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Attentive readers will have inferred from my recent month's absence that I've already had my 2011 summer vacation.

From The Guardian • Jul. 30, 2011

The reader will have inferred, from what I have said on the subject, that my object at this particular time was to attain the meridian of Mount Arden, as soon as circumstances should enable me.

From Expedition into Central Australia by Sturt, Charles

You will have inferred something of all this from what I have written of her before, and from words of hers that I have reported to you.

From Through the Eye of the Needle A Romance by Howells, William Dean

Among those who promised compliance with this last request, was Miss Nancy Scovandyke, whom we have once before mentioned, and who, as the reader will have inferred, was the first love of John Livingstone.

From 'Lena Rivers by Holmes, Mary Jane