All 5 Uses of
surmise
in
The Hound of the Baskervilles
- Of course, if Dr. Mortimer's surmise should be correct, and we are dealing with forces outside the ordinary laws of Nature, there is an end of our investigation.†
Chpt 3 *
- Not a shadow of one—only surmise and conjecture.†
Chpt 13
- The great ordeal was in front of us; at last we were about to make our final effort, and yet Holmes had said nothing, and I could only surmise what his course of action would be.†
Chpt 14
- And now I come rapidly to the conclusion of this singular narrative, in which I have tried to make the reader share those dark fears and vague surmises which clouded our lives so long and ended in so tragic a manner.†
Chpt 14
- But more than that we were never destined to know, though there was much which we might surmise.†
Chpt 14
Definition:
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(surmise) to conclude something is true based on incomplete evidence