Doctor Livingstone, I presume?

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Words allegedly spoken by the British-born explorer Henry Stanley when, in 1871, he finally found the long-missing explorer and missionary David Livingstone in Africa.

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How to use Doctor Livingstone, I presume? in a sentence

My doctor insisted that once I filed this piece I lie down on my bed and not get out.
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After what seemed a desperate eternity, a doctor shook his head.
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Not long after I was finally diagnosed, my doctor ordered a bone density scan.
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My doctor put me on oral contraceptives to induce a period, figuring it would help build bone.
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I presume the twenty-five or thirty miles at this end is unhealthy, even for natives, but it surely need not be so.
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How little did he divine that the letter of the doctor was called forth by a communication from the countess-dowager.
Elster's Folly|Mrs. Henry Wood
He is what the bill wishes to make for us, a regular root doctor, and will suit the place exactly.
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You may imagine the effect this missive produced upon the proud, high-minded doctor of divinity.
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I presume this path does not extend many miles without meeting impediments.
Glances at Europe|Horace Greeley