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• We can at least opine, argue, dream and participate in cyberspace from the comforts of our computer desks. —  Rantings of an Arab Chick
• She walked into one of the largest of the New York hotels, hatted, veiled and sable-ed, and wearing tied around her waist a large blue-and-white checked gingham apron Now I opine (I have stolen that word from Irvin) that under those circumstances, or something approximating them, such as pajama trousers, or the neglect to conceal that portion of a shirt not intended for the public eye, almost any man of my acquaintance would have made a wild bolt for the nearest bar, hissing like a teakettle. —  'Oh, Well, You Know How Women Are!'
• Th' Postmaster-gin'ral had jus' got as far as 'we opine,' whin he see Goold Bonds, an' he bate th' cat to th' windy be a whisker Well, Goold Bonds ended up in th' coal cellar, an' they was a cab'net council f'r to see what was to be done. —  Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War
• Some of our journals opine, in their late articles, that a change has come over the spirit of our abolition dream, and suggest that the clerk, in charge of the Anti-Slavery Papers at the Foreign Office, is an old antiquated, superannuated being. —  Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846
• I said, truly, then that I 'trusted you,' meaning I knew that in such matters you did not 'opine'--and that innumerable things were within your horizon which had no place within mine But as I did not understand I could only watch and ponder. —  On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature

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