Not content with the cares of the present day and hour, she dived far into the future, and carried all sorts of imaginary loads that would come in supposititious cases. From Wordnik.com. [Oldtown Folks] Reference
"Listen to me, my lad; I'll put what we call a supposititious case to you. From Wordnik.com. [Secret des Champdoce. English] Reference
And that can best be illustrated by a supposititious example. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 2, No. 1, April, 1915 April-September, 1915] Reference
Geraldine Ponsonby accepting a check for the supposititious Gerald. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905] Reference
Casting aside, therefore, the spurious "lessons" and supposititious. From Wordnik.com. [Henrik Ibsen] Reference
Liberalis, § 27, makes Iphigenia only the supposititious daughter of. From Wordnik.com. [The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I.] Reference
This penalty of being jiggered was a favorite supposititious case of his. From Wordnik.com. [Great Expectations] Reference
After a great deal of preliminary bungling the supposititious Count, with the Devil in. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-09-08] Reference
Of that I believe nothing, the number is supposititious, and too prodigally foisted in. From Wordnik.com. [Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel] Reference
Rosa appeared to consider what she would do if the awkward supposititious case were hers. From Wordnik.com. [The Mystery of Edwin Drood] Reference
Distances and the supposititious length of tent ropes are inclined to be deceptive in the dark. From Wordnik.com. [Fanny Goes to War] Reference
The letter of Marcus Aurelius to the senate now extant, is rejected as supposititious by Scaliger. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
The modern epic is, of the supposititious ancient model, but an inconsiderate and blindfold imitation. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American] Reference
The notion so diligently spread abroad, of a supposititious birth -- the foreign education of the young. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I.] Reference
Secreta Secretorum (supposititious work), Anon. 1702; from the Hebrew version by M. Gaster, 1907, 1908. From Wordnik.com. [Politics: A Treatise on Government] Reference
The plant in question thus furnishes an actual illustration of the supposititious case mentioned at p. 482. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
Atlantic Ocean and Europe in 1902 and 1903 -- that a whirlwind that could do that would not be supposititious. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Damned] Reference
The reader is made to confound the ingenuity of the supposititious Dupin with that of the writer of the story. From Wordnik.com. [International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850] Reference
I want you, I said, by way of parallel, to imagine a supposititious son who is brought up in great wealth; he is one of. From Wordnik.com. [The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett] Reference
Whereupon, with a supposititious "positive" standard of judgment against him, Von Grotthus revoked his "identification.". From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Damned] Reference
Duels were fought on the most frivolous occasions and for the slightest possible affronts, intentional or supposititious. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Old Liverpool] Reference
I know you are better and that means, of course, that the supposititious curvature of your limbs, never real, is less apparent. From Wordnik.com. [Tin-Types Taken in the Streets of New York A Series of Stories and Sketches Portraying Many Singular Phases of Metropolitan Life] Reference
The nutmegs of Banda and the tin of Banca are to some extent parallel cases to this supposititious one, and I believe the Dutch. From Wordnik.com. [The Malay Archipelago] Reference
He had returned again to his banter about the supposititious girl I was trysted with up the glen, and my face showed my annoyance. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
That no supposititious whirlwind can account for the hundreds of millions of tons of matter that fell upon Australia, Pacific Ocean and. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Damned] Reference
Euripides and the Medes, or who aspires to usurping the tyranny, plots the return of a tyrant, or unmasks a supposititious child; or if there be. From Wordnik.com. [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2] Reference
The boundaries of lakes and the courses of rivers, where definitely known, are indicated by unbroken lines -- where still supposititious, by dotted ones. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873] Reference
In the former case their sympathies, though with the mutineers, were frozen at the fountain-head by fear of invasion and that supposititious diet of frogs. From Wordnik.com. [The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore] Reference
Allied with the axe, which, like Talleyrand's supposititious frontiersman, they have not forgotten, it supplies them materially with sport and subsistence. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875] Reference
The Prince is possessed of a stepping-stone by his bedside, which answers his question night and morning, and enables him to detect the supposititious bride. From Wordnik.com. [Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Second Series] Reference
(We call them gods in a supposititious rather than in a real sense; for to such we give the title of deity by the custom of nations, not because of their nature.). From Wordnik.com. [The Danish History, Books I-IX] Reference
Scripture, as the actions, (which are those of supposititious beings,) the appearances, and the names which they ascribe to them, more than sufficiently demonstrate. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 2] Reference
Who create in the mind of the expectant mother the fear of untold agonies and then offer immunity to these supposititious tortures at the price of their worthless nostrums?. From Wordnik.com. [The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference
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