verisimilar

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Are these dramas of his not verisimilar only, but true; nay, truer than reality itself, since the essence of unmixed reality is bodied forth in them under more expressive symbols?

From English literary criticism by Various

Now, I am to perform all this, it seems, without making any thing verisimilar or agreeable!

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 by Scott, Walter, Sir

Various anecdotes of him are related by Boccaccio, Sacchetti, and others, none of them verisimilar, and some of them at least fifteen centuries old when revamped.

From Among My Books Second Series by Lowell, James Russell

"I have not," he says, "so much art left me to make any thing agreeable, or verisimilar, wherewith to amuse or deceive the people."

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 by Scott, Walter, Sir

But his power as a sociologist is no less real that it is unconscious, indeed infinitely more real and human and verisimilar that it is not polemical.

From Mark Twain by Henderson, Archibald