"Misstatement" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... me,' he answered, 'for a candid criticism, I will give you one. I accuse you rather of misappreciation than of misstatement. First with respect to Louis Napoleon. After having described accurately, in the beginning of your paper, his unscrupulous, systematic oppression, you end by saying that, after all, you place him high ...
— Correspondence & Conversations of Alexis de Tocqueville with Nassau William Senior from 1834 to 1859, Vol. 2 • Alexis de Tocqueville
... is correct. In fact, I detected him in a misstatement as to the time of giving you the money. But I don't want to ...
— Struggling Upward - or Luke Larkin's Luck • Horatio Alger
... made no comment upon Mike's diplomatic misstatement anent the badge, for he had observed the wink, and held true to the masonry which ...
— Thoroughbreds • W. A. Fraser
... his version of the matter into writing, but as these proofs have been submitted to him, and no correction or deletion has been made in them, it may be supposed that he has not succeeded in detecting any grave misstatement of fact, and that any objection which he may have to their publication depends rather upon private ...
— A Desert Drama - Being The Tragedy Of The "Korosko" • A. Conan Doyle
... it; but I think so, because the type and paper are like that journal; the conductors are fond of clean type; so am I. Why, here is another misstatement; the judge never said he aggravated his offense by trying to cast a slur upon the Wardlaws. I'll swear the judge never said a syllable of the kind. What he said was, 'You can speak in arrest of judgment on grounds of law, but you must not impugn the verdict ...
— Foul Play • Charles Reade |
