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  • There were a few older men among them; knights, she surmised.†   (source)
  • I had admired Hobie's changelings for years and had even helped work on some of them, but it was the shock of being fooled by these previously-unseen pieces that (to employ a favored phrase of Hobie's) filled me with a wild surmise.†   (source)
  • I believe that your immune system is especially fragile given what I could surmise about the nature of your upbringing.†   (source)
  • Hallorann had flown enough to be able to surmise what had happened.†   (source)
  • I didn't hear the front door open, so I surmised that she had retreated to the living MOM.†   (source)
  • That's how we surmise it was discovered from the surface.†   (source)
  • I was excited and had to go to the bathroom but couldn't surmise where a girl would even begin to look, in a place like this.†   (source)
  • He must be her son-in-law, Ruth surmised.†   (source)
  • He could only surmise that some danger or disturbance along the main route to the Sea of Grass had sent them this back way along bypassed stretches of the Hoolie.†   (source)
  • And you don't like him," Edward surmised, his tone still kind.†   (source)
  • His mother was, Leigh Anne surmised, an alcoholic.†   (source)
  • His leaves, his hair, have mostly departed, we can surmise, and his appendages are less resolute than formerly, and of course, he's entered a quieter period than his youth had been.†   (source)
  • It took agonizingly long—three minutes or so—but soon all the available private drones in the area, eleven of them, were in the air, each operated by its owner, and all were on the mountain where, it had been surmised, Mercer was driving.†   (source)
  • There is no plan B. "Seems pretty risky," Mack surmised.†   (source)
  • As we surmised from the nickname, Digger made his living as an excavator.†   (source)
  • What he meant by that we can only surmise.†   (source)
  • The best we can do is surmise the general contours of his face.†   (source)
  • 5:3894" Milo quickly pulled the rule book from his pocket, opened to the page, and read, "Ordinance 1753894 It shall be unlawful, illegal, and unethical to think, think of thinking, surmise, presume, reason, meditate, or speculate while in the Doldrums.†   (source)
  • Telemarketers, resettlement officials surmised, had figured out that dialing numbers located in the Clarkston zip code produced an excellent chance of reaching someone who spoke little or no English.†   (source)
  • The opponent must then hazard some sort of surmise about its nature—e.g., one or two, light or dark, rough or smooth.†   (source)
  • The same could be surmised of most of the Hebrew names (Rotem and Zofia, Akiva and Zev), even though many of today's most mainstream names (David, Jonathan, Samuel, Benjamin, Rachel, Hannah, Sarah, Rebecca) are of course Hebrew biblical names.†   (source)
  • Sister Grace believed the proof of God's creativity eddied from the fact that you could not surmise the life, even remotely, of his humblest shut-in.†   (source)
  • She'd held them up, he surmised, right before they shot her.†   (source)
  • According to the neighbor, Adam had left with another neighbor to have a beer at a bar, and Kelley surmised that one beer led to another and another.†   (source)
  • He has surmised that this is not a friendly visit.†   (source)
  • But that, John surmised as he wrapped his arms around a section of rigging, was the point.†   (source)
  • 'He went to war,' the fighter pilot with the golden mustache surmised.†   (source)
  • That must be it, he surmises, spotting a sorry-looking box of red brick with white limestone archways and ledges: Slater Junior High School.†   (source)
  • Of course, Otis was still concerned about that, but not, Vlad surmised, as much as he was worried about leaving Vlad behind, with only an hour's drive between him and the Stokerton council.†   (source)
  • I surmised from that and later confirmed from Matron that Hema had made every attempt to banish the book from Missing; she'd never wanted me or Shiva to see his work, much less a picture of him.†   (source)
  • "You're Angel's father?" surmised Cesar as he reached out his hand, which Umberto allowed to dangle in midair.†   (source)
  • You are correct in your surmise, said Locaha.†   (source)
  • Of these New Englanders, all citizen-soldiers, Washington quickly surmised that Thomas, Sullivan, and Greene were the best he had.†   (source)
  • Clean through, hon. I surmised that the woman had been standing sideways.†   (source)
  • Bublanski surmised that this was news to her.†   (source)
