vraisemblance
Example Sentences
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He knew how his heroes should behave, and in such encounters there was the vraisemblance that added power to his narrative.
From George Alfred Henty The Story of an Active Life by Fenn, George Manville
His reply was: "I was just fourteen, and I played the soubrette characters in an amateur company—a line that I could hardly assume with any degree of vraisemblance now."
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876 by Various
He was, indeed, a master of the spoken word, and possessed a miraculous power of giving to the wildest fancies an air of vraisemblance.
From The House of the Vampire by Viereck, George Sylvester
There are ties with the doctrines of 1641 even in this preface, but the transformation of vraisemblance and decorum was sufficiently advanced for the needs of the day.
From Prefaces to Fiction by Warburton, William
His Chinese letters—for the idea of which he was indebted to the Lettres Persanes of Montesquieu—describe England in his day with the same vraisemblance which we have noticed in The Spectator.
From English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction by Coppee, Henry
