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He had sufficient reticence to avoid sounding his challenge in the Law Courts; nor could he well go into the Houses of Parliament with a trumpet, though to come to a tussle with the nation's direct representatives did seem the likelier method. It was likewise out of the question that he should enter every house and shop, and battle with its master in the cause of Mrs. Mount.
"I'll say this," remarked Penhallow, "if I had anything I wanted to hide and didn't want any fools blunderin' into, I couldn't pick a likelier place to hide it in than this one whether it was gold or a body." Mendoza ran them within a few yards of the hut and they got out. Gasca's late residence did not improve on closer inspection.
The spot by the foot of the staircase where the murderer might have dropped is well screened, even from the view of anybody near the bottom of the staircase, by some tall tree shrubs in tubs, and some armour. "But there is another and likelier way by which the murderer might have escaped.
It is not always clear nor always idiomatic. On page 120 he tells us that "Scott did not care to enquire if it was likely that stories of the kind referred to should have contributed to form a character, or if it were not likelier still that they had grown and settled round a character already famous as well as formed."
And was anything likelier? was anything unlikelier? His foreign love denied to him, why, now he devoted himself to money: money the last consideration of a man so single-mindedly generous as he! But he must have money to pursue his contest! But would he forfeit the truth in him for money for any purpose? The debate on this question grew as incessant as the thought of him.
I had emptied all the first part of Quinton's romance into the fireplace, where it burnt to ashes. Then I saw that the quotation marks wouldn't do, so I snipped them off, and to make it seem likelier, snipped the whole quire to match. Then I came out with the knowledge that Quinton's confession of suicide lay on the front table, while Quinton lay alive but asleep in the conservatory beyond.
"And in less than four hours you're going to try and make me graduate and go out into the world God knows where and charge innocent people twenty-five dollars a week and washing, likelier than not, mind you, for these hands," she gestured, "that don't co-ordinate at all with this face," she grimaced, "but with the face of one of the House Doctors or the Senior Surgeon or even you who may be way off in Kamchatka when I need him most!" she finished with a confused jumble of accusation and despair.
And a likelier regiment and a better company never wore green thrums on frock or coon-tail on cap!" "Yes, sir," said the man vacantly. Boyd laughed a little: "And look that you hint as much to the idle young bucks hereabouts say it to some of your Westchester squirrel hunters " He laid his hand on the landlord's shoulder.
Another statement that I made was, that the man who studies God in Nature, without the Bible, is infinitely likelier to get worthier views of God, than he who gets his ideas of God from the Bible without regard to Nature.
One is by far the likelier in itself, because one thing must needs be more probable than many things: additionally; Wisdom and Power are always economical, and where one will suit the purpose, superfluities are rejected.
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