He probably isn't conscious of doing anything especially wrong; he is always so plausible in whatever he does that he ends by deceiving himself, I suppose.

That is quite as plausible as the interpretation of the average commentator.

Were it not for the fact that the poet had never seen the city in question when he wrote the poem, this explanation would be more plausible than most others, for the allusions are all to some lady who has been done to death.

No, no, old man," he continued, with great self-complacency, "your arguments appear plausible at first, but when closely considered, they will not stand the lest of experience.

It was a severe trial to him, he confessed, to be forced to put aside certain dreams he had had of the futuremad dreams, perhaps, but such as had seemed very dear and very plausible to his impractical artistic temperament.

The latter showed to the Attorney-General a drawing, which I obtained sight of, of a method by which he proposed a bungling imitation of my first characters, those that were printed in our journals, and one, however plausible on paper, and sufficiently so to deceive the Attorney-General, was perfectly impracticable.

He shewed that there was a principle in it sufficiently plausible by analogy.

The king, having now obtained a pretext so much more plausible for his violence, would probably have pushed the affair to the utmost extremity against him; but Becket gave him no leisure to conduct the prosecution.

He had only thought of a possibility, but one that became more plausible with every step; especially when he reached the Rae house and found it deserted.

Larry was always the most plausible of human beings, and between us,—he, the American consul and I,—we made an impression, and got him off.

Every one talked at once, loudly, and with exaggerated decision, obviously trying to say something plausible against heavy odds, striving to explain naturally that an animal might so easily conceal itself from us, or swim away before we had time to light upon its trail.