Nor is their message so brief, and so less than mistakable. From Wordnik.com. [Calde of the Long Sun]
Less mistakable was Mordred himself, riding beside Cerdic at the head of the Saxons. From Wordnik.com. [The Wicked Day]
For the lucky few, these ticks are minimal, boring, and mistakable for loveable quirky personality flaws. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-03-01] Reference
Un-mistakable is the indelible hand writing caption that reads: "me myself" the words are double underlined over the surface of the photonear the bottom corner. From Wordnik.com. [THE IDEA OF VERNACULAR PHOTOGRAPHS IN MAJOR EXHIBITIONS AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS, CONTINUED] Reference
The Clintons must be made to understand in no mistakable terms that this country does not belong to them, and indeed, the democratic party does not belong to them. From Wordnik.com. [DNC meeting hottest ticket in town] Reference
More critical are analogous words that have acquired easily mistakable senses, such as eventually/eventuellement (‘possibly’), actually/actuellement (‘currently’), or to attend/attendre (‘to wait’). From Wordnik.com. [French/english Translation: the Unusual History of the English Language « Articles « Literacy News] Reference
This may be least true of the long "culottes", trousers most closely resembling a skirt, and at best mistakable for a skirt, but insofar as "culottes" establish the principle of dividing woman's outward apparel from the waist down, they merely disguise the grave disorder. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-05-01] Reference
There is a scarcely mistakable class-reaction when David. From Wordnik.com. [Collected Essays] Reference
But there she stood, mistakable for no other on this wide earth!. From Wordnik.com. [Seventeen A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family Especially William] Reference
No different than the wood, easily mistakable for the tactical semi-auto. From Wordnik.com. [IGN Complete] Reference
Why not drop titles, and call stitches by the plainest and least mistakable names?. From Wordnik.com. [Art in Needlework A Book about Embroidery] Reference
I am certain of this; he almost told me so himself, not in words, but the mistakable leer he gave her in reply. From Wordnik.com. [The Rome Express] Reference
Bathsheba, in spite of her mettle, began to feel un-mistakable signs that she was inherently the weaker vessel. From Wordnik.com. [Far from the Madding Crowd] Reference
Dekker, with a hardly mistakable mark; but his verse is nervous, well proportioned, well delivered, and at its best a noble medium. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Elizabethan Literature] Reference
The nose, especially, is hardly mistakable, but the eyes have rather less expression, and the mouth less character, though the whole face (naturally) looks younger. From Wordnik.com. [A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800] Reference
Losing patience, he resumed many times running at the top of his voice, till the "Baa, baa, baa!" came out with so much power that the goat began to be mistakable for a bull. From Wordnik.com. [Tartarin of Tarascon] Reference
He came quickly up, and, tapping me on the shoulder, said in his un - mistakable native twang, together with no little dis - play of his authority, "Where are you going, boy?". From Wordnik.com. [Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom]
She had declared herself his friend in a way no longer mistakable, for she must have followed her first impulse in writing such a note, and the impulse must have been a strong one. From Wordnik.com. [An American Politician] Reference
The new production model now available from MINI goes far beyond the realms of urban mobility, inspiring the MINI designers to enhance that un-mistakable MINI feeling by adding further facets never seen before. From Wordnik.com. [Top Speed] Reference
However, we do expect the Obama administration to tell Israel in no mistakable language that murdering and maiming thousands of innocent civilians with White Phosphorus, even under the false rubric of fighting "terror", is wrong. From Wordnik.com. [Palestine Blogs aggregator] Reference
The Notes without any initial attached to them in the following pages, may be presumed to be from the pen of Isaac Reed, with the exception of a limited number, which were written by Dodsley himself, and which are not easily mistakable. From Wordnik.com. [A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1] Reference
However, this mistake caused sufficient confusion at Cornhill to make it necessary that the famous Charlotte, accompanied by Anne, in her quality of secondary and mistakable genius, should go to town and explain their separate existence. From Wordnik.com. [Emily Brontë] Reference
They have no fancy, and never are surprised into a covert or witty word, such as pleased the Athenians and Italians, and was convertible into a fable not long after; but they delight in strong earthy expression, not mistakable, coarsely true to the human body, and, though spoken among princes, equally fit and welcome to the mob. From Wordnik.com. [English Traits (1856)] Reference
They have no fancy, and never are surprised into a covert or witty word, such as pleased the Athenians and Italians, and was convertible into a fable not long after; but they delight in strong earthly expression, not mistakable, coarsely true to the human body, and, though spoken among princes, equally fit and welcome to the mob. From Wordnik.com. [XIV. English Traits. Literature] Reference
They have left behind them a collection of clocks that speaks in no mistakable terms for their skill and industry. ". From Wordnik.com. [Christopher and the Clockmakers] Reference
"No. There was nobody else in those parts mistakable for Biddy Maloney, and no other old woman was in or near the house while my father was there. From Wordnik.com. [Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life] Reference
It is the intention of the management to continue to put up new permanent buildings as fast as the profits from the fairs will permit, or the public policy of the State towards her agricultural and industrial interests as expressed at the State Fair will make possible, finally replacing all of the old wooden structures with buildings that are adapted to the rapidly increasing needs of the more and more representative exhibits that are year by year demanding in tones less and less mistakable larger and better accommodations. From Wordnik.com. [A Manual of North Carolina Issued by the North Carolina Historical Commission for the Use of Members of the General Assembly Session 1913] Reference
It had begun giving off an un-mistakable aroma. From Wordnik.com. [Wizard and Glass]
It's easily mistakable for stupidity. From Wordnik.com. [Top stories] Reference
No! after all, it is not imagined Greece, dreamy, antique Sicily, but the present world about us, though mistakable for a moment, delightfully, for the land, the age, of Sappho, of Theocritus. From Wordnik.com. [Essays from 'The Guardian'] Reference
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