surmisal

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An educated surmisal first thing was that even with their overnight lead of 205 England were the strongest of favourites ,with even 150 providing a real challenge.

From The Guardian • May 19, 2013

"It comes from Miss Ward's room," was her second surmisal.

From Grace Harlowe's Return to Overton Campus by Flower, Jessie Graham [pseud.]

Nor was she mistaken in this surmisal, for the instant the boy's eyes unclosed in response to Susie's energetic shaking, he demanded, "Does Tabitha—know where I am?"

From Tabitha's Vacation by Brown, Ruth Alberta

Passing surmisal, He hammered, He wrought me, From curled silver vapor, To lust of His mind:— Thou couldst not have thought me!

From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 3 by Stevenson, Burton Egbert

Two-Bits asked innocently, whereupon Hepburn certified the accuracy of that surmisal by moving uneasily.

From The Last Straw by Titus, Harold