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Sentences ending with assumption

You remember how much I was struck with a beautiful young woman (I will not mention names) who appeared in a tableau as Murillo's Virgin of the Assumption? [4]
I do not admit having written that article, nor have you any right to assume so important a point, and then base important action upon your assumption. [5]

Short sentences using assumption

This assumption is a mistake. [7]

More example sentences with the word assumption in them

Suddenly the prisoner, with an abrupt motion of the hand towards two chairs, said with an assumption of ordinary politeness: "Will you not be seated? [11]
Philostratus thought it wise not to dispute this assumption, and soon diverted the conversation to the subject of Melissa's imprisoned relations. [10]
If this assumption were true it would be none the less disagreeable to the new-comers. [4]
Since the evidence was purely circumstantial, there must be no flaw in its cable of assumption, it must be logically inviolate within itself. [11]
After the toast was finished, with an emphasised assumption of weariness, and a hint of a long yarn on the morrow, he picked up his blanket and started for the room where all were to sleep. [11]
It is not up till midnight, and any action taken before then on any other assumption will give grounds for damages. [11]
King didn't like this assumption of protection. [4]
Any one with this assumption in his mind would naturally extend too far the action of natural selection, either during past or present times. [1]
Here we have the tacit assumption, so often made with respect to corporeal structures, that there is some innate tendency towards continued development in mind and body. [1]
Before parting for the night Marie said to Hugh: "This is what I wish you to do for me to bring over two of your horses to Point Assumption on the river. [11]
James Redpath recognised the justice of this assumption, and furnished the following instance in support of it. [5]
We are in the habit of allowing a certain arrogant assumption to our Roman Catholic brethren. [6]
Equally baseless is the assumption that it is inartistic and untrue to nature to bring a novel to a definite consummation, and especially to end it happily. [4]
We profess constantly that we have no more inclination than belief in the power of the government to disturb it; yet we are driven constantly to defend ourselves from the assumption that we are warring upon the rights of the Sates. [7]
There is in that no formality, no assumption of function, no awkward propriety or dignity to be sustained. [4]
I think this sort of critical eulogy is more damaging even than that which kills by a different assumption, and one which is equally common, namely, that the author has not done what he probably never intended to do. [4]
He excited her, she was divided between attraction and fear of him, and often she resented his easy assumption that a tie existed between them--the more so because this seemed to be taken for granted among certain of his associates. [9]
On the instant she knew it to be real, and his easy confidence, his assumption of dominancy had its advantage. [11]
She avoided them, resenting a little the assumption of approval she read in them. [9]
A recent writer remarks, that in all such cases it is a pure assumption to assert that the mental act is not essentially of the same nature in the animal as in man. [1]
I thought him rather a yellow-brick gentleman himself for his assumption of cosmopolitan manners. [9]
That assumption will not, be tolerated by free men. [9]
And she did not share his cool assumption that his death would never come at the hands of a Mormon. [13]
But I do not desire to dwell upon this branch of the question more than to say that this assumption of his is false, and I do hope that that fallacy will not long prevail in the minds of intelligent white men. [7]
This sophism derives much, perhaps the whole, of its currency from the assumption that there is some omnipotent and sacred supremacy pertaining to a State--to each State of our Federal Union. [7]
She had married Mr. Whelan on the assumption that Macavoy was dead. [11]
On Sunday morning Marya Dmitrievna invited her visitors to Mass at her parish church--the Church of the Assumption built over the graves of victims of the plague. [2]
I do not like the assumption of titles of Lords and Knights by plain citizens of a country which prides itself on recognizing simple manhood and womanhood as sufficiently entitled to respect without these unnecessary additions. [6]
To take the life of one of their prisoners on the assumption that they murder ours, when it is short of certainty that they do murder ours, might be too serious, too cruel, a mistake. [7]
With the mere instinct of femineity she saw the falseness of the assumption that the higher life for man or woman lies in separate and solitary paths through the wilderness of this world. [4]
I was not, however, able to annul the influence of my former belief, then almost universal, that each species had been purposely created; and this led to my tacit assumption that every detail of structure, excepting rudiments, was of some special, though unrecognised, service. [1]
She seemed to have thoughts of her own; but she shook them off with a little firm motion of the shoulders, and, with the assumption of a demureness of manner and an airy petulance, said: "Well, amuse me. [11]
His face and hands were white and a little flabby, and he wore his hair rather long, which, it is said, accounts for the weakness of some men, on the assumption that long hair wastes the strength. [11]
It was his exceeding temperance in all things which enabled him to venture upon the assumption and succeed in the accomplishment of tasks which men, physically far stronger than he, would have shrunk from under-taking, even had they been possessed of the same abilities. [4]
He had a distinguished face, become more distinguished since his assumption of governorship, and authority had increased his personality. [11]
Hitherto recognition has been moved only on the assumption that the so-called Confederate States are de facto a self-sustaining power. [7]
Renunciation is the assumption, at once, of heavenly and earthly citizenship, of responsibility for ourselves and our fellow-men. [9]
Hence the common assumption that men must be impelled to every action by experiencing some pleasure or pain may be erroneous. [1]
Was it not an assumption of Northern superiority, to be resented? [9]
He approached the Alexandrian with an assumption of dignity and a demeanor which testified to his formerly having taken part in the representations of tragedies in the theatres of great cities. [10]
It is simply a working compact, made by "the people," to promote union, establish justice, and secure the blessings of liberty; and the equality is in the assumption of the right of "the people of the United States" to do this. [4]
Unfortunately it is a little discredited, so many of the old plays turning upon its assumption by young blades who are no better than they should be. [4]

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