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  • And the wall is made of light—that entirely credible yet unreal Vermeer light.†   (source)
  • The first person, credible to Sean, to hint that Michael Oher might have a real future in football was Nick Saban, the head coach at LSU, fresh off a national championship.†   (source)
  • The man was credible enough—his company held the contract for inspecting all the steel used in the fair's structures—but the thing he proposed to build just did not seem feasible.†   (source)
  • But I was paralyzed, so I developed this pretty credible comedy act—I'm the I-Don'tCare-Kid—which is what I assume most other kids do.†   (source)
  • "This must be the trash she keeps up front to impress credible mundanes," he said, sounding disgusted.†   (source)
  • More credible was the rumour that the Jewish ghettos in Poland were to be limited to four: Warsaw, Lublin, Cracow and Radom.†   (source)
  • They're all less credible than Amy.†   (source)
  • Our little boy had said some pretty incredible stuff—and he had backed it up with credible information, things there was no way he could have known.†   (source)
  • A person five years older could be a credible mentor, though now and then he'd say something that reminded her he wasn't very old himself.†   (source)
  • As long as we have a credible reason.†   (source)
  • Despite the occasional slurring, he sounded almost credible.†   (source)
  • The past Wednesday, returning from two weeks of treatment at the Wesley Medical Center in Wichita, her customary place of retirement, Mrs. Clutter had brought scarcely credible tidings to tell her husband; with joy she informed him that the source of her misery, so medical opinion had at last decreed, was not in her head but in her spine-it was physical, a matter of misplaced vertebrae.†   (source)
  • On the very next day, on the credible pretext of trying to find celery for the Thanksgiving stuffing, Alice and I headed downtown for tup kuneh.†   (source)
  • And when we didn't, of course, find it anywhere in my room-although I gave a very credible, thoroughgoing search, looking even inside my tie shoes-Mami did not persist but let the matter drop.†   (source)
  • These days I was more worried about Sophie, who was a credible threat, or even Clarke, who had made it clear that yes, she still hated me.†   (source)
  • To engage in mental combat with four different people at once, and to present a credible threat to each of the four, was a remarkable feat, especially when the enemies were an elf, a Dragon Rider, a witch, and a werecat.†   (source)
  • The Slow Mutants fell back a step and watched them go with faces hardly human (or pathetically so), faces that generated the weak phosphorescence common to those weird deep-sea fishes that live under in-credible black pressure, faces that held no anger or hate on their senseless orbs, but only what seemed to be a semiconscious, idiot regret.†   (source)
  • Quoting this distance in his final statement as to why I couldn't be trusted as a credible witness.†   (source)
  • The decision to set out eastwards had suggested the idea to him; for Buckland was on the eastern borders of the Shire, and as he had lived there in childhood his going back would at least seem credible.†   (source)
  • I felt sure that Laurie Birnbaum was credible.†   (source)
  • I'm better than sitting here in this crappy office, typing out the details from a brochure, trying to turn them into some kind of credible journalism.†   (source)
  • I no longer felt I had any authority over him, no credible experience with which to advise him.†   (source)
  • You've received a complaint from a credible source.†   (source)
  • You are the only character witness we've got for Shay; you're credible because you're wearing that collar.†   (source)
  • He was thoroughly credible and believable.†   (source)
  • Then the words came … part of the truth, a dangerous part, but credible, and he could not lose credibility.†   (source)
  • It was hardly credible.†   (source)
  • Until this point, there was no credible intelligence to his whereabouts.†   (source)
  • It was only later that I pieced together a portrait that was more credible, if less creditable.†   (source)
  • They could see the end of the stairs above them when Eugenides succumbed to temptation and produced under his breath a credible imitation of a small goat bleating.†   (source)
  • Sula stretched my attempts to manipulate language, to work credibly and, perhaps, elegantly with a discredited vocabulary.†   (source)
  • Instead, he candidly admits that "we have a problem making our power credible and Vietnam looks like the place."†   (source)
  • And you're not exactly credible witnesses."†   (source)
  • Nass said that was credible, because the voice fitted the face of a Caucasian speaking standard American English.†   (source)
  • As far as the common people are concerned, they're too worried about starvation, civil war, and things scratching at their windows to muster a credible resistance.†   (source)
  • His goal now was to gain some knowledge that might reveal a weakness in the wizard, and his method was deception and disguise, hoping that Errtu remembered enough about the dark elves to make his story credible, yet not too much to strip away the flimsy lies that would hold it together.†   (source)
  • How do I make sense of, make credible—much less human—the miseries of the next few hours?†   (source)
  • It pleased her to think that her performance had been so dazzling, credible, and convincing.†   (source)
  • The girls themselves told other stories, not all of them credible.†   (source)
  • Does that mean that none of the newspapers published by the Bonnier Group is credible?†   (source)
  • You could not now credibly investigate the Vanger Corporation.†   (source)
