Speculated

Examples

• Whether the fairies made any mention of the five thousand pounds, and it disagreed with Baby, is not speculated upon. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I have speculated on the chance of your feeling a passing curiosity about what he wanted to say, and of my being able to satisfy it. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• His original curiosity augmented every day, as he watched for her, saw or did not see her, and speculated about her. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• It had nature for its subject, and speculated as to how things are made and changed. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• But you ought to know best how you speculated upon it. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Aristotle speculated, and the alchemists of the middle ages busied themselves in magic and guess-work. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Another of the Fathers says, 'Speculated without knowing that speculation is a science. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• You're a military man, he went on; I ask you, Bill Dobbin, could any man ever have speculated upon the return of that Corsican scoundrel from Elba? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• But it is a weakness, and many people have speculated about it. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Finally there was a very neat, handsome travelling carriage, about which the gentlemen speculated. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• In the seclusion of their monasteries, they speculated on the mysterious powers of Nature, then partially revealed to them, and shadowed forth images of their possible applications. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• I wonder if she wears a round hat or a bonnet in the afternoon, Janey speculated. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• We speculated in grapes no more on that side of Athens. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• They passed it around, and every body speculated on it awhile, but it mastered them all. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Surely, I said, you don't mean to infer that when Sir Percival spoke to you yesterday he speculated on such a result as you have just mentioned? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• No one had speculated upon economics. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He has speculated some in cholera and railroads, and has taken almost a lively interest in infernal machines and patent medicines. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• His father speculated wildly, failed, and then killed himself, because he could not bear the disgrace. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.

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