How came it, then, that his Majesty seemed on this occasion to have no recollection of him, and looked over and beyond him in the airiest way, as though he were a far-off Jew in Jerusalem, instead of being the assumptive-Orthodox proprietor of several European newspapers published for the general misinformation and plunder of gullible Christians?
"Temporal Power"
Marie Corelli
Thorpe liked the boy because he was open-hearted, free from affectation, assumptive of no superiority,-in short, because he was direct and sincere, although in a manner totally different from Thorpe's own directness and sincerity.
"The Blazed Trail"
Stewart Edward White
The topics, or common places from which those arguments are derived, are twofold,-the one inherent in the subject, and the other assumptive.
"Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker."
Cicero