  • So, I surmised, if I could relieve whatever strain that had surfaced, we would be that much better off.†   (source)
  • She correctly surmises that he is a plumber.†   (source)
  • Attolia had surmised that he meant to keep his own men behind hers so that the Attolians might take the heaviest losses, exhausting the Eddisians' resources and leaving Attolia ever more dependent on the Mede for her defense.†   (source)
  • As most mortals were far too fragile a vessel for the Old Magic, the teacher surmised that its energies had overwhelmed Emer's mind just as they had overtaxed David's body.†   (source)
  • From previous visits, Deo had surmised that the young man was mildly depressed.†   (source)
  • Police will later surmise that the bullet ricocheted off the windowpane, missing Walker's head by just three inches.†   (source)
  • I can only surmise as to some of the things you did.†   (source)
  • The first generation of research surmised that blacks' speech derived from pieces of dialects brought by their slave owners from different parts of England.†   (source)
  • An ornate marble altar sits at one end, and I surmise that this must have been the castle's chapel.†   (source)
  • Up close the colonel was more inebriated than I had surmised, his sleepy eyes opaque.†   (source)
  • The killers knew with certainty that which he could only surmise: he could not seek that kind of protection-he could not seek the police.†   (source)
  • Drizzt surmised that Akar Kessell planned to use this cave as a home base for his army.†   (source)
  • They sprang to their feet, glanced at each other with a wild surmise, and then trotted off, passed down a draw, and disappeared in the direction of the esker.†   (source)
  • He surmised that he was hearing a broadcast from Orlando or Ocala, but with interference from stations in other nearby cities, perhaps Daytona, or Leesburg and Eustis, not far off in Lake County.†   (source)
  • He showed me the lowest and I had to surmise the highest.†   (source)
  • I could only surmise from what she said about her first six months at Auschwitz that the shock and grief caused by Eva's death created a bereavement which might have destroyed her, too, had it not been for Jan and his survival; the very fact that the little boy still lived, even though beyond her reach, and that she might somehow eventually get to see him was enough to sustain her through the initial phases of the nightmare.†   (source)
  • "I will, however," I continued, "preface my actions with that which I have surmised concerning yourselves.†   (source)
  • As a senior I had surmised that this coach had a brain the size and density of a Ping-Pong ball, so it came as no great surprise when he banished me forever from his gymnasium.†   (source)
  • So I had already surmised, sir.†   (source)
  • Few of the mourners knew them, a few others surmised who they were, but most had no idea.†   (source)
  • But that's all surmise," he said.†   (source)
  • Joel had never been able to hear the knocking at a door, and still he knew what that would be; and he surmised that these men had never knocked even lightly to enter his room.†   (source)
  • He looked around at his staff in a kind of wild surmise.†   (source)
  • And if they somehow hadn't surmised as much, Taylor would remind them, well in advance.†   (source)
  • "You like him," I surmised from the tone of his voice.†   (source)
  • I take it you're ready to start looking through the diaries," she surmised.†   (source)
  • She surmised it was down to Gary Pervier's, where the drinking would start.†   (source)
  • Ronnie, seeing that she'd been holding an eight, surmised that they'd all lost to Jonah.†   (source)
  • Her great-grandmother, Lou surmised, must live on the outskirts of Tremont.†   (source)
  • Or so he surmised, by the leech marks on his arms when he woke.†   (source)
  • The doctor surmised that the woman had developed the infection long before her arrival in America.†   (source)
  • Maybe they're in trouble," surmised Enrique.†   (source)
  • 'No, I suppose not,' Colonel Cathcart surmised vaguely with the look of somebody seasick.†   (source)
  • Maybe it was shot earlier than the experts surmised.†   (source)
  • "Bet he runs a tight squad," surmised Lucky.†   (source)
  • It wasn't costume jewelry, as he had surmised.†   (source)
  • The locked bedroom door …. the possibility the dope might not be in the downstairs bathroom as he had surmised but hidden somewhere …. the chance she might come back and catch him …. these things mattered not at all, these things were only shadows behind the pain.†   (source)
