For neither have the brutes any weak surmises of the gods or fond opinion about things after death to disorder themselves with; nor have they as much as imagination or notion that there is anything in these to be dreaded.
It is thus alone you can secure your own contentment; for it is thus alone your reflecting mind can snatch from the time to come the dangerous surmises of a dubious retrospection.
Unless he had something stronger than vague surmises to offer, she intended on the morrow to promise Graydon Muir to be his wife.
Madge was merely too well bred to show anger in public, or occasion surmises that would require explanations.
At last he detected smiles and whispered surmises on the part of some who had seen his devotion before the arrival of Mr. Arnault.
Indeed, it almost instantly became his policy to convince observers that their surmises were without foundation.
My surmises did not for a moment class a man of the Count's abilities and social position with the ordinary rank and file of foreign spies.
The considerations thus presented to me in the diary, joined to certain surmisesof my own that grew out of them, suggested a conclusion which I wondered I had not arrived at before.
Various surmises were afloat as to the object, but all at this time were wide of the mark.
Such a conduct would have done them honour, and although their surmises had proved incorrect, Moses would have applauded their ingenuousness.
What surmises have agitated our bosoms, when the events of life contradicted our expectations?
It requires not the tone of thunder to penetrate the ear of God: his omniscience perceives the secret whisperings of slander, and even the inaudible and unexpressed surmises of a perverted mind.
What Thanet thought of it all, the little island kept secret, hiding its surmises in the thicket of her own archaic forests.
These surmises were vastly to Master Courage Toogood's liking, whose name somewhat belied his timid personality.
Once or twice she had remarked upon his silence, and I had listened to her surmises without remark.
A whole torrent of surmises came flooding in upon me.
The conversation naturally turned upon the robbery, and various conjectures and surmises were hazarded relative to the persons by whom it had been committed.
On the contrary, the writer, in his tenth letter, states that the surmises as to the authorship are not correct, and in the Massachusetts Gazette of Dec.
While you deliberate with coolness, be not duped by the artful surmises of such as from their own interest or prejudice are blind to the public good.
Such surmises have often been made before, upon occasions where there was not even the shadow of a foundation for them.
But, on the other hand, this fact might have led to very different surmises still.
Wild surmises flashed lightnings through her mind, that seemed to rock like an empty bird's nest in a shaken tree.
The Watteau element in Felicia, her colouring and manner of knotting her hair encouraged these futile surmises as to whether the resemblance would extend to a permission of half-artificial, half-sincere coquetries.
For although hindered from hearing their conversation with Nacena, and so becoming acquainted with their plans, if not fully comprehending, she at leastsurmises them.
Then came furious surmises and angry oaths as a dozen or more moss-troopers galloped down to the bank of the stream, and rode in an excited manner hither and thither, seeking to put the dogs upon a track or trail.
Gray afflicted himself with thoughts and surmises such as these, and while the siege was pressed by the king and his troops, his days and nights were passed in misery.
In such a place I thought my story might gain credit; nor could I think in any degree to stain the name of my dear departed sister by any surmisesor reflections that might in future attach to it by telling the story as it was.
It is proper that the land should be cleansed of these disturbers of its peace; as for that old stranger, I have my own surmises concerning him, and we shall find a way to deal with his subtilty.
At any rate, it was right that Eveleen should know the truth, in confidence, if only to prevent her from talking of any surmises she might have.
It would have been noble and generous in Guy to act as he had done, had Philip's surmises been correct, and this he began to doubt, though it was his only justification, and even to wish to lose it.
Months succeeded days--Camilla was never heard of; and many and marvellous were the surmisesas to the means and manner, by which the lovely daughter of Don Manuel de Cordova had been so mysteriously spirited away.
Various were the surmises as to the ruinous results which this unhappy alteration in my habits must occasion.
I was right in my surmises with regard to my letter.
There were many surmises as to what the captain wanted him for.
The consciousness of the designs in which he employed them made him treat them gently, from vague but anxious surmises that, notwithstanding all his care, they might suspect the motives of the plans they mingled with.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "surmises" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
