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- Dog language understood by fox. B215.2.1
- Woman's question to her husband disguised as woman, how many men she had in one night. This is properly understood as, how many helpers he had, and answered by lifting ten fingers. H582.3
- Princess declares her love through sign language: not understood. H607.3
- Testimony gradually weakened. Witness agrees to the following facts in succession: that the person relating the facts may have been in anger, that he may have misunderstood, that he may not have heard it at all. J1151.3
- Learned words misunderstood by uneducated. J1803
- Doctor's expressions misunderstood. J1803.2
- Conversation by sign language mutually misunderstood. J1804
- Unusual word misunderstood. Strange results. J1805.2
- Physical phenomena misunderstood. J1810
- Animal cries misunderstood. J1811
- Owl's hoot misunderstood by lost simpleton. J1811.1
- Frog's cries misunderstood. J1811.2
- Turkey's gobble misunderstood by man lost in woods. J1811.3
- Other sounds misunderstood. J1812
- Noises fire is making misunderstood. Hunchback springs into it to burn to his death. J1812.4.1
- Snoring sounds misunderstood. (Cf. J1833.) J1812.5
- Cooking processes misunderstood. J1813
- Animal's action misunderstood. J1818
- Physical phenomena misunderstood – miscellaneous. J1819
- Nature of a baby misunderstood. J1911
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