surmising

Example Sentences

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Surmising this stranger/gopher could lend her no comfort, we politely dispensed with our association.

From Time Magazine Archive

Surmising at last that the card, whatever it was, had something to do with the exclamation, Paula picked it up.

From A Laodicean : a Story of To-day by Hardy, Thomas

Surmising that the other was telephoning for reinforcements, Pete knew that he would have to act quickly, or surrender.

From The Ridin' Kid from Powder River by Brinkerhoff, R. M.

Surmising that this might be the night clerk, yet unrelieved from his duties, and that Duncan might have arrived during the time he officiated, Manning approached him, and propounded the usual question.

From The Burglar's Fate And The Detectives by Pinkerton, Allan

Surmising that you might make for Clonmel, we looked for and found the place where you got the car, but no news as to what direction you had taken.

From Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude by Bidwell, Austin