157 Verbs to Use for the Word speculations

Then Diogenes of Crete, making a fanciful speculation, imparted to air an intellectual energy.

When there is Fuel enough, no matter what it isThus the Ends of Sentences in the News Papers, as, This wants Confirmation, This occasions many Speculations, and Time will discover the Event, are read by them, and considered not as mere Expletives.

The effect of this attempt of President Wilson to check the growing popular antipathy to the League as an obstacle to the speedy restoration of peace was to cause speculation as to whether he really appreciated the situation.

Hutton and Lyell alike agree in their indisposition to carry their speculations a step beyond the period recorded in the most ancient strata now open to observation in the crust of the earth.

Socrates, who belonged to another school, avoided all barren speculations concerning the universe, and confined himself to human actions and interests.

On what side soever I have turned my speculations, I have found new arguments against this bill, and have discovered new mischiefs comprised in it; mischiefs which, however some may endeavour to overlook them, and others to despise them, will be found in a short time too general to be concealed, and too formidable to be neglected.

So far we have followed this speculation upon fairly firm ground, but now our inquiry must plunge into a jungle of far more difficult and uncertain possibilities.

Mr. Powles had availed himself of Disraeli's literary skill to recommend his mining speculations to the public.

And, finally, there was the lure of unexplored possibilities, not only material and external, but psychological not only touching what others might do or what might happen to them, but raising also speculation as to what he might do, or what might happen to him at his own hands; for example, how far he would flout authority, defy the usual, and deny the accepted.

With opportunity would come more scheming, more speculation, more cupidity.

It is now discovered that they were all sent by the generous lover, who has presented Don Joseph very handsomely, but he has brought neither letter nor message to the house of Ardinghi, which affords much speculation.

He gave up metaphysical speculations for practical philanthropy.

But the "Review" did not prove a successful speculation, and with its decease its corps of writers broke up.

The mallard's most remarkable characteristic is one which sets at defiance the speculations of the most profound ornithologist.

Mr. SPECTATOR, I always make one among a Company of young Females, who peruse your Speculations every Morning.

Institutions so framed have existed and still exist elsewhere, giving to commercial intercourse all necessary facilities without inflating or depreciating the currency or stimulating speculation.

Doesn't your cook carry away cold food?" It required perhaps four seconds for the merchant to stop his speculations on what Peter had come for and adjust his mind to the question.

I closed a large speculation on which I had been inclined, in the summer, to "fly"; Alison could never manage petroleum ventures.

And how can you continue to destroy every speculation by entering upon new ones before the previous ones are properly completed?...

Mr. SPECTATOR, I am amazed that among all the Variety of Characters, with which you have enriched your Speculations, you have never given us a Picture of those audacious young Fellows among us, who commonly go by the Name of Fortune-Stealers.

They accepted its speculations and theories at their face value.

Having no personal cares to harass them, and no political questions to agitate themhaving no extended speculations to push, and no public enterprises to prosecute, (save occasionally when a wreck on the southern point throws them into a ferment,) the lives of the higher classes seem a perfect blank, as it regards every thing manly.

When I meet with any thing of this nature, I throw down your Speculations upon the Table, with that Form of Words which we make use of when we declare War upon an Author.

"Ah, under the circumstances, I must leave you to pursue those speculations independently.

Try to imagine the gradual genesis of such myths as the Egyptian scarabaeus and egg, or the Hindoo theory that the world stood on an elephant, the elephant on a tortoise, the tortoise on that infinite note of interrogation which, as some one expresses it, underlies all physical speculations, and judge: must they not have arisen in some such fashion as that which I have pointed out?

157 Verbs to Use for the Word  speculations