63 adjectives to describe guesses

You know she weighs about two hundred pounds" "At a rough guess, I should say three hundred," murmured Billie, for Billie was in a very contrary mood that day.

"I'm wholly afraid of him, if he's who I think he isbut it's a mere guess as yet, Lester.

Whoever doubts it, let him get data and make his estimate, and he will find that this is no random guess.

Was our government a lucky guess, and theirs an unfortunate speculation?

"Have you any idea where they have disappeared to?" "No, but I can hazard a very shrewd guess," she replied.

The percentages of correct guesses ranged from ninety to one hundred.

Then rose a very clever guess.

But when he came to examine sections, he would find his reasonable guess utterly wrong.

If we may trust literature, as has been shown, its use is not now so great as formerly, in spite of the vague guesses of alarmists.

After Haydn's return to London, in 1794, there are no letters to indicate a continuance of the acquaintance, but it doubtless was renewed, judging from the sagacious guess based upon the fact that Haydn did not come back to his old lodgings but took new ones at No. 1 Bury Street, St. James's.

"It was a sheer guess at first," said I, preserving a decent show of modesty.

"You will also observe," said Thorndyke, with a smile, "that a fortunate guess often brings more credit than a piece of sound reasoning with a less striking result.

If the world of Starman is an accurate guess on the future, then the good guys, the ones in the white spacesuits, will continue to prevail and produce more young people to keep the dream alive.

"Oh, well, of course it was some absurd guess of Luke's.

Every leaf which drops from the bough, to return again into its gases and its dust, is working out chemical problems which have puzzled a Boyle and a Lavoisier, and about which a Liebig and a Faraday will now tell you that they have but some dim guess, and that they stand upon the threshold of knowledge like (as Newton said of himself) children gathering a few pebbles, upon the shore of an illimitable sea.

It was admitted that her familiar spirit guesses, attempts to extract information from the people who sit with her, and tries sophistically to conceal his failures.

Servants gliding up or down the distant staircase, treading as upon velvet, gently keep his ear awake, so long as he troubles not himself further than with some feeble guess at their errands.

Those early commentators who variously place the confiscation of Vergil's farm after the battle of Mutina (43 B.C.), after Philippi (42) and after Actium (31), who conceive of Mark Antony as a partizan of Brutus, and Alfenus Varus as the governor of a province that did not exist, may state some real facts: they certainly hazard many futile guesses.

His haphazard guess had hit the mark, and the finding of Ormsby was now only a question of moments.

Fraulein Tenger wrote her book in her old age when she had lost her diaries, but enough of her reminiscences remain to prove Thayer's ingenious guesses correct.

Of course," she modified by a sweeping qualification the audacity of her naïvely phrased, rashly innocent guess at a new possibility for humanity, "of course if the man's a decent man.

" Questions on questions louder press Like lightning flies the inspiring guess Leaps every heart"The truth we seize; Your might is here, EUMENIDES!

Then she made a wild guessan intuitive guess.

I myself didn't even hazard a inward guess, but made up my mind to be resigned to the sight whatever it wuz and bear up under it the best I could.

That Foreigner wanders to regions afar, Where the lands of her birthright immortally are! So long as Man dreams that, to mortals a gift, The Truth in her fulness of splendor will shine; The veil of the goddess no earth-born may lift, And all we can learn isto guess and divine I Dost thou seek, in a dogma, to prison her form?

63 adjectives to describe  guesses