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She went astray in the woods.
My letter must have gone astray in the mail.
I have gone astray somewhere in my calculation.
The little girl will go astray if no one cares much about her.
Many young and inexperienced birds go astray each autumn, and the British list contains the names of numbers of rare species that have visited us on abnormal flights.
So far, so good; but Copernicus went astray on the question of the orbits of the planets.
A very few years, however, sufficed to reveal discordances between observation and theory, so marked and regular as to make it perfectly clear that it was not Bouvard’s work which was faulty but that Uranus itself had gone astray through the operation of definite but as yet unknown causes.
Those have erred most who have allowed their imaginations to lead them astray from facts, or to guide them in matters which are naturally incomprehensible, to which our reason gives us no clue.
On the one hand, the emotional impulse tends to make the action of relieving need not only easier to the agent, but more graceful and pleasing: on the other hand, it is generally recognised that mistaken pity is more likely to lead us astray than-e.
If he has gone astray in the midst of sorrow it will be only through consolation that he can be born again to a new life; if he lost the straight path amid arid wastes, nothing short of a purifying and assuaging spiritual water will enable him to recover his path.
Baddybad Stephen lead astray goodygood Malachi.
That love to mankind, without any redeeming intention in the background, is only an ADDITIONAL folly and brutishness, that the inclination to this love has first to get its proportion, its delicacy, its gram of salt and sprinkling of ambergris from a higher inclination-whoever first perceived and "experienced" this, however his tongue may have stammered as it attempted to express such a delicate matter, let him for all time be holy and respected, as the man who has so far flown highest and gone astray in the finest fashion!
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