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  • Miss Mac – Ivor can change her mind; and were such an unsupposable case to happen, it is certain I will not change mine.

    Waverley 2004

  • It was unsupposable that a hired boy, with little education and less experience of church-going, should be able to preach better than could I, in whose family there was a real minister.

    The Story Girl Lucy Maud 1911

  • That he could take advantage of the technical "damage" done was quite unsupposable.

    Tom Slade at Temple Camp Percy Keese Fitzhugh 1913

  • It was unsupposable that Marilla was making fun of her, but Mrs. Rachel was almost forced to suppose it.

    Anne of Green Gables 1908

  • It was unsupposable that he would ever marry; nobody ever had supposed it.

    The Golden Road 1908

  • The Carrizoso plateau had been sacred ground, and it was unsupposable that it could ever be desecrated by the trampling hoofs and scissor noses of these woolly abominations.

    Heart's Desire Emerson Hough 1890

  • ` ` It is, I am aware, impossible Miss Mac-Ivor can change her mind; and were such an unsupposable case to happen, it is certain I will not change mine.

    The Waverley 1877

  • Our translators appear to have looked upon it as a thing quite unsupposable, that any priestly and vicarious working pertains to the ministry of the

    The Vicarious Sacrifice, Grounded in Principles of Universal Obligation. 1802-1876 1871

  • The exercise of the voice on the stage is womanly, while she gives out the thoughts of another; but suppose (and it is not unsupposable) a living female Shakespeare to appear on a platform, and utter her inspirations, delicacy is shocked, decency is outraged, and society turns away in disgust!

    History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I Matilda Joslyn Gage 1863

  • This is not an unsupposable thing, that man may have the representation of God which the gospel affords, superadded to all that is natural, and be no more suitably affected therewith than a mere devil, this is a truly supposable case.

    The Whole Works of the Rev. John Howe, M.A. with a Memoir of the Author. Vol. VI. 1630-1705 1822

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