She was not an inexperienced girl, and knew that there was nothing impossible or even improbable in the thought.

IDA HUSTED HARPER A few years ago no changes in the governments of the world would have seemed more improbable than a constitution for China, a republic in Portugal, and a House of Lords in Great Britain without the power of veto, and yet all these momentous changes have taken place in less than two years.

The latter seemed improbable as an offence, for was not my judge a daughter of Miss Caroline?

Anything strange, irregular, romantic, full of feeling, highly imaginative, or improbable to the intellect, was unpopular.

At the same time, I must say, that, if I had heard it without a voucher for its authenticity, I should have regarded it as the most improbable of fictions.

The summer and early months of the autumn of 1817 were spent at La Mira, and much of the poet's time was occupied in riding along the banks of the Brenta, often in the company of the few congenial Englishmen who came in his way; others, whom he avoided, avenged themselves by retailing stories, none of which wore "too improbable for the craving appetites of their slander-loving countrymen."

They touched none of the parties mentioned; they were all obviously improbable on general grounds; and to all of them there was one conclusive answerthe scarab which was found in Godfrey Bellingham's garden.

But that a man should afford his assent to that side on which the less probability appears to him, seems to me utterly impracticable, and as impossible as it is to believe the same thing probable and improbable at the same time.