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  • People engaged in the most fantastic suppositions, and instead of feeling calmer they were twice as anxious as before.†   (source)
  • [He] was a smart young fellow, so lithe that he would run along the top of a zigzag fence like a squirrel, or leap over a five-barred gate, rather than open or climb it…… Grace was of a lively disposition and pleasant manners and may have been an object of jealousy to Nancy…… There is plenty of room for the supposition that instead of her being the instigator and promoter of the terrible deeds committed, she was but the unfortunate dupe in the whole dreadful business.†   (source)
  • Whoever had written it took for granted that Fermina Daza had bewitched Dr. Juvenal Urbino with her love potions, and from that supposition sinister conclusions had been drawn.†   (source)
  • But this idea of Quality took issue with that very supposition…of objectivity and disinterestedness.†   (source)
  • A naturalistic scientist will exclusively rely on natural phenomena—not on either rationalistic suppositions or any form of divine revelation.†   (source)
  • Q. I think you will agree that that is a relatively uninformed supposition.†   (source)
  • We had our own kind of fame, based mostly on the rich girls' supposition and our own silence.†   (source)
  • After that, I realized that anthropology is a great blend of history and supposition and mystery, all of which appealed to me.†   (source)
  • Author's Note History is comprised less of certainty than of supposition.†   (source)
  • Her eyes beamed with her suppositions suddenly confirmed.†   (source)
  • Probability Roarke perpetrator given current data and supposition, eighty-two point six per cent. Oh, it was possible, Eve thought, leaning back in her chair.†   (source)
  • The awful irony is that his hunt is based on a supposition that may not be true.†   (source)
  • But our supposition is that Bjurman assaulted Salander and that she struck back and did that.†   (source)
  • Adams's supposition that Jefferson was cutting back on his extravagant ways was, however, mistaken.†   (source)
  • The mystery was written off as unsolvable — it might even have been an accident which the culprit dared not acknowledge…… We had kept our cars wide open for any hint of guesswork or supposition that might lead attention towards us, but there was none at all, and as the interest declined we were able to relax.†   (source)
  • When he was able to think clearly about his long last day in the hospital at Mutaho, he was left mostly with questions and suppositions.†   (source)
  • Somebody has changed your suppositions.†   (source)
  • It's your supposition, but I've come to believe it.†   (source)
  • But in a state of disunion, the contrary of this supposition would be almost unavoidable.†   (source)
  • "Even if someone stumbled into the structure," he growled, impatient with the relentless stream of impossible suppositions, "he would have to pass by me.†   (source)
  • From scanty facts and suppositions such as these, scientists had concluded that the Overlords came from a world of low gravity and very dense atmosphere.†   (source)
  • The most important of these suppositions involved Morris Fink, who, given his limited capabilities, had already performed more intelligently than anyone had a right to expect.†   (source)
  • On the second supposition I put out my hand and awakened him, but the dream must have been strong.†   (source)
  • The dry Kulabish logs crackled merrily and stormed into a blaze, and, as they caught, Yurii Andreievich's blind jealousy turned from the merest suppositions into certainty.†   (source)
  • Such a supposition ... is altogether inconsistent with real existence;   (source)
    supposition = something put forth to believe as true
  • He seemed to yield to the justice of this supposition, in spite of himself.   (source)
    supposition = belief
  • This functionary, however, has been thoroughly mystified; and the remote source of his defeat lies in the supposition that the Minister is a fool, because he has acquired renown as a poet.   (source)
  • It was a supposition that was so neat, so convincing that she identified it as a premonition.†   (source)
  • That supposition was so seductive that he began to think about her with more intensity than he thought about Fermina Daza, ignoring the evidence that this recent mother lived only for her child.†   (source)
  • He could not imagine that one of them would have dared to do what she did while the others were sleeping in the nearby bunks, and the only reasonable supposition was that she had taken advantage of a fortuitous, or perhaps prearranged, moment when she was alone in the cabin.†   (source)
  • Theory, supposition, equations.†   (source)
  • He looked for solutions, he made suppositions, he tried to analyze long-term scenarios, in order to carefully assess the potential outcomes.†   (source)
