Guessed

Examples

• There she satand who would have guessed how many tears she had been lately shedding? Jane Austen. Emma.
• It was something other, deeper, more intricate than he guessed at. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I forget his name; a sort of a lawyer as I guessed, because he would talk about the 'parties' every few minutes. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• But it is not to be wondered at since no enemy guessed the existence upon Barsoom of such a fleet, or even of the First Born, or the Sea of Omean. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• They set up such a cry of despair as they guessed the truth, that Margaret knew not how to bear it. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• He waited a moment, watching me earnestly--watching till he had evidently guessed what was passing in my mind before he resumed. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• You have guessed most infallibly, he replied. Plato. The Republic.
• Yet, that such was the case I now saw reason to fear; I even guessed her confidant. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• I don't see that, said Clym, carefully concealing every clue to his own interrupted intention, which she plainly had not guessed. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• I think,' said Sissy, 'you have already guessed whom I left just now! Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• They spoke of feelings but guessed at by our softer nature; yet coloured by our sanguine minds even beyond reality. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• You have guessed right, dear lady, she said, with a sweet simple faltering voice. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• How quickly you guessed! Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Emma guessed him to be the drudge of some attorney, and too stupid to rise. Jane Austen. Emma.
• I dared not ask the fatal question; but I was known, and the officer guessed the cause of my visit. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• I got to an open door, and saw the bodies of two Indians (by their dress, as I guessed, officers of the palace) lying across the entrance, dead. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• It is only the nucleus that can be guessed at; the fringe which shades out into various degrees of respectability remains entirely unmeasured. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• I had given him leave to find me out if he could, and I guessed that he was busily but vainly employed in the pursuit. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• You just sat and watched each other, and guessed at what was going on underneath. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• She taxed me with the offence at once, and my confusion may be guessed. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• On opening it, they had found the contents to be written in a foreign language, which they rightly guessed at as Hindustani. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• That they were of goodly proportions I guessed from the fact that the eyes were on a level with my own. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• I guessed long since the whole business. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• On Selden's part, no doubt, the wound inflicted was inconscient; he had never guessed her foolish secret; but Lily--Lily must have known! Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• I guessed how it would end. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• There has been some villainy here, said Holmes; this beauty has guessed Miss Hunter's intentions and has carried his victim off. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• It was dug ages ago by the slaves of the First Born in such utter secrecy that no thern ever guessed its existence. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• That involves explanations not very hard to be guessed at, not very well timed here, and not very creditable to myself. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• What we know of it is in support of what we have guessed about the comparative speechlessness of Pal?olithic man. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The two men were pitying each other, but it was only Will who guessed the extent of his companion's trouble. George Eliot. Middlemarch.

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