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Meanings of wild surmise in English

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Usage of wild surmise in English
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He looked around at his staff in a kind of wild surmise.
The Demolished Man
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Lieutenant Chang received this suggestion with a look of wild surmise.
The Diamond Age
3
But that was the mere wild surmise of a political pessimist.
Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White — Volume 1
4
This wild surmise was the only reasonable hypothesis that had been struck on.
The Cruise of the Dry Dock
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At the time he'd thought a wild surmise was some kind of exotic bird.
The Long Earth
6
They looked at one another again with a wild surmise.
The Great Taboo
7
His name he gave; with many a wild surmise
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume ...
8
They gazed at each other with a wild surmise.
In the Sweet Dry and Dry
9
They glanced at each other with a wild surmise.
The Motor Maids at Sunrise Camp
10
Look'd at each other with a wild surmise -
The Long Earth
11
And so on, and so on; each with his special hope or " wild surmise."
Pagan Papers
12
Naught I knew; but wild surmise
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, December 5, 1917
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Shann, noting that gesture, was struck by a wild surmise, leading him to study the prisoner more narrowly.
Storm Over Warlock
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The upper servants, rigid in their seats, looked at each other, like Cortes' soldiers-"witha wild surmise."
Something New
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Her emotions rose, fell, undulated, filled her with wild surmise at their suddenness; and so passed Lucetta's experiences of that day.
The Mayor of Casterbridge
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When I get a good stroke I stare after it as stout Cortez stared at the Pacific, "with a wild surmise."
Pebbles on the shore [by] Alpha of the plough
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