Supposed

Examples

• The vestry was larger than I should have supposed it to be, judging from the outside only. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Having first seen him perfectly swallowed up in admiration of Mrs. Jellyby, I had supposed her to be the absorbing object of his devotion. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• He touched his hat politely to the ladies, and remarked that he supposed they had never seen so many live Yankees before in their lives. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I was well enough, he supposed? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• She supposed she had a right to alter at her ease. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• But it is not to be supposed, because the new thing succumbs to the old infections, that is the final condemnation of the new thing. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Secondly, A certain number of sides, which are supposed indifferent. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• And as he strode on his way before the supposed friar, Front-de-Boeuf thus schooled him in the part which he desired he should act. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Specifications had been drawn, and I had signed and sworn to the application for patents for these seventy-eight inventions, and naturally I supposed they had been filed in the regular way. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• It was evident that the impression left by Mrs. Fairlie's kindness was not, as I had supposed, the only strong impression on her memory. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Warren was not aware of his presence, but probably supposed it was the cavalry which Merritt had engaged earlier in the day. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• He is not quite such an ass as I have hitherto supposed. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• But when it is perceived that each idea signifies the quality of mind expressed in action, the supposed opposition between them falls away. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• As you supposed he was at home, it would seem that he has just gone out? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Mrs Boffin never supposed any part of the change in Mr Boffin to be real; did she? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• You supposed more than really existed. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• These ascetics were all supposed to be seeking some deeper reality in life, and a passionate desire to do likewise took possession of Gautama. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I am not so unreasonable, sir, as to think you at all responsible for my mistakes and wrong conclusions; but I always supposed it was Miss Havisham. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• But it IS supposed that his Lady, who had none of the family blood in her veins, favoured the bad cause. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• You had left it, months before, and were supposed to be in London, but no one could tell where. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• When the hour came for locking up, he supposed all strangers to be excluded for the night. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• I supposed I was. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• The fact is, neither English men nor women pay each other compliments at all—at least, it's not supposed to be good form. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• In both regulations, the sacred rights of private property are sacrificed to the supposed interests of public revenue. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• There were supposed to be Italian troops concentrated in Soria, and at Siguenza again besides those operating in the North. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Such was the supposed instability of government, that even these terms procured few purchasers. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Hence the supposed extermination of so many species having similar habits with the rock-pigeon seems a very rash assumption. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Through the greater part of Europe, a kitchen garden is not at present supposed to deserve a better inclosure than mat recommended by Columella. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The next day Mr. Farebrother, parting from Lydgate in the street, supposed that they should meet at Vincy's in the evening. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• In brief, the commission failed to see that the working conscience of America is to-day bound up with the very evil it is supposed to eradicate by a relentless warfare. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.

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