Inferences

Examples

• To get all the advantage of being with men of this sort, you must know how to draw your inferences, and not be a spoon who takes things literally. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• You are too timid in drawing your inferences. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Yes, said Holmes; I think that both inferences are permissible. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Let us see how far these several facts and inferences accord with the theory of descent with modification. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• By the help of inferences and innuendoes, treasons multiplied in a prodigious manner. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Knowing how unjust other people's inferences are when they concern us, we have begun to guess that ours may be unjust to them. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• I am afraid, Holmes, that you are not very practical with your deductions and your inferences. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• I would not trust a hermit's inferences about the statistics of anything. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• If our observant lady readers can deduce any satisfactory inferences from these facts, we beg them by all means to do so. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• We have got to the deductions and the inferences, said Lestrade, winking at me. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• I might have paused longer upon what I saw; I might have deliberated ere I drew inferences. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The inferences were closely linked enough; the town knew of the loan, believed it to be a bribe, and believed that he took it as a bribe. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• As this whole volume is one long argument, it may be convenient to the reader to have the leading facts and inferences briefly recapitulated. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.

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