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... "And then, for downright misstatement," he continued, "look at this. Here is a Monsieur Kocher, who passes for an authority, and who, describing the Arab marriage customs, talks of the 'brutalite du viol dans le marriage—un drame lugubre.' Now that comes of not examining things with one's own eyes. ...

— Fountains In The Sand - Rambles Among The Oases Of Tunisia • Norman Douglas

... gives the date of his birth as August fifteenth, 1769. If the substitution occurred, it must have been in early infancy. Besides, we know why Napoleon at marriage sought to appear older than he was, and Joseph's contract was written when the misstatement in it was valuable as making him appear ...

— The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte - Vol. I. (of IV.) • William Milligan Sloane

... training and instruction at the hands of others. The ancient statement that the training and education of her offspring is exclusively the duty of the mother, however true it may have been with regard to a remote past, has become an absolute misstatement; and the woman who should at the present day insist on entirely educating her own offspring would, in nine cases out of ten, inflict an irreparable injury on them, because she ...

— Woman and Labour • Olive Schreiner

... class of confidence men for whom we soon became the regular attorneys. They were a perennial source of delight as well as profit, and much of my time was given up to the drafting of circulars and advertisements for the sale of stock in such form that, whereas they contained no actual misstatement of an existing fact, they nevertheless were calculated to stimulate in the most casual reader an irresistible desire to sell all that ...

— The Confessions of Artemas Quibble • Arthur Train

... college professor; one of the new type, alert, observant and extremely precise. Not apt to make a misstatement. ...

— The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow • Anna Katharine Green

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