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• Mopsey had explained to him the part which he was to assume, and in a well-thumbed copy of Shakespeare's works belonging to Mrs. Green he had found the lines which Hamlet is supposed to speak after he sees the ghost. —  Left Behind or, Ten Days a Newsboy
• There was a sturdy genuineness about the man that forbade him to assume, and his phraseology was the natural outgrowth of his mind and his early education. —  Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873
• 235-308.) Might we not assume, then, that the medium-trance represents a certain condition induced by influence from deceased minds--which would fully account for the supernormal information given (for the medium would be en rapport with these minds), and for the fact that the medium is not usually susceptible to suggestion, pain-tests, &c.;, on this side. —  The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal
• But there was only one thing to do--assume the responsibility That this vast sum of money was given into the hands of Rothschild, no one has ever denied. —  Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen
• Any one now--supposing there could be some one entirely ignorant of what did really happen--would assume, as a matter of course, that Pulteney would at once become Prime-minister and proceed to form an administration. —  A History of the Four Georges, Volume II (of 4)

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