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  • Marie-Laure deduces what she can from the sounds of their shoes: those are small, those weigh a ton, those hardly exist at all.†   (source)
  • So I deduced.†   (source)
  • But going through her bureau, they found the bottle of syrup of ipecac and they deduced that Mama Elena must have been taking it secretly.†   (source)
  • Miss Linh, from your blood samples I have deduced that you are, in fact, Lunar.†   (source)
  • In those scenes, dialogue is either deduced from the written record or quoted verbatim as it was recounted to me in an interview.†   (source)
  • And to this end they built themselves a stupendous super computer which was so amazingly intelligent that even before its data banks had been connected up it had started from I think therefore I am and got as far as deducing the existence of rice pudding and income tax before anyone managed to turn it off.†   (source)
  • I can deduce from his conversation with what's-her-face from the grocery store that he's my age, so I know he must live with his parents.†   (source)
  • and deducing that so many mice in a two-foot section of baseboard only meant more mice (and more chewed wires) elsewhere, I wondered if despite Hobie's aversion to mousetraps I should set out some myself My suggestion that he get a cat—though welcomed enthusiastically by Hobie and cat-loving Mrs. DeFrees — was discussed with approval but not acted upon and soon sank from view.†   (source)
  • We won't know exactly what occurred during that attack until Arya wakes, but I have deduced a few details from what you've said.†   (source)
  • After more questioning, Ruth deduced that the woman had not been coming since the day after she started.†   (source)
  • Johnny and I had discussed various clever and infinitely subtle ways to trail Queue if he showed up, to follow him to his lair and spend weeks if necessary deducing his game.†   (source)
  • I have deduced that there is a relationship between these two masses that must be within certain parameters.†   (source)
  • Across the table from her sat an older skinny boy with curly brown hair—Connor Stoll, I deduced, though I'd never been able to tell him apart from his older brother, Travis.†   (source)
  • Maybe guessing, maybe deducing.†   (source)
  • Puppet placed a well-worn piece of chalk and twisted his cue stick into it for several seconds, all the time deducing the trajectory of the cue ball for his next stroke.†   (source)
  • My father was 71 at the time and looking no older than the man in the portrait, and I was but 14, yet I remember deducing in that instant that my father secretly wished the Duke had been his son, and disliked the political necessities that made them enemies.†   (source)
  • It took me more than a week to deduce from the evidence around me that everything before my waking up was a dream and everything afterward was reality.†   (source)
  • His 3,000 or so LPs spoke for the one and the other could be deduced from the fact of Martin's stomach bulging over his belt.†   (source)
  • But now she had it all diagnosed, deduced, clear.†   (source)
  • He was smoking a cigarette, and from the evenness of his exhalations Nye deduced that he was still a "virgin"-that is, still uninformed about the real purpose of the interview.†   (source)
  • After his first summer at QuikCopy, Peter had deduced that this was because the jobs mostly sucked, and they couldn't find anyone else to do them.†   (source)
  • Persian names are laced with layers of meaning, and any Iranian could deduce much from Moody's full name, Sayyed Bozorg Mabmoody.†   (source)
  • And what I deduce you marks need is a big fat pot to temptate you.†   (source)
  • Jeremiah had never shown much interest in the outcomes of the older boys' games, so Luma rightly deduced that Mandela was putting his younger brother up to the calls.†   (source)
  • I looked down at my hands, thinking again that I had to be awfully simple for him to deduce so much about me in less than a week.†   (source)
  • She saw the queen of diamonds with her throat wounded by the steel of the jack of spades, and she deduced that Fernanda was trying to get her husband back home by means of the discredited method of sticking pins into his picture but that she had brought on an internal tumor because of her clumsy knowledge of the black arts.†   (source)
  • I have deduced, reflecting on the Bus, that this would be the best way to shuffle off this mortal coil.†   (source)
  • Would he have deduced the reason why I didn't confide in him?†   (source)
  • The Alfas had no way of knowing she was there and that they would be easy targets for her weapons, the more so since the patrolling Orion had fed the Pogy exact range information, something that ordinarily takes time to deduce from a passive sonar plot.†   (source)
  • So the killers might have just deduced what we did.†   (source)
