A casual observer might have mistaken the figure for a scarecrow.

A casual observer might have mistaken the man's stooped position for a bow.

A casual observer might have mistaken them for giant sea-lions, save for the green-black color of their bodies and the occasional languid movement of a tentacle.

Also on that day in Timaru, a distress call was issued in relation to the MV Brigitte Bardot after an observer mistook the vessel for an overturned yacht.

During public occasions, Marie Louise spoke little due to reserve and timidity, which some observers mistook for haughtiness.

That shape was human, though many observers might have mistaken it for a ghost.

On the Serbian left flank, the observers noticed the troops of 17th Infantry Division in movement, but mistook them for the Ottoman battery withdrawing from Stracin.

The stones are of different colors and types, with many observers often mistaking them for gravestones.

No observer, either academic or independent, could have mistaken the direction of change taken by the avant-garde between 1906 and 1910.

An inexperienced observer could have mistaken for transmission noise the ripping sounds that shook the hologram every ten or twenty seconds.