More than this was mere vague surmise; he could not recover details.

She had a vague surmise that he paid for her father's, too.

There was something about it which renewed her vague surmise on the train.

A more pronounced cause than vague surmise was destined to perturb him, and this in an unexpected manner.

No word had been spoken connecting the two, yet one or two of the men glanced across the way in vague surmise.

The second askari, his rifle lowered, was staring in vague surmise at his breast, from which protruded a piece of polished wood.

His words were spoken with such assurance as to awaken a vague surmise that he had reasons which he had not told.

Some vague surmises that he might have been made away with, were rumoured abroad.

And a day or two afterwards I made a discovery that confirmed all my vague surmises.

A turbid flood of ideas, of vague surmises, of apprehensions, of forecasts, swept across her consciousness.

Unless he had something stronger than vague surmises to offer, she intended on the morrow to promise Graydon Muir to be his wife.