insupposable

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Watering-place life is notoriously conducive to idleness of mind, and Bernard strolled for half an hour along the overarched avenue, glancing alternately at these two insupposable cases.

From Confidence by James, Henry

That fine old Fabius, General Scott, had no idea of flinging an army out broadcast into Virginia, and, in the insupposable case that it turned tail, leaving it no defended passage to run away by.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861 by Various

That it should be read through by any one seems to us quite insupposable.

From The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 by Various

I have seen actors at the Odéon, in the classic repertory, imperfect in their texts; a monstrously insupposable case at the Comédie Française.

From The Galaxy, April, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—April, 1877.—No. 4. by Various