I tried a hundred conjectures to explain the mystery, which now, from the long continuance of the sounds, seemed to denote a desperately contested engagement.
It was a fertile source of conjectures for my concierge.
A jealous lover supposes everything; and it is by supposing everything and selecting the most probable of their conjectures that judges, spies, lovers, and observers get at the truth they are looking for.
If, by chance, she is there at nine in the evening the conjectures that an observer permits himself to make upon her may prove fearful in their consequences.
The problem was one of those suggestions apt to arise under pressure of new conjectures and theories.
Nothing can be, in the strictest sense of the word, more comic than to set so shadowy a thing as the conjectures made by the vaguer anthropologists about primitive man against so solid a thing as the human sense of sin.
Can these beds have been transformed from sandstone, as Elie de Beaumont conjectures in the case of the quartz strata on the Col de la Poissonniere, east of BrianÂon?
These venturesome and arbitrary conjectures have given rise, in wholly unscientific circles, to still more fantastic notions.
Conjectures on the position in space of the world.
It is only from analogies, frequently from purely ideal combinations, that we hazard conjectureson the specific elements of matter, or on their various modifications in the different planetary bodies.
No one could imagine who it was, but many conjectures were hazarded, until the canoe drew near enough for its occupants to be distinguished.
Or not contrary to Reason, if revealed, are Matter of Faith; and must carry it against probable conjectures of Reason.
This circumstance will shew how liable we are to form wrong conjecturesof things, among people whose language we are ignorant of.
The meeting with so many of these birds, gave us some hopes of finding land, and occasioned various conjectures about its situation.
While we were taking up ice, we got two of the antarctic peterels so often mentioned, by which our conjectures were confirmed of their being of the peterel tribe.
Roennaug translated it for Betsy Roland, and now various conjectures were expressed by them all, in both Norwegian and English.
On the return of the boat, Vancouver found that his conjectureshad not been ungrounded, and that Mr. Gray was the same gentleman who had commanded the sloop Washington at the time she had made a voyage behind the island.
Many of the journals and documents of the Zeni were subsequently lost, and their narrations were edited by a descendant, who mixed with them much of the false geography of the day and conjectures of his own.
In every particular the dress confirmed our conjectures as to his rank or office in the late expedition--the blue jacket with slashed sleeves and braided edging, and the pilot-cloth great-coat with plain covered buttons.
Many conjectures and assertions have been made regarding them.
I know the whole machinery of the interior, and can laugh the better at the silly wonder and wild conjectures of the uninformed spectators.
We were wondering whether he had hung himself, or thrown himself off a bridge—whether he really was dead or had only been arrested—when our conjectures were suddenly set at rest by the entry of the man himself.
These, and other various conjectures of equal importance, engrossed the attention of Mrs. Malderton and her daughters during the whole morning after church.
Bowyer's "Critical Conjectures and Observations on the N.
Canon Cook conjectures that it may mean the first sabbath in the second month (Iyar), precisely the time when wheat would be fully ripe (Revised Version, p.
Bowyer, the learned printer, with a collection of criticalconjectures annexed, which were afterwards published separately.
If the conjectures of those who claimed acquaintance with the intent of Bannadonna be thus far correct, no unenterprising spirit could have been his.
On Sunday morning, however, Kitty's mind became disturbed by more definite and alarming conjectures about her mistress.
That she should have been walking there just at that time was not a coincidence to raiseconjectures in any one besides Mr. Gilfil.
Seignelay ordered him to tell me, I am not obliged to keep it, and have as good a right as anybody to make my conjectures on what I read about it in the Gazette de Hollande.
This has not till now been determined, though there have been various conjectures concerning it.
He seems to found this belief on such weak conjectures that no great attention need be given to his account, especially as this man has been prejudiced from the first against La Salle's enterprise.
After a hard, scrambling journey over fern ridges we reached the fort, and I reported to the colonel, who babbled a bit at my failure to complete my duty, but was quite pacified when I told him my conjectures about the potatoes.
If my conjectures were right, I now knew where to find them.
Though such conjecturesare certainly false, yet they would not of themselves, even if true, reconcile the statements of Moses, nor make all plain when he here says that the source of all these rivers was one and the same.
This state of things has given occasion to many to formconjectures that Eden was the whole world.
She did not invite, nor did I offer any advice or any assurances or conjecturesas to what England or any other Power was likely to do.
Above all, the marvellous discoveries made of recent years in China and Chinese Turkestan have substituted a mass of authentic material for groping conjectures in the study of the art of the early periods.
I was forming conjectures as to her motive, when I saw her moving away from the spot.
With singular emotions, I walked amid the smouldering fires--forming conjectures as to which of them might have been graced by that fair presence.
The conversation had revealed enough of their past actions, and future designs, to confirm theconjectures I had already formed about them.
Our conjectures as to the mode of their departure were at an end.
Conjectures of this nature were chasing one another through my brain; and not without the effect of once more giving a brighter tinge to the colour of my mental horizon.
Still vaguely indulging in it, however, I cast a glance around the room in search of some object that might guide my conjectures to a more definite conclusion.
Sidenote] Various conjectures about the first population of America.
Yet, as the subject is curious, it may be amusing to some readers to present them with the different conjectures respecting it, especially such as are supported by late observations and discoveries.
Various conjectures about the first population of America.
Far in the corner, when his eyes became accustomed to the light, he discovered a circle of ashes, and his conjectures that these caves had been the abode of men were therefore verified.
He referred to the unknown seven-weeks' journey, in regard to which I here gladly take back all those conjectures which have hitherto represented it as so weighty and mysterious.
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