Lexicographical Neighbors of Mismove
Literary usage of Mismove
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Negligence Cases: A Complete Collection of All Reported Negligence (1902)
"If he was at fault at all, it must have been some unconscious misjudgment, mistake
or mismove in manipulating the brake or in applying the reverse current, ..."
2. The Arena by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1895)
"He made some slight mismove. lie meant to strike in the centre of the big stone,
but instead his hammer grazed the edge. A great splinter of stone flew up ..."
3. The History of Nations by Henry Cabot Lodge (1906)
"It was a skillfully played game, without a single mismove, for the military
diplomat in Paris, assisted by the prestige of the military demonstration on the ..."
4. From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America by James Longstreet (1908)
"I rode near the brigades, to see that there could be no mismove or misconception
of orders. After adjusting the line of the brigades, and giving their march ..."
5. History of North Carolina by Samuel A'Court Ashe (1908)
"... a mismove led to his arrest and imprisonment in the Tower, and all his
applications for a habeas corpus being denied, he was only released by the ..."
6. Sketches of Virginia, Historical and Biographical by William Henry Foote (1855)
"He would spy an adversary's weak points, catch the least mismove, and give him
no time to recover, if his opponent lost his temper he lost his cause; ..."
7. The Art of Chess by James Mason, Leopold Hoffer (1905)
"6 K—Kt 4 K—E 3 A mismove on White's part would make the thing impossible— according
to the conditions. He must be careful not to take the diagonal ..."
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