  • It did not take an act of intellectual acrobatics to surmise that the old woman had not approved of the union and that Nila knew it.†   (source)
  • As well as she could surmise, there were at least twenty thousand National Guard troops in New Orleans, with more arriving every day.†   (source)
  • But as incapable as he was of a heartfelt response to a real situation, the Rev. Mr. Merrill was tirelessly capable of thinking; he pondered and brooded and surmised and second-guessed my mother to death.†   (source)
  • He paused, surveying us with the kind of wide-eyed surmise Mr. Carhart always used at this point, and then added in Mr. Carhart's urbane murmur, "Let us pray.†   (source)
  • I've surmised this scene, assembled it piece by piece over many years from the things I read, when it all began to come out.†   (source)
  • The pages contained precise vertical rows, without crossouts, leaving Ruth to surmise that her mother had copied over her earlier attempts.†   (source)
  • He wasn't, the psychologists surmised, because he had worked very hard to disguise his grotesque deficiencies from his teachers.†   (source)
  • The man taking care of the yacht, a wisp of a man named Mahmoud, had a brief Arabic conversation with al-Ahmad, during which, Alan surmised, al-Ahmad was convincing Mahmoud to allow Alan to pilot the yacht down the canal.†   (source)
  • By the time he reached the salon, Julie needed only a glance to surmise that Mike was just about as upset as she'd ever seen him.†   (source)
  • Beneath the polite English surface lay burning animosity, surmised Abigail, who, like John, felt she was taking part in an elaborate stage play.†   (source)
  • Because Amanda had been lying to her mom, it wasn't hard to surmise that she'd been lying to Frank as well.†   (source)
  • Lowering his bearded chin until it rested upon his chest, Orik paused for a brief span and then began to speak in a sonorous voice, but he did not begin as Eragon had expected, nor, Eragon surmised, as the rest of the congregation had expected.†   (source)
  • Much of this Jon had surmised the moment he learned that the Iron Bank had sent an envoy to the Wall.†   (source)
  • It was a sleepy little town, and she surmised that an event like this was probably the highlight of the year.†   (source)
  • After texting his mom, he started the truck and peeled out of the parking lot, making it back to the ranch a little after four a.m. Seeing the lights on in the main house, he surmised that his mom had either risen early or. more likely, hadn't gone to bed.†   (source)
  • Despite the waterfront location—or maybe because of it, he surmised—he noted the decay near the rooflines, in the crumbling bricks near the foundations, in the faded brackish stains a couple of feet higher than the foundations, which indicated serious flooding in the past.†   (source)
  • By that measure, John surmised, Ordo Maas might have been wiser than every other living being on Earth.†   (source)
  • Hastily attempting to redeem myself I tore off the mask and stepped briskly forward — whereupon the Eskimos, with the precision of a musical comedy chorus line, stepped briskly backwards, staring at me the while with wild surmise.†   (source)
  • The kiss on her neck, he surmised.†   (source)
  • Brent surmised at once that Cassius and his large force would be able to make it back to the city on their own.†   (source)
  • Did the killers now threading their way through the crowds know something else he could only surmise?†   (source)
  • Possibly, as John Quincy surmised, it was because Adams had denied him his chance for military glory, humiliated him at Trenton, and made his army superfluous.†   (source)
  • I would surmise that during this year alone the police will have to solve half a dozen murder or manslaughter cases where the killer is among this small group of patients.†   (source)
  • Actually, back when he lived here, the only white people he saw were cops, always angry because -- so he surmised -- always scared.†   (source)
  • Some have surmised that she was not pining for Bram when she waded into the sea but rather for this former suitor … the man she was supposed to marry.†   (source)
  • "The current of the water is too strong and the ledge of the waterdrop too high to go back through Evermelt," he said to Drizzt, though he knew that the drow would have surmised the same thing.†   (source)
  • The centaur indicated the motion of the sun across the sky, moving westward, and the council saw what Charys had surmised.†   (source)
  • Possibly Mafia, Clyde surmised.†   (source)
