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Finally, we were assured that votes given for the Coercion Bill would purchase a thorough-going Land Bill, and our anxiety for the latter induced us, naturally, but erringly, to acquiesce in the former.

From Handbook of Home Rule Being articles on the Irish question by Godkin, Edwin Lawrence

That which we then sought erringly was at least our own free action, an outflow of inward light; we put our whole soul into the sect of the Free Elect.

From Withered Leaves. Vol. I. (of III) A Novel by Gottschall, Rudolf von

I know not in what valley they wander erringly: do they not see that they depart and return not?

From A Traveler’s Narrative by `Abdu'l-Bahá

I know not how long they shall ride the steed of desire and wander erringly in the desert of heedlessness and error.

From A Traveler’s Narrative by `Abdu'l-Bahá

Sir Wilfrid Laurier had faithfully voiced the prevailing will of the people of Canada, whether they willed aright or erringly.

From The Day of Sir Wilfrid Laurier A Chronicle of Our Own Time by Skelton, Oscar Douglas