  • And she was no doubt intelligent, though he could have deduced that on the basis of her job.†   (source)
  • I deduced that that was where Pedro Tercero must be hiding, so I headed toward that shed.†   (source)
  • He had borrowed Horace's disguising-room overcoat to keep from freezing, and though Miss Wren didn't seem surprised to see a coat hovering in the air, she was astonished when the invisible boy wearing it said, "I deduced your birds' location from the Tales of the Peculiar, but we first heard of them in your mountaintop menagerie, from a pretentious dog."†   (source)
  • Well, they try to deduce all of mathematics from simple logical principles and show that mathematics is really based on logic.†   (source)
  • I had deduced the existence and nature of those pieces correctly, I must have, because here I was, and here was Arilesperas Strigan.†   (source)
  • She lived, he deduced, in her work.†   (source)
  • My friend rightfully deduced that his poetry was not receiving a fair reading.†   (source)
  • When her apple turned to gold, interception of Potentials ceased, leading many to deduce that she was the traitor.†   (source)
  • I wouldn't think you'd find them hard to deduce.†   (source)
  • Thomas had tried to deduce their possible location, but he had no memory of being moved, and there was nothing in this room that couldn't be found anywhere in the world.†   (source)
  • But how can one deduce the cause of Hamlet?†   (source)
  • Her legs and arms were so long and slender that it was hard to draw conclusions about her age, just as it had been hard to deduce anything from her handwriting save contradictions that, if he had been of a mind to read them, would have told him her age exacdy.†   (source)
  • I deduce by your message that you're alive!†   (source)
  • If we arbitrarily suppose the contrary, we can deduce anything we want.†   (source)
  • Based on Major Rathbone's wounds, and the fact that he didn't hear any gunshot during the performance, Leale deduces that Lincoln was stabbed.†   (source)
  • He'd never been so crass as to directly ask her late husband how he managed to accumulate such large amounts of cash, but it didn't take a Rhodes scholar to deduce that Barlowe must have been doing something at least marginally illegal.†   (source)
  • Mike broke his cipher patterns and deduced time-change program just to try legs.†   (source)
  • The cries were obviously those of a Husky, probably a young one, and I deduced that it must be one of Mike's dogs (he owned three half-grown pups not yet trained to harness which ran loose after the team) that had got lost, retraced its way to the cabin, and was now begging for someone to come and be nice to it.†   (source)
  • On occasion he bluffed, Edgar deduced, but he seemed to be lucky so it was difficult to tell whether he was bluffing or not.†   (source)
  • In this age, however, nothing could be deduced concerning the social status of the guests from their modes of transport.†   (source)
  • Several pairs of horn-rimmed glasses, the general drift of conversation and scattered books (among them The Function of the Orgasm) caused me to deduce that I was among scholastic types, and I was right.†   (source)
  • And in this manner you have deduced their religion?†   (source)
  • He'd just been to the pump, Clumly deduced.†   (source)
  • But he had gone further, deducing that the hollowing action had been accomplished by Lost River itself.†   (source)
  • "They will want to deduce in spite of you," Control had said.†   (source)
  • MORE I don't see— how you deduce that from what I told you.†   (source)
  • The detective compares stories, deduces who is lying, and uncovers the killer.†   (source)
  • Now let us consider the situation and see what may be deduced from it.   (source)
  • We can only deduce, also, the motivations for "Nick's" engineering of her escape.†   (source)
  • What if he had deduced that the Weasleys, Lupin, Tonks and Moody knew where Sirius was hiding?†   (source)
  • I've just realised something And he told them what he had just seen and deduced.†   (source)
  • The "object" is an intellectual construct deduced from the qualities.†   (source)
  • I deduced them from hundreds of years of observations.†   (source)
  • The very existence of subject and object themselves is deduced from the Quality event.†   (source)
  • It was he who deduced where you had gone when you did not return from the Forest.†   (source)
  • By using a computer, the pattern of dots could be analyzed and the structure deduced.†   (source)
  • But Leo still had to deduce the right sequence to activate this control sphere.†   (source)
  • You didn't have to be Sherlock Holmes to deduce that.†   (source)
  • "You want me to tell you where the island is," he deduced.†   (source)
  • As they talked, she deduced that he didn't remember calling the house last night.†   (source)