  • Through a complicated process of superimposed exposures taken in different parts of the house, he was sure that sooner or later he would get a daguerreotype of God, if He existed, or put an end once and for all to the supposition of His existence.†   (source)
  • Claire looked up only when the confirmation of her first physical supposition brought out a curious half smile.†   (source)
  • A supposition.†   (source)
  • And let's not insult the American people with the supposition that they will ever allow the long series of insidious measures that would necessitate the use of armed force.†   (source)
  • My supposition here was that Pyrrha, not her mother, was the one who opened the box, after the flood.†   (source)
  • The Cartographer of Lost Places is entirely my own invention—but as with the rest, his origins lie in a supposition, and the clues to his true identity are there for careful enough readers.†   (source)
  • The supposition that Remedios the Beauty Possessed powers of death was then borne out by four irrefutable events.†   (source)
  • Amaranta Ursula was inclined to believe that he was the son of Petra Cotes, of whom she remembered only tales of infamy, and that supposition produced a twinge of horror in her heart.†   (source)
  • To me, the most interesting stories are those that have one foot firmly planted in fantasy, and the other in the real world; and the best way to create a marriage of the two is to find those gaps in history where there is no certainty, and create a supposition.†   (source)
  • He was a bit relieved that the Winter King didn't question him (too) extensively as to the accuracy of the translation—if his master really knew how much supposition and guesswork was involved, he'd have already cut the Steward's throat.†   (source)
  • Years before, when she had reached one hundred forty-five years of age, she had given up the pernicious custom of keeping track of her age and she went on living in the static and marginal time of memories, in a future perfectly revealed and established, beyond the futures disturbed by the insidious snares and suppositions of her cards.†   (source)
  • I had camouflaged myself in an old blue jacket and my British navy cap on the supposition that in a seaport no one ever looks at a sailor any more than a waiter is inspected in a restaurant.†   (source)
  • It seems the only reasonable supposition.†   (source)
  • Indeed his own account of his fearful state lends colour to that supposition.†   (source)
  • What was to make it an acceptable joke was the supposition that he couldn't see.†   (source)
  • Well, that leaves us the valet-not a very likely supposition.†   (source)
  • I cannot bring myself to entertain such a supposition.†   (source)
  • Presently he said: "If I was Rex"—his mind seemed full of such suppositions: "If I was Archbishop of Westminster,"†   (source)
  • The abstract technique -- to accept Macdonald's supposition, which I am inclined to doubt -- reminds him somewhat of the icons he has left behind him in the village, and he feels the attraction of the familiar.†   (source)
  • He foresaw that in certain circumstances he would have to act on the supposition that because she was a woman she mattered far more than the rest of them put together, and he shrank from a situation in which such disproportionate behavior might be unavoidable.†   (source)
  • Pure prussic acid would meet the case if there were no chance of evaporation, and a tiny globule of anything might be swallowed unnoticed-but it does not seem a very likely supposition.†   (source)
  • As if to confirm this last supposition, the dull boom of a gun was heard from out at sea.†   (source)
  • "Yes, you mentioned the—the supposition," replied Longstreth, sarcastically.†   (source)
  • With this last supposition Paul entertained himself until daybreak.†   (source)
  • John Durbeyfield had more conceit than energy or health, and this supposition was pleasant to him.†   (source)
  • It is only, is it, because we have made no defence, and have led them into a false supposition?†   (source)
  • My wife, my Tess—nothing in you warrants such a supposition as that?†   (source)
  • "May I ask your reason for such an insulting supposition, sir?" said Hippolyte, trembling with rage.†   (source)
  • "You do me too much honour," said the Marquis; "still, I prefer that supposition."†   (source)
  • The supposition that it was a calculated crime and a cunning criminal doesn't work.†   (source)
  • So far, you know, this is only your supposition.†   (source)
  • Well, it really is but a shadowy supposition; for unfortunately I am going to live.†   (source)
  • I put the matter to you on the supposition of an Injin.†   (source)
  • I have formed no supposition on the subject, sir; but I want to go on as usual for another month.†   (source)
  • Ada looked so very anxious now that I asked Mrs. Badger on what she founded her supposition.†   (source)
  • My supposition is that sheer chance has made us privy to an important secret.†   (source)
  • Her rigging, build, and general equipment, all negative a supposition of this kind.†   (source)
