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supportive; supports; supposable; supposably; supposal; supposed; supposedly; supposer; supposes; supposest

I suppose it does have a glamour for the unobserving.

I suppose there's no chance of Mr. Vane dropping in here before I bring the glass back, but, if he does, tell him you acted under my orders.

I wish the dear old governor hadn't been such a fine fellow; if he had been of the newer generation of fathers I suppose I wouldn't have had an ideal to bless myself with.

But--do you suppose I believe it, for a moment?

At present we are giving the most lifelike imitation of being passionately fond of outdoor life; I suppose England feels flattered.

I suppose it is the stream of sweetness that comes from you, dear.

I suppose your gloom strikes her as poetic; it strikes me as very absurd.

I don't suppose you imagined I had sent for you to bid you a last farewell before departing to my long home.

I suppose I must now inform you that two hundred pounds is the exact sum I lent your brother.

But I suppose it's no earthly use my saying anything.

I never thought about it, but I suppose it was because she seemed to like me.

I don't suppose he is very happy here, without so much as a tooth-brush that he can call his own.

I remember him very slim and elegant-looking; but I suppose he is quite elderly now, and has lost his figure?

As it had not occurred to her to ask herself that question, I suppose she was not.

They are all for Ralph, who is a steady fellow, and going to marry a nice girl--at least, I suppose she is a nice girl.

I suppose Carr did his best, but being only an American, he certainly made a very poor fight of it; and while I was laying into the man who had got hold of him, I was suddenly caught by the legs myself from the other side of the cab.

I am going on purpose to dislodge an impostor who has arrived there, who is actually believed by some people (who are not such exemplary Christians as ourselves, and ready to suppose the worst) to be his wife.

And now," he added, compressing his lips, "I suppose I must go and tell Ralph.

I suppose I had had what women call nerves.

I suppose the second son was specially mentioned, Middleton?

I suppose I still clung to one last illusion, that I might meet a woman whom I could love, and who would love me, and not my name or income.

Well, Middleton," with a start, "I suppose we ought to be going back now.

Suppose we walk up to Regent's Park and call on him.

I suppose we've been running round a vicious circle and we've come to the last lap?

I cannot suppose that any of you here are now unaware of the nature of my experiments and discovery.

Then, also, I suppose that we shall be able to penetrate into a world that has been closed to us since the human species began!

I suppose one does overdo it," Charliewood answered, "in the way of little comforts and things.

I suppose I shall not see you again, but I forgive you, Gouldesbrough, forgive you utterly.

I suppose I may say that such honours as can be given have fallen to my share.

And if you choose to kill yourself with amyl alcohol, I suppose that's your affair.

I suppose that these things are arranged for us by a Power over which we have no control, a Force beyond our poor power of measuring or understanding.

I suppose we shall have you in the Upper House soon!

I suppose you can manage a little dinner here?

I suppose you have seen that Eustace Charliewood killed himself?

I suppose you know that all the world is waiting for a pronouncement?

I suppose you find it rather dull, living in lodgings; don't you?

I suppose not," said Calder Jones, the hunting Member of Parliament whom we once met at Roebury.

I hardly know what to do with myself; but I suppose I'd better go back to Oileymead.

Do you suppose that I do not see that I must run much risk?

When a man has to go to Vienna or St Petersburg two or three times a month, you don't suppose he enjoys travelling?

I suppose nothing would prevent his fighting; would it Alice?

Do you suppose I have never thought of it;--what it would be to be a man's mistress instead of his wife.

I suppose I may go now, if you have got nothing more to say?

I don't suppose I've opened the wages book half a dozen times since last July.

Dear John, do not suppose that I despair that it may be so; but, indeed, you must not hurry me.

I suppose you wish to marry Mr Grey, but I'm by no means certain.

And I suppose Grimes thinks Sunday morning a particularly good time for business," said the attorney, laughing.

I suppose you have seen my aunt since you have been here?

And now suppose we begin to unpack," said Captain Bellfield.

You don't suppose she'll ever put her foot in this house.

It is absurd to suppose that the Chinaman cannot learn the art of modern warfare.

Suppose a tax is laid upon a certain province.

Suppose England to be a weak and backward country and China wealthy and powerful, with a great navy and a large army.

But I don't suppose in real life brothers and sisters ever do care much for each other--do you think they do?

I suppose it must be praise, but I don't think anybody could tell from its words.