  • And to his great delight, he deduced their intent to stay.†   (source)
  • Blitzen was struggling to get out from under my arm, so I deduced he wasn't dead either.†   (source)
  • We deduced that there were probably no more than four terrorists involved in the hijacking.†   (source)
  • You deduce the motive was, at least partially, for the thrill, for the attention in the media.†   (source)
  • Like I said, they might have deduced it the same way we did.†   (source)
  • Only a genius could have deduced as much.†   (source)
  • --by the belief that there was a cause for them, always deducible.†   (source)
  • I mean, how can you deduce arithmetic from logic?†   (source)
  • The objective of the highwaymen was probably the car and the gas, Randy deduced, rather than honey.†   (source)
  • The adults must have deduced this already, from his long stick and the way he's tied his sheet: he's gone on journeys before, or that's what he's called his looting forays into the trailer parks and adjacent pleeblands.†   (source)
  • I deduced that they must be climbers from the Montenegrin expedition; if they succeeded they would be the first team to reach the top this year.†   (source)
  • Continuous observation of her, and of her contrived antics, led me to deduce that she was not in fact insane, as she pretended, but was attempting to pull the wool over my eyes in a studied and flagrant manner.†   (source)
  • Naturally many people have deduced what has happened: There has been such a dramatic change in Ministry policy in the last few days, and many are whispering that Voldemort must be behind it.†   (source)
  • We must do a certain amount of guessing here, although I do not think it is difficult to deduce what happened.†   (source)
  • From all of these things, Harry deduced that Ginny, and probably Neville and Luna along with her, had been doing their best to continue Dumbledore's Army.†   (source)
  • He was still checking the Marauder's Map, and as he was unable to locate Malfoy on it, deduced that Malfoy was still spending plenty of time within the room.†   (source)
  • Although Beck was blind in his right eye and able to focus his left only in a radius of three or four feet, he started walking directly into the wind, deducing correctly that camp lay in that direction immediately.†   (source)
  • Cecilia had already deduced that this was his real assignment, even though he never formally admitted it.†   (source)
  • According to Hsu, when she called Day in 1973, she told him this: "We come to draw blood to get HLA antiogen, we do genetic marker profile because we can deduce a lot of Henrietta Lacks genotype from the children and the husband."†   (source)
  • From our brief conversation I deduced that I had just met the celebrated eccentric whom the locals called the Mayor of Hippie Cove, a reference to a bight of tidewater north of town that was a magnet for long-haired transients, near which the Mayor had been living for some years.†   (source)
  • Today, no scientist would dream of publishing a person's name with any of their genetic information, because we know how much can be deduced from DNA, including the risks of developing certain diseases.†   (source)
  • Luna was not there: The thing that was making such a racket was a wooden object covered in magically turning cogs and wheels, It looked like the bizarre offspring of a workbench and a set of shelves, but after a moment Harry deduced that it was an old-fashioned printing press, due to the fact that it was churning out Quibblers.†   (source)
  • Wang tried to recall what little he knew of European history in the Middle Ages so that he could deduce the level of advancement of this civilization based on the name.†   (source)
  • He has also deduced that the process is likely to work in reverse; that is to say, he has realised that he might be able to access your thoughts and feelings in return —'†   (source)
  • Watson is amazed by how Holmes could deduce the man's history, but Holmes can't articulate his reasoning and has to think for a while to figure out his chain of deductions.†   (source)
  • From these hypotheses he deduces a series of theorems among which it's impossible to find any contradiction, and he constructs a geometry whose faultless logic is inferior in nothing to that of the Euclidian geometry.†   (source)
  • Since the door had only a number and no sign, Wang deduced that this building belonged to the military, rather than the police.†   (source)
  • Wang deduced that it was some kind of parabolic antenna, so large that its edges were beyond the frame of the photograph.†   (source)
  • Beside her, a man with what appeared to be a map tattooed on his bald pate watched the action through rose-tinted glasses and guzzled what Eve deduced to be some of Roarke's vintage white.†   (source)
  • Though she used many unfamiliar words in the ancient language, he deduced that she was explaining to their hosts how she had lost Saphira's egg and the events since.†   (source)
