Presumed

Examples

• Yes, he said, such an art may be presumed. Plato. The Republic.
• And he presumed on it to make himself quite at home, and call and dine here, ay? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Elinor sighed over the fancied necessity of this; but to a man and a soldier she presumed not to censure it. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• Hence, if any one in his presence had presumed to doubt the responsibility of the Lammles, he would have been mightily huffed. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Mr. Bounderby felt that Mrs. Sparsit had audaciously anticipated him, and presumed to be wiser than he. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• I never should have presumed to think of it at first, said she, but for you. Jane Austen. Emma.
• I met the letters in my way this morning, and seeing my son's hand, presumed to open itthough it was not directed to meit was to Mrs. Weston. Jane Austen. Emma.
• I presumed to ask her to write me a line, if all went well in London. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• It may be presumed the historians of the American revolution will exhibit them in proper colours. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• But he had presumed to raise himself from a low station in the world--and that was against him. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• These ideas made him inflexible in his rule, and violent in his hate of any who presumed to share with him his usurped empire. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Worcester admitted that young Somerset had been decidedly under De Guiche's command when he presumed to murmur, or rather refused to obey His Grace. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• I presumed that my watchful guardian was Sola, nor was I wrong. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• It was to be presumed at least that she who now came in through a glass door from the garden owned that name. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Is it possible, Rachel, that he can have misinterpreted--or presumed upon--what you really said to him? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• If these things were presumed, the presumption was at fault. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• It's to be presumed she knew what that meant. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• I presumed Villette to be her residence--to Villette I would go. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• They were taught to do so, it may very safely be presumed, by the clergy of his own dominions. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• A woman, it was to be presumed, from the terms of Sir Percival's inquiry. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.

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