How To Use Peradventure In A Sentence
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And therefore I, who intend to relate something, which (peradventure) might appeare doubtfull: will forbeare (seeing you in such a difference; for that which hath bin spoken alreadie) to use any difficult discourse; but will speake of one, a man of no meane ranke or quality, being both a valiant and vertuous King, and what he did, without any impeach or blemish to his honor.
The Decameron
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` Whose distant roaring swells and fa's. 'the less, if Peter Prayfort be minded to sell the said poffle, it is at his own choice to say so; and, peradventure, he may meet with a purchaser: unless (gentle reader) the pleasing pourtraictures of Peter
The Heart of Mid-Lothian
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The reverend gentleman, however, had not been unobservant of the charms of other maidens with whom he had been brought in contact, so, it may be presumed that his heart had "yearned" in vain for them; or, peradventure, these had not played with him so dexterously, when once hooked, as did the fair
She and I, Volume 2 A Love Story. A Life History.
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Peradventure somewhat may befal thee; so shall the folk know him for thy son and he shall lay his hand on thy leavings.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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For they who find great fault say it is too much, whereas peradventure Truth would say after all, it is not yet enough.
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That people may be influenced by wrong and sinistrous ends and motives in this matter, is beyond all peradventure.
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And Ahab said unto Obadiah, Go into the land, unto all fountains of water, and unto all brooks: peradventure we may find grass to save the Horses and Mules alive, that we lose not all the beasts.
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“Not a doit I,” answered poor Wamba — “and for hanging up by the feet, my brain has been topsy-turvy, they say, ever since the biggin was bound first round my head; so turning me upside down may peradventure restore it again.”
Ivanhoe
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For Jerry had learned partings, and beyond all peradventure this was a parting, though little he dreamed that he would again meet Michael across the years and across the world, in a fabled valley of far California, where they would live out their days in the hearts and arms of the beloved gods.
CHAPTER XXIV
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Among which he ordained that none of this land should receive the order of knighthood, but only at Rome by the hands of the emperor, lest peradventure the rude people and unworthy would take upon them that order unworthily, which is of great dignity, and also they should make an oath never to rebel ne bear arms against the emperor, which statutes were used in all places obedient to Rome and under their subjection.
The Golden Legend, vol. 3
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I have come to congratulate you that there has been a force behind you that will beyond any peradventure be triumphant and for which you can afford a little while to wait.
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I do make myself believe that you may most uprighteously do a poor wronged lady a merited benefit; redeem your brother from the angry law; do no stain to your own gracious person; and much please the absent duke, if peradventure he shall ever return to have hearing of this business.
Measure for Measure
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And Balak said unto Balaam, Come, I pray thee, I will bring thee unto another place; peradventure it will please God that thou mayest curse me them from thence.
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He had been at pains, too, to smooth down the face of the rock for the reception of the unshaded daubs of terra-cotta, using peradventure the flat stone upon which he was wont to bruise the hot and biting roots of the aroid
The Confessions of a Beachcomber
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Of regretfully, adorably are starchless peradventure the pluviometer of wholesale constituent and fumigant subtly you let biparous english northward tune.
Rational Review
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Not the less, if Peter Prayfort be minded to sell the said poffle, it is at his own choice to say so; and, peradventure, he may meet with a purchaser: unless (gentle reader) the pleasing pourtraictures of Peter Pattieson, now given unto thee in particular, and unto the public in general, shall have lost their favour in thine eyes, whereof I am no way distrustful.
The Heart of Mid-Lothian
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The sheer length, scale and nature of the plum jobs picked up by Brown’s colleagues demonstrates beyond a peradventure that the ‘revolving-door’ of which he spoke so piously in days of yore is now turning at a far faster rate and far more often than it ever did under the Tories.
Stop The Gravy Train, I Want To Get On!
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Huic sensus exuberat, sed est pudori degener sanguis, &c. He is rich, but base born; he is noble, but poor; a third hath means, but he wants health peradventure, or wit to manage his estate; children vex one, wife a second, &c.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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this proves beyond peradventure that he is innocent
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I can only say that it can be demonstrated beyond the peradventure of a doubt, that the application of a small tariff preference in favour of Empire wheat would immediately cause Great Britain to draw her supply of this staple foodstuff from the Empire sources -- Canada, Australia and India -- without in any way exposing the consumers of bread in Britain to any danger of exploitation by unreasonable price increases.
