Conceivable

Examples

• The only conceivable escape for him lay in silencing my tongue. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Then as now, the propositions brought to Edison ranged over every conceivable subject, but the years have taught him caution in grappling with them. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Is there not one alternative, I suggested, grotesquely improbable, no doubt, but still just conceivable? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Riviere into any conceivable picture of New York as he knew it. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• It was not a trot, a gallop, or a canter, but a stampede, and made up of all possible or conceivable gaits. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Well, certainly that is also a conceivable hypothesis, said Holmes, smiling. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• I put all the points to him carefully--I set the matter before him in every conceivable light. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• In road tests under every conceivable condition, this first motorcycle of Oscar Hedstrom’s displayed a perfection of mechanical operation which had to that time never been approached. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• He was travelling with every conceivable advantage, and he averaged under five miles an hour. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Is it conceivable that I should allow myself to be trifled with in this way? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Every conceivable phase of ingenuity that could be devised by technical experts was exercised in the attempt to show that Edison had accomplished nothing new. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• There is nothing but the idea of their colour or tangibility, which can render them conceivable by the mind. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• But we are frightened at much that is not strictly conceivable. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• It is conceivable that the fellow might hold it back to see what bids come from this side before he tries his luck on the other. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Well, it is just conceivable that a statesman might find himself in a position where he was not sorry to have such a document accidentally destroyed. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• No more nonsensical expression is conceivable in sociology than the term primitive communism. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• If I had done it as alleged, is it conceivable that I would have made this and this mistake? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Then the fine arts must go to work--every conceivable instrument and ornament of luxury will be wanted. Plato. The Republic.
• When he spoke, it was to agree with everybody on every conceivable point; and he passed through life in perfect ease and good-humour. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• In tunneling under the river, nearly every conceivable combination of rocks and soils were met, but for the most part the material was silt. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The human mind has at no period accepted a moral chaos; and so preposterous a result was not strictly conceivable. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Edison also tried hard carbon, wood carbons, and almost every conceivable variety of paper carbon in like manner. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• These walls are thick, and it is conceivable that his shriek, if he had time to utter one, was unheard. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• It is quite conceivable, in Rachel's present state. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• An element is the simplest substance conceivable, because it has not been separated into anything simpler. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• It is conceivable that you may even have read some account of the matter. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.

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