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Sentences ending with presumption

As we climbed towards the Gap, I recalled with strange aptness a quaint saying of my father's that Kaintuckee was the Garden of Eden, and that men were being justly punished with blood for their presumption. [9]
One King, holding the curse in light estimation, made the attempt, but was stricken sorely for his presumption. [5]
Its mistaken partiality becomes now your presumption. [4]

More example sentences with the word presumption in them

Then the presumption would naturally be that it does harm. [3]
If these things were presumed, the presumption was at fault. [5]
It very certainly was strong enough once; the presumption is that it is strong enough now. [6]
But, as it was a fair presumption that most colonial gentlemen made a visit home at least once in their lives, I did not allow the dust to get into my eyes. [9]
Probably the Eiffel Tower would be stricken down as a monumental presumption, like that of Babel, if it had not been raised with the full knowledge and consent of all the world. [4]
They are appealing to the detestable old superstitious presumption in favor of whatever is nauseous and noxious as being good for the sick. [3]
Thus, the attempt to establish a presumption against giving poisons to sick persons was considered as equivalent to condemning the use of these substances. [6]
Yet no such thing has been done; and the strong presumption is, that the insinuation is false and groundless. [7]
None knew better than he the absurd presumption of aspiring to the hand of such a great heiress, and yet he nursed the vanity that no other man could ever appreciate and love her as he did. [4]
My father had succeeded in presenting my ambition as the height of absurdity and presumption, and with something of the despair of a shipwrecked mariner my eyes rested on the green expanses of those book-backs, Bohn's Standard Library! [9]
Macaulay died too soon--for none but he could mete out complete and comprehensive justice to the insolence, the impertinence, the presumption, the mendacity, and, above all, the majestic ignorance of this author. [5]
A noxious agent should never be employed in sickness unless there is ample evidence in the particular case to overcome the general presumption against all such agents, and the evidence is very apt to be defective. [6]
It must be said that the American people--such of them as were aware of this uprising--took the punishment of their presumption in a sweet and forgiving spirit. [4]
There was no proof, only presumption, as to the agency of Elsie in the matter referred to. [6]
On the fair presumption that the company would send "everything" as one word, there were still two more than the conventional ten, and, from force of habit, he struck out the words "for me. [4]
It would be presumption on the part of any single man, however skilled, to contest the judgment of such a board as this. [5]
It is a presumption impossible in the domain of thought. [7]
There is a presumption against putting lead or arsenic into the human body, as against putting them into plants, because they do not belong there, any more than pounded glass, which, it is said, used to be given as a poison. [3]
There is no presumption against any of this class of substances, any more than against water or salt, provided they are used in fitting combinations, proportions, and forms. [3]
When a person of fair character for literary honesty uses an image, such as another has employed before him, the presumption is, that he has struck upon it independently, or unconsciously recalled it, supposing it his own. [6]
So we will let it stand as a fair presumption that this will hold good all over the country, and that consequently 25,000 out of every million of people we have must die every year. [5]
If, sooner or later, every soul is to look for truth with its own eyes, the first thing is to recognize that no presumption in favor of any particular belief arises from the fact of our inheriting it. [6]
I could not know how the lordly steamboatman scorns that sort of presumption in a mere landsman. [5]
And who was it that had the dashing presumption to do that? [5]
Then the presumption is that he is an inferior person. [6]
Still, the presumption in favor of poisoning out every spontaneous reaction of outraged nature is not extinct in those who are trusted with the lives of their fellow-citizens. [3]
The next proposition I would ask you to consider is this: The presumption always is that every noxious agent, including medicines proper, which hurts a well man, hurts a sick one. [3]
Nothing is known here about General Foster's order, of which you complain, beyond the fair presumption that it comes from General Grant, and that it has an object which, if you understood, you would be loath to frustrate. [7]
There would be great danger of human presumption and conceit in this progress if the conceit were not so widely diffused, and where we are all conceited there is no one to whom it will appear unpleasant. [4]
A young man can get rid of the presumption against him afforded by his writing verses only by convincing us that they are verses worth writing. [6]
Fact and presumption are, for business purposes, all the same to them. [5]
Of course there are exceptions to this rule of judgment, but I maintain that the presumption is always against the rhymester as compared with the less pretentious persons about him or her, busy with some useful calling,--too busy to be tagging rhymed commonplaces together. [6]
Could he, could any man, any lawyer, have the presumption to question such an obviously desirable measure, to arraign the united judgment of the committee's legal talent? [9]
I give you all I can, and act on the presumption that you will do the best you can with what you have, while you continue, ungenerously I think, to assume that I could give you more if I would. [7]
The presumption is against the union of two persons under these circumstances. [6]
We have to admit that literature is rather the fashion, without the violent presumption that the author and the writer have the same social position that is conferred by money, or by the mysterious virtue there is in pedigree. [4]

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