  • And what cause have you, Jupiter, for such a supposition?†   (source)
  • This supposition appeared to her most reasonable.†   (source)
  • Yes, he had been trying to comfort himself with these suppositions: but he had found all in vain.†   (source)
  • The most diverse suppositions as to what he was about to speak of to her flashed into her brain.†   (source)
  • Isn't this supposition really too fantastic and too romantic?†   (source)
  • It must be confessed that a supposition apparently so wild has every probability in its favor.†   (source)
  • And this supposition made the visitor more interesting to our speculative heroine.†   (source)
  • There are no facts…. it's all supposition!†   (source)
  • Still, there might have been some self-conceit in my foolish supposition the other night.†   (source)
  • But neither of these suppositions is borne out by facts.†   (source)
  • But these were only suppositions, which seemed important to the younger men but not to Kutuzov.†   (source)
  • Noirtier looked his conviction that she was right in her supposition.†   (source)
  • Lydgate felt uncomfortable under these kindly suppositions.†   (source)
  • "And then, you know," he said, "an idea, a supposition, is sufficient."†   (source)
  • The doctor confirmed his suppositions in regard to Kitty.†   (source)
  • I am ashamed to allude to such a supposition.†   (source)
  • "But aside from that," I continued, "what have I done that you should even me to dogs by such a supposition?†   (source)
  • But even on this supposition the balanced civilization that was at last attained must have long since passed its zenith, and was now far fallen into decay.†   (source)
  • She crossed her trousered legs, and snuggled luxuriously above her saucer of ginger; she caught Pollock's congratulatory still smile, and thought well of herself for having thrown a rose light on the pallid lawyer; repented the heretical supposition that any male save her husband existed; jumped up to find Kennicott and whisper, "Happy, my lord?†   (source)
  • He then had it returned and obtained another—a most instructive incident, since it proved conclusively to my mind that we were dealing with a real hound, as no other supposition could explain this anxiety to obtain an old boot and this indifference to a new one.†   (source)
  • By the afternoon even those who believed in the Unseen were beginning to resume their little amusements in a tentative fashion, on the supposition that he had quite gone away, and with the sceptics he was already a jest.†   (source)
  • As soon as her doctor allowed her to put her foot out-of-doors she hurried up to Green Gables, bursting with curiosity to see Matthew and Marilla's orphan, concerning whom all sorts of stories and suppositions had gone abroad in Avonlea.†   (source)
  • But if that were an extravagant and erroneous supposition, there certainly was proof positive that her own small individual world was wrong.†   (source)
  • Pavel, the tall one, was said to be an anarchist; since he had no means of imparting his opinions, probably his wild gesticulations and his generally excited and rebellious manner gave rise to this supposition.†   (source)
  • Her brother had rather hurried a shipment of cattle to California: and it was Madeline's supposition that he had welcomed the opportunity to absent himself from the ranch.†   (source)
  • Did she mention a name: it was obviously that of one of her lovers; once this supposition had taken shape, he would spend weeks in tormenting himself; on one occasion he even approached a firm of 'inquiry agents' to find out the address and the occupation of the unknown rival who would give him no peace until he could be proved to have gone abroad, and who (he ultimately learned) was an uncle of Odette, and had been dead for twenty years.†   (source)
  • Carlotta's friends thought that, perhaps, the managers had wind, on their side, of the proposed disturbance and that they had determined to be in the house, so as to stop it then and there; but this was unjustifiable supposition, as the reader knows.†   (source)
  • A friend of a friend of his, a very good doctor, diagnosed his illness again quite differently from the others, and though he predicted recovery, his questions and suppositions bewildered Ivan Ilych still more and increased his doubts.†   (source)
  • And it did seem that he had been quite right in this supposition, he had no wish to intrude any deeper, he was disturbed enough by what he had seen already, he was not in the right frame of mind just then to face a high official such as might appear from behind any door, and he wanted to go, either with the usher of the court or, if needs be, alone.†   (source)
  • His Mr. Griffiths, his supposition to the effect that Clyde was to learn all about the manufacturing end of the business, as well as his condescension in explaining about these webs of cloth, had already convinced Clyde that he was looked upon as one to whom some slight homage at least must be paid.†   (source)
