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But how could he possibly arrive at so grotesque a conception as that the progenitor of his tribe was the sun, or the moon, or a particular star? No observation of surrounding phenomena affords the slightest suggestion of any such possibility.
“That may be so, but if these arms belong, as I suppose, to a good family, there must be others bearing them, and an advertisement of a lost member of it might at once catch their eye, and might very possibly bring a reply. Besides, surely there must be some place where a record is kept of these things.”
The wall might be of any thickness, perhaps as much as six or seven feet, and the bricks were very hard and were well cemented. Perhaps, too, he had made a mistake in his rough calculations and was not working at the right spot after all. He was possibly hammering away at the end of a cross wall, following it in its length.
But has your friend any interest with the directors that's the question? Have you reason to think, if he sends it in, and I hold back mine, his is the plan they'd be likely to pitch upon?" "I go upon its merits," Walter Tyrrel said, quietly. "The very worst thing on earth any man can ever possibly go upon," the man of business retorted, with cynical confidence.
We must seek our objects by means which may perhaps be defeated, and take precautions against dangers which possibly may never be realized. The aim of practical politics is to surround any given society with the greatest possible number of circumstances of which the tendencies are beneficial, and to remove or counteract, as far as practicable, those of which the tendencies are injurious.
Except in speech and appearance he was the counterpart of a happy, good-natured, and well-cared-for household dog possibly, however, rather more intelligent than the average canine pet. The Fourth of July, 1862, was a gala day at Roanoke Island. The camps of the island and the vessels in the harbor were in holiday attire.
Sumner assured him that he was a Republican and a supporter of the Republican Administration, and that he should sustain the Administration in this case if he possibly could, after he had examined the papers. He meant the expenditure of General Babcock, but the President meant the treaty.
Tiralla was deeply grieved about his Röschen, as deeply grieved as he could possibly be about anything. He had already been looking out for a husband for his little daughter she would be fourteen next autumn, and a wife cannot be too young-and now she seemed only fit for bed.
As for the hatred between the Greek and Bulgar Churches it was so intense that no one from West Europe who has not lived in the land with it, can possibly realize it. The Greeks under Turkish rule had been head of the Orthodox Christians.
And possibly we can accept this decision upon the subject without question, for their experience in men, especially in "bad men," is wide and varied. Horrocks avoided the settlement, leaving it well to the west, and turned his willing beast in the direction of the half-breed camp.
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