All 3 Uses of
surmise
in
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- As the reader may surmise, the four allegorical personages were somewhat weary with having traversed the three sections of the world, without having found suitable opportunity for getting rid of their golden dolphin.†
Chpt 1.1.2
- There were no great proofs of sorcery in that, after all, but there was still enough smoke to warrant a surmise of fire, and the archdeacon bore a tolerably formidable reputation.†
Chpt 1.4.5 *
- The first point which struck the eye of our Jehan (who, as the reader will readily surmise, had ensconced himself in his nook in such a manner as to enable him to see and hear everything at his good pleasure) was the perfect sadness of the garments and the visage of this new-corner.†
Chpt 2.7.5
Definition:
to guess something is true or form an opinion based on incomplete evidence