  • Not meeting any sufficient response, he went on, "Is it possible that I have erred in my supposition?"†   (source)
  • The ringing of the door-bell a few minutes after five confirmed this supposition, and made Lily hastily resolve to write more legibly in future.†   (source)
  • Because Mildred was indifferent to him he had thought her sexless; her anaemic appearance and thin lips, the body with its narrow hips and flat chest, the languor of her manner, carried out his supposition; and yet she was capable of sudden passions which made her willing to risk everything to gratify them.†   (source)
  • That supposition was even more disturbing than the other; and it was the one which had come to him the night before, when he had seen her standing in the kitchen door.†   (source)
  • Well, it is a possible supposition.†   (source)
  • This was a rule indeed which only added to the satiric effect of my being plied with the supposition that he might at any moment be among us.†   (source)
  • "Oh, I supposed you were coming," the other replied, smiling sarcastically, "and I was right in my supposition, you see; but how was I to know that you would come TODAY?"†   (source)
  • …of view—opposite to that of his love and of his jealousy, to which he resorted at times by a sort of mental equity, and in order to make allowance for different eventualities—from which he tried to form a fresh judgment of Odette, based on the supposition that he had never been in love with her, that she was to him just a woman like other women, that her life had not been (whenever he himself was not present) different, a texture woven in secret apart from him, and warped against him.†   (source)
  • I seized, stupefied, his supposition—some sequel to what we had done to Flora, but this made me only want to show him that it was better still than that.†   (source)
  • If our supposition that the Invisible Man's refuge was the Hintondean thickets, then we must suppose that in the early afternoon he sallied out again bent upon some project that involved the use of a weapon.†   (source)
  • You have published this article upon the supposition that I would never consent to satisfy Mr. Burdovsky.†   (source)
  • Besides insulting Burdovsky with the supposition, made in the presence of witnesses, that he was suffering from the complaint for which he had himself been treated in Switzerland, he reproached himself with the grossest indelicacy in having offered him the ten thousand roubles before everyone.†   (source)
  • The possibility of being loved himself, "a man like me," as he put it, he ranked among ridiculous suppositions.†   (source)
  • The supposition did not pain her.†   (source)
  • The slightest inattention to these was unpardonable, and was visited upon those, under whose care they were placed, with the severest punishment; no excuse could shield them, if the colonel only suspected any want of attention to his horses—a supposition which he frequently indulged, and one which, of course, made the office of old and young Barney a very trying one.†   (source)
  • She was beginning to be shocked that she had got to such a point of supposition, and indignant with Will for having led her to it.†   (source)
  • ] I had the impression that Wilkinson's partner was named Stephen, and as Philip and Stephen were both evangelists in the Bible, I named my man Philip Nolan, on the supposition that the mother who named one son Stephen would name another Philip.†   (source)
  • "On this supposition," said Ralph, "he must regard her as a thorn on the stem of his rose; as an intercessor he must find her wanting in tact."†   (source)
  • The land occupied by these tribes is not very distant from Behring's Strait, which allows of the supposition, that at a remote period they gave inhabitants to the desert continent of America.†   (source)
  • "But I never said a word about the Emperor!" said the officer, justifying himself, and unable to understand Rostov's outburst, except on the supposition that he was drunk.†   (source)
  • The whole chamber, moreover, presented a general aspect of abandonment and dilapidation; and the bad state of the utensils induced the supposition that their owner had long been distracted from his labors by other preoccupations.†   (source)
  • But at first when I began to give my evidence, it was all still far away and misty; it was all floating, and I was so simple that I began with the supposition of mutual confidence existing between us.†   (source)
  • Cosette joined in his laughter, all her lugubrious suppositions were allayed, and the next morning, as she was at breakfast with her father, she made merry over the sinister garden haunted by the shadows of iron chimney-pots.†   (source)
  • Some unseen force repelled him from the comrades whose acquaintance he had made, on the supposition that they were well-bred and polite men.†   (source)
  • As I was already much attached to Mr. Dick, and very solicitous for his welfare, my fears favoured this supposition; and for a long time his Wednesday hardly ever came round, without my entertaining a misgiving that he would not be on the coach-box as usual.†   (source)
