Word: guess
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...paying sixpence one was entitled to guess the names of a boy doll and a girl doll; and if one guessed both names correctly one might take the midgets home. Clearly this was no "lottery," this was not "gambling," and so Mrs. Baldwin took a sixpence from her purse and laid it charitably on the counter...
...guess," she smiled, "I could never guess their names in the wide world. I'm not clever at guessing," and the Prime Minister's wife passed...
...into Paraguay across the eastern boundary, the Paraguay River. When we got there we told them how there were a lot of Bolivians sitting in forts in the middle of Paraguay, and that vexed them a bit. It was the first they'd heard of it, I guess...
Geographically it is interesting that Santiago. Chile, on the West Coast of South America, is due south of Boston, on the East Coast of North America. In other words the whole South American Continent lies thousands of miles farther East than most U. S. citizens would guess...
...Line of boats, painted the cabins a delicate green with pearl trimmings; the cornices and arches, lilac, pink, and pearl; and as admiral laden with gold braid he stood gloriously on the bridge issuing resonant (though meaningless) nautical orders. His twinkling justification: "If Vanderbilt's a commodore, I guess I ought to rank as admiral." But colonel he actually was-the ninth division, short of men and funds, had gladly elected him, and he paraded with pomp and fanfare. In splendid military regalia he escorted shabby President Grant to a Boston jubilee, where many mistook him for president...