The Pharisees, hearing of the numbers who flocked to His baptism, fomented a quarrel between His disciples and those of John; and would, moreover, have probably called Him to account for Presuming to baptize at all.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I"
Marcus Dods
Knowing it to be a stranger, and Presuming he had called to see her father, she came very demurely and very slowly down the stair, one hand sliding gently along the mahogany rail.
"The Man from Jericho"
Edwin Carlile Litsey
Turning over a page he also contrived to turn the laugh yet once again, this time against the too-Presuming artist.
"Holbein"
Beatrice Fortescue