  • Such a supposition could only have arisen from a too-superficial acquaintance with the habits of the Dodson family.†   (source)
  • On the supposition that Pearl, as already hinted, was of demon origin, these good people not unreasonably argued that a Christian interest in the mother's soul required them to remove such a stumbling-block from her path.†   (source)
  • Then, I was particularly unfortunate with my second wife; I say second, Major, out of deference to you, and on the mere supposition that the first was a marriage at all; but first or second, I was particularly unfortunate with Jeannie Graham, who died in the first lustrum, leaving neither chick nor chiel behind her.†   (source)
  • "Or wishing it, I suppose," she said; and it was apparent that she expected an unhesitating denial of this supposition.†   (source)
  • Sir Walter spurned the idea of its being offered in any manner; forbad the slightest hint being dropped of his having such an intention; and it was only on the supposition of his being spontaneously solicited by some most unexceptionable applicant, on his own terms, and as a great favour, that he would let it at all.†   (source)
  • Anger lay very close to disappointment, and soon won the victory over the conjectures her small ingenuity could devise to account for Arthur's absence on the supposition that he really wanted to come, really wanted to see her again.†   (source)
  • If she should chance to meet any who knew her, she reflected that the well-known kindness of the family would be of itself a blind to suspicion, as making it an unlikely supposition that she could be a fugitive.†   (source)
  • She remembered some vague intimations, on her brother's part, which—if the supposition were not essentially preposterous—might have been so interpreted.†   (source)
  • This is in the supposition of his attachment continuing what it now is; but I do not know that I expect it will; I do not look upon him to be quite the sort of man— I do not altogether build upon his steadiness or constancy.†   (source)
  • He has so framed the laws of divorce, as to what shall be the proper causes, and in case of separation, to whom the guardianship of the children shall be given, as to be wholly regardless of the happiness of women -- the law, in all cases, going upon a false supposition of the supremacy of man and giving all power into his hands.†   (source)
  • It's true that he doesn't appear to have had any tact whatever in trying to extract it; he has indulged in gratuitous suppositions.†   (source)
  • It is my supposition that this is the translator's way of writing 'mm' and I have replaced it accordingly, since our typography does not allow such a character.†   (source)
  • A feeling such as his was profaned by talk of the rivalry of some Petersburg officer, of the suppositions and the counsels of Stepan Arkadyevitch.†   (source)
  • Her altered manner, her repeated absences from home alone, her comparative indifference to the interests of the gang for which she had once been so zealous, and, added to these, her desperate impatience to leave home that night at a particular hour, all favoured the supposition, and rendered it, to him at least, almost matter of certainty.†   (source)
  • This made him less uneasy, it must be owned, than if the new-comer had proved to be a customs officer; but this supposition also disappeared like the first, when he beheld the perfect tranquillity of his recruit.†   (source)
  • 'I fear there is something more,' stammered Nicholas with a half-smile, and looking towards Miss Squeers, 'it is a most awkward thing to say—but—the very mention of such a supposition makes one look like a puppy—still—may I ask if that lady supposes that I entertain any—in short, does she think that I am in love with her?'†   (source)
  • 'May we incline to the supposition,' said Mrs General, with a little touch of varnish, 'that something is referable to the novelty of the position?'†   (source)
  • Besides, it was Sunday; and there was something about Bartleby that forbade the supposition that he would by any secular occupation violate the proprieties of the day.†   (source)
  • I hope that I am right in this supposition; for upon it I build my expectation of reading the entire riddle.†   (source)
  • But such a supposition did by no means involve the remotest suspicion as to any boat's crew being assigned to that boat.†   (source)
  • Victor, be assured that your cousin and playmate has too sincere a love for you not to be made miserable by this supposition.†   (source)
  • I hazard the supposition that she was saying to herself that to be able to drag such a train over a polished floor was a felicity worth any price.†   (source)
  • 'Your suppositions are just in fact.†   (source)
  • Thus feeding his mind with many sweet thoughts and "sugared suppositions," he journeyed along the sides of a range of hills which look out upon some of the goodliest scenes of the mighty Hudson.†   (source)
