Conjecture

Examples

• It was a painful, but not an improbable, conjecture. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Your conjecture is totally wrong, I assure you. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Nor were we mistaken in our conjecture. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• To what extent the motion-picture business may grow in the not remote future it is impossible to conjecture, for it has taken a place in the front rank of rapidly increasing enterprises. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• It must, however, be admitted that in many instances we cannot conjecture whether it was instinct or structure which first varied. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• By a s tudy of the star catalogues this conjecture was soon verified. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• It was she who was to do for him, and the general conjecture now ran that she did for him accordingly. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Conjectureaye, sometimes one conjectures right, and sometimes one conjectures wrong. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Conjectures as to the meaning of it, rapid and wild, hurried into her brain; but she was satisfied with none. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• From which, said Wemmick, conjectures had been raised and theories formed. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• He had fallen into the way of dwelling on such conjectures as a means of tying his thoughts fast to reality. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• I never had any conjectures about it, replied Margaret; it was you who told me of it yourself. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• Briggs coincided as usual, and the previous attachment was then discussed in conjectures. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• As late as 1788 Franklin wrote his queries and conjectures relating to magnetism and the theory of the earth. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Again, it is conjectured that bismuth is the end-product of the thorium series. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Again he laughed, adding, It is precisely as I conjectured. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The declivity was so small, that I walked near a mile before I got to the shore, which I conjectured was about eight o'clock in the evening. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Others conjectured that she was going to be married, and that the settlements were preparing. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• They undoubtedly showed that the affair was much deeper than was at first conjectured. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Well, it is conjectured to be so. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• He conjectured that in vaccinal immunity the virus is accompanied by a substance which makes the nervous tissue unfavorable for the development of the mic robe. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• You were right in conjecturing that I wrote the remarks on the '_thoughts concerning executive justice_. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The Colonel and his aide-de-camp went out to meet the gentleman, rightly conjecturing that he was an emissary of Lord Steyne. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Rightly conjecturing that this was the Blue Boar himself, he stepped into the house, and inquired concerning his parent. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The rest of the evening was spent in conjecturing how soon he would return Mr. Bennet's visit, and determining when they should ask him to dinner. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.

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