How To Use Belike In A Sentence
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This is belike your foremost associate physically and mentally. This alliance will revel in spending, voyage and adventure. Quite an exciting linkage.
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He is trim, brown-haired, nice-looking for a regular guy; babelike for a scientist.
Brian Greene's restaurant at the end of the parallel universe
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(as _Milly_ saith touching the 139th Psalm) to have turned o'er the two leaves together that I might not see this sixth chapter of _Hebrews_: yet did I never see it without a diseaseful creeping feeling, belike, coming o'er me.
Joyce Morrell's Harvest The Annals of Selwick Hall
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Also: Parallel-universe physicist Brian Greene is "nice-looking for a regular guy; babelike for a scientist," and as capable as debating vegan cheese as string theory, reports Monica Hesse...
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The pair went to a Picasso display and, to impress her, Harvey told Gloria that he could belike get the artist's autograph.
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Medflies ruin crops when fertile females use their tubelike ovipositors to punch holes in the skin of a ripening fruit or vegetable, then pump their eggs inside.
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The roars, belike, would have gradually subsided in dreadful rumblings of more than utterable or conquerable mirth.
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But she spoke in a fast staccato, so she didn’t come across as babelike.
As Husbands Go
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But it was the face, cast belike in copper bronze, which caught and held Mrs. Sayther's fleeting glance.
THE GREAT INTERROGATION
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The Romans then, flying to the emperor, desired his aid and succour; but he, belike to pleasure the pope, gathering an army, went rather against the Romans.
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He'll break your travelin 'light, him a carryin' the outfit and a big buck deer belike.
Chapter II
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If thou goest to him, and say Ilderim sent thee, will he not be glad of such a fine sturdy trooper - ye may touch the hilt, and eat the salt, and belike he'll forget the assami* (* In this sense, a deposit paid by a recruit on enlistment.) for my sake.
Fiancée
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(calling belike upon the Lord,) and so the Prince immediately commanded to take away the tun and quench the fire.
Henry of Monmouth, Volume 2 Memoirs of Henry the Fifth
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If you want a babelike 30-year-old hanging around the house, by all means, buy that car for them … the shiny red one!”
Is Buying Your Kid A Car Going Too Far?
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Answered the Wazir, “Yes, O Commander of the Faithful; I see a dim figure on a high mound; belike he is the keeper of a garden or of a cucumber-plot, and in whatso wise water will not be lacking in his neighborhood;” presently adding,
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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After they don the ihram, the Hajjaaj begin a ritual known as the Tawaf (tahwaf; to turn), in which they walk around the ka'ba (kah-bah), a cubelike structure located in the middle of the masjid al-Haraam (mas-jeed al-hah-ram; The Sacred Mosque of Mecca).
Arabic for Dummies
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It teacheth the tongue ill speaking, and my word belike was such.
The Story of Sigurd the Volsung
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And meseems thou wilt not have come hither by her leave, or thou wouldst be in other guise than this; so that belike thou wilt be the runaway of thy mistress.
The Water of the Wondrous Isles
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This innocent daring, this babelike ripping up of serviceable conventions -- God knows what advantage such men might take of it.
The Christian A Story
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Church belike at one blow had birth and death pence and in such sort deliverly he scaped their questions.
Ulysses
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I slept, belike to gather simples, for she is wise in leechcraft, and is tending the sick man.
The Water of the Wondrous Isles
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Wherefore she turned and went hastily down the hall, and out-a-doors, and over the bridge, and ran fleet-foot down the rocky way whereby she had come, till she could run no further, and lay down under a great stone breathless and fordone; yet her heart upheld her and suffered her not to swoon, belike because she had given her limbs such hard work to do.
The Water of the Wondrous Isles
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And thy wife, belike, or thy mother, reared her?
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A veritable witness have you hitherto been, Ishmael; but have a care how you seize the privilege of Jonah alone; the privilege of discoursing upon the joists and beams; the rafters, ridge-pole, sleepers, and under-pinnings, making up the frame-work of leviathan; and belike of the tallow-vats, dairy-rooms, butteries, and cheeseries in his bowels.