  • She followed him thither; and her curiosity to know what he had to tell her was heightened by the supposition of its being in some manner connected with the letter he held.†   (source)
  • "Therefore," I wrote, "after examining these different hypotheses one by one, we are forced, every other supposition having been refuted, to accept the existence of an extremely powerful marine animal.†   (source)
  • Adam had the strongest motives for encouraging this supposition in Mr. Poyser, and he even tried to believe that it might possibly be true.†   (source)
  • Her disordered appearance, and a wholesale perfume of Geneva which pervaded the apartment, afforded strong confirmatory evidence of the justice of the Jew's supposition; and when, after indulging in the temporary display of violence above described, she subsided, first into dullness, and afterwards into a compound of feelings: under the influence of which she shed tears one minute, and in the next gave utterance to various exclamations of 'Never say die!' and divers calculations as to…†   (source)
  • "But that is impossible," I said shrugging my shoulders, and disgusted at such a ridiculous supposition.†   (source)
  • Their first supposition was that it was the corpse of some person who had been drowned and was thrown on shore by the waves, but on examination they found that the clothes were not wet and even that the body was not then cold.†   (source)
  • "Nor have I." "If any one of these men, or all of these men, were disposed to spare him—which is a large supposition; for what is his life, or any man's to them!†   (source)
  • As there truly was no reason why he should have the least interest in it, Arthur Clennam went on to the present purport of his visit; namely, to make Plornish the instrument of effecting Tip's release, with as little detriment as possible to the self-reliance and self-helpfulness of the young man, supposing him to possess any remnant of those qualities: without doubt a very wide stretch of supposition.†   (source)
  • The tone of Stephen's letter, which he had read, and the actual relations of all the persons concerned, forced upon him powerfully the idea of an ultimate marriage between Stephen and Maggie as the least evil; and the impossibility of their proximity in St. Ogg's on any other supposition, until after years of separation, threw an insurmountable prospective difficulty over Maggie's stay there.†   (source)
  • Mrs Kenwigs was so overpowered by this supposition, that it needed all the tender attentions of Miss Petowker, of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, to restore her to anything like a state of calmness; not to mention the assiduity of Mr Kenwigs, who held a fat smelling-bottle to his lady's nose, until it became matter of some doubt whether the tears which coursed down her face were the result of feelings or SAL VOLATILE.†   (source)
  • …on the other side of the boulevard, near the deserted wall skirting the Rue De la Barriere-des-Gobelins, Jondrette, wrapped in the "philanthropist's" great-coat, engaged in conversation with one of those men of disquieting aspect who have been dubbed by common consent, prowlers of the barriers; people of equivocal face, of suspicious monologues, who present the air of having evil minds, and who generally sleep in the daytime, which suggests the supposition that they work by night.†   (source)
  • She asked herself, with an almost childlike horror of the supposition, whether to this intimate friend of several years the great historical epithet of wicked were to be applied.†   (source)
  • If you entertain the supposition that any real success, in great things or in small, ever was or could be, ever will or can be, wrested from Fortune by fits and starts, leave that wrong idea here or leave your cousin Ada here.†   (source)
  • Should he obey the signal, and be drawn away from the landing, the lives of those who depended on him might be the forfeit—and, should he neglect the call, on the supposition that it had been really made, the consequences might be equally disastrous, though from a different cause.†   (source)
  • He unlocked the gate, and found that a spider had already constructed a large web, tying the door to the lintel, on the supposition that it was never to be opened again.†   (source)
  • But, having reached this point of conjecture, Mrs. Poole's square, flat figure, and uncomely, dry, even coarse face, recurred so distinctly to my mind's eye, that I thought, "No; impossible! my supposition cannot be correct.†   (source)
  • The invariable moisture of my hair, while plunged in deep thought, after six cups of hot tea in my thin shingled attic, of an August noon; this seems an additional argument for the above supposition.†   (source)
  • The fact was, that though her husband had stated she was a woman, she had a clear, energetic, practical mind, and a force of character every way superior to that of her husband; so that it would not have been so very absurd a supposition, to have allowed her capable of managing, as Mr. Shelby supposed.†   (source)
