Likelihood

Examples

• Your portion is unhappily so small that it will in all likelihood undo the effects of your loveliness and amiable qualifications. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• The likelihood of rain or frost is often determined by temperature and humidity. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• In all likelihood, I continued, the same questions have occurred to you, in considering this difficult subject, which have occurred to me. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The incubators are built in remote fastnesses, where there is little or no likelihood of their being discovered by other tribes. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• Before many days were over, there seemed every likelihood now that he and I might meet. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Well, there seemed little to worry about on that score, for the likelihood of my ever escaping the blacks was extremely remote. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• He meditated at first, on the probable consequences of his own advice, and the likelihood of his father's adopting it. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• I have said to myself, 'If there is a likelihood of that youngster doing himself harm, why should you interfere? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• It now occurred to the girls that their mother was in all likelihood perfectly ignorant of what had happened. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• There was no recovering Miss Taylornor much likelihood of ceasing to pity her; but a few weeks brought some alleviation to Mr. Woodhouse. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Her knocking will, in all likelihood, awaken him, continued Eustacia, and then he will let her in himself. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• In all likelihood, though, I should die before morning. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.

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