I don't suppose he ever thought about me in that way in his life, or would marry one of my birth and my bringing up even if I asked him.

I suppose I must know the man you mean, Mr. Heron; for I think he is the only man I ever heard you say anything against, and I have not forgotten.

Lady Milton should have had it with her, but they are not very strict at Ostend, and I suppose her rank proved an open sesame.

It's a little too ornamental and fantastic perhaps for my taste; but I suppose that is in keeping with the style of the poems; and he is delighted with the book.

It is probably not unfair to suppose that a motive for delay has been removed by the recent death of Mme.

Does any one suppose that if the affairs of the companies were fully and completely exposed to the public, such payments would be permitted or tolerated?

But suppose that He who said "neither do I condemn thee" were to decide between the relative fitness of the two for a place in His kingdom--is there any doubt in whose favor He would speak?

Suppose Shakespeare to have been a Romanist, and never to have entered an attorney's office: of what moment are these conclusions to the reader of his plays?

Suppose these projects to become, some day, realities, we may ask whether a real weakening of the United States would be the result.

States by Mr. Lincoln prove it a very great mistake to suppose letting alone to be the condition of progress.

Suppose for a moment a nation (and such are not wanting) modelled after the antique.

No, we cannot suppose that America, in recklessness of heart, will destroy with her own hands the fruit of so many efforts and sacrifices.

Just suppose we suddenly came under fire--flat trajectory stuff--out here on this flat exercise ground with no cover except in that latrine pit over there.

I suppose he is a little more cunning than one took him for.

I suppose that it is impossible to estimate the extent of the good which the opening of Africa has done for an overcrowded continent like Europe; and what touches Europe touches the world, no doubt of that, is there?

I suppose that is the reason,' he went on, 'which made you ask me here at first.

I suppose the title belongs to me by right.

I suppose that's just what friendship means nowadays?

Then she added in a low voice, 'I suppose few women ever think at all until after they are married.

Captain Drake, I suppose we ought to call him, but he has dropped the Captain.

But I don't suppose for an instant that she has realised it.

I suppose the white-haired man's her father,' said Drake.

But I suppose this carping comparison is just the never-ending tendency to look on a previous day as better than one's own.

Probably no northerner can see fairly both sides of Philip's strange character, just as I suppose no Spaniard can judge Elizabeth Tudor as does an Englishman.

I suppose the house is closely watched, and it will be difficult to get out unseen.

I suppose he thinks the world is full of lovers outside his monastery walls.

Don't you suppose he could hurry just a little without whipping the horse?

I suppose you have ghosts enough in the Villa Medici, without having to search for them in the Sabine hills.

I suppose you've noticed that every house is Genazzano has a separate door for the chickens cut in the bottom of the big door.

Well, I suppose there are some things that do bore him; and the ones that don't, bore other people.

Ah--he was an artist because he was young, not because he was called, and I suppose he got tired of the play.

I suppose you have been posing here for two hours, waiting for some one to come and admire,' and she hurried off to the grove to make sure that Pietro had carried out her orders.

I suppose he was pretty nasty,' she proceeded, taking Marcia's answer for granted.

I suppose a person's soul is worth whatever price he chooses to set.

If one man, whom we will suppose is a decent citizen, brings up one boy to be a decent citizen, and does nothing else, I don't see that much is gained to the world.

I suppose we've both of us been a little worried this spring, and you probe us on a tender point.

I don't suppose that we shall ever know the name, or anything of the personality of any one poet of them.

It was in 1812, as I have said, that she wrote out the pathetic confession of what we must suppose to have been the truth.

Byron was always before the looking-glass as he wrote; and as for Charles Lamb, do not suppose that he did anything but hide in his clouds of ink.

I suppose they were paid something, those of them who were not apprentices, bound for a seven years' term.

But I suppose that if you could put your mother's death-bed into a novel, you could do almost anything in that kind.

There is no reason to suppose that we need cease to be a nursery of heroes, that our old men will not see visions or our young men dream dreams.

Exactly when that was I can't find out, but I suppose it to have been in the region of 1605.

It is fair to suppose that every one of them will make one speech every year, many of them, no doubt, one every week, some certainly every day.

As a verbal acrobat I don't suppose any of them could approach him.

I suppose that is yours, Charlie, through the door in the corner.

I suppose she feels strange and lonely," he said to himself.

