I am sure that this appears marvelous and incredible to you, fellow-soldiers: therefore you ought to be the more indignant.

"Nothing is incredible in connection with that man!"

"But not so incredible as the truth.

A direct attack on the freedom of the press and the liberty of speech at the North, where alone either exists, were no more incredible than the later insolences of its tyranny.

TILLOTSON 1630-1694 THE REASONABLENESS OF A RESURRECTION Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you that God should raise the dead?Acts xxvi., 8.

It is well-nigh incredible at first thought that such a light-hearted, rollicking, jovial fellow could have given up everything for such a work as that!

The story is almost too incredible for belief, yet our authority assures us that the facts occurred as we propose to state them.

I sometimes suspected myself of madness, and should not have dared to impart this secret, but to a man like you, capable of distinguishing the wonderful from the impossible, and the incredible from the false.'

This city has so prodigious a number of ships and vessels, as would be quite incredible by any person who had not been an eye-witness.

The number of his owne followers, of his wiues attendants, and of the traine of his first begotten sonne and heire apparent, would seeme incredible vnto any man, vnlesse hee had seene it with his owne eyes.

There are many young Germans who will wake out of such dreams when they get back to Dusseldorf and Bingen-am-Rhein, searching back in their hearts to find a denial of the deeds which have become incredible after their awakening from the nightmare.

Many of these experiences I have already placed on record; but it now occurs to me that I have hitherto left unrecorded one that is, perhaps, the most astonishing and incredible of the whole series; an adventure, too, that has for me the added interest that it inaugurated my permanent association with my learned and talented friend, and marked the close of a rather unhappy and unprosperous period of my life.

If a thing seem plausible, an audience will accept it without cavil; if it, seem incredible on the face of it, no evidence of its credibility will be of much avail.