"Miscall" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... tongue-tied by authority, And folly, doctor-like, controlling skill, And simple truth miscall'd simplicity, And captive ...
— The Golden Treasury - Of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language • Various
... on earth, temporarily and partially separated from my husband, in good works of which he would approve; with which he would sympathize and which would draw his spirit into closer communion with mine; and I hope at that ascension to the higher life which we miscall death to meet him face to face, to be able to tell him, 'I have finished my work, I have kept the faith,' and to be with him forever in one of the many ...
— For Woman's Love • Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth
... which tears with clawing fingers at the tuggs and toggles of his imagination until his flesh revolts to the point where it refuses the dare. It is such a man that courts-martial and the world at large miscall by the ...
— From Place to Place • Irvin S. Cobb
... are generously moderate, when you mitigate my Guilt, and miscall it a Credulity; 'twas a passionate, and most unjustifiable Levity, and must still have remain'd unpardonable, whatever Truth might have been found ...
— 'Of Genius', in The Occasional Paper, and Preface to The Creation • Aaron Hill
... miscall their folly, is their care; They know how fickle common lovers are: Their oaths and vows are cautiously believed, For few there are ...
— The Works of John Dryden, Vol. II • Edited by Walter Scott
... Cupples ceased and refreshed himself with milk and soda water. 'I have not heard you go on like this for years,' he said. 'I believe you must be almost as much above yourself as I am. It is a bad case of the unrest which men miscall delight. But much as I enjoy it, I am not going to sit still and hear the Manderson affair dismissed as commonplace. You may say what you like, but the idea of impersonating Manderson in those circumstances ...
— Trent's Last Case - The Woman in Black • E.C. (Edmund Clerihew) Bentley |
