Until you can take a precipitate of his thoughtsthe very thoughts he is unconscious of himselfand put them under a microscope, why, there must be a lot of guesswork about the source of all unconventional human actions.

"It is only guesswork on my part, of course.

All classes and types of life in Paris were mixed up in this retreat, and among them were men I knew, so that I needed no guesswork for their stories.

He had never understood the intuitions of women and thought them more often shrewd guesswork in which they were as likely to be wrong as right.

Nor is it directly denied, except by those who from habitual disgust reject the guesswork of the various pretenders to scientific systems; yet even these, no less than others, do practically admit it in their common intercourse with the world.

The Admiralty accept no guesswork from the hunters about their exploits; they must bring the brush to prove the kill.

It was all guesswork as to whether or not they were headed for the island.