Guessing

Examples

• Instead of my being on the defensive, I would be on the offensive; instead of guessing at what he means to do, he would have to guess at my plans. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Well, said Lydgate in a guessing tone, it would take at least a thousand to set me at ease. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• That's not beyond guessing, sir, at any rate, I said. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• A pair of boot lacings, returned Jo, guessing and defeating his purpose. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• We used to play at guessing historical characters at Mrs. Lemon's, but not anatomists. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• But there may be pretty good guessing. Jane Austen. Emma.
• I do not pretend to Emma's genius for foretelling and guessing. Jane Austen. Emma.
• From his manner I could not help guessing that his friend Lorne had often been found a very powerful rival. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• The schedule, sir,' said Pell, guessing at Mr. Weller's meaning, 'the schedule is as plain and satisfactory as pen and ink can make it. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• This is pure guessing, of course, and there is at least an equal probability that in the time of formation of the Azoic Rocks, life had not yet begun. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• This was a device, I suppose, to sport with my curiosity, and exercise my talent of guessing. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Upon such occasions I had to supply in some cases one-fifth of the whole matter--pure guessing--but I got caught only once. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I am not good at guessing anything. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• At any rate, I forgot myself in the interest of guessing this new riddle. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.

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