As I grew more and more animated I found plausible reasons enough to throw the Emperor himself into some uncertainty.
Bonaparte, as every one knows, had prepared the events of the 18th Fructidor that he might have some plausible reasons for overthrowing the Directors.
As I did not seem disposed to follow this advice without some plausible reason, the First Consul added, "You must know, then, that I learn from Caesar all that passes in your house.
Tis true, some very cogent and plausible reasons were suggested to Sir William, pending the negotiation, by a lady of excellent judgment, and what was termed in Dublin “masculine understanding.
If the poet wished to make a plausible tale of that period he could no more undertake to modernize his characters than could Tennyson in his Idylls.
Probus, if we may believe him, suggests the possibility in calling him a schoolmate of Vergil's, and a plausible interpretation of this eclogue turns that possibility into a probability.
Since his brogue was Celtic (tau Gallicum) he could readily make a plausible story of being British.
The most plausible course for him to adopt was precisely that which he followed.
Your London and Paris publics are not to be dealt with as if composed of credulous old women, but require something like a plausible mystification to throw dust in their eyes.
If his versatile life rendered him somewhat uncertain at times in the discharge of his duties as sexton of Christ Church, he never failed to disarm criticism by his plausible and polite excuses.
But also it gave him the pain of learning how many plausible persons are eager to make fair promises that mean nothing, and taught him that there are human beings to whom acts of loving-kindness are as pearls before swine.
This attempt started with certain more or less plausible suggestions, the truth of which can only be tested by the coherence of the results which follow from them, and their capacity to explain all the facts.
He contrived, in the most plausible manner possible, to spoil our almost unspoilable meals.
Plausible ignorance will always beat awkward knowledge, when the ignorant, which is generally the case, make up the mass of the audience.
The Greater Hippias enumerates a string of tentatives, each one of which ends in acknowledged failure: the Lesser Hippias enunciates a thesis, which Sokrates proceeds to demonstrate, by plausible arguments such as Hippias is forced to admit.
What Miss Harding had to do next was to invent some plausible explanation of how the money had come into her hands, and she was aware that that was not easy.
She racked her brain to find some way out of the peril which threatened her on every hand; if only she could light on some plausible compromise.
That was a plausible enough theory in Patagonia, but not in the part of Australia intersected by the 37th parallel.
But to this, Paganel, who was consulted on the subject, found a very plausible solution.
She wanted to catch Charley Miles--and that three or four thousand a year which, by plausible conjecture, he was making on the Stock Exchange!
We felt satisfied that, howeverplausible were the reasons urged in favour of the issue of Exchequer Bills, yet that the measure was a dangerous one, and ought to be resisted by the Government.
The vote of a great Exchange dealer might be objected to forplausible reasons of contrary interest, if any such reasons were worth regarding.
The keeping the single banking reserve being a national function, it is at least plausible to argue that Government should choose the functionaries.
The suggestion is, at first sight, a plausible one; each part of each ring would then move with an appropriate velocity, and the rings would thus exhibit a number of concentric circular currents with different velocities.
It therefore appeared a plausible object for a parallax research; and consequently a series of observations were made some years ago at Dunsink.
But Apollo did not approve of this plan, because he said the gods ought to test and examine the truth and not plausible rhetoric and the devices of the orator.
Thus, week after week, for many a month, did Le Charivari "utilize" these impossible characters to expose and satirize the plausible scoundrelism of the period.
Plausible arguments in the same direction have been frequently made since Gibbon's time by comparing the best of Roman civilization with the worst of the self-torturing monkery of the early Christian centuries.
And Steve knew with a sinking heart that he could offer to any official inquiry of the United States Government a plausible story of an abandoned woman who had come to camp to sell her charms to the highest bidder.
This might be a very plausible explanation in the case of the bivalve-like Agnostidae, and it is one I had suggested tentatively for that family before I read Staff and Reck's paper.
While no definite decision as to the function can be made, the explanation offered by Doctor Chamberlain seems more plausible than my own, and has suggested still a third, namely, that they might be the openings of poison glands.
But the nineteenth century is more exacting; the most plausible hypotheses are not enough without facts to support them, and excavations at Akshi-koi and at Bunarbashi show that there never was a town on either of these sites.
Upon the whole, it must be allowed that, according to ancient practice and principles, there are at least plausible grounds for all these opinions of the judges.
Baliol and Bruce united against Hastings, in maintaining that, the kingdom was indivisible; but each of them, supported by plausible reasons, asserted the preference of his own title.
The episode of the shadows on the blind he did not attempt to explain, for the simple reason that he was unable to find any plausible explanation to account therefor.
A very ingenious and plausible plan," said Lucian.
The more I revolved it, the more plausible it seemed.
Though unable to fix on any plausible mode of proceeding, I determined, at least, to discover his present condition.
Welbeck had left me to sustain the charge of murder; to obviate suspicions the most atrocious and plausible that the course of human events is capable of producing.
You have told me plausible stories of yourself and of this Clemenza.
They excited no anger, because they originated in ignorance, and were rendered plausible to Welbeck by such facts as were known to him.
So you believe, on the mere assertion of the boy, perhaps, his plausible lies might produce the same effect upon me; but I must stay till he thinks proper to exert his skill.
To others I was able to affix a plausible meaning, and some were palpable enough.
No conclusion could be more plausible than that which Williams had drawn; but how should it be rendered certain?
For his part, he had always been cautious of giving countenance to vagrants that came from nobody knew where, and worked their way with a plausible tongue.
The more it was revolved, the more plausible it seemed.
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