Presuming

Your letter was, if possible, received with more than usual warmth for I was not a little anxious to hear from you notwithstanding I of course knew the cause of your delay -- And you were right in presuming I would pardon you, for how could I ever do otherwise when you always have a very good excuse and are ever generous to pardon me. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Perhaps in presuming to take some laws more seriously than others I am on a slippery slope. alex. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I give little credence in presuming the human practice of organizing thought processes as providing insight into the ultimate reality (Who knows the Truth?). ❋ Unknown (2007)

Then quoth he to the wolf, Verily, the Lord pardoneth his erring servant and relenteth towards him, if he confess his offences; and I am a weak slave and have offended in presuming to counsel thee. ❋ Unknown (2006)

I am afraid I was hasty in presuming I could help you to find your object. ❋ Unknown (1856)

YAFLA?), and of course the possibilities are rich, again presuming that you're willing to accept an arbitrary sequence of letters and/or digits, creating a backronym to match. ❋ Ben Barren (2006)

Don’t you think you’re going a bit far in presuming this is a hoax? ❋ Unknown (2003)

Whoever wins – former mayor Ken Livingstone or former MP Oona King – will have a 20-month warm-up period before taking on Johnson (presuming, that is, Boris's ambition to replace David Cameron doesn't prompt him to quit City Hall and scurry back to the Commons). ❋ Unknown (2010)

The current money is on Edward de Vere, the Earl of Oxford, who had the acceptable aristocratic and educational pedigree for the job -- presuming, that is, that you must practice falconry in order to write about it. ❋ Lloyd Rose (2010)

Of his qualities in public life, a journalist for the Spectator of London declared: "He has, as he has shown again and again in his life, an unusually wide-awake social conscience: or, if conscience is too presuming a word, it is perhaps better to say that he is acutely sensitive to the hopes, fears and wants of ordinary people." ❋ Unknown (1968)

Allow me to offer my inquiries with reference to the physical welfare of Mr.. Copperfield in esse, and Mr.. Traddles in posse, - presuming, that is to say, that my friend Mr. Traddles is not yet united to the object of his affections, for weal and for woe. ' ❋ Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 (1917)

Allow me to offer my inquiries with reference to the physical welfare of Mrs. Copperfield in esse, and Mrs. Traddles in posse, - presuming, that is to say, that my friend Mr. Traddles is not yet united to the object of his affections, for weal and for woe. ' ❋ Unknown (1850)

Rome, that you were neither acquainted with the masterpieces of our fine arts, nor those ancient ruins which teach us history by imagination and sentiment, and I have conceived the idea of presuming to offer myself as your guide in this journey through a course of centuries. ❋ R. S. [Illustrator] Greig (1791)

(Bradley fighting vehicles continue to be directed to the scene, arrive, soldiers on ground rescue 2 girls from the van.) (prejudiced video titling presuming the reason why the survivors were sent to a local hospital instead of somewhere else) (short video ends) --- Can you respond to the video itself --- ❋ Joerg Moellenkamp (2010)

The filings, housed in a district courthouse in this town about eight miles east of the Palin's hometown of Wasilla, contained a lot of hot news - presuming, that is, you're interested in the child-custody agreement reached by Scott Richter and his ex-wife Deborah Richter, or in the former couple's holdings, which include a recreational property that Scott owns with Sarah and Todd Palin. ❋ Unknown (2008)