  • Nabby, appraising the politicians she encountered in New York, including Governor George Clinton, surmised there were few for whom personal aggrandizement was not the guiding motivation.†   (source)
  • And when he went out they were on the front stoop muttering something that sounded like Wall Street and Albert finally surmised this was a brand of heroin for sale, Wall Street, Wall Street, and he could hear them in the halls, strangers in the building, breathing in and out.†   (source)
  • Adams, who had never lost interest in Holland, strongly disagreed, and from reports gathered since his return to Paris, he surmised that the chances for financial help from the Dutch were better than ever.†   (source)
  • John surmised that to make the attempt, the Winter King would move as far away from the battlefield as he could get—and that meant the rocky bluff to the west, which sharpened to a peak high above the roaring falls.†   (source)
  • In 1947, it may be remembered, the truly pernicious effect of cigarette smoking on the health was barely surmised even by medical men, and word of its potential erosive damage, when uttered at all, was greeted by sophisticates with amused skepticism.†   (source)
  • "Lot of people in London," remarked Sir Grummore, with a wild surmise.†   (source)
  • But we can use our imagination" we can look upon what he subsequently did and surmise.†   (source)
  • Katie surmised that something had gone wrong in school to upset Francie.†   (source)
  • Your surmises are intelligent, Mr. Barnard, but I fear I cannot discuss them.†   (source)
  • He surmised that the sound came from Eusabio's house, and that his friend was at home.†   (source)
  • Just as I surmised; you have acted as you thought best.†   (source)
  • Three years I throttled surmise, I was the beast of burden!†   (source)
  • …learn nothing save this: a shot heard, faint and far away and even direction and source indeterminate, by two women, two young women alone in a rotting house where no man's footstep had sounded in two years—a shot, then an interval of aghast surmise above the cloth and needles which engaged them, then feet, in the hall and then on the stairs, running, hurrying, the feet of a man: and Judith with just time to snatch up the unfinished dress and bold it before her as the door burst open…†   (source)
  • On the next day but one, Raoul, whom Rambert met at a street corner, confirmed Garcia's surmise; the low-lying districts had, in fact, been isolated and a cordon put round them.†   (source)
  • I knew these fierce moods of Julia's, such as had overtaken her at the fountain in moonlight, and dimly surmised their origin; I knew they could not be assuaged by words.†   (source)
  • She hadn't written for ages; probably, I surmised, she had grown tired of being the mistress of a man sentenced to death.†   (source)
  • We will even suppose that he faintly surmises some of the great art values the cultivated find in Picasso.†   (source)
  • Judging by the many maimed soldiers Mr Tanimoto had seen during the day, he surmised that the barracks had been badly damaged by whatever it was that had hit Hiroshima.†   (source)
  • Wang Lung's uncle began at this time to become the trouble which Wang Lung had surmised from the beginning that he might be.†   (source)
  • The lines, unknown, dimly surmised, thundered in his heart with limitless meaning, rolled out and flooded the last shores of his being.†   (source)
  • Without being unduly rash we may surmise that the tribute of seven youths and seven maidens whom the Athenians were bound to send to Minos every eight years had some connexion with the renewal of the king's power for another octennial eycle.†   (source)
  • We get very few of the true images in our heads of the kind I am talking about, the kind which become more and more vivid for us as if the passage of the years did not obscure their reality but, year by year, drew off another veil to expose a meaning which we had only dimly surmised at first.†   (source)
  • So the tumult of gossip, surmise and deep suspicion which followed the announcement of his quiet wedding to Scarlett was not surprising.†   (source)
  • But wrong or not, I did not put my surmise to the test, for if I myself was not truly aware of that rhythm and compulsion which bemused her, I was aware of her devotion to it, and could find every moment with her full enough.†   (source)
  • The Queen shall come back to him with her liberty as it was, and she shall stand in nae peril for nothing that was surmised afore this day.†   (source)
