Once George Dally, miscalculating the depth of a savage little stream, stepped boldly in and was swept away like a flash of light.
"The Settler and the Savage"
R.M. Ballantyne
But there lay the shilling in the centre of the table, and there stood Naomi in a cloud of steam, hard at work on an immoderate pile of washing-even a man's miscalculating eye could see that it was immoderate.
"The Delectable Duchy"
Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
So long as we were chaining there was no great fear of miscalculating position; so far then as the second Depot, it would not be difficult for any other traveller to follow my course.
"Expedition into Central Australia"
Charles Sturt