1 To call or to fancy it a loss, a disappointment, would be a presumption for which she had not words strong enough to satisfy her own humility.
2 If he wanted, he would send for her; and even to offer an early return was a presumption which hardly anything would have seemed to justify.
3 There is a strong presumption that the person whom McCarthy expected to meet him at Boscombe Pool was someone who had been in Australia.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY 4 In the first place, we may start with a strong presumption that Colonel Openshaw had some very strong reason for leaving America.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS 5 "You will, I am sure, excuse my presumption, Dr. Watson," said he as he came panting up to where I stood.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 7. The Stapletons of Merripit House 6 There was nothing of presumption or folly in Bingley that could provoke his ridicule, or disgust him into silence; and he was more communicative, and less eccentric, than the other had ever seen him.
7 This match, to which you have the presumption to aspire, can never take place.
8 In a word, the Negro youth starts out with the presumption against him.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter II. 9 I knew that the presumption was against us.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter IX. 10 An act of so much precipitancy and presumption would seal the downfall of precocious intellect forever.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 28 11 The gravest presumptions rest upon you, and may induce vital results.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER X—THE SYSTEM OF DENIALS 12 These are the terms of his deposition: 'I do not even stand in need of circumstantial proofs and moral presumptions to give the lie to the prisoner's denial.'
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER X—THE SYSTEM OF DENIALS 13 Connie didn't feel it, perhaps because it was not directed against women; only against men, and their presumptions and assumptions.
14 "I make no presumptions about you," said the priest.
15 Heir presumptive, William Walter Elliot, Esq.