  • His hair became tangled about his head … over thewhich though a prime apple-tree had been shaken, yet may we surmise that never an apple of them would have reached the ground, but rather that all would have been held impaled each on an individual hair as it bristled on him for fury.†   (source)
  • …that week's journey by steamboat among the cotton bales on the freight deck, eating and sleeping with negroes, where he could not even tell his companion when he was hungry or when he had to relieve himself) and so could have only suspected, surmised, where she was taking him, could have known nothing certainly except that all he had ever been familiar with was vanishing about him like smoke, yet he made no resistance, returning quietly and docilely to that decaying house which he had…†   (source)
  • He surmised that the heat of the sun, reflected from the rocky hill-slope up into the tree, gave the fruit an even temperature, warmth from two sides, such as brings the wall peaches to perfection in France.†   (source)
  • But the old servant had put her finger to her lips and motioned the visitor away, glancing back over her shoulder the while with such an expression of terror that the intruder hastened off, surmising that Sada would be harshly used if she were caught speaking to anyone.†   (source)
  • But maybe I was wrong in that surmise, and maybe I could not have hurried the massive deliberation of that current in which we were caught and suspended, or hurried Anne Stanton's pensive and scholarly assimilation of each minute variation which had to be slowly absorbed into the body of our experience before another could be permitted.†   (source)
  • I counsel you, put down in record even your doubts and surmises.†   (source)
  • This surmise seemed to be confirmed when I saw a shadow suddenly glide along the sacristy wall.†   (source)
  • It appeared that it was indeed as they had surmised.†   (source)
  • Not a shadow of one—only surmise and conjecture.†   (source)
  • I fear it was no dream, and must act on this surmise.†   (source)
  • They were boys, and she surmised they were students.†   (source)
  • I am beginning to surmise that you liked him as well.†   (source)
  • But more than that we were never destined to know, though there was much which we might surmise.†   (source)
  • We have now passed into the Bistritza, and if we are wrong in our surmise our chance is gone.†   (source)
  • To her I have explained my situation, but without the horrors which I may only surmise.†   (source)
  • A hint, a surmise, a doubt as to what might be in the box, would destroy him.†   (source)
  • It was evident then that my surmise had been correct.†   (source)
  • —We must see, as well as we can surmise it from the facts we know of, what he has done here.†   (source)
  • For it all prove to him how right he was at the first in his surmises.†   (source)
  • But you cannot prove either of these surmises to be correct.†   (source)
  • Fanny's heart beat quick, and she felt quite unequal to surmising or soliciting anything more.†   (source)
  • His heart beat, and he racked his brain with surmises.†   (source)
  • Mr. Snell was correct in his surmise, that somebody else would remember the pedlar's ear-rings.†   (source)
  • It was easy to make my further arrangements; for I was troubled with no inquiries — no surmises.†   (source)
  • What these conditions were may be easily surmised, though Tom never disclosed them publicly.†   (source)
  • Nikolai Petrovitch surmised that his brother's dislike for Bazarov was no less.†   (source)
  • It must not surmise or provide for infirmity.†   (source)
  • Harriet had not surmised her own danger, but the idea of it struck her forcibly.†   (source)
  • Heathcliff is my daughter-in-law,' said Heathcliff, corroborating my surmise.†   (source)
  • It were perhaps vain to surmise exactly why it was, that as respecting Starbuck, Ahab thus acted.†   (source)
  • Moreover, Jean Valjean began vaguely to surmise that he was being shown the door.†   (source)
  • An unimportant incident, among many others, confirmed his surmises.†   (source)
  • —she was more and more convinced that Mrs. Weston was quite mistaken in that surmise.†   (source)
  • Say not a word of it; hear nothing, surmise nothing, whisper nothing till I write again.†   (source)
  • "Have you not lately renewed your promise?" said the younger with quiet surmise.†   (source)
  • Emma saw its artifice, and returned to her first surmises.†   (source)
  • All that Marius had caught a glimpse of and had surmised was real.†   (source)
  • — She may not have surmised the whole, but her quickness must have penetrated a part.†   (source)
  • The old woman went to get the bill changed, and mentioned her surmises.†   (source)
