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  • Mouths full of clenched teeth, in tiny heads on bodies clogged with misdrawn muscles.

    Top 100 Comic Book Runs #30-26 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008

  • The bar chart is misdrawn but is actually for the most recent local ward result.

    Chorlton Libdemologists: Oh Dear Oh Dear Oh Dear 2007

  • The bar chart is misdrawn but is actually for the most recent local ward result.

    Archive 2007-10-21 2007

  • I love misdrawn, misplaced iconic characters, like this one, found on the side of a Madison food cart:

    Archive 2006-10-01 Ann Althouse 2006

  • Unless I've actually misdrawn the map for your purposes e.g., put Spadina west of Bathurst when the reverse is true and important to your getting to the destination, it doesn't matter how precise or even how accurate the map is; it just needs to be accurate enough and precise enough to meet its purpose.

    A Rough Theory of Religious Doctrine, First Part of the Second Part 2005

  • Unless I've actually misdrawn the map for your purposes e.g., put Spadina west of Bathurst when the reverse is true and important to your getting to the destination, it doesn't matter how precise or even how accurate the map is; it just needs to be accurate enough and precise enough to meet its purpose.

    Archive 2005-08-01 2005

  • Thus, for example, inasmuch as it is not true of the geometrician that he ‘cannot be deceived by an argument’ (for a geometrician is deceived when his figure is misdrawn), it could not be a property of the man of science that he is not deceived by an argument.

    Topics 2002

  • Immediately in front of it stood an old oaktree, of whose trunk one might say, that it agonized in despair because of the lack of harmony between its fresh yellowish foliage and its black and gnarled branches; they resembled most of all grossly misdrawn old gothic arabesques.

    Mogens and Other Stories Anna [Translator] Grabow 1866

  • The practical arguments and the legal disquisitions in America are often like those of trustees carrying out a misdrawn will -- the sense of what they mean is good, but it can never be worked out fully or defended simply, so hampered is it by the old words of an old testament.

    The English Constitution Walter Bagehot 1851

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