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Example sentences for "suspect that"

  • I was slight and tall, and I suspect that my cheeks were paler than his, although I was accustomed to more exercise than he indulges in, and was fonder of riding and field sports.

  • I suspect that I was too young to have thanked you for the service you rendered me as I ought to have done," she said, "for my mother has since told me that had it not been for you I might have been killed by the fierce creature.

  • Mr Groocock began to suspect that he had been deceived in the matter on finding that Gaffin had sailed away in the lugger, and did not return for many weeks.

  • He just detected enough of her superiority of intelligence to suspect that he was humiliated, while sure that he was bored.

  • Between you and me, Reader, I suspect that, in spite of the Comedian's sagacious wrinkles, the one was as much a child as the other.

  • But I suspect that at least two-thirds of those friendly hands that detained you on the way to me were stretched out less to Lionel Haughton, a subaltern in the Guards, than to Mr. Darrell's heir presumptive.

  • If there were much slope this water would flow off: this makes me suspect that Tanganyika is not so low as Speke's measurement.

  • As this threat had been uttered three times, and I suspect that something of the kind had prevented the havildar exerting his authority, I resolved to get rid of them by sending them back to the coast by the first trader.

  • But notwithstanding that, by your account, the Swiss salt is (I dare say) very good, yet I am apt to suspect that it falls a little short of the true Attic salt in which there was a peculiar quickness and delicacy.

  • More than one sober thinker is inclining at present to suspect that aesthetically or specifically we are of no use, and that we are only useful historically; that we may register laws, but not enact them.

  • Our critic, at his lowest, is rarely malignant; and when he is rude or untruthful, it is mostly without truculence; I suspect that he is often offensive without knowing that he is so.

  • He seems not to mind misstating the position of any one he supposes himself to disagree with, and then attacking him for what he never said, or even implied; he thinks this is droll, and appears not to suspect that it is immoral.

  • I had reason to suspect that none, except one of my sons, could dare to perpetrate such an outrage; and I extinguished the lights, that my justice might be blind and inexorable.

  • I suspect that he had gone into the wood to indulge in a nap, after having taken a full meal off some unfortunate gnu or antelope.

  • I suspect that any of you who had taken the same between your jaws would have roared too, if not so loudly.

  • I suspect that it would puzzle even a zebra to kick him off.

  • I wish he would let me have his sword; I suspect that I should make a better use of it than he will.

  • I suspect that he does not believe we are so close in with the coast as is really the case.

  • I suspect that we don't get much more than three or four knots out of her.

  • Obeying the sheikh's commands, we let his frogship watch on; but I suspect that he must have had an uneasy time of it, while the animals of the caravan were drinking up his water till every drop was exhausted.

  • I suspect that if she had had a share in making the law she would not have been like this, for she would have become aware of the relation between law and life.

  • I suspect that as time passes and she suffers less intolerably from a sense of injustice, she will revert to the old graces.

  • I suspect that marriage, that was once upon a time the taking of a woman by a man, which has now grown legalized, and may become courteous, will turn into a very skilled occupation.

  • I suspect that it indicates a probability that by education, and especially encouragement, woman may develop a far higher degree of concentration than she has hitherto done.

  • I have not been able to ascertain his relation to either branch of the Polo family; but I suspect that he belonged to that of S.

  • But I suspect that there is some material error in the longitude of Lake Lop as represented in our maps, and that it should be placed something like three degrees more to the westward than we find it (e.

  • But I suspect that cités is a mere lapsus for journées as in the reading in one of his three MSS.

  • It made me suspect that he had not discovered the loss of the despatches, and knowing the importance of delivering them without delay, he had determined to run every risk for that object.

  • I suspect that all on board, both officers and men, were equally drowsy.

  • I suspect that if he had found the rebels approaching, we should not have seen his face again.

  • I got just as far in Arithmetic, at school, as you did, and I suspect that Mrs. Fleming got at least as far as long division, herself.

  • Now, if you have any reason to suspect that Mr. Fleming committed suicide .

  • But the old man never ceased to be grateful that the littler boy had laughed under that one blow, unable to suspect that it could have been meant in earnest.

  • I know the Church rather intimates this, but I suspect that vice is not the delicious thing the Church implies it to be.

  • Yet I suspect that a century is a very short time to allow for even justifiable surmise of such an outcome.

  • I suspect that, in his happy leisure, there grew upon him a desire to write one more book, a book which should be written merely for his own satisfaction.

  • Such doubt does not affect his greatness as a poet in colour and in form, but I suspect that it has always been the cause why England could not love him.

  • Still, I suspect that if you got it you would protest it was a most unjust affliction.

  • But I suspect that my quest is ended, and that you are Koshchei the Deathless.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    after him; could collect; divine nature; drawing them; general rising; great fish; heavy growth; highly civilized; hydrocyanic acid; just looked; large dose; old days; several letters; shall here; should love; sick headache; stranger here; suspect that; thus seen; when growing; wings black; written promise