  • This much Marguerite had fully understood from the first, and Sir Andrew Ffoulkes had confirmed her surmises.†   (source)
  • He merely surmises that there is some strain of dog in White Fang; but as he will tell you himself, he knows nothing about it.†   (source)
  • She stood apart from the crowd, letting it drift by her to the platform or the street, and wearing an air of irresolution which might, as he surmised, be the mask of a very definite purpose.†   (source)
  • To one of her upbringing, and of her destination, the weakness of men was a truth unfamiliar, but she had surmised it at Florence, when George threw her photographs into the River Arno.†   (source)
  • They had just noticed it, and were perfectly justified in surmising that if in absolute stillness there was some chance for the ship to keep afloat a few minutes longer, the least disturbance of the sea would make an end of her instantly.†   (source)
  • And in case of an injury but suspected, its secretiveness voluntarily cuts it off from enlightenment or disillusion; and, not unreluctantly, action is taken upon surmise as upon certainty.†   (source)
  • Yet she could only surmise.†   (source)
  • Inside, as he had surmised, he found a collection of furnished rooms, name plates some of which bore the names of the roomers pasted upon them.†   (source)
  • Arabella was in a thoughtful mood; but her thoughts were not of the new chapel, as Anny at first surmised.†   (source)
  • He could hardly grasp the thing—much less try to solve it; but a hundred wild surmises came to him, a sense of impending calamity overwhelmed him.†   (source)
  • It is to be surmised that they are bills, as Algernon, after looking at the envelopes, tears them up.†   (source)
  • So I surmise.†   (source)
  • The shops show the same standardized, nationally advertised wares; the newspapers of sections three thousand miles apart have the same "syndicated features"; the boy in Arkansas displays just such a flamboyant ready-made suit as is found on just such a boy in Delaware, both of them iterate the same slang phrases from the same sporting-pages, and if one of them is in college and the other is a barber, no one may surmise which is which.†   (source)
  • Surmising that he has no valet, and seeing that he has no secretary with a shorthand notebook and a typewriter, one meditates on how little our great burgess domesticity has been disturbed by new fashions and methods, or by the enterprise of the railway and hotel companies which sell you a Saturday to Monday of life at Folkestone as a real gentleman for two guineas, first class fares both ways included.†   (source)
  • A touch of red in nose and cheeks, with a slight tremor of his extended hand, recalled Holmes' surmise as to his habits.†   (source)
  • Venters surmised this much of the change in him—idleness had passed; keen, fierce vigor flooded his mind and body; all that had happened to him at Cottonwoods seemed remote and hard to recall; the difficulties and perils of the present absorbed him, held him in a kind of spell.†   (source)
  • Hans Castorp only surmised all this, however, more than he actually saw it—she was really too far away.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • In her ignorance, she regarded him as "India," and never surmised that his outlook was limited and his method inaccurate, and that no one is India.†   (source)
  • He would gaze in admiration at the large eyes, the delicate features in which the imperfection of her skin might be surmised, the marvellous locks of hair that fell along her tired cheeks; and, adapting what he had already felt to be beautiful, on aesthetic grounds, to the idea of a living woman, he converted it into a series of physical merits which he congratulated himself on finding assembled in the person of one whom he might, ultimately, possess.†   (source)
  • Philip saw several fellows with a desultory, timid look dawdling around, and surmised that, like himself, they were there for the first time.†   (source)
  • That much she surmised.†   (source)
  • As you surmise, it's necessary in My Position to be conservative, and perhaps endeavor to maintain a certain standard of dignity.†   (source)
  • Neither you, Mr. Amritrao, nor, Mr. McBryde, you, have any right to surmise what that lady would have said.†   (source)
  • Jerry, who, in anticipation of a running fusillade, had huddled himself into a little twisted ball on Black Star's neck, now surmising that this pursuer would make sure of not wounding one of the blacks, rose to his natural seat in the saddle.†   (source)
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