We had miscalculated the time of day.
He dived again, but I miscalculated the direction he would take, and we were fifty rods apart when he came to the surface this time, for I had helped to widen the interval; and again he laughed long and loud, and with more reason than before.
Northumberland had miscalculated the temper of the nation, and failed to kidnap Mary.
In his adoption of a purely defensive policy at the beginning of the Peloponnesian War, he miscalculated the temper of the Athenians, whose morale would have been better sustained by a greater show of activity.
But Antiochus had miscalculated, and by his extreme measures unwittingly saved Judaism from its internal foes.