  • The very supposition made me gasp.†   (source)
  • I could not conceal from myself that I had done this, though for a reason very different from her supposition.†   (source)
  • To verify the supposition, let us observe if the 8 be seen often in couples—for e is doubled with great frequency in English—in such words, for example, as 'meet,'†   (source)
  • And under such a supposition, which would have been most miserable, when time had disclosed all, too late?†   (source)
  • Even on the supposition that required the utmost stretch of belief,—namely, that none of the things said about Miss Tulliver were true,—still, since they had been said about her, they had cast an odor round her which must cause her to be shrunk from by every woman who had to take care of her own reputation—and of Society.†   (source)
  • Supposing then, for instance — any unlikely thing will do for a supposition — that you and your mother were to have a serious quarrel.'†   (source)
  • The anatomical fact of this labyrinth is indisputable; and that the supposition founded upon it is reasonable and true, seems the more cogent to me, when I consider the otherwise inexplicable obstinacy of that leviathan in HAVING HIS SPOUTINGS OUT, as the fishermen phrase it.†   (source)
  • And observe, if that supposition breaks down, the whole charge of robbery is scattered to the winds, for in that case what could have become of the other fifteen hundred roubles?†   (source)
  • But this supposition vanished very quickly, and he smiled bitterly as he remembered that the theft of the forty sous from little Gervais put him in the position of a man guilty of a second offence after conviction, that this affair would certainly come up, and, according to the precise terms of the law, would render him liable to penal servitude for life.†   (source)
  • There were, however, no grounds for retaining such a supposition, for the waggon, though going in the direction of Weatherbury, might be going beyond it, and the woman alluded to seemed to be the mistress of some estate.†   (source)
  • …me; but Sir Walter Elliot has eyes upon him which it may be very difficult to elude; and therefore, thus much I venture upon, that it will not greatly surprise me if, with all our caution, some rumour of the truth should get abroad; in the supposition of which, as I was going to observe, since applications will unquestionably follow, I should think any from our wealthy naval commanders particularly worth attending to; and beg leave to add, that two hours will bring me over at any time,…†   (source)
  • Her most cheerful supposition was that her aunt Bulstrode had interfered in some way to hinder Lydgate's visits: everything was better than a spontaneous indifference in him.†   (source)
  • It is the parsimonious conduct of democracy towards its principal officers which has countenanced a supposition of far more economical propensities than any which it really possesses.†   (source)
  • I was right in my supposition.†   (source)
  • "That was a natural supposition; but I'm afraid it's not the first time I've acted in defiance of your calculations."†   (source)
  • Nobody in the world ever doubted who did the things; but not a scrap of any direct evidence could be found to establish the suppositions, and Miss Ophelia was too just to feel at liberty to proceed to any length without it.†   (source)
  • Though this plan had been drawn up on the supposition that Moscow was still in our hands, it was approved by the staff and accepted as a basis for action.†   (source)
  • 'And I told you, Mrs Merdle,' said Fanny, 'that if you spoke to me of the superiority of your son's standing in Society, it was barely possible that you rather deceived yourself in your suppositions about my origin; and that my father's standing, even in the Society in which he now moved (what that was, was best known to myself), was eminently superior, and was acknowledged by every one.'†   (source)
  • The hall, the dining-room, and all its furniture, were examined and praised; and his commendation of everything would have touched Mrs. Bennet's heart, but for the mortifying supposition of his viewing it all as his own future property.†   (source)
  • The triumphant sense of security, of deliverance from overwhelming danger, that was what filled his whole soul that moment without thought for the future, without analysis, without suppositions or surmises, without doubts and without questioning.†   (source)
  • This was not mere supposition, she saw it distinctly in the piercing light, which revealed to her now the meaning of life and human relations.†   (source)
  • Hence visions, suppositions, conjectures, outlines of romances, a desire for adventures, fantastic constructions, edifices built wholly in the inner obscurity of the mind, sombre and secret abodes where the passions immediately find a lodgement as soon as the open gate permits them to enter.†   (source)
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