All 23 Uses of
presume
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- "So that what we presumed to be merely the betrothal feast turns out to be the actual wedding dinner!" said Danglars.†
Chpt 5-6
- Because I was arrested at Piombino, and I presume that, like Milan and Florence, Piombino has become the capital of some French department.†
Chpt 13-14
- "My information dates from the day on which I was arrested," returned the Abbe Faria; "and as the emperor had created the kingdom of Rome for his infant son, I presume that he has realized the dream of Machiavelli and Caesar Borgia, which was to make Italy a united kingdom."†
Chpt 13-14
- The priest gazed on the person addressing him with a long and searching gaze—there even seemed a disposition on his part to court a similar scrutiny on the part of the inn-keeper; then, observing in the countenance of the latter no other expression than extreme surprise at his own want of attention to an inquiry so courteously worded, he deemed it as well to terminate this dumb show, and therefore said, speaking with a strong Italian accent, "You are, I presume, M. Caderousse?"†
Chpt 25-26
- "Come in, come in," said Morrel, "for I presume you are all at the door."†
Chpt 29-30
- Franz added that his companion, deeply grieved at having been prevented the honor of being presented to the countess during her sojourn in Paris, was most anxious to make up for it, and had requested him (Franz) to remedy the past misfortune by conducting him to her box, and concluded by asking pardon for his presumption in having taken it upon himself to do so.†
Chpt 33-34
- Parbleu, at Rome you spent fifty thousand piastres in furnishing your apartments, but I presume that you are not disposed to spend a similar sum every day.†
Chpt 39-40
- "And then it was, I presume," said Monte Cristo "that you came to me as the bearer of a letter from the Abbe Busoni?"†
Chpt 45-46
- Monte Cristo regarded the person who durst presume to doubt his words with the look of one equally surprised and displeased.†
Chpt 45-46
- I have the honor, I presume, of addressing M. de Monte Cristo.†
Chpt 45-46
- "Why," replied Monte Cristo, "since we mutually understand each other—for such I presume is the case?"†
Chpt 45-46
- May I presume to ask whether you have long possessed it?†
Chpt 45-46
- Coming, as usual, I presume, from the extreme end of the globe?†
Chpt 47-48
- And so, as we have said, the iron gate leading into the kitchen-garden had been closed up and left to the rust, which bade fair before long to eat off its hinges, while to prevent the ignoble glances of the diggers and delvers of the ground from presuming to sully the aristocratic enclosure belonging to the mansion, the gate had been boarded up to a height of six feet.†
Chpt 51-52
- We should presume too much on our own strength, and, like others, perhaps, be led astray by our blind confidence in each other's prudence."†
Chpt 51-52
- "You have a daughter, then, madame?" inquired the count; "very young, I presume?"†
Chpt 51-52
- Now, in order not to presume on this, and also to be beforehand with them, I have, if agreeable to you, thought of inviting M. and Madame Danglars, and M. and Madame de Villefort, to my country-house at Auteuil.†
Chpt 53-54
- I will, in the meantime, go and prepare the young man for this much-desired interview, for I presume that he is not less impatient for it than yourself.†
Chpt 55-56
- "Then, in these trunks"— "I presume you have given orders to your valet de chambre to put in all you are likely to need,—your plain clothes and your uniform.†
Chpt 55-56
- You mean Monsieur Zaccone, I presume?†
Chpt 69-70 *
- Oh, madame, I do not presume to call myself your friend, but at all times I am your most respectful servant.†
Chpt 71-72
- It only remained to put it to the vote, when the president resumed: 'Gentlemen and you, monsieur,—you will not be displeased, I presume, to listen to one who calls himself a very important witness, and who has just presented himself.†
Chpt 85-86
- But it was not you, I presume, who placed at my disposal 100,000 francs, which I spent in four or five months; it was not you who manufactured an Italian gentleman for my father; it was not you who introduced me into the world, and had me invited to a certain dinner at Auteuil, which I fancy I am eating at this moment, in company with the most distinguished people in Paris—amongst the rest with a certain procureur, whose acquaintance I did very wrong not to cultivate, for he would have…†
Chpt 107-108
Definition:
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(presumptuous as in: she is presumptuous) exercising privileges to which one is not entitled -- such as being too familiar or too bossy