  • Palmgren's picture of Salander was completely different from what could be deduced from the welfare agency's report.†   (source)
  • He remembered Oromis once telling him that the whole of the world could be deduced from the smallest grain of sand, if one studied it closely enough.†   (source)
  • The subway,she deduced.†   (source)
  • They'd seen each other only twice, and there wasn't a chance that Thigh-bolt could have deduced the truth from those two meetings.†   (source)
  • The others reacted in various ways as well, from which Nasuada deduced Saphira had spoken to them all at once.†   (source)
  • One day he put on the black hat he had not worn all summer and it covered his ears completely, which led him to deduce that if his brain was shrinking, his ideas were also probably withering away.†   (source)
  • Nasuada noticed the concern on Jormundur's face as he looked at her and deduced that Trianna had indeed told him about Drail.†   (source)
  • Lafayette Baker also deduces that Booth won't head toward Richmond if he gets across the Potomac because that would lead him straight into Union lines.†   (source)
  • What should we deduce from that?†   (source)
  • Before he tried to reassemble the telephone he had to deduce its workings and obtain anything extra that he might need to supplement them.†   (source)
  • The duty officer, however, had been following the developments in Nykvarn that morning, and she deduced that this new commotion must have something to do with that Lisbeth Salander everyone was talking about.†   (source)
  • The imperishable answer was, "I find it easier to believe in God than to believe that Hamlet was deduced from the molecular structure of a mutton chop.†   (source)
  • "You're in here at this hour, looking like you've been up all night, and in that suit, I have to deduce it's something.†   (source)
  • , Miro deduced that the boy was a year or two younger than himself— but then, he remembered, of course, that he did not know his own age.†   (source)
  • During his time on theRed Boar, it had occurred to Roran that officials in Narda might have deduced that whoever killed the two guards was among the men who left upon Clovis's barges.†   (source)
  • He deduced this from his sagging facial skin and his belt having four additional holes cut in the leather to accommodate his shrinking waist.†   (source)
  • Besides, his name had not appeared on any of the lists of people sought by the authorities, so I deduced that Jaime had nothing to fear.†   (source)
  • "It's all so simple," said the hunchback "All I have to do is deduce, from what I know of you, the way your mind works.†   (source)
  • I deduce.†   (source)
  • The hijacker we are dealing with, the one we have deduced is the man called Artkin, and to me: 'Either you are a great patriot or a great fool.'†   (source)
  • From their attacks, Roran deduced that the Empire no longer cared about capturing him and only wanted to stop him from finding sanctuary with the Varden.†   (source)
  • He got his first clue as to their genders when he deduced that the huge ant in the heart of their underground lair was laying eggs, one every minute or so, which made it-her-a female.†   (source)
  • Above all, they want to deduce.†   (source)
  • Short of actually finding a way of getting inside them to know it for oneself, I do not see how we can deduce religious sentiments here, even if every one of your other conjectures is correct.†   (source)
  • All that we can deduce from the record indicates that in the pursuit of their jobs SS officers, including doctors, were almost monkish in their decorum, sobriety and devotion to the rules.†   (source)
  • The little sad man with spectacles who sat alone at the neighboring table, deep in a book on the manufacture of ball bearings, might have deduced, bad he been listening, that Leamas was indulging a sadistic nature—or perhaps (if he had been a man of particular subtlety) that Leamas was proving to his own satisfaction that only a man with a strong ulterior motive would put up with that kind of treatment.†   (source)
  • On the other side of the field, near the military hangars used by Air-Sea Rescue Command, he saw the silhouettes of six B-47's, part of the wing from McCoy, he deduced, using this field in accordance with a dispersal plan.†   (source)
  • Examining the marks and a shattered cabbage palm, he deduced she was driving at high speed when the explosion at MacDill—he could see an orange patch in the southwest, probably fire storms consuming Tampa and St. Petersburg—unnerved or blinded her.†   (source)
  • The merchants, grocers, druggists, the proprietors of specialty shops and filling stations, deduced that if travelers checks and government bonds were worthless, then all checks would soon be worthless.†   (source)
  • Duffy could look at Willie and deduce the fact that Willie was not in politics.†   (source)
