1
Hannah Macaulay's description of her bodily condition erred on the side of self-depreciation.
2
Walkirk was very different; in fact, I think he erred on the other side.
3
Quite as ingenious, but on the present occasion erring on the side of intricacy.
4
Certainly, if they erred , they erred on the right side.
5
I may have been mistaken; if I was, I have erred on the safe side.
6
Some, on the contrary, erred on the other side.
7
Liszt, as usual, erred on the sentimental side.
8
He has generally erred on the side of the too much rather than of the too little.
9
All former Utopias have, by modern standards, erred on the side of over regulation in these matters.
10
'Our friend from overseas has not erred on the side of subterfuge.
11
In fact I fear that in Grace's case I have so far erred on the side of laxness.
12
It is best to know ourselves, but we Salvationists are in danger of erring on the other side.
13
I think, myself, that he went too far here; but certainly he was erring on the right side.
14
If he had not erred on the side of generosity, he had at least played the game fairly.
15
On the whole, "eminent physiologists" have erred on the side of excess of proteid being advised.
16
On the other hand, Lord Durham thought that the local government had erred on the opposite side of severity.