And the suppositious captives were ferried by CIA-run airlines, whose existence was publicized nearly a year ago by the New York Times. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Actually he says this suppositious "Presbyter John" would have been an elder in the Church at Ephesus, not Corinth. ❋ Unknown (2009)
McCain's response to the suppositious expose about ostensible malfeasance did provide his wife, Cindy, with serious face time to demonstrate that she was more than just the blonde lady who looks like the head stewardess for Republican Air. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The speculations of the suppositious Indian sage, though quite as sound as those of many a “Mosaic Geology,” which sells exceedingly well, have no great value if we consider them by the light of modern science. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Now, in this suppositious case, I have taken phenomena of a very common kind, in order that you might see what are the different steps in an ordinary process of reasoning, if you will only take the trouble to analyse it carefully. ❋ Unknown (2007)
The older, her bezique cards and counters, her Skye terrier, her suppositious wealth, her lapses of responsiveness and incipient catarrhal deafness: the younger, her lamp of colza oil before the statue of the Immaculate Conception, her green and maroon brushes for Charles Stewart Parnell and for Michael Davitt, her tissue papers. ❋ Unknown (2003)
That it was a Utopia, there being no known method from the known to the unknown: an infinity renderable equally finite by the suppositious apposition of one or more bodies equally of the same and of different magnitudes: a mobility of illusory forms immobilised in space, remobilised in air: a past which possibly had ceased to exist as a present before its probable spectators had entered actual present existence. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Because Edgar wants his father to see his suicide attempt as impious in the largest sense, not as an offence against suppositious gods but as an offence against life itself, he invents a poem, a lie, a religion. ❋ Bevington, David (2002)
In the 150-year period before the introduction of printing into France only three recipe collections had been in circulation: the “Little Treatise of 1306,” the various versions of the Viandier, and the now vanished suppositious ancestors of the Liure fort excellent de cuysine family. ❋ Wheaton Barbara Ketcham (1983)
Hyponoia (ὑπόνοια) was the term which, Plutarch tells us (De audiendis poetic 4.19), the “ancients” had used, and it implies a hidden meaning, a conjectural or suppositious sense, buried under the literal surface. ❋ ANGUS FLETCHER (1968)
Zu Pfeiffer, white man, had been just as guilty of an attempt to commit murder at the suppositious inversion of a thumb of an idol as Bakahenzie; not an idol of wood but the projection of his subconscious desires. ❋ Charles Beadle (N/A)
To forestall the discovery by Mr. Keeler's companion of this trick, and to prevent its detection by simply feeling with his free right hand after the suppositious hands of the Medium, which are grasping his left forearm, ❋ The Seybert Commission (N/A)
He woke from a dream of pressing danger and impotent flight to marvel where he was in darkness; fancied himself at first in some wayside inn mid-way over Scotland, and sat up suddenly with an exclamation of assurance that he was awake to the suppositious landlord who had called, for the sense of some sound but stilled on the second of his waking was strong within him. ❋ Neil Munro (N/A)
Screening failed to save Helmuth or his base; and there is nothing to indicate that the screens impeded, even momentarily, the progress of the suppositious Lensman upon Radelix. ❋ Smith, E. E. (1950)
For examples of the two methods let us consider suppositious cases. ❋ Norval A. Hawkins (N/A)
He is bitten by suppositious dogs cunningly simulated by stage carpenters, who remark "bow wow" from behind the scenes. ❋ Various (N/A)
“This is an undeniable overt act,” he muttered, seeing what he considered an opportunity to neutralise the suppositious complaint which Birnier had sent to Washington; and taking up his pen began a formal accusation against Birnier, as an American subject, for having violated the international laws of the Geneva Convention by aiding and abetting rebels of his Imperial Majesty. ❋ Charles Beadle (N/A)
One desired it, at the suppositious bidding of something which was nothing. ❋ Charles Beadle (N/A)
