect the more industrious against the forays of the wicked and the mistakes of the unwise.
Past experience indicates several mistakes to be avoided in any future consideration of the problem of municipal ownership.
Rather, it is constantly watching, waiting, marshaling opinion against the majority, calling public attention to the mistakes of their opponents, and agitating for a change of administration.
The British will use all their astuteness and all their energy to exploit any mistakes committed by Germany.
Then the mistakes which have been ignorantly made will be rectified, because both sides of the shield will be seen.
In the "wilderness" of transition from the old to the new, mistakes occur which mar their consequences.
You made frightful mistakes in the Budget, Bruce; at any rate, it was extraordinarily under-estimated.
I made it a point to be very quiet, and to exhibit no surprise at his questions or mistakes, but to lead him by my questions to the answers, and the corrections of mistakes which must needs arise from one-sidedness.
Most erroneous speculation has its roots in mistakes about words, which it is fatal to divorce from what they express of nature, or to use without taking in their full meaning.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mistakes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
