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  • If you'll persume that guy on the right is Jew, is it OK for you?

    University of Lublin: Broken Token Cosmo7 2009

  • I persume they see it as failure to be bought out.

    Yahoo Puts All The Chips On The Table. Time For Somebody To Fold. Michael Arrington 2005

  • I don't know the back story on his Synthi VSTi, I persume he hatched the idea partnered with a programmer associate and for whatever reason decided to charge a lot for it.

    Virtual Synthi 2004

  • China vases, filled with persume, stood in several of the recesses, upon stands of the same structure as the toilet, which was magnificent, and ornamented with a variety of trinkets.

    The Romance of the Forest 2004

  • "She persume to come here and order you dis way an 'I dat way, an' all us all 'round ebry which way -- oo -- but I gived her a piece o' my mind," spake Margery, the weaver, very irate.

    Hubert's Wife A Story for You Minnie Mary Lee

  • Take a single specimen: 'Take keer -- don't persume; I'm a' fishal functionary out a-ketching of dogs.

    The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2 Various

  • "A scaffoldin ', thin, I persume ye main," continued Myles.

    A Pirate of Parts Richard Neville

  • Hart and Curidg to hed us yn time of [war] & to defend your Contray & your poor Sogbacks Intrist from ye voilince of ye Haithen -- But yet agine we Humbly persume to poot your Honnour yn mind of our Great want of them in hopes that your Honner will Grant a Captins 'Commission to John

    The Frontier in American History Frederick Jackson Turner 1896

  • I persume I c'd 'a' milked her, 'n' 'f she' d been my cow I w'd

    Susan Clegg and Her Friend Mrs. Lathrop Anne Warner 1891

  • But by the time we gits ter Trenton, word come thet the redcoats wuz a scuttlin 'fer York, so Joe he set off like a jiffy ter see, I persume, if yer wuz ter be faound.

    Janice Meredith Paul Leicester Ford 1883

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