What is "astray"

Usage examples of "astray".

The SEC was already investigating one accounting firm, Arthur Andersen, which represented both Waste Management and Sunbeam, to determine how things had gone astray.

And when custom steps in besides, and strengthens this pravity of nature, as has happened by means of impious teachers, then the evil is incurable, and leads astray multitudes to irreparable ruin.

Maximus, for example, was a student of the occult sciences and theurgy, while Eusebius claimed that such practices were the work of charlatans, prestidigitators, and the insane, who had been led astray into the exercise of certain dark powers.

But those transgressors who were lucky enough to survive the Kachinaar would never again go astray.

Being abrupt with the Holder of the Keys was a good way to find yourself with dirty bed linens and poorly spiced meals, unemptied chamber pots and messages that went astray, a thousand annoyances that could make life a misery and leave you wading in mud trying to accomplish anything at all, yet somehow, that smile appeared to take the sting out of her words for Corgaide.

From a past half a century back, when the unshepherded sheep had been running astray in the mountains, uninvited dismal guests pressed through the opening on the heels of the worshippers and seemed to darken the little rooms and to let in the cold.

For one thing, the more dangerous predators were aprowl during the reign of darkness, and, as well, in the gloom that shrouded the world of giant trees after sunfall, traveling should be much more difficult, for it was easier to miss your landmarks and go astray.

It was one of the magic times, when no note could possibly go astray and any foray into countermelody or harmony worked perfectly.

Well,--excitement sometimes will lead fowk astray, When they dooant meean owt wrang, but just rollikin play, But Leeds is a licker,--for tumult an din,-- For bullies an rowdies an brazzen-faced sin.

Bay, and far inland, where no chance Icelander blown astray might find them.

When it comes down to it, those four scoundrels are just petty thieves, led astray by what these Orbs represent.

Something peasantlike in his genius may blind him a little to the finer shades of character and set him astray in his reports of cultivated society.

He is the laborer who has gone astray and who either from apathy, unintelligence, incompetence, or some immediately pressing need prefers his own individual interest to the joint interests of himself and his fellow-laborers.

I make no pretentions and, wrong or astray, I place on the paper what heaven sends from my pen.

Sooner shall the suns forget their course and the swallow miss her nest, than my soul shall swear a lie and be led astray from thee, Kallikrates.