"Opine" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "drawn a bead on it," as he would have expressed it, without delay. "No, sirree, I guess not, as long as old Zach hain't forgot to handle the shootin'-irons!" he continued. "I fancy, mister, I've spiled your murdering little game; an' now we'll go in for a rough and tumble, I opine!" ...
— The Wreck of the Nancy Bell - Cast Away on Kerguelen Land • J. C. Hutcheson
... ingenious reasons have been latterly given for the decline of the Drama, and the decrease of interest now felt for the stage. Some aver that people are nowadays too cultivated, too highly educated, to take pleasure in a play; others opine that the novel has supplanted the drama; others again declare that it is the prevalence of a religious sentiment on the subject that has damaged theatrical representation. For my own part, I take a totally different view of the subject. My notion is this: the world will ...
— Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General - Originally Published In Blackwood's Magazine - 1864 • Charles Lever
... propos de lui dire: "Je vous aime," a moins qu'on ne lui dise[28] a propos de rien. Cette matiere, avec elle, ne peut tomber que des nues. On dit qu'elle traite l'amour de bagatelle d'enfant; moi, je pretends qu'elle a pris gout a cette enfance.[29] Dans cette conjoncture, j'opine que nous encouragions ces deux personnages. Qu'en sera-t-il?[30] Qu'ils s'aimeront bonnement, en toute simplesse,[31] et qu'ils s'epouseront de meme. Qu'en sera-t-il? Qu'en me voyant votre camarade, vous me ...
— A Selection from the Comedies of Marivaux • Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux
... Methinks I should feel grossly tempted, for example, to ask such of them as had the necessary foreknowledge, to rap out for me, in the first instance, the exact state of the English funds, or of the London stock and share-list, a week or a month hence; for such early information would, I opine—if the spirits were true spirits—be rather an expeditious and easy mode of filling my coffers, or the coffers of any man who had the good sense of plying these spiritual intelligences with one or two simple and useful questions. If, however, the spirits refused to answer ...
— Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1 • James Y. Simpson
... "O my lord Nur al-Din, an thou desire to nonsuit separation, be on thy guard against a swart-visaged oldster, blind of the right eye and lame of the left leg; for he it is who will be the cause of our severance. I saw him enter the city and I opine that he is come hither in quest of me." Replied Nur al-Din, "O lady of fair ones, if my eyes light on him, I will slay him and make an example of him." Rejoined she, "O my lord, slay him not; but talk not nor trade with ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 8 • Richard F. Burton
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