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Sentence Examples
| Perhaps I have, or mayhap I have just become used to my surroundings and not so much changed as adapted. |
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| I hope sincerely that you will come, and mayhap if possible bring the boy too. |
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| And mayhap, when they see the dignity of this spirit, they will want to see more. |
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| Mayhap they do, mayhap they're wrong, When they put on a front that is strong Instill in others that belief, Believe themselves, ah, pure relief! |
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| It could have been a streak of luck, or, mayhap, something more that caused such a strange happening, but everyone will be glad that everything will be set in the right way. |
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| Well, mayhap that'll do, as it's a little gell, for they're easier persuaded to sit i' one place nor the lads. |
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| Then I heard the rush, the stamping and neighing, of some young mares, pasturing there, as they raced to and fro, bewildered or mayhap only in play. |
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Examples from Classical Literature
| If we leave her alone, mayhap she will founder, and then how will the women be saved? |
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| But mayhap thou wouldst first down a flitch of bacon and a tankard or so of stum? |
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| Anyway, the master's off gallivanting for the day, and mayhap it'll take his mind off the mills a bit. |
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| I thought that mayhap it might be as to who should have this feather-bed of thine. |
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| Why should we leave it sound to belch its shot, mayhap, on English craft some day? |
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| And you little maiden, take an old man's warning, and look before you leap, as mayhap I and Jowler may not be anigh next time. |
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| The praefect himself, mayhap, would bid for her, or the imperator's agents! |
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| But here's summat of a red color that may suit a weak stomach, mayhap. |
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| The Trappist, mayhap, in digging his grave had lighted on a pot of gold. |
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| Well, mayhap they are, but we'd have bested them but for the giant. |
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| Thus, my father, for the third and last time did my eyes see the Inkosazana-y-Zulu, or mayhap my heart dreamed that I saw her. |
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| If we are wrecked, mayhap this bottle may be found, and those who find it may understand. |
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| And mayhap among the bogs and hills 'tis lonelier than in the gulley. |
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| There, also, is a deep pit, which, at some time, long-dead men dug out, mayhap for the stones ye speak of, such as I have heard men in Natal tell of at Kimberley. |
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| As the Queen had said aforetime, the King was mightily proud of his archers, and now held this tourney to show their skill and, mayhap, to recruit their forces. |
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| Mayhap you think it's you're pint of half-and-half as keeps us all out of the union. |
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| Mayhap it was as well for Carlos that the sports were now ended, and the fiesta about to close. |
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| Mayhap that was how God would punish her for her desecration of the holy day. |
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| Mayhap he said to himself, 'Beecher's the downiest cove going. |
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