Sentence Examples

1. THE MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, although puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture.
2. As to what thou sayest, that these who accompany us yonder are the curate and the barber, our neighbours and acquaintances, it is very possible that they may seem to be those same persons but that they are so in reality and in fact, believe it not on any account what thou art to believe and think is that, if they look like them, as thou sayest, it must be that those who have enchanted me have taken this shape and likeness for it is easy for enchanters to take any form they please, and they may have taken those of our friends in order to make thee think as thou dost, and lead thee into a labyrinth of fancies from which thou wilt find no escape though thou hadst the cord of Theseus and they may also have done it to make me uncertain in my mind, and unable to conjecture whence this evil comes to me for if on the one hand thou dost tell me that the barber and curate of our village are here in company with us, and on the other I find myself shut up in a cage, and know in my heart that no power on earth that was not supernatural would have been able to shut me in, what wouldst thou have me say or think, but that my enchantment is of a sort that transcends all I have ever read of in all the histories that deal with knights-errant that have been enchanted?
3. The conjecture was at least a plausible one, and the detective began to seriously regret that he had embarked on the affair.
4. I slept well, and I conjecture at least six hours, for I found the day broke in two hours after I awaked.
5. I wish I could conjecture how soon I shall make this rivet quite firm.
6. Passepartout began very seriously to conjecture what strange chance kept Fix still on the route that his master was pursuing.
7. The debate, consisting in the main of wild conjecture as they had no hard facts to go on, was into its third hour.
8. Emma saw him only once but two or three times every day Harriet was sure just to meet with him, or just to miss him, just to hear his voice, or see his shoulder, just to have something occur to preserve him in her fancy, in all the favouring warmth of surprize and conjecture.
9. It seems, upon my first reaching the shore after our shipwreck, I was in such confusion that before I came to the place where I went to sleep, my hat, which I had fastened with a string to my head while I was rowing, and had stuck on all the time I was swimming, fell off after I came to land the string, as I conjecture, breaking by some accident which I never observed, but thought my hat had been lost at sea.
10. It passed instantly but was enough to serve as warning to him that his conjecture was correct.