think probable

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What do you know about God?—I put emphasis upon the word 'know'—What do you know about Him, however much you may argue and speculate and think probable, and fear, and hope, and question, about Him?

From Expositions of Holy Scripture St. John Chapters I to XIV by Maclaren, Alexander

What we think probable we do not call severely for the proof of.

From The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) by Kenyon, Frederic G. (Frederic George), Sir

Examine the house in detail; look for old pictures, old furniture, old needlework—if you are lucky enough to find the Haygarth furniture was sold with the property, which I should think probable.

From Birds of Prey by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)

I am much delighted and instructed by the hypothesis, which I think probable, that our Lord in repeating Eli, Eli, lama sabacthani, really recited the whole or a large part of the 22d Psalm.

From Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Coleridge, Henry Nelson

But the same author, having lately revisited the valley of the Tummel, suggests another possible, and I think probable, explanation of the same phenomena.

From The Antiquity of Man by Lyell, Charles, Sir