  • The only way I'll get it is for you to bring me this all too credible impostor who takes your place!†   (source)
  • The story simply did not sound credible.†   (source)
  • But Gustavsson had decided that a matter of this importance could not credibly be restricted to SIS.†   (source)
  • He did not seem entirely credible, and the text lacked source references.†   (source)
  • Nothing, we can't touch him," replied Jason, suddenly, frantically reaching for a credible answer.†   (source)
  • You're making some very serious allegations-surely you have a credible source.†   (source)
  • Just far-fetched yet specific enough to be credible.†   (source)
  • It comes down to what you just said-don't make it seem so easy because that's not credible.†   (source)
  • ") Sometimes its interpretations are not credible, as when you cut your finger and it starts yelling, "You're gonna die!"†   (source)
  • We hear credible reports from all kinds of different sources that the ghetto in Lublin has been cleared, the Jews brought out of it and murdered en masse, or driven into the forests, and that some of them have been imprisoned in a camp.†   (source)
  • Andie's credible; people love her."†   (source)
  • Banks was accused of killing her newborn child even though police had no credible basis for believing she had ever been pregnant.†   (source)
  • State law required credible corroboration of accomplice testimony in a murder case, and there simply wasn't any in Walter's case.†   (source)
  • I wrote to Joe that we would look deeper into his case and that we were convinced that he had a credible claim of innocence.†   (source)
  • Are you saying that no publication in Sweden that has significant economic interests behind it is credible?†   (source)
  • How will the magazine be able to claim in a credible way that it's investigating the Vanger Corporation?"†   (source)
  • They both seemed like no-nonsense, experienced investigators who were interested in doing credible and reliable work.†   (source)
  • This is an animal sacrifice in the style of 1954 and 1960 and it doesn't seem credible that someone active fifty years ago would be putting tortured animal corpses on your doorstep today."†   (source)
  • Arresting someone for coming forward with credible evidence that challenged the reliability of a capital murder conviction?†   (source)
  • That those cases are relatively rare may be the result of two things: the authorities are carrying out their jobs in a satisfactory manner, or the clients have no opportunity to complain and in a credible way make themselves heard by the media or by the authorities.†   (source)
  • I argued that there was no credible corroboration of Myers's testimony and that under Alabama law the State couldn't rely exclusively on the testimony of an accomplice.†   (source)
  • Not only did these statements make Myers's recantation more credible but they had also been documented in medical records that had never been turned over to Walter's trial lawyers, as the law required.†   (source)
  • Aftonbladet is owned by a huge Norwegian corporation, which in turn is a major player in IT and communications—does that mean that anything Aftonbladet publishes about the electronics industry is not credible?†   (source)
  • This evening a reporter from Dagens Nyheter had asked her the same question: "How is Millennium going to be able credibly to assert its independence?"†   (source)
  • Several revealed that they had such a close relationship with one of the state investigators—a key State witness who had been especially vocal about identifying bad mothers—that they would give him "instant credibility" and would "believe everything [he] said was credible."†   (source)
  • With no credible scientific evidence that a crime had occurred, the State introduced inflammatory evidence that Marsha was poor, a prior drug user, and obviously a bad mother for not seeking prenatal care.†   (source)
  • Despite numerous potentially meritorious grounds for appeal, Joe's appointed appellate counsel filed an Anders brief—indicating his belief that there were no legitimate grounds for appeal and no credible basis to complain about the conviction or sentence—and was permitted to withdraw from representing Joe.†   (source)
  • Withhold enough weapons for a credible threat, and if we have no solution when the weapons actually reach their destination-†   (source)
  • It seemed hardly feasible that anyone could tune an oil barrel, and even less credible that the barrel could make music like nothing else in the world.†   (source)
  • The bad news was that Judge Haig didn't like him very much—and had in the forefront of his mind my witness's former incarnation as an atheist showboat, when I really wanted him to be seen as a grave and credible historian.†   (source)
  • His injuries seem to be similar to those of a car crash victim—it's hardly credible that anyone could do such damage with his bare hands: leg broken, ribs crushed, cervical vertebrae injured, plus there's a risk that he may be paralysed."†   (source)
  • I want it to be dropped like a bomb, and right now Millennium is the most credible and outspoken magazine in the country.†   (source)
  • 'It's completely credible.†   (source)
  • So Dominique has a credible observer-an old man from Carlos's army of old men-to back up the information she delivers.†   (source)
  • That's the only credible solution.†   (source)
  • … Ogilvie's thugs got off for lack of credible testimony, and after the trial you had to be physically restrained in the barracks until Ogilvie was airborne back to Saigon.†   (source)
  • First, naturally, there'll be the trip to the Caymans, where, I'm told, there are excellent tailors; then perhaps a clever little yacht and a small charter business that can be substantiated as having been moved from Tierra del Fuego or the Malvinas, some godforsaken place where a little money can produce an identity and a highly credible if obscure past.†   (source)
