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mistake and was
This time he was making no mistake.
She was a living doll and no mistake -- the blue-black bang, the wide cheekbones, olive-flushed, that betrayed the Cherokee strain in her Midwestern lineage, and the mouth whose only fault, in the novelist's carping phrase, was that the lower lip was a trifle too voluptuous.
A couple of days later a balletomane told me he had telephoned Allied Arts for ticket information and was told `` the newspapers had made a mistake ''.
A similar confusion occurs in Gospel of Mark 2: 26: In reporting Jesus ' words, the evangelist confused Abiathar with Ahimelech, a mistake into which he was led by the constant association of David ‘ s name with Abiathar.
With the battle still not won, Marlborough had to rebuke one of his cavalry officers who was attempting to leave the field – " Sir, you are under a mistake, the enemy lies that way ..." Now, at the Duke's command, the second Allied line under von Bulow and the Count of Ost-Friese was ordered forward, and, driving through the centre, the Allies finally put Tallard's tired horse to rout, not without cost.
There does, however, seem to have been a delay between the Athenian arrival at Marathon, and the battle ; Herodotus, who evidently believed that Miltiades was eager to attack, may have made a mistake whilst seeking to explain this delay.
Similar to the AMD K5, the Cyrix 6x86 was a design far more focused on integer per-clock performance than clock scalability, something that proved to be a strategic mistake.
And even in those that he was successful this would be temporary, just until a mistake or chance event caused another failure, another disappointment for the frustrated duck.
The hospital admitted that the boy was circumcised by mistake ; the mother has sued the hospital and the doctor involved in the case.
New Jersey reduced these taxes after this mistake was realized, but by then it was too late ; even today, most major public corporations in the United States are set up under Delaware law.
Although both sides agreed that the failure to pay these royalties was an accounting mistake, they were upset that Biafra failed to inform the band of the mistake after he and his co-workers discovered it.
Biafra claims that their lawyers had told him only to correspond through lawyers and not directly with the band, as the conflict over payment had apparently arisen before the accounting mistake was discovered.
Biafra's former bandmates maintain that they sued because of Jello Biafra's deliberate withholding of money, though when pressed they have acknowledged that the payment was an accounting mistake, but insist that Biafra was wrong in failing to inform the band directly.
Thomas, realizing that his success as a high school dropout might convince other teenagers to quit school ( something he later claimed was a mistake ), became a student at Coconut Creek High School.
Enya issued a press release on her official Web site on 19 September stating that this was a mistake and no new album was immediately forthcoming.
The study defined ' true ' extreme sports as a leisure or recreation activity where the most likely outcome of a mismanaged accident or mistake was death.
By mistake, the year of his birth was given as 1848, not the correct 1845.

mistake and picked
NASA investigation board chair Michael Ryschkewitsch noted that none of the stringent review procedures at NASA had picked up a mistake, saying, " It would be very easy to mix this up.
When the Barbels picked up their pins, they made the mistake of leaving the die with the craftsman.
They also released a version of Space Ace on DVD that could be played on most DVD players, although it lacked the skill level select of the arcade version, and also played somewhat differently ( if the player made a mistake on the arcade version they simply picked up again roughly where they left off, whereas the DVD version forced the player to replay the entire scene from the beginning ).
I picked it up eagerly, refusing to believe that someone so close to the top for so long could fail to reveal, even by mistake, a single interesting piece of information " and he was particularly scathing about Ingham's prose style, offering the following quotation from Kill the Messenger as representative of Ingham's use of English: " Like a mighty oak, it took more than one axe to bring Mrs Thatcher down.
Lekman says that it was a " mistake ": " someone thought that was my real name cause I had a song about him, and then radio picked up on it, and I never had a chance to change it ".
After Robinson's mistake in a qualifier for UEFA Euro 2008 against Croatia he was not picked for two years.
If a player makes the mistake of bringing a card they have picked up from the deck to their hand, they forfeit that round.

mistake and up
He is then confronted by a group of knights who initially mistake him for a deadite, but they are quickly distracted when a real one actually shows up.
However, it would be a mistake to consider media studies a specialism of communication sciences, since media make up just a small portion of the overall course.
We've made a mistake in understanding the vague and intuitive rules that language uses, and have thereby tied ourselves up in philosophical knots.
And after winning his Best Actor Oscar later in the evening, he said in his acceptance speech, " There must be some terrible mistake, I used up all my English!
Volsky thought there must have been some mistake: " I went up to Chernenko and said, ' There was an addendum in the text.
Learning from this mistake, the DEC sales manager in charge of the PDP-10 line managed to purchase the rights to TENEX from BBN and set up a project to port it to the new machine.
Boone's relatives in Missouri, displeased with the Kentuckians who came to exhume Boone, kept quiet about the mistake, and they allowed the Kentuckians to dig up the wrong remains.
However, as a train carries him back to Paris, Jeanette struggles with her fears, finally realizes her mistake, and catches up to the train on horseback.
For they set up in certain places demons claiming prophetic or healing power, and which frequently torture those who seem to have committed any mistake about ordinary kinds of food, or about touching the dead body of a man, that they may have the appearance of alarming the uneducated multitude.
To make up for his mistake, the Dagda tells Oengus how to trick Elcmar out of the Brugh na Boinne.
" Maslin wrote that Nimoy's technical direction left " much to be desired " ( pointing out a special effects scene where the Bird-of-Prey does not cast a shadow on the whaling ship as a mistake ), but his " unmistakable " sincerity made up for these issues.
And in applying the going up and the seeing of what's above to the soul's journey to the intelligible place, you not mistake my expectation, since you desire to hear it.
Mark Mardell of the BBC news reported: On the Monday the Conference was to begin, Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini ( who was until last year the European commissioner for security and justice ) had told the Italian newspaper Il Giornale that Europe's failure to agree on a common approach was " a very serious mistake, because it shows our inability, despite all the words uttered in this connection, to come up with at least a lowest common denominator on a basic problem: namely the struggle against discrimination, on behalf of which we in Brussels so often speak out ".
* In the 2001 documentary Freedom Downtime, a cross-country road trip to Las Vegas, Nevada ends up in Las Vegas, New Mexico, by mistake.
Nothing out of the ordinary has happened so far, but on the tube train he by mistake picks up a wrong suitcase without noticing it.
She claimed that in her haste, she had also scooped up most of Cooke's clothing by mistake.
In Rubinstein's defense, however, Rachmaninoff said that " for every possible mistake may have made, he gave, in return, ideas and musical tone pictures that would have made up for a million mistakes.
This proves to be an even bigger mistake, since everybody else ends up being as anti-social, rude and cranky as Beechcroft.
" In my opinion Freytag occupied the best possible position ; his mistake was that he was forgetful of the principle of maintenance of the objective-namely, to cover the besieging army-till pulled up sharply and rightly by the Duke "
It was a mistake most of the major powers, in particular the Imperial Japanese Navy, made during the lead up to the Second World War.
Linda very quickly realizes that she has made a serious mistake, but she keeps up a pretence of having a happy marriage.
But for some critics it is a mistake to view The Member of the Wedding as simply a coming of age novel — a " sweet momentary illumination of adolescence before the disillusion of adulthood ," as it is sometimes regarded, or as Patricia Yaeger puts it, " an economical way of learning about the pangs of growing up.

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