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The forbearance of this government had been so extraordinary and so long continued as to lead some foreign nations to shape their action as if they supposed the early destruction of our national Union was probable. [7]
A different view seems to me more probable. [1]
As fiction sometimes seems stranger than truth, a few words may be needed here to make some of my characters and statements appear probable. [6]
This seemed very probable. [11]
The mental powers of the Crustacea are probably higher than at first sight appears probable. [1]
The first work might serve as an introduction, and accustom the public to the author's the success of the second might thereby be rendered more probable. [14]
Some say it is a sort of vaccination that renders death by some malignant type of fever less probable. [5]
More than once, I have been forced boldly to regard the terrible event of her loss as possible, and even probable. [14]
He must decide how much of what has been told he can accept either as having actually happened, or as possible and more or less probable. [6]
The fact that he is in town tends to make the circumstance more probable. [9]

Short sentences using probable

It seems probable. [5]

More example sentences with the word probable in them

It is probable you left some obscure comrade at a tavern, or in the farms, with right mother-wit, and equality to life, when you crossed sea and land to play bo-peep with celebrated scribes. [6]
Nor was it without great surprise and much speculation on Quilp's probable motives, nor without many bitter comments on Dick Swiveller's folly, that his friend received the tale. [12]
But, on the whole, the magnet remains the same, and it is probable that a person's normal electric condition is the thing in him least liable to dangerous variation. [4]
He knew too well what this meant, and the probable series of symptoms of which it was the prelude. [6]
It is probable we shall ease their pains in a few days. [7]
And this much was to be said for him, that after he had entered a battle he never hesitated, never under any circumstances reconsidered the probable effect of his course. [9]
But since there was no fixed law on the subject, and since the whole probable result of their action would be an assistance in electing Gen. Cass, he must say that they were behind the Whigs in their advocacy of the freedom of the soil. [7]
Old Fuller's schoolmaster was Master Arthur Smith, a kinsman of John, who told him that John was born in Lincolnshire, and it is probable that Fuller received from his teacher some impression about the adventurer. [4]
And, indeed, it was extremely probable, beforehand, that such would be the result. [7]
She is doing very well as it is, and if the young man succeeds, as I have little question that he will, I think it probable enough that she will retire from her position as the head of a boarding-house. [6]
Without entering directly upon the consideration of this much-talked-of tendency, I should like to notice the influence upon our present and probable future of the bounty, fertility, and extraordinary opportunities of this still new land. [4]
In your movement upon Chattanooga I think it probable that you include some combination of the force near Cumberland Gap under General Morgan. [7]
He didn't stop to reason than upon the probable consequences of his act in seeking her. [9]
If it prove to be true, as is probable, that the people of Utah are in open rebellion to the United States, then Judge Douglas is in favor of repealing their territorial organization, and attaching them to the adjoining States for judicial purposes. [7]
Drifting along from thought to thought, he reflected on the probable consequences of the general knowledge of Maurice Kirkwood's story, if it came before the public. [6]
On their journeys those Britons were used to long fasts, and knew how to bear them; and also how to freight up against probable fasts before starting, after the style of the Indian and the anaconda. [5]
Curiously enough, in this mental argument of justification, I left out all consideration of the size of the probable profits to Mr. Scherer and his friends. [9]
We have so thinned our line to get troops for other places that it was broken yesterday at Front Royal, with a probable loss to us of one regiment infantry, two Companies cavalry, putting General Banks in some peril. [7]
What should you think of the probable musical genius of a young man who was particularly fond of jingling a set of sleigh-bells? [6]
I do not think my prospects, individually, are very flattering, for I think it probable I shall not be permitted to be a candidate; but the party ticket will succeed triumphantly. [7]
I incline to think it probable that your nerves will fail you occasionally for a while; but once you get them firmly guarded now that trouble is over forever. [7]
Any of these things were credible, and would make a probable story enough,--so thought Dick over to himself with the New-England half of his mind. [6]
I have noticed these cases, as rendering it probable that wild monogamous species might readily become either temporarily or permanently polygamous. [1]
He says, if there is a deed, it is most probable General Alexander, of Paris, has it. [7]
That he visited them when he sailed along the coast is probable, though he never speaks of doing so. [4]
Swift's account of the Struldbrugs is not very amusing reading for old people, but some may find it a consolation to reflect on the probable miseries they escape in not being doomed to an undying earthly existence. [6]
