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suppose

verb allude to, anticipate, assume, believe, be of the opinion, calculate, conceive, conclude, conjecture, consider, deduce, deduct, deem, estimate, expect, feel, gather, gauge, generalize, guess, hint, hypothesize, imagine, imply, infer, insinuate, intimate, judge, opine, posit, presume, presuppose, propose, propound, reason, speculate, surmise, suspect, take for granted, theorize, understand, view

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And so indeed he was--so near that I had very nearly walked over him without seeing him; which would have been dreadful, always supposing that Fairies can be walked over my own belief is that they are something of the nature of Will-o'-the-wisps: and there's no walking over them.

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Even supposing a present-day forester does know the woods as intimately as his predecessor, it's not of much use.