Probability

Examples

• Still, a person may hesitate about the probability of the son of a king being a philosopher. Plato. The Republic.
• When you left Miss Verinder's sitting-room, with the jewel in your hand, you went back in all probability to your own room---- Yes? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Frosts will soon set in, and in all probability with severity. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• They were in all probability made by human communities quite out of touch with the Aryans, separately and independently. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Its probability and its eligibility have really so equalled each other! Jane Austen. Emma.
• The more remote and cruel this vague suspicion that I have, the stronger the circumstances that could give it any semblance of probability to me. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Felix was too delicate to accept this offer; yet he looked forward to the probability of that event as to the consummation of his happiness. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• In his inmost heart he was not sorry to put himself beyond the probability of meeting Miss Bart. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• I felt stunned, more by the sudden shock of such an idea being presented to my imagination as possible, than from conviction of its probability. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• I could not chance causing her additional pain or sorrow by declaring a love which, in all probability she did not return. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• But in this situation, the superior vigilance and attention of a private adventurer would, in all probability, soon make them weary of the trade. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• I shall, in all probability, be back in a few hours, I said, and you will take care, as usual, to let no one inside the doors in my absence. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The red one in all probability cannot swim, I said, since there is scarce enough water in all their domains to float the tiniest craft. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• My whole future depended, in all probability, on my not losing possession of myself at that moment. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I see no probability in it, unless you have any better foundation than what you mention. Jane Austen. Emma.
• It is not prose but poetry, at least a great part of it, and ought not to be judged by the rules of logic or the probabilities of history. Plato. The Republic.
• Who can measure probabilities against certainties? Plato. The Republic.
• Their minds construct a utopia--one in which all judgments are based on logical inference from syllogisms built on the law of mathematical probabilities. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Are no probabilities to be accepted, merely because they are not certainties? Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• She has so rarely seen the thing done that the probabilities are strong the other way. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Judged by mere worldly considerations and probabilities, his story is a very doubtful one. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• And what are the probabilities as to the result of the contest? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Lydgate could now construct all the probabilities of the case. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• He recapitulated the statements which Becky had made, pointed out the probabilities of their truth, and asserted his own firm belief in her innocence. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• My second reflection is founded on those large probabilities, which the mind can judge of, and the minute differences it can observe betwixt them. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• The probabilities are that our loss in killed was the heavier, as we were the attacking party. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I was in no position to try the probabilities on one side or on the other in this instance by any better test than the test of personal resemblance. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• All three are in the region of dramatic system-making and myth, to which probabilities are irrelevant. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Margaret was surprised to find an acceptance contemplated, after all she had learnt of sad probabilities during the day. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• From the stone age onward the probabilities are that man has always had some kind of bowling game. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.

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