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They and mistake
They keep their wings and feet pressed tightly against their bodies, and in spite of their often colorful attire you may very well mistake them for lumps of dirt.
They believe Mun and Misselden were not making this mistake in the 1620s, and point to their followers Josiah Child and Charles Davenant, who, in 1699, wrote: " Gold and Silver are indeed the Measure of Trade, but that the Spring and Original of it, in all nations is the Natural or Artificial Product of the Country ; that is to say, what this Land or what this Labour and Industry Produces.
They mistake him at first for Godot and clearly do not recognise him for the self-proclaimed personage he is.
They mistake him for Saruman, but he stops their attacks and reveals himself.
They never make the mistake, these elderly gentlemen, of turning out the whole forty-eight all of the right sort there is no need: there is a margin to the extent of twelve: and so they generally leave about nine or ten dubious names amongst the forty-eight.
They even mistake Sophia Western for Jenny Cameron, the supposed lover of Bonnie Prince Charles.
They also must possess psychological attributes such as the ability to compete under intense pressure, in which one mistake can cost them the title, and the discipline and work ethic to practice the same skills over and over again.
He later wrote in his book The Scapegoat, " They made a mistakethey left one satirist alive ".
They were once fired upon by mistake by Franco's troops, after which they returned to Ireland.
They were the first Communists to realize their mistake and the first to try to correct it.
They are usually " accidental invaders " that wander in by mistake from adjacent areas.
They get changed into their uniforms which causes many problems such as Stan putting on Ollie's boots by mistake.
They did not make such a mistake even though they were under severe strain and did not have the benefit of hindsight as in the above exercise.
They were initially compared to the British acid rock scene, a mistake hardly rectified by the band's early performances supporting Spacemen 3.
They send a crate to young reporter Lois Lane containing several bound and gagged drug dealers who turn out to be undercover cops that Zan and Jayna abducted by mistake, thus ruining a calculated police drug sting.
They realise their mistake when their real associate, Finkelstein, arrives at their HQ.
They also released an EP called Die Young on Cafeteria Records, whose cover accidentally read " Die Yoing " by mistake, which was recorded in Brixton with drummer Colin Rocks, who was eventually replaced by Andy Williams due to Rocks ' other commitments.
They liked it all right, but they couldn't get their customers to buy it, with reactions tending to regard it as looking too much like a mistake, and " a flat gooey mess ".
They were convinced that Peter the Great had made a mistake in trying to modernize and Westernize the country and that Russia's salvation lay in the rejection of Western ideas.
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 ).
They may penalize the employee for the mistake, but Implied Authority of Contract places them under a legal obligation to honor the terms of the agreement.
They take off into the woods with a compass and find themselves at a pot farm, in which two violent farmers, Dennis ( Abraham Benrubi ) and Elwood ( Ethan Suplee ), mistake them for thieves and start shooting at them.
They learn they had better be off as soon as possible, because foreign countries are likely to retaliate today for yesterday's air raid and bomb the air field near the hotel, which could get hit by mistake.
They are known for their smooth flavour and are easy to mistake for baby sardines.

They and him
They crawled through the north fence and came on toward him, and now he saw that both were young, not more than nineteen or twenty.
They might kill him in his sleep, thinking there was money in the house.
They dragged him inside the building.
They weren't sleeping, of course, but they thought they were doing him a favor by pretending.
They expected greater things from him, regardless of how trying the circumstances, and they were disappointed.
They stared at him.
They closed in fast, kept him from reaching inside his coat for his gun.
They escorted him down from the porch and through the rain to his office.
They moved in on him, crowded him from all sides.
They followed him into the rain and across to the squat stone building fifty feet to the rear.
They crowded him in that threatening way once more, forced him to give in.
They trailed him across the wide hallway to the parlor, four roughly garbed and tough-looking men who probably had never before ventured into such a house.
They grounded him ( over his protests -- not including his true reason for wanting to fly ) and put him in the Command offices.
They could come on him now without difficulty.
They bought rustled cattle from the outlaw, kept him supplied with guns and ammunition, harbored his men in their houses.
They whirled and saw him, standing there dim in the slatted light from the boarded freight wall.
They were in fact quietly laughing at him, for their King wished to have nothing to do with the Western world.
They would be lolling under a tree sipping Ouzo, relishing the leisurely life, assuring him that the day was yet young.
They had my mother's opinion of him: that he was too sharp or a little too good to be true.
They don't expect to stop him, just slow him down some with the bat.
They were pursuing him.

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