War and Peace vocabulary

Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (1878)

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I charitably conjectured he must have need of divine aid to digest his dinner, and his pious ejaculation had no reference to my unexpected advent.

Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847)

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The declivity was so small, that I walked near a mile before I got to the shore, which I conjectured was about eight o’clock in the evening.

Jonathan Swift. Gulliver’s Travels (1726)

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This being by several Learned Men lookt upon, as a very rational Notion, it was thought fit to offer it by the Press to the Publick, that other Intelligent Persons also might the more conveniently and at their leisure examine the Conjecture (the Author, such is his Modesty, presenting it no otherwise) and thereupon give in their sense, and what Difficulties may occur to them about it, that so it may be either confirm'd or laid aside accordingly;

The Royal Society. Philosophical Transactions: Giving Some Accompt of the Present Undertakings, Studies,and Labours of the Ingenious in Many Considerable Parts of the World, volume I (1666)

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the present was vague and strange, and of the future I could form no conjecture.