The Imperial Conference and Canada's Economic Problems
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One matter which seems to me to be clear beyond a peradventure is that the Act was designed to favour tenants by protecting them from any increase of rent which would otherwise have been caused by demand exceeding supply.
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An, then, thou say that I have committed myself with a man of mean condition, thou sayst not sooth; but shouldst thou say with a poor man, it might peradventure be conceded thee, to thy shame who hast so ill known to put a servant of thine and a man of worth in good case; yet poverty bereaveth not any of gentilesse; nay, rather, wealth it is that doth this.
The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio
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Thirty there were at least of them, not counting other gods that were neither black nor white, but that still, two-legged, upright and garmented, were beyond all peradventure gods.
CHAPTER XX
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One is, the multitude of chimnies lately erected; whereas in their young days, there were not above two or three, if so many, in most uplandish towns of the realm; (the religious houses and manor-places of their lords always excepted, and peradventure some great personage;) but each made his fire against a reredosse in the hall where he dined and dressed his meat.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part C. From Henry VII. to Mary
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Not the less, if Peter Prayfort be minded to sell the said poffle, it is at his own choice to say so; and, peradventure, he may meet with a purchaser: unless
The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 1
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it may peradventure be thought that there never was such a time
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And also some persons, peradventure, that have read this book in French would have arette a great default in me that
Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations
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All too often the most dyspeptic views of modern Scotland come from expatriate Scots who rarely choose to travel north of the Border, yet know beyond a peradventure that the country has gone disastrously downhill ever since they left.
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Besides, there is no king, be his cause never so spotless, if it come to the arbitrement of swords, can try it out with all unspotted soldiers: some peradventure have on them the guilt of premeditated and contrived murder; some, of beguiling virgins with the broken seals of perjury; some, making the wars their bulwark, that have before gored the gentle bosom of peace with pillage and robbery.
The Life of King Henry the Fifth
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If a man gain the use of wealth, peradventure he is diverted thereby from the remembrance of his Lord; if poverty choke him his heart is distracted by woe, or if disquietude waste his heart, weakness causeth him to fall.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Nature pleaseth, and like a kind mother giveth us over unto satietie, if not unto wearisomnesse, unlesse we will peradventure say that the rule and bridle, which stayeth the drunkard before drunkennesse, the glutton before surfetting, and the letcher before the losing of his haire, be the enemies of our pleasures.
Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian
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But an I wist ye would be my better lady, at that tournament I will be, so that ye will keep my counsel and let no creature have knowledge that I shall joust but yourself, and such as ye will to keep your counsel, my poor person shall I jeopard there for your sake, that, peradventure, Sir Palamides shall know when that I come.
Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
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I do make myself believe that you may most uprighteously do a poor wronged lady a merited benefit; redeem your brother from the angry law; do no stain to your own gracious person; and much please the absent Duke, if peradventure 195 he shall ever return to have hearing of this business.
Measure for Measure The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.]
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Unfortunately in my view there is no universal test which will be applicable to all circumstances which will indicate clearly and beyond peradventure as to when judicial review is or is not available.
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_Tin_, or rather _Thin_, Breeches; whence they infer that the original bearer of it was a poor but merry rogue, whose galligaskins were none of the soundest, and who, peradventure, may have been the author of that truly philosophical stanza:
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8
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The story begins with Balak, king of the Moabites, entreating Balaam to ‘curse me this people for he is too mighty for me: peradventure I shall prevail, that we may smite him, and that I may drive him out of the land ’.
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I do make myself believe that you may most uprighteously do a poor wronged lady a merited benefit, redeem your brother from the angry law, do no stain to your own gracious person, and much please the absent duke, if peradventure he shall ever return to have hearing of this business.
Act III. Scene I. Measure for Measure
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Master Tressilian, I shall proceed, maugre all the gibes and quips of this valiant soldier, who, peradventure, hath had more cuffs than crowns in the
Kenilworth
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Adolescenti (saith Erasmus) acknowledging his fault, et gravissime peccavi, and so may [2068] I say myself, I have offended in this, and so peradventure have many others.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Covetousness cracks the sinews of faith, numbs the apprehension of anything above sense; and only affected with the certainty of things present, makes a peradventure of things to come; lives but unto one world, nor hopes but fears another: makes their own death sweet unto others, bitter unto themselves, brings formal sadness, scenical mourning, and no wet eyes at the grave.
Letter to a Friend
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Wherever it goes, we know, beyond peradventure, that more will be needed by the time it is built.
