Farebrother," said Fred, in a state of uncomfortable surmise.
Featherstone, with his usual power of unpleasant surmise, when Mary returned to him.
When Blanche saw that, notwithstanding his moments of passion, Strickland remained aloof, she must have been filled with dismay, and even in those moments I surmise that she realised that to him she was not an individual, but an instrument of pleasure; he was a stranger still, and she tried to bind him to herself with pathetic arts.
" "If I understand you rightly, you had formed a surmise of such horror as I have hardly words to—Dear Miss Morland, consider the dreadful nature of the suspicions you have entertained.
" This bold surmise, however, she soon learnt comprehended but half the fact.
It was a bold surmise, for he was Isabella's brother; and she had been assured by James that his manners would recommend him to all her sex; but in spite of this, the extreme weariness of his company, which crept over her before they had been out an hour, and which continued unceasingly to increase till they stopped in Pulteney Street again, induced her, in some small degree, to resist such high authority, and to distrust his powers of giving universal pleasure.
" Rheingelder admitted the correctness of the surmise and paid the bet.
I can't understand why you paid so much attention to gossip and surmise.
A horrible, portentous fact was slowly looming out before her from the nebula of surmise and fear.
Rumour and surmise laid the guilt at Barney Snaith's door because diligent inquiry among the other maids at the hotel revealed the fact that nobody there had ever seen Cissy Gay "with a fellow.
Considering how much time most adults will spend in the workplace over the course of their lives (an estimated 25-30 years), it doesn't take much of a stretch to surmise a person's choice of career plays a significant role in their sense of happiness.
11) Archeologists still can only surmise as to the origin of Man.
