"Suppose" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... their young, honest faces. The surgeon dressed her, and spoke to her in his own short kind way, pitying her through his eyes, Rab and James outside the circle,—Rab being now reconciled, and even cordial, and having made up his mind that as yet nobody required worrying, but, as you may suppose, semper paratus. ...
— Short Stories Old and New • Selected and Edited by C. Alphonso Smith
... wish you good luck, for Papa says if you have it it will be your ruin. I did not suppose that circumstances could ruin anybody,—anybody that had any backbone, I mean. But I do wish you good luck all the same, and if you're the kind of person to be ruined by it, ...
— Peak and Prairie - From a Colorado Sketch-book • Anna Fuller
... I suppose he was a tourist, for he had a small knapsack fastened to his back and he was carrying ...
— A Rogue by Compulsion • Victor Bridges
... of the ground. His chief difficulty would be to leap over the precipice in such a manner as to cause the Indian to believe he had fallen over accidentally. If he could accomplish this, then he felt assured the savages would suppose he had been drowned, and so make no search for him at all. Fortunately the ground favoured this. About five feet below the edge of the precipice there was a projecting ledge of rock nearly four feet broad ...
— Martin Rattler • Robert Michael Ballantyne
... but if we suppose a change in anything, that change must be effected either by the thing itself, or by some ...
— The Republic • Plato
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