"Probably" Quotes from Famous Books
... stopped by a sort of portcullis. The panic was not confined to the rich; women in the humblest ranks more than once died upon the spot, from the shock attending some suspicious attempts at intrusion upon the part of vagrants, meditating probably nothing worse than a robbery, but whom the poor women, misled by the London newspapers, had fancied to be the dreadful London murderer. Meantime, this solitary artist, that rested in the centre of London, self-supported by his own conscious grandeur, as a domestic Attila, or 'scourge ... — The Notebook of an English Opium-Eater • Thomas de Quincey
... I have seen your father, and have made arrangements with him for you to go to his house, with the children, while I am away. This property, as I have before told you, has to be sold, and the sale will probably take ... — Words for the Wise • T. S. Arthur
... foot, in ridicule of the 'Swan and Harp,' a common sign for the early music-houses. Such an origin does the Tatler give; but it may also be a vernacular reading of the coat of arms of the Company of Musicians, suspended probably at the door of the 'Mitre' when it was a music-house. These arms are a swan with his wings expanded, within a double tressure, counter, flory, argent. This double tressure might have suggested a gridiron to ... — Old and New London - Volume I • Walter Thornbury
... apistos kai diestrammene, heos pote esomi meth' humon; heos pote anexomai humon.]—According to the current opinion, [Hebrew: irvC] is here assumed to be the Future of [Hebrew: rcC], for [Hebrew: irC], and that in the appropriate signification: "He shall not be broken." (Thus it was probably [Pg 218] viewed by the Chaldean Paraphrast who renders [Hebrew: la ilai] non laborabit; by the LXX., who translate [Greek: ou thrauthsesetai], while Aquila and Symmachus, according to the account of Jerome, render, non curret, thus following the derivation ... — Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions. Vol. 2 • Ernst Hengstenberg
... rivet your consciousness on any part of the frame, however healthy, but it will soon begin to exhibit morbid sensibility. Try to fix all your attention on your little finger for half an hour, and before the half hour is over the little finger will be uneasy, probably even painful. How serious, then, is the danger to a young girl, at the age in which imagination is most active, most intense, if you force upon her a belief that she is in danger of a mortal disease! It is a peculiarity ... — A Strange Story, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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