within possibility
Example Sentences
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Experiments of this kind seem to bring it within possibility to operate a motor at any point of the earth's surface from a central source, without any connection to the same except through the earth.
From The inventions, researches and writings of Nikola Tesla With special reference to his work in polyphase currents and high potential lighting by Martin, Thomas Commerford
It was a wild thought, but it was within possibility, so I took it in and clung to it.
From An Enemy to the King by Stephens, Robert Neilson
Such evidence could be multiplied; but this is enough to establish the fact that for the whole breadth of the hills to have been covered with wood is well within possibility.
From Wild Life in a Southern County by Jefferies, Richard
It is within possibility for a man to believe himself wicked, while his actual conduct is ridiculously blameless, even praiseworthy!
From Idolatry A Romance by Hawthorne, Julian
The chair scraped on the floor, had been his only assurance that the other had understood him and that might, within possibility, have been a coincidence.
From A Pagan of the Hills by Buck, Charles Neville
