Probability is likeliness to be true, the very notation of the word signifying such a proposition, for which there be arguments or proofs to make it pass, or be received for true.

[Footnote 2: "To us, probability is the very guide of life".

It was the great tenet of the school which he most affected, that probability was the nearest approach that man could make to speculative truth.

The Germans are racially inferior to both French and English in the air, and the probability of effective blows over the deadlock is on the whole a probability in favour of the Allies.

Indeed, there seemed to be but little probability of our ships holding together much longer, so frequent and violent were the shocks they sustained.

Probability is the appearance of Agreement upon fallible Proofs.

The probability that the lost child was alive and in slavery was a very serious complication of existing difficulties.

When I came into possession I was making a very fair income at the Bar, and the probability is my aunt did me, unconsciously, the greatest kindness she could in keeping me out of it so long.

Probability is a standard formed by experience, and it is not surprising that the anchorets of libraries should object to the improbability of The Corsair, and yet acknowledge the poetical power displayed in the composition; for it is a work which could only have been written by one who had himself seen or heard on the spot of transactions similar to those he has described.

Some of the critics of M.F. de Conches's collection have questioned without sufficient reason the probability of there having been any correspondence between the queen and her elder sister.

The probability was that not even the girl dreamed of such a thing.

The probability is that the constant references in Jaufre's poems to an unknown distant love, and the fact of his crusading expedition to the Holy Land, formed in conjunction the nucleus of the legend which grew round his name, and which is known to all readers of Carducci, Uhland and Heine.

"Why, papa, papa, do you s'pose there's anybody dead?" "The probability is, Alice, that they have gone away.

The probabilities are that the Latin Lives date as a rule from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, when they were put into something like their present form for reading (perhaps in the refectory) in the great religious houses.

If the ball in the body corresponded with balls still in the pistol, this probability would become a practical certainty.

The "strong probability" had become a stubborn fact.