How To Use Mayhap In A Sentence
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'Mayhappen not,' he said; 'yet yesterday I could not but look into the slaughter to come, and it seemed to me a grim thing, and darkened the day for me; and I grew acold as a man walking with the dead.
The Roots of the Mountains; Wherein Is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale
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I would like your temperate drinker to pause, and reflect upon the fact, that the quantity of brandy or rum that he took at a drink, when he commenced this downhill course, has been gradually increased; so that in the second year, what had been quite sufficient to please his palate and produce all the desired effects in the first, was then insipidly small; and more so in the third year, if, mayhap, he could with any decency lay claim to the title of _temperate drinker_ so long.
Select Temperance Tracts
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Mayhap thou didst sleep over-sound last night when I called by the river bank," he began, glowering darkly.
THE MARRIAGE TO LIT-LIT
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Epps: I conceive I saw something I couldnt mayhap hit seen.
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I hope sincerely that you will come, and mayhap if possible bring the boy too.
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After, I marveled, and thought mayhap he had liked my playing; the Adept Stile has termed my hom a mellow saxophone.
Here There Are Monsters
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Mayhap, moreover, his comely face had something to do with it, for, i 'fecks, ne'er saw I a goodlier countenance on Roundhead or Cavalier.
A Brother To Dragons and Other Old-time Tales
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But Vendhya is a strange land, mayhap too devious for a simple northlander like me.
Conan The Victorious
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Less than a wife, mayhap, but much more than a mere bedmate.
HERE BE DRAGONS
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Perhaps I have, or mayhap I have just become used to my surroundings and not so much changed as adapted.
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It dawned upon me with a certain suddenness that I was different from the others; or like, mayhap, in heart and life and longing, but shut out from their world by a vast veil.
American Girl
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Mayhap you're right, mayhap there's more to be gained by keeping this whelp alive.
HERE BE DRAGONS
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And mayhap there did wander upward there Memory, and did go companioned by Grief.
The Night Land
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Mayhap you're right, mayhap there's more to be gained by keeping this whelp alive.
HERE BE DRAGONS
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Standing within earshot of a lute will cause some people to regress to the level of a medieval simpleton who uses the word "mayhap" in sentences, refers to women as "comely wenches" and pretends not to understand what a radio (or "sorcerous talking box") is.
Word Magazine - Comments
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Rules augustly in Rome, mayhap," I again interrupted.
Chapter 11
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If I could threaten the fellow, mayhap I could get it back for you...' `A mere bagatelle...' Cibber was shilly-shallying.
THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
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I know it and the lads forrad know it, and Belvedere he knows it and is mighty feared of her and small blame either -- aye, and mayhap you'll be afeard of her when you know her better.
Martin Conisby's Vengeance
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If she were well and truly contrite, mayhap the Almighty might show mercy, let hers remain one of Will's secret sins.
HERE BE DRAGONS
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Never a week passed but what she came twice or thrice with a picture or book, mayhaps an apple for me, an 'it's owing to her an' no clargy at all that I'll ever follow her blessed footsteps to heaven.
Children's Edition of Touching Incidents : and Remarkable Answers to Prayer
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The projecting edge of some fossil-charged bed had been struck, mayhap, by an iceberg, and dashed into ruins, just as the subsiding land had brought the spot within reach of the attritive ice; and the broken heap thus detached had been shortly afterwards covered up, without mixture of any other deposit, by the red boulder-clay.
The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland
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Who would have thoft it? mayhap, some young gentleman crossed in love.
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
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Now it chanced that Roger Vanderwater was Iying ill in his palace at the other end of Kingsbury -- not the dire illness that strikes down you and me, brothers; just a bit of biliousness, mayhap, or no more than a bad headache because he had eaten too heartily or drunk too deeply.
A CURIOUS FRAGMENT
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Mayhap you're right, mayhap there's more to be gained by keeping this whelp alive.
HERE BE DRAGONS
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If I could threaten the fellow, mayhap I could get it back for you...' `A mere bagatelle...' Cibber was shilly-shallying.
THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
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There's dust on the road to the east, mayhap a kay east of the town.
Ordermaster
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Tis a "Lower The Boom" drink is the Mickey Finn, not a pirate... mayhap thou didst gulp it down the evening last before thou didst crawled to thine bunk?
Fire Chief "Resigns" And Becomes Cartoon Du Jour
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And yet I remember that at that early age -- mayhap under fourteen -- notwithstanding, and through all its incidental attractiveness, he hazarded the opinion to me (and the expression riveted my surprise), that there was feebleness in the structure of the work.
Stories of Authors, British and American
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With the Old Red Sandstone the ganoids were ushered upon the scene in amazing abundance; and for untold ages, comprising mayhap millions of years, the entire ichthyic class consisted, so far as is yet known, of but these two orders.
The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed
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If you should choose to lay out a trifle of twenty pieces upon their comfort, I shall see that their food is such as mayhap many of them never got at their own tables.
Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734
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If she were well and truly contrite, mayhap the Almighty might show mercy, let hers remain one of Will's secret sins.
HERE BE DRAGONS
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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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They sensed something she could not, saw something in the air mayhap, or some event fast approaching, and they screamed and hollered and shouted their base insults in an attempt to crack her mental walls like so many fragile eggshells.
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I would like your temperate drinker to pause, and reflect upon the fact, that the quantity of brandy or rum that he took at a drink, when he commenced this downhill course, has been gradually increased; so that in the second year, what had been quite sufficient to please his palate and produce all the desired effects in the first, was then insipidly small; and more so in the third year, if, mayhap, he could with any decency lay claim to the title of _temperate drinker_ so long.
Select Temperance Tracts
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It was now a quarter of an hour mayhap, since I had made any chopping noise, because I had been assorting my spars, and tying them in bundles, instead of plying the bill-hook; and the gentle tinkle of the stream was louder than my doings.
Lorna Doone
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Bookshelves filled the place; a round table carved from mahogany was at the center and the desk stood near the window, mayhap to give the Prince a better view.
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Nay, puff not, sighful Pertinax, but for thy comforting mark this -- she hath viewed and heeded thy outward man narrowly -- so shall she not forget thee soon; she with woman's eye hath marked the great heart of thee through sorry habit and rusty mail, and found therein the love thy harsh tongue might not utter; and thus, methinks, she hath thee in mind -- aye, even now, mayhap.
The Geste of Duke Jocelyn
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Mayhaps this is why the rum is always gone, eh, maties?
Dead Men May Tell No Tales, But Wrecked Cakes Sure Do.
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Mayhap there'll be something for you to draw-and then undraw-later on.
The Dark Tower
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Then, if success be achieved and the illusion becomes real and transcendental, and other things and conditions merely “innutritious phantoms,” were it not wise, indeed essential, to tell of it all, so that mayhap the illusions of others may be put to the test?
The Confessions of a Beachcomber
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Where others cringed in the face of officialism, the ex-ambassador had stepped forth as a master: he had shown a badge, spoken a word mayhap, and the man in the tent who had made other people tremble, stood up deferentially and obeyed all commands.
The Elusive Pimpernel
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What meanest thou by 'mayhap'?" demanded Sir Thomas.
A Boy's Ride
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Somehow, drhunt reminds me a bit of an old troll named “jake”, who, I seem to recall, falsely claimed to be a WWII veteran (or Vietnam vet, mayhap).
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