Word: astray
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...sometimes happens that one cat will sift through the cordon of stagehands to blink before footlights. When stage hands permit two cats to go astray in such embarrassment, the audience may well consider the production a casual...
Upon only one count, can the present test of opinion go astray, namely, inattention. The cards are not incidental but central to the establishment of the dining hall. The pledges of sufficient men, say six or seven hundred, will bring it into being, in all probability, over the summer. Failure to receive the requisite number of pledges, on the other hand, must be taken as a student negative on the plan and will prevent all further progress until another year...
...murderers had confessed separately and were reviling each other from their prison cells. Judd Gray, the corset-salesman, was pleading insanity and saying he had been led astray, debauched. Ruth Snyder, the wife, was professing horror and penitence, calling her paramour a low "jackal." Also there was even a child, Lorraine Snyder, aged 9, to heighten the emotionalism of the trial. Lorraine still believed her father and mother were temporarily away "on a trip...
...which has led the Vagabond far astray from the observation which he was going to make upon the comparatively recent rise and immense power of the Press. Perhaps no other development of the last century and a half has had so great an effect upon human life in general. It is the parent of that rather nebulous but potent force called Public Opinion; it is the public's lay-Bible...
...which Longfellow chose to approach his art, but it might present him more fairly to admit that he may have been right, even though today he seems misguided, rather than to assert as dogmatically as Mr. Gorman seems to do one's conviction that he was far astray. In judging his character apart from his work the biographer says that he was not troubled by the "perilous and incomprehensible moods and passions that animate the poet's soul," that his grief was real but "does not touch those dark levels of tragedy that mark great love affairs," that "his nature...