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Which will be back first? is what all America is conjecturing upon.

From A Frenchman in America Recollections of Men and Things by O'Rell, Max

"Yes," replied the abbe, "but he leaves to-night; everybody is conjecturing the motive of this hasty visit."

From An Historical Mystery by Wormeley, Katharine Prescott

You are reduced to saying that He foresees it; but foreseeing is conjecturing.

From Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary by Voltaire

Everybody is conjecturing what Mr. Blair has proposed; but no one expects relief from his mission, if indeed he be clothed with diplomatic powers—which I doubt.

From A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by Jones, John Beauchamp