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Assuming that members of Congress who live in D.C. are adults, they, too, will be permitted to get stoned at their leisure.

That she was unwise in assuming her own will so promptly, with little regard to consulting his, she might yet discover.

Assuming the above view to be reasonable, the number of new instruments which left the Stradivari house must have been very large.

"If true, it would account for his not showing himself to his friend—assuming that he did come back," observed Mr. Carr.

There is one specimen in the Museum, probably killed rather late in the spring, as it is assuming the black breast.

She felt that servants had no right to presume to pay her compliments—that they were thus assuming that she was upon their level.