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haply

[ UK /hˈæpli/ ]
ADVERB
  1. by accident
    betrayed by a word haply overheard

How To Use haply In A Sentence

  • _ Mrs. Behn (or, haply, George Jenkins, the first editor of _The Widow Ranter_), here uses the ordinary form 'flambeaux' as a plural. The Works of Aphra Behn Volume IV.
  • Whether all this be but a dream, I cannot tell, but it was haply from these lugubrous effects, that garlands of _taxus_ were usually carried at funerals, as Statius implies in _Epicedium vernae_: However, to prevent all funest accidents, I commend the tree only for the usefulness of the timber, and hortulan ornament. Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees
  • betrayed by a word haply overheard
  • Then she turned to him bussing and bosoming him and bending calf over calf, and said to him, “Put thy hand between my thighs to the accustomed place; so haply it may stand up to prayer after prostration.” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • Whether all this be but a dream, I cannot tell, but it was haply from these lugubrous effects, that garlands of _taxus_ were usually carried at funerals, as Statius implies in _Epicedium vernae_: However, to prevent all funest accidents, I commend the tree only for the usefulness of the timber, and hortulan ornament. Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees
  •         Skill great Battiades 'poesies haply to send, Poems and Fragments
  • He explained, in all good humour, that he refrained from taking the title assumed by his father lest haply he should besmirch it.
  • Haply some one was jealous of thy good fortune and threw out certain hints concerning thee to the King, by reason whereof he is become enraged against thee with rage so violent: but be of good cheer; no harm shall befal thee; for, even as thou entreatedst me generously, without acquaintanceship between me and thee, so now I will deliver thee. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • Then she turned to him bussing and bosoming him and bending calf over calf, and said to him, "Put thy hand between my thighs to the accustomed place; so haply it may stand up to prayer after prostration. Arabian nights. English
  • And look; for haply the days may restore them without foreshowing: The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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