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Example sentences for "suspected"

Lexicographically close words:
susceptum; suscipe; sush; suspect; suspecte; suspecting; suspects; suspence; suspend; suspended
  1. I've suspected it for a long, long time, and tonight I know it.

  2. Muscles whose existence he had never suspected came into being for--apparently--the sole purpose of aching.

  3. Would you have suspected for one instant that each of these widely differing personalities was in reality one man?

  4. I was very glad of an excuse for coming away;" and this was followed by such manifest confusion of countenance and manner, that I suspected the reason, and at last I prevailed on her to confess it.

  5. But it is my duty to inform you that it is suspected this person is Lord Martindale's mistress only, not his wife.

  6. As to him, you know his character is so infamous that one can wonder at nothing he does; and he has been suspected of being a spy for the French convention, as well as the lady.

  7. I thought the best thing to say was, that I had suspected as much from the first.

  8. You wouldn't have suspected it of some of them dignified old scouts, either.

  9. In fact, I suspected that sheddin' the enemy's gore wasn't much in my line.

  10. We never suspected before that she was such an intimate friend of ours.

  11. And to think I hadn't suspected it before!

  12. Their accounts, if they could he suspected of falsehood, would rather have magnified than diminished the effects of the miracles.

  13. They avowed also that he was the person who had been foretold to the Jews under the suspected title of King.

  14. The Nazarenes, who understood Hebrew, used chiefly, perhaps almost entirely, the Gospel of Saint Matthew, and therefore cannot be suspected of forging the rest of the sacred writings.

  15. Lord Storndale suspected that there was another reason which his son had not mentioned for his refusal of the colonial appointment, and in a short time his suspicions were confirmed.

  16. But of late I have suspected that, despite our steadily increasing prosperity, all is not well with us.

  17. I have for some time suspected that something of the kind existed, but I dreamed not that it was so serious, or that so many of my chiefs were involved in it; nor could I devise a means by which to discover the truth.

  18. At any rate, he succeeded, and no one in the set suspected that it was his first appearance in public as a dancer.

  19. Significant glances were exchanged when he made his appearance, but Fitz suspected nothing, and was quite unaware that he was attracting more attention than usual.

  20. He awaked soon after midnight, and not finding you in the camp, suspected that I had told you that he intended to kill you.

  21. Sommers suspected that their owners had taken to themselves noms de guerre.

  22. Gradually it came over her that Sommers had always suspected this thing.

  23. She thought to come closer to him in this way, but she suspected that he understood her motive, that her work did not seem quite sincere to him.

  24. And Sommers in a flash suspected why he had been bidden: the good-natured Miss Hitchcock wished to bring him a little closer to this influential member of his profession.

  25. I had suspected for months that there were other women; but seeing it, knowing that he knew I had seen it!

  26. He had suspected her of grasping this happiness without scruple, clamorously; but her sweet white lips spoke out the falseness of this accusation.

  27. If the Hitchcocks had been in the city, he should have suspected that they had a hand in the matter.

  28. She had something on the tip of her tongue to tell him, something she had thought of pleasantly for the last three days, but she suspected that this man was not one who would like to take his good fortune from a woman's hand.

  29. He suspected also that their proximity had compelled Shif'less Sol and the others to keep close within their little shelter.

  30. He saw the Indian sentinels moving about a little, but evidently they suspected nothing.

  31. Then he added more seriously:--"'Tis like he did but tell Lord William that he suspected thee of being connected with Dorset in the warning of the Queen.

  32. We suspected internal injury at first, but I imagine the worst he has to fear is the disfigurement.

  33. Discovered, his presence there when all slumbered, suspected as he had been, would be ruinous.

  34. Then Rhys had conceived a mortal antipathy to the agent that first rent-paying day, and he suspected a sinister motive in every word that fell from the ill-natured, thin lips.

  35. She had spread a clean, homespun linen cloth on the table under the cheese and the jug of cider, even though she disliked the agent and suspected his errand.