Moby Dick; or the Whale
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Turks of all sorts, men and women, and all over Greece, and those hot countries; to absterge belike that fulsomeness of sweat, to which they are there subject.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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There used to be, and belike is yet, a custom, in all maritime places which have a port, that all merchants who come thither with merchandise, having unloaded it, should carry it all into a warehouse, which is in many places called a customhouse, kept by the commonality or by the lord of the place.
The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio
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There arose in that narrow, iron-sided gorge a havoc such as belike surpassed that of the original breaking through of the waters.
The Sagebrusher A Story of the West
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But belike this duskiness will clear presently, and then at least we shall know whither we be going; and we may either turn back, or seek some other shelter, for I know the lake well; I know, I know.
The Water of the Wondrous Isles
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The company is celebrating its residency at Rosslyn's Artisphere (the globelike building that once housed the Newseum) with a couple of plays in repertory -- "Mary Stuart" and "Richard III.
On stage in October
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Why then, belike we must sin and so consequently die.
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When it shoves its tubelike mouthparts into a plant to suck sap from the xylem, the insect may transmit a deadly plant bacterium, Xylella fastidiosa, in its saliva.
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babelike innocence and dependence
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Belike they were not known, or else not used.
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Aye," said old Diccon, "belike thou goest to some grand castle to live there, and be a page there and what not, and then, haply, a gentleman-at-arms in some great lord's pay.
Men of Iron
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And therefore belike Solomon, Prov.xiv. 13, calls it, the rotting of the bones, Cyprian, vulnus occultum;
Anatomy of Melancholy
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If a were up to t 'use o' words, a could say a mighty deal; but somehow a'm tongue-teed when a come to want my words most, so a'll only just mak 'bold t' say as a think yo've done pretty well for yo'rsel ', getten a house-full o' furniture '(looking around him as he said this),' an 'vittle an' clothin 'for t' axing, belike, an 'a home for t' missus in her time
Sylvia's Lovers — Complete
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To himself he added, "An 'belike, if Satan takes his eye off his own, I'll put it to that young cub iv his.
CHAPTER 16
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Accordingly he entered and Kamar al-Zaman knew him and told his sire who said, “O my son, leave him at this present: belike he is anhungered: so let him eat his sufficiency and recover himself and after we will send for him.”
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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For that cause belike Alexander discerning this inconvenience and danger that comes by seeing, [5655] when he heard Darius's wife so much commended for her beauty, would scarce admit her to come in his sight, foreknowing belike that of Plutarch, formosam videre periculosissimum, how full of danger it is to see a proper woman, and though he was intemperate in other things, yet in this superbe se gessit, he carried himself bravely.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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In after days belike she scarce trowed in the tale, yet the terror of it abode with her.
The Water of the Wondrous Isles
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An 'have ye niver drifted along, the water clear as glass, whin suddin, belike a cloud over the sun, the mushy-ice comes bubblin' up an 'up till from bank to bank an' bind to bind it's drapin 'the river like a first snowfall?'
The Men of Forty Mile
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But at last rose up Stephen the Eater and spake: "Meat and drink and lodging is free without price to every comer to Wethermel, and most oft, as here it is, our good will goes with it; yet meseemeth that since these friends of ours come belike from the outlands and countries where is more tidings than mostly befalleth here, it might please them to make us their debtors by saying us some lay, or telling us some tale; for we be not bustled to drink the voidee cup now, these nights of Midsummer, when night and day hold each other's hands throughout the twenty-four hours.
The Sundering Flood
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Then he said to him, O my son, thou art but young in years and the damsel is fair, so belike thy heart will be taken with her and it will be grievous to thee to vend her.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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This is belike your foremost associate physically and mentally. This alliance will revel in spending, voyage and adventure. Quite an exciting linkage.
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Then the Kazi bade silence the women and said to the prisoner, “These folk avouch that thou didst enter their dwelling-house and steal their goods: belike thou stolest less than a quarter dinar221?”
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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The condition of the common people (and belike, in great part, of the middle class also) was yet more pitiable to behold, for that these, for the most part retained by hope [11] or poverty in their houses and abiding in their own quarters, sickened by the thousand daily and being altogether untended and unsuccoured, died well nigh all without recourse.
The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio
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Belike thou wilt now have good will to bow down Fafnir's crest according to thy word plighted, since thou hast thus revenged thy father and the others of thy kin.
The Story of the Volsungs