think probable

Example Sentences

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That the wretched man would do him serious bodily injury Amos did not think probable, but that he would use any pressure short of this seemed tolerably certain.

From Amos Huntingdon by Wilson, Theodore P.

If, before he died, he told you nothing of what he told me, as I think probable, it is necessary for you to know it all from me as soon as possible.

From Taquisara by Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)

Gifford suggests that it is “corrupted, perhaps, from the Spanish rio, which is figuratively used for a large quantity of liquor,” a derivation, however, which Mr. Dyce does not think probable.

From Folk-lore of Shakespeare by Thiselton-Dyer, Thomas Firminger

I shall therefore here indicate what I think probable in so obscure a field.

From The Making of Religion by Lang, Andrew

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