| 1. | This I presume is your celebrated friend, Mr. - from Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 2. | Least of all, did Flask presume to help himself to butter. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 3. | And I presume you know what that unfortunate movement led t. - from The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde |
| 4. | I presume you can give me a momen. - from A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen |
| 5. | I presume you grew weary of the amusement and dropped it, didn't yo. - from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte |
| 6. | I'm only a stupid old woman and I wouldn't presume to do such a thing. - from Dubliners by James Joyce |
| 7. | Do not presume too much upon my lov. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 8. | As, if it can, I will presume in you. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 9. | Dare you presume to harbour wanton line. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 10. | Which he presumes already vain and void. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 11. | I presumed that my watchful guardian was Sola, nor was I wrong. - from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs |
| 12. | "I never should have presumed to think of it at first," said she, "but for you. - from Emma by Jane Austen |
| 13. | Elinor sighed over the fancied necessity of this but to a man and a soldier she presumed not to censure it. - from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen |
| 14. | Watkinson, mentioning in her note the hour of nine, it is to be presumed she intends asking some other company. - from The Best American Humorous Short Stories by Various |
| 15. | Hindley had gone from home one afternoon, and Heathcliff presumed to give himself a holiday on the strength of it. - from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte |
| 16. | For Flask to have presumed to help himself, this must have seemed to him tantamount to larceny in the first degree. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 17. | it may have taken place, necessarily presumes its author'. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 18. | An instance of this is seen in the case of Thamyris, a Thracian bard, who presumed to invite them to a trial of skill in music. - from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E.M. Berens |