think probable
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I am seventy-six years old, and I can bear testimony, that from my infancy it was the term universally employed in Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Cheshire, Lancashire, and, I think probable, in the more northern counties.
From Notes and Queries, Number 26, April 27, 1850 by Various
That the wretched man would do him serious bodily injury Amos did not think probable, but that he would use any pressure short of this seemed tolerably certain.
From Amos Huntingdon by Theodore P. Wilson
Should the Zulus attack us, which I don’t think probable, I will call you.
From Hendricks the Hunter The Border Farm, a Tale of Zululand by William Henry Giles Kingston
What we think probable we do not call severely for the proof of.
From The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) by Sir Frederic G. (Frederic George) Kenyon
I am much delighted and instructed by the hypothesis, which I think probable, that our Lord in repeating Eli, Eli, lama sabacthani, really recited the whole or a large part of the 22d Psalm.
From Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Henry Nelson Coleridge
