Is it not a grandly simple thing, this telegraph of mine, Monsieur?" I was dazzled, perplexed,so entirely new, strange, incredible was all this to me; but I expressed to the little Frenchman, in what terms I could command, my profound sense of his genius and originality.

Such an event, though it might be surprising to many people, would not be incredible, nor without many parallel cases.

The coincidence seemed complete enough, in all truth; yet it was incredible that Reuben's cousin could be so blackhearted a villain or could have any motive for these dastardly crimes.

'But I am prepared to maintain, that if they were in the Bible, they would still be incredible....

This almost incredible news was so harrowing that I could scarcely think of anything, except grandpa chained in a prison cell, grandma in hiding away from home, and excited groups of people gathering about the thoroughfares of Sonoma discussing the tragedy.

It is a royal work, undertaken and achieved by the Democracy,surprising equally themselves and their skeptical friends at home and abroad,and developing, both in its creation and growth, in its use and application, new and almost incredible tastes, aptitudes, capacities, and powers in the people themselves.

The roll was a small green pocket-book containing one or two gold pieces, and a check for an incredible amount, as it seemed to the poor puddler.

We will begin our exhibition of the qualities of the Procrustean mistranslator with an instance of his almost incredible carelessness, which is, however, excusable in comparison with his more wilful faults.

To me, it seemed incredible at the time, that unsuspecting integrity could carry its simplicity so far; but I have since lived long enough to know that mistakes like these are constantly occurring around us; effects being hourly attributed to causes with which they have no connection; and causes being followed down to effects, that are as imaginary as human sagacity is faulty.

But when the gods prophesy something incredible and ridiculous, such as happens not nowadays, and hath not been heard of since the fall of Bleth, then our credulity is overtaxed.

The reality is a vast interdependent national factory that would have seemed incredible to Fourier.

They would have been incredible in the days of Lord Melbourne.

Now that the apostolic succession of the old pedagogy is broken, and the entire system discredited, it seems incredible that it can ever again be reconstituted in its old seats upon the old lines.

He knew that Robert was not complaining, that he merely talked to fill in the time, and he went on with stories of illustrious warriors and chiefs among his people who had literally defied hunger and thirst and who had lived incredible periods without either food or water.

They were clearly incredible.

A time that seemed incredible passed without demonstration from the enemy.

While this incredible scene was being enacted in an apartment of the palace, another of a far more terrible nature was to be witnessed in the streets of Paris; but before we describe this, we must explain all that had passed since the murder of the Maréchal d'Ancre.

The amount of water taken up by evaporation into the atmosphere is almost incredible.

Although a heavyweight, the bear managed to cover the ground with incredible swiftness.

Incredible Kit Carson.

Incredible Kit Carson.

There was brought to him a priest, to whom he confessed, and then he yielded up his soul to God; whereat all the enemy had mourning incredible.

He continued this course until some time after the commencement of the last winter; by which time he had not only obtained incredible influence amongst persons of color, but many feared him more than their owners, and, one of them declared, even more than his God.

If they thought it so incredible, why not give him the benefit of the incredibility?

With such an organization and such materials, there was nothing in the plan which could be pronounced incredible or impracticable.

Real salt sea-water, for the taste and enlightenment of incredulous elders.

skeptical, freethinking; unbelieving, unconverted; incredulous, faithless, lacking faith; deistical; unchristian, antichristian^. worldly, mundane, earthly, carnal; worldly minded &c Adv. irreligiously &c adj.. 4. ACTS OF RELIGION 990.

He very politely bit back an incredulous smile, and said he should be very happy to see her perform.

They were notsmile if you will, O practical and incredulous reader!

incrédulo, -a, incredulous.

When he replied that in the larger cities, at any rate, of the West, there were retail emporiums fully up to date in all matters of fashion and improvement, and caterers who could supply the latest delicacies in season at reasonable prices, an incredulous smile was the result, and regret was expressed that local prejudice and pride should so blind a man to the actual truth.

The holy women went instantly to the Cenaculum, and told the disciples who were assembled there that they had seen the Lord; the disciples were incredulous, and would not give credence either to their account or to that of Magdalen.

He had a vision of himself walking up to the front door of the Hardys, smoking a pipe in a well-appointed room, and telling an incredulous and envious Fullalove Alley about it afterwards.

She would help to open it: and so she did, while old Heale and his wife stood by curious,he with a maudlin wonder and awe (for he regarded Tom already as an altogether awful and incomprehensible "party"), and Mrs. Heale with a look of incredulous scorn, as if she expected the box to be a mere sham, filled probably with shavings.

" At first the Frenchman was incredulous.

Who is so ignorant as not to know, or so incredulous as to disbelieve, that the early Baptists of New England were fined, imprisoned, scourged, and finally banished by our puritan forefathers?and

incredulous about the atrocities perpetrated by those who hold human beings as property, to be used for their pleasure, when history herself has done little else in recording human deeds, than to dip her blank chart in the blood shed by arbitrary power, and unfold to human gaze the great red scroll?

She had settled herself on a low stool at my grandmother's feet, and while we all sat in silent expectation of the "once upon a time," or "when I was young," which is generally the prelude to similar narratives, Emma suddenly started up, and fixing an incredulous gaze upon our dignified relative, exclaimed: "But were you ever young, grandmother?

I was rather incredulous at first, not conceiving that so brilliant a dream could be realized; but after a while the doll actually made its appearance, and I began to regard Mammy as something little short of a witch, and became far more tractable in consequence of my increased awe.

" Jane obeyed, although her face still wore an incredulous expression; and I continued eating, looking as wild as possible all the time.

His search after truth was in no sneering or incredulous spirit, but in that of a reverent inquirer.

I came to hear voices in the air, words so clearly spoken that even an incredulous mind could not ignore them.

And then, and thenTo all of which she lent a willing and incredulous ear, finding in that dreaming a quality of fear as well as delight.

For the first time she was incredulous of disaster.

He was startled, incredulous.

This Joseph was much delighted with Mariamne's Conversation, and endeavoured, with all his Art and Rhetorick, to set out the Excess of Herod's Passion for her; but when he still found her Cold and Incredulous, he inconsiderately told her, as a certain Instance of her Lord's Affection, the private Orders he had left behind him, which plainly shewed, according to Joseph's Interpretation, that he could neither Live nor Die without her.

At first he was incredulous of the strange story; but when the truth flashed on him from the new fire in her eyes, he kindled with rage, and forbade her ever seeing or communicating with her lover again, on the penalty of disinheritance and banishment forever from a father's love.

Max's tone was incredulous.

Bee is polite but incredulous.

It almost seemed, to the incredulous eyes of Byrne, that the face was filled out a trifle.