within possibility

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All round the vast circumference, on terraced seats of rock, squatted row after row of the most completely hideous beings within possibility.

From Under the Andes by Stout, Rex

Creake has everything in his favour, but it is just within possibility that the driver of an inopportune tram might notice the appendage.

From Max Carrados by Bramah, Ernest

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

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

Mr. Tompkins, for example, whom you cite as having once met your friend and then failed to recognize him, would recognize him in ten seconds after any transformation within possibility.

From The Mystery of Murray Davenport A Story of New York at the Present Day by Stephens, Robert Neilson