incredible

• With a blindness and wrong-headedness almost incredible, these advantageous terms were refused, chiefly through the persuasion of Cardinal Pelagius, an ignorant and obstinate fanatic, who urged upon the Duke of Austria and the French and English leaders, that infidels never kept their word; that their offers were deceptive, and merely intended to betray. —  Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
• Over a course of a hundred miles or more he would ride relays at a speed that seemed incredible, and at the end of the journey operate with a calm hand for a gun-shot wound or a cruelly broken bone, sometimes on the box of a mess-wagon turned upside down on the prairie Dr. Stickney was from Vermont, a quiet, lean man with a warm smile and friendly eyes, a sense of humor and a zest for life. —  Roosevelt in the Bad Lands
• Or--incredible thought--had our weight caused us to sink imperceptibly into a soft and treacherous bed I felt my happiness oozing away. —  Greener Than You Think
• She owned to having heard the name of Osric Dane; but that--incredible as it appeared--was the extent of her acquaintance with the celebrated novelist. —  Xingu 1916
• The jealousy was incredible--the clamour to gain appointments to the Saint Domingo expedition To be appointed to pestilence in the hospitals, and a grave in the sands!" —  The Hour and the Man, An Historical Romance

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