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  • In half an hour we reached her, and, contrary to the pirate's surmise,

    For Treasure Bound Harry Collingwood 1886

  • A sorry man he wuz to see, az mebby you'd surmise,

    A Little Book of Western Verse Eugene Field 1872

  • What Boccaccio and the Jew would say now if they came back, I do not venture to surmise,

    Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3 Charles Dudley Warner 1864

  • He that hath shall have more; and this truth, I surmise,

    Lucile Owen Meredith 1861

  • Deil haet he kens mair about it than what's in the declaration, and a surmise that Jeanie Deans suld hae been able to say something about her sister's situation, whilk surmise,

    The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete Walter Scott 1801

  • Deil haet he kens mair about it than what's in the declaration, and a surmise that Jeanie Deans suld hae been able to say something about her sister's situation, whilk surmise,

    The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 1 Walter Scott 1801

  • An incredulous Hillary Clinton, observing the political advantage Obama reaped from the financial meltdown in September 2008, was left to surmise,

    The Times of India 2010

  • I'm enthralled with following God in a "left-handed" way instead of a "right-handed" way - as far as I can surmise,

    mmmm, that's good coffee... 2009

  • Walski's catch and release footnote: As you can probably surmise,

    myAsylum 2008

  • “I wish we may be so well off as your worst conjectures surmise,

    The Bride of Lammermoor 2008

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