And was it not more unlikely that a man who committed himself every hour to the highest principles should practise the lowest, than a person who shirked the subject of virtue, and thought religion incongruous with his doings?
If I fling down the Ace of Spades upon the King, it is not unlikely that I am consigning some dark man--a good fellow probably--to his grave.
Altogether as unlikely a place for the shade-loving buffalo as could be imagined.
Being thus thrown back on a choice of a hundred other unlikely directions, we gave up that slim chance and returned to the thicket.
Nineteen white men would be exceedingly unlikely to get within a liberal half mile of anything; but the native has sneaky ways.
I thought, major, that it was not unlikely you were in ignorance of the fact that both Ceuta and Gibraltar have been traversing the solar regions on the surface of a comet.
Besides, I should think it very unlikely that the internal heat will fail us now before the summer.
Upon that supposition," put in the count, "I should think that it would be altogetherunlikely that three months would elapse without our seeing her.
It occurred to him, however, that the count, on discovering an island where he had expected to find the mainland of Africa, would not unlikely be at a loss for a place of anchorage.
For my part," said the count, "I am quite ready to accompany you; it is not unlikely that he is not alone in his distress.
But, whatever may be their own wishes, it is very unlikely they should have opposed their brother's.
But this was so very unlikely a sentiment to be entertained by Jean for Margaret that Lilias, secretly observing, secretly ranging herself on Jean's side, felt that she must be mistaken.
The best disguise he could assume, he felt, was to take the name which would be supposed to be the most unlikely he could hit upon, and yet to which he had a certain right.
However, Mr Prothero thought it not unlikelythat what the gossips said might prove true, and was therefore tolerably comfortable about his spoilt pet, Netta.
He heard that Howel had started for London, having put his affairs in the hands of an attorney, and that it was not at all unlikely that he would marry some lady of rank.
It is not all this alone which makes it unlikely that the Southern planter should desire to free his slaves: freedom in America is not merely a personal right, it involves a political privilege.
It is notunlikely that the bullets were intended to frighten them, since such excellent marksmen otherwise could not have discharged their weapons without execution.
It was not unlikely that, having been beaten off, some of them might take the means of revenging themselves by stealing a portion of the herd.
A more unlikely chance," pursued the doctor, deaf as ever to all awkward interruptions, "it is hardly possible to imagine!
The servant thought it veryunlikely that she would see me.
In my mind I set it down as an impossible performance, save in the unlikely case that she had a second pair of glasses.
You have possibly had other guns in reserve in case there should be several tigers, or in the unlikely supposition of your own aim failing you.
It is unlikely that a youngster like Adair would at once make a hideous scandal by exposing a well known man so much older than himself.
And now I think that a few hours' sleep would do us all good, for I do not propose to leave before eleven o'clock, and it is unlikely that we shall be back before morning.
This being granted, 'tis very unlikely this Lord with his five Thousand pounds per annum, should leave the choise of his Mistress to Coupler, and take her Person and Fortune upon Content.
She goes on in a mighty Huff, and charges the Gods and Priesthood with Confederacy, and Imposture, This Rant is very unlikely at Alexandria.
Besides, 'tis very unlikely Lord Foplington should hazard his Complexion on Horseback, out ride his Figure, and appear a Bridegroom in Deshabille.
There was no mistaking the ring of triumph in the runner's tone; yet of all the unlikely things within the landlady's range none seemed more unlikely than that he should flush his game there.
The one drop of comfort in her cup sprang from a source as unlikely as the rock which Moses struck.
Such a school, the creation of an alien Muslim dynasty, would at first sight seem unlikely to produce illustrations of Hindu religion.
It is idle to hope that this vast panorama can arouse great interest in the West and even in India it is unlikely that many would now approach its gigantic recital with premonitions of delight.
It isunlikely that artists were immediately summoned, but certainly by 1780 a flourishing school of painters had come into existence.
Something like that, unlikely as it was, could nonetheless happen if he didn't pacify those who had the power to possibly create such problems.
Tis not unlikely but he was begot by some intelligencer under a hedge, for his mind is wholly given to travel.
No vice draws with it a more general hostility, and makes men readier to search into his faults, and of them, his beginning; and no tale so unlikely but is willingly heard of him and believed.
It is unlikely that a youngster like Adair would at once make a hideous scandal by exposing a well-known man so much older than himself.
As it is unlikelythat he would converse long with a leper, and as Gehazi is still called "the servant of the man of God," the incident may here be narrated out of order.
It is unlikely that he went far into Persia, which at that time was in a chaotic state, and where the Jews were much oppressed.
Though I suppose it is very unlikely that any of them would suddenly come down here, when they care nothing about the place, and have got homes of their own.
But in such a case your common-sense might tell you that it is most unlikely that they would give a thought to your existence, or even know of it, living in poverty as we do.
The unlikely things which might happen were considered, and provided for.
He wasunlikely to move until his master roused to make him, and the dawn might be no longer young when that happened, unless some stray pedestrian should chance down that deserted way.
Besides, although mademoiselle had escaped from his house, it was most unlikely that she could leave Paris.
The names of unpopular deputies were freely and loudly cursed; the most unlikely revolutionists were openly accused of having sympathy with aristocrats.
Toward evening they were lodged at an inn close to the shore, a deserted spot where they were unlikely to be disturbed.
It is not unlikely that this very passage may have started Browning off on his argumentative way concerning the question: how lasting and how fundamental are the powers of musical expression.
But for him it is not unlikely that the State would have adopted an elective judiciary or a tenure limited to a term of years.