  • I deduced a curtain and a recess behind it.†   (source)
  • But there was nothing which the man could know, deduce.†   (source)
  • Then she said in a slightly irritable tone: 'Well-what exactly do you deduce from that?†   (source)
  • 'I had already deduced as much,' replied Poirot gravely.†   (source)
  • Others made comparisons with the great pestilences of former times, drew parallels (which the forecasters called "constants"), and claimed to deduce conclusions bearing on the present calamity.†   (source)
  • …whimsical and incurably pessimistic, without date or salutation or signature: You will notice how I insult neither of us by claiming this to be a voice from the defeated even, let alone from the dead In fact, if I were a philosopher I should deduce and derive a curious and apt commentary on the times and augur of the future from this letter which you now bold in your hands—a sheet of notepaper with, as you can see, the best of French watermarks dated seventy years ago, salvaged (stolen…†   (source)
  • She watched the tides of traffic cannily; she knew by what corners the largest number of people passed in a day or an hour; she was sensitive to every growing-pain of the young town, gauging from year to year its growth in any direction, and deducing the probable direction of its future expansion.†   (source)
  • "In fact," said Poirot, "she stabbed him in the dark, not realizing that he was dead already, but somehow deduced that he had a watch in his pyjama pocket, took it out, put back the hands blindly, and gave it the requisite dent."†   (source)
  • I hope you've deduced that I've my own reason for answering the impertinent questions of a stranger, for that's all you are to me.†   (source)
  • Tolstoy was capable of abjuring physical violence and of seeing what this implies, but he was not capable of tolerance or humility, and even if one knew nothing of his other writings, one could deduce his tendency towards spiritual bullying from this single pamphlet.†   (source)
  • This ancient manuscript records the cycles of the planets and from those deduces calculations of vast cosmic cycles.†   (source)
  • She was also stupid enough to believe that a child of five not only could deduce the truth from what he had heard, but that he would want to tell it as an adult would.†   (source)
  • An amusing book might be made of it if some young student at Girton or Newnham would collect examples and deduce a theory,—but she would need thick gloves on her hands, and bars to protect her of solid gold.†   (source)
  • From a supernatural tablet entrusted to him by a horse-shaped scaly monster out of the waters of the river Meng, he deduced the Eight Diagrams, which remain to this day the fundamental symbols of traditional Chinese thought.†   (source)
  • From the costly simplicity of her attire, I deduced at once that she belonged to the upper strata of society.†   (source)
  • Instead, it was perfectly fresh, so I deduced at once that the window must have been open all night, and only closed in the morning, and that gave me a very interesting line of speculation.†   (source)
  • But how on earth do you deduce that the gas is not laid on in his house?†   (source)
  • "What do you deduce from that?' asked Hayward.†   (source)
  • For example, how did you deduce that this man was intellectual?†   (source)
  • No, but I fancy that I may have deduced a little more.†   (source)
  • These are the more patent facts which are to be deduced from his hat.†   (source)
  • And now what do you suppose they deduced from that?†   (source)
  • It has been said that Marmaduke deduced his origin from the contemporaries and friends of Penn.†   (source)
  • Put the figures and deduce the misery, you know; and put the other figures and deduce—and so on.†   (source)
  • By listening to the women as they talked and by chance remarks from which he could deduce much that was left unsaid, Philip learned how little there was in common between the poor and the classes above them.†   (source)
  • "You probably wish to deduce, prince," said Alexandra, "that moments of time cannot be reckoned by money value, and that sometimes five minutes are worth priceless treasures.†   (source)
  • It would not require a Sherlock Holmes to deduce that you have been cooking over a camp-fire, to say nothing of trying out seal-blubber.†   (source)
  • Is it natural that he should stand for five or ten minutes, as Dr. Mortimer, with more practical sense than I should have given him credit for, deduced from the cigar ash?†   (source)
  • And so, out of these various conferences, it was finally deduced by Jephson, who saw a great opportunity for himself in this matter, that the safest possible defense that could be made, and one to which Clyde's own suspicious and most peculiar actions would most exactly fit, would be that he had never contemplated murder.†   (source)
