Our supposable case is the second most difficult to take care of. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 484, April 11, 1885] Reference
It is reasonably supposable that Gould profited by each of these fluctuations. From Wordnik.com. [Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail] Reference
It is, therefore, hardly supposable that they were built for altars of sacrifice. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American, Volume 22, No. 1, January 1, 1870 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures.] Reference
Yet it is mere folly to say that between the first and second disappearance of Marie there is no supposable connection. From Wordnik.com. [The Mystery of Marie Roget] Reference
Now, is it supposable, that the Savior would put a question to Simon, which would countenance the pharasaic disposition?. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons on Various Important Subjects] Reference
He was not fond of Ralph — Ralph had told her so — and it was not supposable that Mr. Osmond had suddenly taken a fancy to her son. From Wordnik.com. [The Portrait of a Lady] Reference
It is not supposable that the people of the South realized to the full that humiliation, to which their State Department was subjecting them. From Wordnik.com. [Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death] Reference
We are not proposing to increase it, nor is it supposable that any foreign country looks with the slightest misapprehension upon our land forces. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
American equivalent, in the way of a person at once resident in a suburb and who sells to the highest bidder, than a supposable member of the New. From Wordnik.com. [Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 12, June 18, 1870] Reference
As "C" made no reply, it was supposable he had gone, and probably had to run for the train, thought Nattie, as she took off her hat rather dejectedly. From Wordnik.com. [Wired Love A Romance of Dots and Dashes] Reference
It is supposable, that the lion, tamed and petted, trained to feed somewhat after man's chosen manner, may be as happy as if at liberty in his native range. From Wordnik.com. [The Growth of Thought As Affecting the Progress of Society] Reference
It is perfectly supposable to imagine a whole race of authors of whom not one should ever exchange a word with a human being while his greatest work is being produced. From Wordnik.com. [Public Speaking] Reference
Volunteer companies like those kept up and disciplined in the states above named, and the standing army of the nation, are deemed sufficient for any supposable emergency. From Wordnik.com. [The Government Class Book Designed for the Instruction of Youth in the Principles of Constitutional Government and the Rights and Duties of Citizens.] Reference
Was it really the wish to capture a supposable burglar?. From Wordnik.com. [A Splendid Hazard] Reference
Now, the monks, it is supposable, might be commonplace drones. From Wordnik.com. [The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1] Reference
None is supposable between performers on different instruments. From Wordnik.com. [The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper] Reference
Aztecs, but it is hardly supposable that even this was used at dinner. From Wordnik.com. [Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines] Reference
It is not supposable that Mrs. Eddy realized, at first, the size of her plunder. From Wordnik.com. [Christian Science] Reference
Is it seriously supposable that we will stop to chew it and let our prey escape?. From Wordnik.com. [In Defence of Harriet Shelley] Reference
It is not supposable that they could have bettered the condition under the circumstances. From Wordnik.com. [An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America] Reference
It is hardly supposable that this mode of preparation of soil would meet with favor among all farmers. From Wordnik.com. [The $100 Prize Essay on the Cultivation of the Potato. Prize offered by W. T. Wylie and awarded to D. H. Compton. How to Cook the Potato, Furnished by Prof. Blot.] Reference
Military Science it is our duty to guard against every possible or supposable contingency that may arise. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Conspiracy, Complete] Reference
The babies of geniuses do not differ essentially from those of other people, and it is not supposable that. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne] Reference
That there was an engagement was not affirmed, but that the honor had been or would be declined was hardly supposable. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner] Reference
It is scarcely supposable that the views of Sir Henry Clinton in moving up the river, were limited to this single acquisition. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of George Washington, Vol. 3 (of 5) Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States] Reference
He was not fond of Ralph -- Ralph had told her so -- and it was not supposable that Mr. Osmond had suddenly taken a fancy to her son. From Wordnik.com. [The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1] Reference
Now, historically speaking, and as a matter of scriptural exegesis, that this passage should be accepted literally is not supposable. From Wordnik.com. ["Imperialism" and "The Tracks of Our Forefathers"] Reference
He adjusts his many supposable causes, adds to and subtracts until he arrives at a conclusion based upon the facts of his observations. From Wordnik.com. [Philosophy of Osteopathy] Reference
The thing is perhaps supposable only in poetry; but there it is supposable enough, and Schiller need not have troubled himself to argue away the anachronism. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller] Reference
Inasmuch as this same young lady was herself quite pretty, it is not supposable that she had entirely escaped the observation of our gallant young son of Mars. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Lieutenant or, The Adventures of an Army Officer] Reference
And whatever might be the character of a few exceptions, it was not supposable that a wide system of hypocrisy should tell universally for the best interests of mankind. From Wordnik.com. [Queechy] Reference
Had he some unformulated and hitherto unsuspected dream of military glory, or did he have an eye to supposable gold ingots piled up in the sub-basement of the halls of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Queen of Sheba & My Cousin the Colonel] Reference
And now suppose he was fool enough to consent -- which isn't supposable -- how could I stay here, working for him, sponging a living from him, with this thing hanging over us all?. From Wordnik.com. [Shavings] Reference
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