Putnam's Phrase Book / An Aid to Social Letter Writing and to Ready and Effective Conversation, with Over 100 Model Social Letters and 6000 of the World's Best English Phrases

by Edwin Hamlin Carr

A sure precursor of——

Only a bold prophet would predict when the——

Extravagant conjecture

I lay no claim to the predictive function of a prophet

’Tis likely by all conjectures.

King Henry VIII., II., 1

One may hazard the conjecture that——

A purely supposititious case

The hypothesis is based upon the supposed fact that——