  36. But she never suspected Rhys of dropping the word-seeds that rose up around them as ill weeds of speech and thought.

  37. But she was ugly and ill-dressed, and he sometimes felt ashamed at the thought that he might be suspected of being her admirer.

  38. This wholesome doubt kept their conversation free from all tincture of flirtation, and when supper was served he reproached himself for having suspected his hostess of evil purposes or a want of trust in him.

  39. Ieshua never married and was suspected of idolatrous practices, which he had absorbed from hermits of the Egyptian Thebaïd.

  40. A few more months of this appalling absorption in his own personality, this morbid marriage of man to his own image, and he suspected that his brain would be irretrievably injured.

  41. And Arthur recalled how this pupil of Bakounine had with the assistance of Pryow and Nicolajew beguiled a certain suspected friend, Ivanow, into a lonely garden and killed him, throwing the body into a lake.

  42. I was suspected simply because I did not want to turn out sweet sonnets about the pretty stars.

  43. I suspected some deep devilry and determined to discover it.

  44. Their attempts to defend an absent person would generally make them ridiculous, and would often be unjust to the person whom they suspected of defamation.

  45. Parents or guardians who knowingly send their children to schools for education in a non-Catholic religion are suspected of heresy and incur excommunication ipso facto, reserved to the Ordinary (see Canon 2319).

  46. He leaves the desk open and watches from concealment to see whether a suspected person who is coming to the room will steal.

  47. Here was as much as he had hoped for--evidence that what he had suspected was true.

  48. That somewhere or other a preacher lay hidden in Anatole France might have all along been suspected by observant readers of his works.

  49. Very few of us would claim to be the moral equals of Charlotte Corday, and we have abased ourselves for centuries before the at-last-suspected figures of Harmodius and Aristogeiton.

  50. Columbus may, in a sense, be said to have suspected that America was there, and Galileo suspected more than was good for his comfort about the conduct of the stars.

  51. It is as though men had suspected all along that stars and numbers had some significance beyond their immediate use and beauty, but for hundreds of years they could only guess what it was.

  52. It is a trampling of the suspected persons under one's own white feet.

  53. Indeed," the dowager confessed, "I never suspected he had such determination.

  54. They decided with that credulous sentimentality imported into Great Britain with Hengist and Horsa that she must be very deeply in love with her husband; no one suspected that she might be more deeply in love with herself.

  55. She had never suspected this inner fountain that grief had thus unsealed, and she let her tears go trickling down her cheeks with as much pleasure as a small boy who has found a watering-can on a secluded garden path.

  56. He might, perhaps, have suspected from the beginning that she was only an emissary of John's, but the form and magnitude of her proposal were a violent surprise to him.

  57. Long ago she had suspected it, though John never stinted her.

  58. As soon as she had uttered the words she suspected that she had said something decisive and irretrievable.

  59. At least three suspected that the conductor had a private spite against themselves.

  60. And as to my father, I really should not have thought that he, who has kept himself single so long for our sakes, need be suspected now.

  61. You should not have suspected me now; the case is so different, and my age is so different.

  62. He might have suspected the origin of that infamous epistle, had not a cunning brain devised and executed it.

  63. I should sooner have suspected either of the other servants of such a gift as that ungainly biped," Grace laughed, but Lillian remained silent.

  64. While she is beloved, petted and sought after, I am suspected and growled at by every churlish dog who feels inclined to show his teeth menacingly!

  65. She suspected that it was as bleak and barren as the mountain slopes above Omar.

  66. Neither by word nor look did he show that he knew or suspected anything of the real reason of her break with Gordon.

  67. Her temper was ungovernable; she was fond of blood, which she sucked from the living animal; and was something more than suspected of the cannibal propensity.


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    Other words:
    alleged; discredited; disputed; exploded; hypothetical; moot; purport; suspect; suspicious