The Monotremata have the proper milk-secreting glands with orifices, but no nipples; and as these animals stand at the very base of the mammalian series, it is probable that the progenitors of the class also had milk-secreting glands, but no nipples. [1]
It was in the probable growing relation between Elsie and the schoolmaster. [6]
He thought of the probable comments of the men of his London club upon the drift his conversation was taking with a New England spinster about his fitness to marry a school-teacher. [4]
The news of the probable advent of Mr. Giles Henderson on the field, as well as the tidings of his actual consent to be a candidate, were not slow in reaching Leith. [9]
I got into the habit of locating them in the interior of Pennsylvania as the safest place, though Jersey seemed equally probable to the public. [4]
As stated in the case of Mississippi, it is probable they both voted for it. [7]
The probability that the additional mammae are due to reversion is thus much weakened; nevertheless, it still seems to me probable, because two pairs are often found symmetrically on the breast; and of this I myself have received information in several cases. [1]
Thinks it probable that Y. is here now, for the place. [7]
It is probable that while still an under-graduate at Yale, he was engaged to Alice Adams, who was born in Canterbury, a young lady distinguished then as she was afterwards for great beauty and intelligence. [4]
It is probable that when the mind has been strained for a long time, and the heart and body suffered much, one sees a calamity vaguely, and cannot define it; appreciates it, and does not know it. [11]
It seems probable that the settlers, following traders, penetrated to the Niger valley from the valley of the Nile as early as the third or fourth century of our era. [4]
It seems probable that the intimation of personal danger he had received had not been forgotten entirely; though fatally for him, he took a foolish way of showing his remembrance of it. [5]
It seems probable that the genial companionship of Agassiz, who united with his scientific genius, learning, and renown, most delightful social qualities, gave him a kinder feeling to men of science and their pursuits than he had entertained before that great master came among us. [6]
It is probable that the fury of the Royal Court at the news was not quite sincere, for it was notable that the night of his evasion, suave and uncrestfallen, they dined in state at the Tres Pigeons. [11]
I earnestly believe that the consequences of this day's work, if it be as you assume, and as now seems probable, will be to the lasting advantage, if not to the very salvation, of the country. [7]
It is probable that Moses borrowed his prohibition of swine's flesh from the Egyptian laws with regard to unclean animals. [10]
It is probable that Marion saw through the delicate plot, but that did not make her like Mrs. Townley less. [11]
It is probable that Marie's visitors had their suspicions regarding the escape, but they said nothing, and did not make her uncomfortable. [11]
It is probable that it had not at that time been handed down. [5]
It is probable that his features or tones betrayed some impatience at having thus been foiled of his purpose, for Mrs. Hopkins thought he looked all the time as if he wanted to get rid of her. [6]
It is probable that he knew that, and refrained from letting her into the knowledge of this vice, contracted in the war when, seriously ill, he was able to drag himself about from patient to patient only by the help of opium. [11]
It is probable that he did open the way to the discovery of the New World. [4]
It is probable that he did not write home, believing, no doubt, that he had very little to say. [5]
It is probable that he did not believe in the immortality of the soul. [9]
It is probable that each and all of them thought that they were using Douglas; and it is yet an unsolved problem whether he was not using them all. [7]
It is probable that both these stories may have had their origin in the simple fact of Tom's shedding tears upon the inquest--which he certainly did, extraordinary as it may appear. [12]
The picture had suggested a probable future for the lady. [9]
Chance, that had sported with him of late, now directed him to a probable hiding-place. [13]
He had been speaking about the general want of attachment to the Union and the absence of the sentiment of loyalty as bearing on the probable dissolution of the Union. [6]
And suddenly the sight of Victoria with a probable suitor--who at once had become magnified into an accepted suitor--had dispelled hope. [9]
This does not seem to me probable, when we think of the multitude of birds which with impunity gladden the country with their voices during the spring. [1]
Did it not seem probable that the Great Machine had, in its automatic movement, tossed him up again on the shores of Time because he had not fallen on the trap-door predestined for his eternal exit? [11]
Nor does it seem probable that Smith himself would have omitted to mention the dramatic scene of the prevented execution if it had occurred to him. [4]
I cannot positively say, but I should think I did not, as the weather became warmer after the first two cases; I therefore think it probable that I made a change of at least a part of my dress. [3]
It is, to say the least, more probable that he was in an attorney's office than that he was a butcher killing calves 'in a high style,' and making speeches over them. [5]
If you have revised it, as is probable, I shall be much obliged if you will send me a copy. [7]
This view is rendered all the more probable, as it is known that fine, short, and pale-coloured hairs on the limbs and other parts of the body, occasionally become developed into "thickset, long, and rather coarse dark hairs," when abnormally nourished near old-standing inflamed surfaces. [1]
