Possibly I had conjured up impossible dangers, like some nervous old housewife, and when I should catch up with Powell would get a good laugh for my pains.
The fact, however, that this thought did not occur to me until the following day removes any possible right to a claim to heroism to which the narration of this episode might possibly otherwise entitle me.
"It seems improbable then that he is not connected with them," remarked the captain; "possibly a member of this tribe."
"Possibly we can borrow some men from Captain Dufranne to assist us, and one of the prisoners to point out the location of the chest."
As many more individuals of each species are born than can
possibly survive; and as, consequently, there is a frequently recurring struggle for existence, it follows that any being, if it vary however slightly in any manner profitable to itself, under the complex and sometimes varying conditions of life, will have a better chance of surviving, and thus be naturally selected.
Apparently the single house, and possibly even the household, had vanished.
Possibly the checks they had devised for the increase of population had succeeded too well, and their numbers had rather diminished than kept stationary.
Price could no longer afford to cherish pride or resentment, or to lose one connexion that might possibly assist her.
"What if they were among them to undertake the care of her eldest daughter, a girl now nine years old, of an age to require more attention than her poor mother could possibly give?
My theory is that in a far distant era Caprona was a mighty mountain--perhaps the world's mightiest volcanic action blew off the entire crest, blew thousands of feet of the mountain upward and outward and onto the surrounding continent, leaving a great crater; and then, possibly, the continent sank as ancient continents have been known to do, leaving only the summit of Caprona above the sea.
I therefore put the issue squarely to you all; shall we bury our animosities and work together with and for one another while we remain upon Caprona, or must we continue thus divided and but half armed, possibly until death has claimed the last of us?
On the morrow he was to return for further instructions, though General Rochere had made it quite plain that Tarzan might prepare to leave Paris for an almost indefinite period,
possibly on the morrow.
Why, it would take us a year,
possibly our whole lives, to eat up twelve oxen and twelve tons of bread.'
"
Possibly, sir, though I think not--but listen to the rest of my news.
They were large men,
possibly six feet and over in height.