I suppose it is the same, when you put it so, Long Tom; but there will be none of your English maids to watch your prowess here.

I suppose Henry brought you my message to close the inner gates, as they had gained a footing on the walls.

You don't suppose that I am joking with you," he went on as the varlet looked at him suspiciously, "when I should likely be whipped for my pains.

I suppose you would not wish me to come here during the day.

Still there may be things, dame, that we country folks don't understand, and I suppose that it must be so, else Parliament would not be so willing to vote money always when the kings want it for wars with France.

I suppose it is because I always used to treat her as if she were a boy, and now that she has grown up into a woman she wants to forget that time.

Yes, Agnes, but I think that she was more frightened for her husband than for herself, and I don't suppose that she had ever been in danger before.

I suppose when they have got the shelters close to the moat they will bring up planks to throw across.

But suppose we have to come back the same way?

I needn't say one of us must keep watch," said Brazier sadly, "for I suppose that no one will wish to sleep.

He's very suspicious of me, and I don't suppose we shall ever be good friends.

No," said Joe; "I don't suppose he would be able to tell us.

And suppose I hook one of those alligators?

I suppose we are getting up toward quite the middle of South America, aren't we?

I don't suppose it'll show fight if we let it alone.

As for you, Rob, I suppose you would not care to go again?

Suppose you gentlemen get your knives out over my head, so as to try and guard it a bit.

I suppose you think it's very clever to keep on with this banter, but I can see through you plainly enough.

I suppose they like waiting, and having their snoozes in the hot sun.

And suppose it goes off while you are lighting it, and gives you a startler, and sends us all to the bottom, how then?

Some dispute I suppose it was that rose between Jack Smith and Bartley Fallon, and it seems Jack made off, and Bartley is following him with a hayfork!

I suppose ye understand, woman, how it will go wi' your son?

Well, I suppose it will, seeing that mostly everybody knows it before.

Well, then, suppose that she does not pass this examination--suppose that her pastry is lumpy, white like the skin of a boiled fowl.

A suppose they'll let me wear un in yonder.

I suppose they'll wake him the same as another?

I suppose that's what brought the police and the magistrate up this way.

We should, then, have to suppose that her amazing speech at his death-- O clear sweet laughter of my heart, flow out!

I suppose there is a good deal of disorder in this place?

I don't suppose your husband considers that an honor; but I do.

But he is after all the most interesting character in the piece, with his Biblical references in broad Lowland Scots (we may suppose that the Stewarts speak Gaelic among themselves), his superstition, his remorseless cruelty.

No: I suppose I should resuscitate the forgotten doctrine of forgiving my enemies.

I suppose my brother heard that I was in trouble.

By the way, I suppose you know that you have a cousin about your own age.

I suppose you are after the thousand dollars offered for my apprehension.

I suppose some of these miners have got a lot of gold dust hidden away in their shanties," he said to himself.

I suppose you are not as yet provided with a boarding-place.

No, I suppose you don't care to think of those days now.

I suppose you didn't learn where the boy lived?

I suppose you don't want to hire a clerk?

No, but suppose I find something for him to do?

I suppose you didn't come to tell me that," responded Stephen Ray with a sneer.

I suppose you wonder that I am sitting here while others are at work.

I suppose you are his lawyer," sneered Ray.

I suppose you mean on account of my profession.

I suppose I ought to go back to Emmonsville.

I suppose he came with you from Nebraska?

They are appointed by different Harbor Commissioners, and as long as the Commissioners don't know, I suppose the men will keep their places.

How did he suppose I was going to find that paper up that tree?

Suppose we walk down, Addie, and talk with that woman.

Jo did not suppose that a coyote would usually attack a person.

She said: "I suppose you are beginning to miss your friend, the lady artist.

It must be hard for you people to leave China for three or four years, and I suppose you were all pleased when you received the order to come back, after your father's term was finished.

Still I have given my promise, and I suppose I shall have to keep it.

I suppose she was like all women, a bit of a gossip as well as the rest; it appeared so at any rate.

All the same I suppose it is very monotonous.

I suppose she will have to go back and stay at the American Legation and come to the Sea Palace each day until the work is finished.

I suppose in that way no one could come on her unawares.

I suppose you will find everything very strange.

I suppose your legs must be very tired also.

I suppose this was the way she kept watch over them and knew at all times what they were doing.

I suppose Bunny would like to land a few.