  • Regardless, there are times when advertisements aren't necessary, only the means to convey the information credibly.†   (source)
  • She must have followed him here, because it was not credible that by pure chance she should have happened to be walking on the same evening up the same obscure backstreet, kilometers distant from any quarter where Party members lived.†   (source)
  • Quay: bigamy threat, Yes or No. Possible No. Incest threat Credible Yes and the hand going back before it put down the period, lining out the Credible, writing in Certain, underlining it.†   (source)
  • I don't consider it credible that he would sacrifice thirteen years to the infinite execution of a rhetorical experiment.†   (source)
  • It's hardly credible.†   (source)
  • …was a recent innovation, imitated from a gentleman who was the most prominent member of the political party to which Tiny Duffy gave his allegiance) and his great soft face flowing down over his collar, and a diamond ring on his finger, big as a walnut—for all of that was Tiny Duffy, who was not credible but true and who had obviously consulted the cartoons by Harper's Weekly in the files of the 'nineties to discover exactly what the successful politician should be, do, and wear.†   (source)
  • The story was so fantastic and incredible, the telling so credible and sober.†   (source)
  • Is it credible that the possessions of the spirit can be bequeathed at all?†   (source)
  • The thought that had flashed into my mind grew real, grew credible.†   (source)
  • It is scarcely credible, even after all the tricks that have been played upon me.†   (source)
  • Some of the townspeople declared that she did all this only from pride, but that is hardly credible.†   (source)
  • Sartain things have been said, as I've told you, but I'm not very credible as to reports.†   (source)
  • It hardly was credible that such a heavenly light could be the parent of such a diabolical sound.†   (source)
  • That is hardly credible.†   (source)
  • I had never beheld such a repulsive and extraordinary face before, and yet—if the contradiction is credible—I experienced at the same time an odd feeling that in some way I had already encountered exactly the features and gestures that now amazed me.†   (source)
  • It was not, they said, very credible.†   (source)
  • Every detail of the damaging circumstances that occurred in the graveyard upon that morning which all present remembered so well was brought out by credible witnesses, but none of them were cross-examined by Potter's lawyer.†   (source)
  • The fact was scarcely credible.†   (source)
  • "It's simple enough—and credible enough," said Griffin, putting the serviette aside and leaning the invisible head on an invisible hand.†   (source)
  • I scarce know how to put my story into words that shall be a credible picture of my state of mind; but I was in these days literally able to find a joy in the extraordinary flight of heroism the occasion demanded of me.†   (source)
  • I say that to reverse the ordinary process may well be considered a madness: that is, to create credible situations, in order that they may appear true.†   (source)
  • To me it is quite credible that the Martians may be descended from beings not unlike ourselves, by a gradual development of brain and hands (the latter giving rise to the two bunches of delicate tentacles at last) at the expense of the rest of the body.†   (source)
  • There could have been no such justification for me as the plain assent of her experience to whatever depth of depravity I found credible in our brace of scoundrels.†   (source)
  • Was my appearance really credible?†   (source)
  • I proposed to make my way into the house, secrete myself upstairs, watch my opportunity, and when everything was quiet, rummage out a wig, mask, spectacles, and costume, and go into the world, perhaps a grotesque but still a credible figure.†   (source)
  • But is this story credible?†   (source)
  • It was hardly credible that the jack had not got wrong with the minutes when the rattle began again, the puppet emerged, and the four quarters were struck fitfully as before.†   (source)
  • Nor is it credible that, from amongst so great a multitude no speculative genius should from time to time arise, inflamed by the love of truth alone.†   (source)
  • It was credibly ascertained that Squire Sinclare, as his name was commonly contracted in the neighborhood, had counted out fifty dollars, and given them to Miss Ophelia, and told her to buy any clothes she thought best; and that two new silk dresses, and a bonnet, had been sent for from Boston.†   (source)
  • Thus restrained and simplified, it sounded more credible: I felt as I went on that Miss Temple fully believed me.†   (source)
  • This was easily credible to any one looking at Mrs. Vincy as she threw back her broad cap-strings, and smiled towards her three little girls, aged from seven to eleven.†   (source)
  • Is it credible that the democracy which has annihilated the feudal system and vanquished kings will respect the citizen and the capitalist?†   (source)
  • Ham Peggotty, who went to the national school, and was a very dragon at his catechism, and who may therefore be regarded as a credible witness, reported next day, that happening to peep in at the parlour-door an hour after this, he was instantly descried by Miss Betsey, then walking to and fro in a state of agitation, and pounced upon before he could make his escape.†   (source)
  • He knew his wife was with child, but he had left her not long ago in perfect health; and Henchard's treachery was more credible than his story.†   (source)
