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Meanings of mistook for in English

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Usage of mistook for in English
1
The lad we mistook for Roy Prescott was some one impersonating him.
The Girl Aviators' Sky Cruise
2
She saw only what she mistook for enquiry, and she answered eagerly:
Tracy Park: A Novel
3
Your uncle had been sent for, and I was mistook for him.
The Magic Egg, and Other Stories
4
Methinks what they mistook for hatred was but love under a mask.
Twice-Told Tales
5
This showed Saul's Purpose and Determination, which he mistook for being Right.
"Say Fellows—" / Fifty Practical Talks with Boys on Life's Big I...
6
He made a gesture that I mistook for an intention to grab me.
Song of the Nile
7
It was the captain, probably, whom Karen Hansen mistook for Turner.
The After House
8
In many instances, kids easily unwrapped brightly colored packages they mistook for candy.
Reuters
9
She nodded with a numb expression I initially mistook for sorrow.
In the shadow of gotham
10
What we consider a generous dismissal, he probably mistook for folly and weakness.
The Settlers in Canada
11
Indeed, they mistook for incipient idiocy his continual abstraction of mind.
The Lerouge Case
12
What she had half-mistaken for love before, she now wholly mistook for love.
The Son of Tarzan
13
Bad Roman characters he naturally mistook for half Gothick, half Roman.
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
14
She spoke hurriedly, with an eagerness which he mistook for doubt.
The Hollow of Her Hand
15
His large eyes were moist brown, which people mistook for mournful.
The Naked God
16
I was mistook for you, which compliment I don't aim to have repeated.
The Spoilers
This collocation consists of:
Mistook for through the time
Mistook for across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common