Assuming

Examples

• Now, for example, Mr. Traddles,' said Mrs. Micawber, assuming a profound air, 'a judge, or even say a Chancellor. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Whilst, for instance, the spectator is looking at the interior of a church, he sees the objects gradually assuming different appearances. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• But assuming the proof to be possible, the vindication of your innocence would be no easy matter. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• It is argued that pupils must know how to use tools before they attack actual making,--assuming that pupils cannot learn how in the process of making. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Your mother's opinion of him, I am to assume (following your example of assuming this and that), was vastly different. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Or, assuming it to be false, could the conclusion which associated Sir Percival with her guilt have been founded in some inconceivable error? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Assuming for a moment, that he _was_ overworked; it would show itself in some renewal of this disorder? Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Then we may begin by assuming that there are three classes of men--lovers of wisdom, lovers of honour, lovers of gain? Plato. The Republic.
• It was adventuring too far, assuming too much, making light of what ought to be serious, a trick of what ought to be simple. Jane Austen. Emma.
• I immediately wrote an order assuming command of the Military Division of the Mississippi, and telegraphed it to General Rosecrans. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Water, in the same manner, will dissolve in air, every particle of air assuming one or more particles of water. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• She is inclined to consider that his long absence from his native country may be accounted for by assuming that he is a political exile. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Then assuming that the science now omitted would come into existence if encouraged by the State, let us go on to astronomy, which will be fourth. Plato. The Republic.
• He felt no hesitation in assuming the functions of the executive, or in acting without advising with him. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• We incline to account for it by attributing congenital stupidity to our forerunners and by assuming superior native intelligence on our own part. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• When a professor says that socialism is impracticable he begs the question, for that amounts to assuming that the point at issue is already settled. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• We all said it would be warmand we all felt pleasure in folding away heavy garments, and in assuming the attire suiting a sunny season. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• She wore an expression such as I had never seen before--such as I should have thought her incapable of assuming. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Now, they say, said Haley, assuming a candid and confidential air, that this kind o' trade is hardening to the feelings; but I never found it so. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• After urging upon General Thomas the necessity of immediately assuming the offensive, I started West to superintend matters there in person. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• First, he went on, assuming the manner of a lecturer, it's a little pimple. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Assuming that the souls of men and women were visible essences, you could fancy the colour of Eustacia's soul to be flamelike. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• The term species thus comes to be a mere useless abstraction, implying and assuming a separate act of creation. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• I believe our evenings are rather returned to what they were, than assuming a new character. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Here Raffles rose and stalked once or twice up and down the room, swinging his leg, and assuming an air of masterly meditation. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Thus Silas assuming a noble air. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• It had set, according to their account, into the most dreadful expression of fear and horror which a human countenance is capable of assuming. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Then, Hermione, assuming priority of speech, resumed as if wearily: 'To what does he want you to submit? D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• So spoke the burly Priest, assuming, on his part, high defiance. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• The fallacy of assuming that the fact it is an inheritance, predetermines its future use, is obvious. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.

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