  • It was hardly credible that Thomasin had told him to ask for them, when the necessity for them had arisen from the difficulty of obtaining money at his hands.†   (source)
  • The news had been more credible, I grant you, coming from an Egyptian, who is of a race that has forgotten what truth is, or even from an Idumaean, whose people never knew what truth was; but, to make quite certain, I saw a centurion from the Tower this morning, and he told me preparations were going on for the reception; that the armorers were furbishing the helmets and shields, and regilding the eagles and globes; and that apartments long unused were being cleansed and aired as if…†   (source)
  • The Miss Hayters, the females of the family of cousins already mentioned, were apparently admitted to the honour of being in love with him; and as for Henrietta and Louisa, they both seemed so entirely occupied by him, that nothing but the continued appearance of the most perfect good-will between themselves could have made it credible that they were not decided rivals.†   (source)
  • There was a covered piazza behind it, furnished with a swing which was a source of tremulous interest; and beyond this was a long garden, sloping down to the stable and containing peach-trees of barely credible familiarity.†   (source)
  • Was this credible? were there cases in which the law should retire before transfigured crime, and stammer its excuses?†   (source)
  • Seems it credible that by three such thin threads the great Leviathan was suspended like the big weight to an eight day clock.†   (source)
  • It is hardly credible.†   (source)
  • Yet it was scarcely credible that things had come to such a head as to indicate that Eustacia systematically encouraged him.†   (source)
  • The Dowager Lady Chettam, just returned from a visit to her daughter in town, wished, at least, that Mrs. Vigo should be written to, and invited to accept the office of companion to Mrs. Casaubon: it was not credible that Dorothea as a young widow would think of living alone in the house at Lowick.†   (source)
  • There were credible rumors, also, of a hemstitched pocket-handkerchief; and report even went so far as to state that Miss Ophelia had one pocket-handkerchief with lace all around it,—it was even added that it was worked in the corners; but this latter point was never satisfactorily ascertained, and remains, in fact, unsettled to this day.†   (source)
  • And, good heavens! what wild rumors about his brother, about the Karamazovs, and about himself he had read in the course of those two months, among other equally credible items!†   (source)
  • And running his eye over the missive and breaking his reading with interjection: "Surely! the Germans are so great and powerful, that it is hardly credible—But let us not forget the old proverb: 'The finest county is Flanders; the finest duchy, Milan; the finest kingdom, France.'†   (source)
  • Is it credible?†   (source)
  • It is more marvellous than credible," said the viceroy.†   (source)
  • In what words shall I describe this dread exploit, by what language shall I make it credible to ages to come, what eulogies are there unmeet for thee, though they be hyperboles piled on hyperboles!†   (source)
  • Nay, 'tis most credible; we here receive it, A certainty, vouch'd from our cousin Austria, With caution, that the Florentine will move us For speedy aid; wherein our dearest friend Prejudicates the business, and would seem To have us make denial.†   (source)
  • …so well, that I was surprised at it, and could not at first see what advantage my governess made of it; but I found afterwards that she professed to make no profit of lodgers' diet, nor indeed could she get much by it, but that her profit lay in the other articles of her management, and she made enough that way, I assure you; for 'tis scarce credible what practice she had, as well abroad as at home, and yet all upon the private account, or, in plain English, the whoring account.†   (source)
  • But evill men under pretext that God can do any thing, are so bold as to say any thing when it serves their turn, though they think it untrue; It is the part of a wise man, to believe them no further, than right reason makes that which they say, appear credible.†   (source)
  • O thou that, in the fateful valley which made Scipio the heir of glory when Hannibal and his followers turned their backs, didst bring of old a thousand lions for booty,—and it still seems credible that hadst thou been at the high war of thy brothers, the sons of the Earth would have conquered,—set us below, and disdain thou not to do so, where the cold locks up Cocytus.†   (source)
  • But they report (and there remains good marks of it to make it credible) that this was no island at first, but a part of the continent.†   (source)
  • No doubt they'll continue their stratagem; And the same tales that you reject today You may find credible some other day.†   (source)
  • As a genius of the highest rank observes in his fifth chapter of the Bathos, "The great art of all poetry is to mix truth with fiction, in order to join the credible with the surprizing."†   (source)
  • Is it credible?†   (source)
  • For this end they have an incredible treasure; but they do not keep it as a treasure, but in such a manner as I am almost afraid to tell, lest you think it so extravagant as to be hardly credible.†   (source)
  • They fortify their camps with a deep and large trench; and throw up the earth that is dug out of it for a wall; nor do they employ only their slaves in this, but the whole army works at it, except those that are then upon the guard; so that when so many hands are at work, a great line and a strong fortification is finished in so short a time that it is scarce credible.†   (source)
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