  • Given the fact that all sovereignty and authority were originally vested in the people, who then transferred all legislative and other powers to their prince, your school of thought deduces, first and foremost, the people's right to revolt against the crown.†   (source)
  • I lay down this morning at ten o'clock with the intention of not rising again before that time; but I thought it over and rose just once more in order to come here; from which you may deduce that I had some reason for wishing to come."†   (source)
  • "—we, for our part," Naphta continued, "are perhaps no less revolutionary than you, but we have always deduced, first and foremost, the supremacy of the Church over the secular state.†   (source)
  • "Sometimes, thinking over this, I became quite numb with the terror of it; and I might well have deduced from this fact, that my 'last conviction' was eating into my being too fast and too seriously, and would undoubtedly come to its climax before long.†   (source)
  • As to what it was he feared, we can only deduce that by considering the formidable letters which were received by himself and his successors.†   (source)
  • It is true that I had a country walk on Thursday and came home in a dreadful mess, but as I have changed my clothes I can't imagine how you deduce it.†   (source)
  • Do you not deduce something from that?†   (source)
  • "Ah," said Holmes, "I think that what you have been good enough to tell us makes the matter fairly clear, and that I can deduce all that remains.†   (source)
  • Only as much as we can deduce.†   (source)
  • How did you deduce the select?†   (source)
  • "The ideal reasoner," he remarked, "would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which would follow from it.†   (source)
  • What do you deduce from that?†   (source)
  • Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of writing lately, I can deduce nothing else.†   (source)
  • What do you deduce from it?†   (source)
  • I see it, I deduce it.†   (source)
  • The tip had been cut off, not bitten off, but the cut was not a clean one, so I deduced a blunt pen-knife.†   (source)
  • I deduced a ventilator.†   (source)
  • Evidence of their Asiatic origin is deduced from the circumstances, though great uncertainty hangs over the whole history of the Indians.†   (source)
  • Two inferences, however, were plainly deduced from the whole: one, that Elizabeth was the real cause of the mischief; and the other that she herself had been barbarously misused by them all; and on these two points she principally dwelt during the rest of the day.†   (source)
  • Many a moral for the young," returned Mr. Wopsle,—and I knew he was going to lug me in, before he said it; "might be deduced from that text."†   (source)
  • What truth have you deduced, I will not say from medicine, which is too foolish a thing, but from astrology?†   (source)
  • She who had so feared he would take her condition too lightly was now vexed with him for deducing from it the necessity of taking some step.†   (source)
  • I brought to mind the inquisitorial proceedings, and attempted from that point to deduce my real condition.†   (source)
  • I do not know that the relation of my disasters will be useful to you; yet, when I reflect that you are pursuing the same course, exposing yourself to the same dangers which have rendered me what I am, I imagine that you may deduce an apt moral from my tale, one that may direct you if you succeed in your undertaking and console you in case of failure.†   (source)
  • 'What measure ye mete so it shall be meted unto you again,' cried the counsel for the defense, and instantly deduces that Christ teaches us to measure as it is measured to us—and this from the tribune of truth and sound sense!†   (source)
  • Political Consequences Of The Social Condition Of The Anglo-Americans The political consequences of such a social condition as this are easily deducible.†   (source)
  • One moral we have already deduced in considering the circular or compensatory character of every human action.†   (source)
  • I went to my room and reread Joseph Alexeevich's letters and recalled my conversations with him, and deduced from it all that I ought not to refuse a suppliant, and ought to reach a helping hand to everyone—especially to one so closely bound to me—and that I must bear my cross.†   (source)
  • But, after all, was this unconquerable distrust of Judge Pyncheon's integrity, and this utter denial, apparently, of his claim to stand in the ring of human sympathies,—were they founded in any just perception of his character, or merely the offspring of a woman's unreasonable prejudice, deduced from nothing?†   (source)
  • The historians who live in democratic ages are not only prone to assign a great cause to every incident, but they are also given to connect incidents together, so as to deduce a system from them.†   (source)
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