He did, the others helping, while even Splash pawed about, though I don't suppose he knew for what he was searching.

Do you suppose you could have got up in the night, walked in your sleep, and hidden the train somewhere else yourself?

But what do you suppose he means by saying that Mr. Bixby sticks needles into him?

And in the morning what do you suppose had happened?

Now that I have sunk so low I suppose it is impossible to sink further.

I suppose it is the same with all other men.

I suppose all the girls will be running after him," I laughed.

I suppose if the truth were known you were engaged for to-day, eh?

I suppose you had quite a merry time at home?

But I suppose I shall go back some day," and he sighed and resumed the briar pipe he had been smoking when I entered.

Yes," I observed, "I suppose all sorts of absurd bunkum is talked about religious work among the London poor.

Then we sat together, chatting in ecstatic enthusiasm, as I suppose all lovers do, planning a future, wherein our bliss was to be unalloyed and our love undying.

I suppose if a man goes to Madame Gabrielle's to buy a bonnet for a present, or something, you all think he ought to take notice of you?

I suppose she was concerned about you the other night, wasn't she?

I suppose I did," she admitted with a smile.

I suppose your man will be here in the morning to take us out?

I suppose you can guess that he has borne something, and he got that wound for you.

I suppose it depends upon the strength of the temptation.

I don't suppose it's important," Grahame replied, and lighted a cigarette before opening the envelope with an English stamp.

I suppose I did understand something of the kind," Cliffe admitted.

You don't suppose he'd take a hand in a risky job like this entirely for the benefit of the owners?

I suppose I do, in a way," Evelyn admitted deprecatingly.

Suppose it had fallen into Gomez's hands.

I suppose I must wait; there's no other way of getting back," Evelyn answered dubiously.

My people are traders and I suppose money-making runs in the family.

Suppose you go home in twelve months with a profit on the money he gave you?

I suppose we won't be required to meddle with dago politics?

I suppose you don't expect this calm to last?

I suppose you are waiting for dinner now?

Let us suppose that two people are using them to look at an arrow on a weathercock a long distance off.

Suppose that a pencil is held in front of the eye at the distance at which we see small objects comfortably.

Suppose that after all they had gone north, risking the war-belt for a dash through to Crown Gap?

After a moment Mount said, "I suppose you don't know where Butler is?

Do you suppose we like that picture either?

I suppose you bring that pretty valentine of hers--what some people call a warrant--do you not, Captain Butler?

I suppose not," observed Bevan, laughing, and commanded the servant to fetch me a bowl without tea.

Suppose she has to pay excess on her luggage, or to wrangle about contraband?

I suppose you mean to heap reproaches on her, and take her home in disgrace?

I suppose they won't let me be grown up till I'm so old I shall wish I was a school-girl again.

But suppose something happens to her--all alone there," said the Inward Monitor.

I suppose what I felt about him wasn't real.

By the way, I suppose you've not heard anything of Miss Desmond?

I suppose it's wanting to be with a person, and thinking about nothing else.

I suppose I can write a letter as though--as though I'd not seen her since Long Barton.

I suppose the trams are running just the same along the Boulevard Montparnasse,--and all the lights and people, and the noise.

Poor little thing, I suppose she's never seen a man before.

Well, I suppose if it's really love you want to marry them.

It must be kept in the darkest secrecy--suppose the thing should get out, and into the papers!

She turned upon him a steady, wondering gaze and he shrank back a little and went on more humbly: "I suppose I ought not to speak in that way to you about your brother, and I hope you will pardon me.

It wasn't about himself, or his business, so I suppose it's all right for me to tell you.

Suppose a mother about to bear a man-child could choose its soul and the life it was to live.

And yet, he seemed so nervous, and just as if he were fighting against something with all his might--and I suppose it would be like that if he were fighting the desire to drink or take some kind of dope.

Yes, I suppose so," he answered hesitatingly.

I suppose you know she and Mr. Brand are engaged!

I suppose he liked to have me go with him because I was always jolly and kept him in good spirits.

The first reason is none of your affair and on the other two counts you ought to be grateful to me, though I don't suppose you will be.

Suppose we have some hot toast to cheer us up after this awful confession.

And I don't suppose I'll be offered any more perquisites of that sort, now that you're going to leave him.

Suppose we call it the endeavor on your part to conceal something you don't want known--the instinct of self-defense.

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