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At the railway station in Nashville a dis - tant relative awaited me to apprise me of the reason for my recall: my mother had been barbarously murdered -- why and by whom none could conjec - ture, but the circumstances were these.
Can Such Things Be Bierce, Ambrose, 1842-1914? 1909
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Have your students verify our conjec - ture by trying others.
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If from facts we arc able to de - duce consequences; if from what has been we may conjec - ture what may be, I shall most incontestibly prove that n© opinion ever had a deeper foundation in error.
Washington to the people of the United States on the choice of a president 1812
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Mar\LUndiis, nc aliorum pnprer conjec - turas, pclagus mutabat in Lcucas piQbantc BuT '- manno.
Opuscula oratoria, poetica, critica Henricus Waardenburg 1812
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The order for drawing and cooking four days pro - visions here yesterday turned the whole conversation of the troops on the subject of the detachment and conjec - tures of its design; such as have been reported to me I shall relate to your Excellency.
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On taking a general view of these things, the extensive advantages to be embraced by the measures adopted and now carrying into execu - tion, I cannot help strolling into the uncertain field of conjec - ture that some day or other, not far distant from this place,
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But Meibomlus and others read tDHn, "The flocks cloath the mountains" Which conjec - ture is greatly ilrengthened by the following fentence, where we fhould probably read * 112, "cumfru? nenio."
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Having obferved that our men, after lighting a great many fires in the camp, formed themfelves into fmall circles, and whifpered each other, I conjec - tured that fome fudden and fecret enter - '' prize was in agitation: and accordingly, about ten o'clock, they began to faddle their camels, and my conductor defired me to give him my linen, that he might pack it up with his own.
Travels round the world : in the years 1767, 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771 Pierre-Marie-François 1791
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I confefs, and a lamt conclufion after fo promifing a beginning! but in their wider views of aeriform fubftan - ees, modern chemiils have yet only conjec - turally decompounded the fixed alkalis. —
Chemical Experiments and Opinions Extracted from a Work Published in the Last Century 1790
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III, 34.etc. Semel obfervavi conjec - turam Rhenani in textum receptam A.
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