The more I reflect upon this matter, the more probable as true does this horrible interpretation become. [5]
If, as seems probable, the anthropological section of society manages to get round the curse that protects the bones of Shakespeare, I should like to see the dome which rounded itself over his imperial brain. [6]
I think it probable, however, we shall be beaten. [7]
What was the probable value of this stately structure, this aristocratic imperial abode? [10]
It is not probable that, through the law of analogous variation, a member of one of the other lower sub-groups should have given rise to a man-like creature, resembling the higher anthropomorphous apes in so many respects. [1]
It is quite probable that we shall find we have had mutual acquaintances. [11]
When it became probable that there would be a vacancy on the Supreme Bench, public opinion, on this side of the river, seemed to be universally directed to Logan as the proper man to fill it. [7]
It is altogether probable that there will happen two or three very striking coincidences out of the whole ninety cases, in which it would seem evident that the medicine produced the relief, though it had, as we assumed, nothing to do with it. [3]
It is not probable that their colours in any case have been gained as a protection. [1]
It was highly probable that the sick man had been informed of her interview with Caracalla, and, as her betrothed, he must be told how she felt toward Caesar; for this was his right, and jealous agitation might injure him. [10]
Nor is it probable that the primitive conscience would reproach a man for injuring his enemy; rather it would reproach him, if he had not revenged himself. [1]
It is not probable that the portrait was originally published with the "General Historie. [4]
It is also probable that the increased fertility of civilised nations would become, as with our domestic animals, an inherited character: it is at least known that with mankind a tendency to produce twins runs in families. [1]
It is, therefore, probable that the imitation of musical cries by articulate sounds may have given rise to words expressive of various complex emotions. [1]
It is more probable that the hairiness of the former is due to partial reversion; for characters which have been at some former period long inherited are always apt to return. [1]
It is also probable that the difficulties attendant upon getting admission to membership have been instituted more to invite than to deter, more to enhance the value of membership and make people long for it than to make it really difficult to get. [5]
I think it probable that I had as much enjoyment in forming one of the great mob in 1834 as I had among the grandeurs in 1886, but the last is pleasanter to remember and especially to tell of. [6]
It is most probable that He had. [5]
Yet it seemed probable that despair would give the routed warriors courage not to let their oasis fall into the hands of the Hebrews without striking a blow. [10]
Nevertheless, it is probable that conspicuous colours are indirectly beneficial to many species, as a warning that they are unpalatable. [1]
This appears more probable than that the species in all cases originally tended to retain their ornamental plumage during the winter, but were saved from this through natural selection, resulting from the inconvenience or danger thus caused. [1]
And it is probable enough that the London promoters would cut out from the "Relation" complaints and evidence of the seditions and helpless state of the colony. [4]
Does he take pains to inform himself by reading and conversation with experts upon its probable effect? [4]
And, while pondering over the probable expression of that lady's amazement, it suddenly occurred to her that she must write the letter immediately, because Peter Erwin was coming. [9]
Some of the others are so stated as to render it probable that they may have been of the same nature. [3]
It is possible, or as we shall hereafter see, even probable, that the habit of self-command may, like other habits, be inherited. [1]
This was the only purchase I ever knew to be made at the shop kept by the three maiden ladies, though it is probable there were others. [6]
But we have only analogy to lead us to infer the possible or even probable existence of an insensible spot in the thinking-centre. [6]
After a day of toil, what more natural, and what more probable for a Spaniard? [4]
Notwithstanding the testimony of the movies, such a Cinderella-like transition was not within the realm of probable facts; things just didn't happen that way. [9]
It contains one of the many assurances I receive from the South, that in no probable event will there be any very formidable effort to break up the Union. [7]
He was thinking of his absent partner, and the probable results of his expedition. [6]
The contrary is of course probable, but it is not demonstrated. [6]
The Governor speaks of another case in 1644; and it seems probable that the disease was not of rare occurrence. [3]
But if the occasional development of this structure in man is, as seems probable, due to reversion, it is a return to a very ancient state of things, because in the higher Quadrumana it is absent. [1]
Reading it over now, with more light and a juster knowledge of character and of measures, is it not probable that he would find it a tissue of misconceptions? [4]
It does not now appear probable to me that you can gain anything by an early renewal of the attempt to cross the Rappahannock. [7]

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