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"Then you did not understand me? Did I not speak just now of justice? To put an end to your misapprehensions," continued he, taking up a small steel object from the table, "I will now explain what I have decided with regard to you." He held out a Lorraine cross, fastened to the tip of a steel rod. "Two of my friends at this very moment are heating another cross, made on this pattern, red-hot.
In England we know very little of the United States, and, however candid the intentions of a tourist may be, it is difficult in a short residence in the country so completely to throw off certain prejudices and misapprehensions as to proceed to the delineation of its social characteristics with any degree of fairness and accuracy.
To Andreoni his explanation of Fulvia's flight had seemed natural enough; but on the subsequent stages of their journey she must pass for his mistress or his wife, and he hardly knew in what spirit she would take the misapprehensions that must inevitably arise. At Mestre their carriage waited, and they drove rapidly toward Padua through the waning night.
I've tried so hard myself not to think it and you must help me. You know it is only perturbed, uneasy spirits that wander. With her it is quite different. She has always been so happy she must still be." I listened, stunned, to Theresa's sweet dogmatism. From what blind distances came her confident misapprehensions, how dense, both for her and for Allan, was the separating vapor! Allan frowned.
One of the most serious duties attending a residence in India is the correcting of those misapprehensions which your travelling M.P. sacrifices his bath to hustle upon paper. The spectacled people embalmed in secretariats alone among Anglo-Indians continue to see the gay visions of griffinhood. They alone preserve the phantasmagoria of bookland and dreamland. As for the rest of us:
I am the more explicit on this point, because it seems to me that the unguarded language of many students of mythology is liable to give rise to misapprehensions, and to discredit both the method which they employ and the results which they have obtained.
That Army will consist of men who have spent three years in getting rid of mutual misapprehensions and assimilating one another's point of view men who went out to the war ignorant and intolerant and insular, and are coming back wise to all the things that really matter.
In spite of the influences and misapprehensions of her life which had tended to separate her from Clancy, when she fully learned that he was affiliating with those who dwelt as aliens in her thoughts, she had been overborne by his words and the promptings of her own heart.
I propose to state briefly what I understand by "Poetry for poetry's sake," and then, after guarding against one or two misapprehensions of the formula, to consider more fully a single problem connected with it. And I must premise, without attempting to justify them, certain explanations. We are to consider poetry in its essence, and apart from the flaws which in most poems accompany their poetry.
One naturally shrinks from employing a diagram in dealing with such a topic as this; but perhaps recourse might without offence be had to this method necessarily imperfect as it is on account of its essential simplicity, and because it is calculated to remove misapprehensions.
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