And one friend advised against "chairwoman," surmising that some partners might vote for a man next time, if only to have a "chairman" again.

And if the lady cop was correct in her surmising, he was not only a rapist, but a five-time murderer as well.

They had to shoot pictures and get me to do some surmising about the killer and so on, enough to pad out into a few paragraphs.

For most of the film it is not clear what the policeman has in mind but the truth in his surmising of dreadful events becomes clear.

Such an advent must fire the train of much surmising; and all surmising was dangerous to my lord and me, and to the Cause itself.

The fact that all these names occur in the same quarter of the globe is a further indication that one may be on the right track in such surmising.

In surmising the New Left, Rand deemed that they could be summed up by the false accusation that "Capitalism defiles the beauty of your countryside."

"We all gathered around Father Menn," she continued, estimating that, by his surmising of religious truth, his very death guarantees that there will new young priests to fight for the independent church for which he yearned.

It trembled through her nerves; it entwined itself mysteriously with the finest sensibilities in her nature; it softly opened her heart to a first vague surmising of the devotion that she had inspired in him.

From those he had also surmised that they were alone.

We can only surmise how she came to be there.

The dead have little interest in the living, she surmises.

The town, we can surmise from this, has come a long way.

Well, it's difficult to surmise what he may have seen.

I can only surmise from the available evidence what happened to this boy.

He must have surmised that no one would be around to hear him.

I think you can probably surmise the same thing after reading the whole story.

But with work of this order, all are free to surmise as they think best.

But how much of this could have been surmised at the time?

I make a guess you've surmised most of it already.

We can only surmise what the results of this meeting would be.

It was not a fact that could be left to surmise.

And that is, as you surmise, the last thing I would like to see happen.

We can surmise by those words that the price was high.

But I surmised that the two of you must have been friends.

"I would surmise you are a man who has seen trouble."

The way is easy enough to surmise, but the how and the who are still missing.

I could see from her face that she'd already surmised the worst.

The answer, he surmised, might be found in an old observation.

Others surmised that she was only a breath away from death.

Very early in this college football season, a couple of things can be surmised.

Harry surmised he'd be trying to remember not only if he said it, but where.

I had surmised that she would thought of such a man serving her son.

If I had only waited a week or two they would never have surmised anything about me.

From that I can- surmise- how you will face your future.

"We will probably make a surmise as to what it was."

If the first surmise were true, who was the agent?

He looked around at his staff in a kind of wild surmise.

I knew a terrible surmise was growing in my mother's mind.

Up to three hours ago I had merely a surmise.

If those wild surmises of his were true, it might well be.

But these give us no ground at all for any surmise as to statistics.

But he suggested that such surmises were off the mark.

All the grounds of my surmises I have from him.

It runs with my surmises, but he could not know that.

I fear it was no dream, and must act on this surmise.

For it all prove to him how right he was at the first in his surmises.

"Right now there is a good deal of surmise about their quality, because nobody knows for sure."

However, this surmise depressed him for only a moment or so.

As the morning arrived, he saw that neither surmise was quite right.

And, so far, that seems to have been an accurate surmise.

In view of their conversation, the first surmise must be correct.

On the steps, she saw that her surmise had been correct.

"The Government's case had been built on nothing more than speculation and surmise."

I am inclined to think he may be right, though it is only surmise.

The district fitted in more or less with my surmises.

"Did he use those words, or is that your surmise?"

"Well, you must agree it is only a surmise on your part."

But you cannot prove either of these surmises to be correct.