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All the events, all the calamities that may have overtaken me, are alike probable and improbable, and there is not one of them that I can invent, which can possibly have escaped the knowledge of that friend, into whose hands I committed my all. Sickness, infidelity, death itself, all the misfortunes to which humanity is heir, are alike certain and palpable.
It was not until after Columbus revealed the west to European eyes that these sagas were published; nevertheless, it is not improbable that, if Columbus landed in Iceland, some inhabitant who knew the story of the far western country told it to him.
John thought it was not improbable, but he went on to tell of his scheme, and how small was the sum required for its execution. "Only three thousand! That ought to be easily fixed up. Why, certainly!" "Charity is the salt of riches, madam, and if rich people would remember that their wealth is a trust " "I do I always do.
You will understand that I considered it a very responsible task to safeguard these premises, and thought it best to render it impossible for any section of the force under my command to take part in a conspiracy, although such a thing was in itself most improbable." They then ascended the staircase and found themselves on the first floor.
'That's what I call really nicely expressed, said Marriott to the umpire. 'Yes, over the wicket. Marriott was a slow, 'House-match' sort of bowler. That is to say, in a House match he was quite likely to get wickets, but in a First Eleven match such an event was highly improbable.
And it is to be expected that great success will ultimately attend the endeavours to show the growth of all the subordinate powers of the soul. That our emotions, that our impulses, that our affections should have had a history, and that their present working should be the result of that history, has nothing in it improbable.
General Prim had no course left him but to send to the French Ambassador, to give him official information as to what had been done and try to calm his uneasiness. What were Bismarck's motives in this affair? It is improbable that he intended to use it as a means of bringing about a war with France.
Fagin looked so very much in earnest, that Charley Bates, who deemed it prudent in all cases to be on the safe side, and who conceived it by no means improbable that it might be his turn to be throttled second, dropped upon his knees, and raised a loud, well-sustained, and continuous roar something between a mad bull and a speaking trumpet.
She has gone back to her lonely and desolate life," thought the baronet, inclined, for a moment at least, to believe in his wife's words. But in the next instant he remembered the evidence of Lydia Graham the wild and improbable story by which Honoria had tried to account for her absence. "No no," he exclaimed; "it is all treachery from first to last.
It is not improbable, therefore, that, being at Hamilton, the novelist's attention may have been attracted to "Creichton's Memoirs," which treat of the adjacent districts, and that the mention of Stobo's name therein may have suggested to his mind its connection with Lismahago.
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