Suspecting

Examples

• The nag was grazing at some distance, not suspecting any harm. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Now do not be suspecting me of a pun, I entreat. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• In one word, Sir,' said Mr. Pickwick, 'is my servant right in suspecting that a certain Captain Fitz-Marshall is in the habit of visiting here? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• It will give me great pleasure, I am sure,' replied Doctor Slammer, little suspecting who Mr. Tupman was. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• I suspected the wrong person, last year, he said: and I may be suspecting the wrong person now. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Good God, how coolly you talk of Rachel suspecting me! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I had another reason for suspecting the deceased woman, he said. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• What, if circumstance should lead Perdita to suspect, and suspecting to be resolved? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The time for suspecting the Count's interference will be the time when you have Sir Percival at your mercy. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• But your mother mentioned that you had been suspecting your father. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• But womanly, I hope, said Mrs. Garth, half suspecting that Mrs. Casaubon might not hold the true principle of subordination. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Have Hartright's perfectly intelligible prejudices infected me without my suspecting their influence? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Who will you be suspecting next? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Miss Woodhouse has given her friend the only beauty she wanted,observed Mrs. Weston to himnot in the least suspecting that she was addressing a lover. Jane Austen. Emma.
• I knew him before he gave me one of those aids, though, a moment before, I had not been conscious of remotely suspecting his identity. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• When she met him she looked surprised, though it was impossible to help suspecting that she had come for that express purpose. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• It is my rule never to make unnecessary mysteries, and never to set people suspecting me for want of a little seasonable candour on my part. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• What I happened to find there, about their secret way of coming and going, without you--which was strange--led to my suspecting something wrong. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• The dread of Selden's suspecting that there was any need for her to propitiate such a man as Rosedale checked the trivial phrases of politeness. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• I cannot help suspecting him. Jane Austen. Emma.
• I have suspected Mr. Ablewhite, on grounds which abstractedly justify suspecting Mr. Blake too. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Pray don't suppose that I have any idea of suspecting you, I said, or any other wish than to be of assistance to you, if I can. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• How could I help suspecting him, when I actually saw him with the coronet in his hand? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Unluckily Mr. Candy, hearing nothing, and miles away from suspecting the truth, went on across the table louder and politer than ever. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Evidently suspecting treachery, they consulted together for a moment, then cautiously went forward into the pass. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.

Typist: Rudy