"Unlikelihood" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... proofs in Galds' writings that he does not stick to observed or possible happenings as a genuine realist should. Here, every woman will perceive the extreme unlikelihood that a tailor-made gown can be worn at once with success and without alteration by another woman than the one it was ...
— Heath's Modern Language Series: Mariucha • Benito Perez Galdos
... not allowed to address the court on behalf of the prisoner—a practice since introduced from Scotland—and consequently I was allowed no opportunity to draw the attention of the jury to the total want of any direct evidence of the prisoner's guilt. Harvey himself tried to point out the unlikelihood of his being guilty; but he was not a man gifted with dialectic qualities, and his harangue fell pointless on the understandings of the twelve common-place individuals who sat in the jury-box. The judge finally ...
— The Experiences of a Barrister, and Confessions of an Attorney • Samuel Warren |
