Example Sentences

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I'm afraid I choked off the surmiser a bit with my Tolstoyite incredulity.

From Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales by Cripps, Arthur Shearly

There is something here to be looked into—if not by an old surmiser, yet by the young women themselves!

From Warlock o' Glenwarlock by MacDonald, George