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«What song the Sirens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture.»
Author: Thomas Browne, Sr.
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Achilles, assumed, beyond question, conjecture, conjectures, hid, puzzling, sang, Sirens
«No one but yourself knows whether you are cowardly and cruel, or loyal and devout; others do not see you; they surmise you by uncertain conjectures; they perceive not so much your nature as your art»
Author: Michel de Montaigne
(Philosopher, Writer)
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conjecture, conjectures, cowardly, cruel, devout, loyal, perceive, surmise, surmises, uncertain
«OBSERVATORY, n. A place where astronomers conjecture away the guesses of their predecessors.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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astronomer, astronomers, conjecture, conjectures, guesses, observatory
«There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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conjecture, conjectures, returns, wholesale
«The appearance and retirement of actors are the great events of the theatrical world; and their first performances fill the pit with conjecture and prognostication, as the first actions of a new monarch agitate nations with hope and fear»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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Appearance
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agitate, agitated, agitates, agitating, conjecture, conjectures, first appearance, monarch, monarchs, performances, pit, prognostication, retirement, theatrical, theatricals, the pit
«It is difficult to conjecture, from the conduct of him whom we see in a low condition, how he would act if wealth and power were put into his hands»
«Conjecture as to things useful, is good; but conjecture as to what it would be useless to know, is very idle»