How To Use Perchance In A Sentence
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Perchance I was speaking by telephone this afternoon to a building contractor who specialises in this type of work.
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To sleep: perchance to dream: aye, there's the rub.
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Thou mayst perchance have seen me also have a fancy to play at trap-ball, or to kiss a serving wench, or to guzzle ale and eat toasted cheese in a porterly whimsy; but is it fitting thou shouldst remember such follies?
Peveril of the Peak
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From his arms thou shalt start with horror, as from those of thy wronged father's betrayer, -- perchance his deathsman!
The Last of the Barons — Complete
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He heard Æsop say, dryly, "Some men of Italy are fools," and might perchance have flamed again, to his misluck, but that Staupitz, breathing thickly in his ear, whispered: "Idiot, he mocks a Mantuan.
The Duke's Motto A Melodrama
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The parts are immediately covered with aseptic absorbent cotton and this dressing is left in position for forty-eight hours and if perchance there is evidence of synovial discharge, the parts are again aseptically dressed in order to prevent infection of the articulation.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1
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Prepare thy drawers perchance some foul thing slips, Or thundrous peals from out thy cornhole boom.
2007 May 02 « raincoaster
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Thou mayst perchance have seen me also have a fancy to play at trap - ball, or to kiss a serving wench, or to guzzle ale and eat toasted cheese in a porterly whimsy; but is it fitting thou shouldst remember such follies?
Peveril of the Peak
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This characteristic, aided by the perspicacity which is bestowed upon every jealous woman, perchance enabled her to read the mysterious Sibyl with some approach to exactness.
The Whirlpool
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One day perchance I shall tell you.
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I must put away this lovely diary posthaste, lest someone perchance read it and learn of my secret identity!
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Perhaps six years had exercised a degeneratory effect upon Roi Denis, or perchance I have more realism than sentiment; my eyes could see nothing but a petit vieux vieux, nearer sixty than seventy, with a dark, wrinkled face, and an uncommonly crafty eye, one of those African organs which is always occupied in "taking your measure" not for your good.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1
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If the populace now see that as PM he is "'orf' is 'ead" will they perchance put two and two togther and work out that he was just as mad as Chancellor and realise that his policies then were just as ludicrous the current ones?
British Blogs
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And, perchance still failing, then might I expect the common bravo's steel in my back or the common poisoner's philter in my wine, my meat, or bread.
Chapter 11
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One day perchance I shall tell you.
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This young predikant with more of prudence, and perchance more of honour, recollected next morning that though, as he had truly said, he had no more weapons in the house, he had a beautiful mauser carbine hidden in his garden.
With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back
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He felt, what possibly the primitive and pure of heart feel most keenly ... the presence of the Great Unknown, He who is the fountain source of love, and whose hands on the sable parchment of the northern skies perchance write, in irid traceries of fire, mystic messages of hope which none, of all humanity, during all the centuries, has ever learned entirely to understand.
The Eternal Maiden
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I feel that the very mention of the word gumboot, whenever it occurs, is lending a smile to certain of my readers and, perchance, a frown to others.
The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
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If it may only impress the greatness of Mr. Jefferson, strengthen a belief in his doctrines and hasten their reacceptance in the land of his creation; or incline the doubting towards a university training — perchance at her shrine — and refresh youthful years there enjoyed, it will not have been written in vain.
The University of Virginia
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Perchance, with a dovecot in the centre, and fowls peeking about — with fair elm trees, then, where discoloured chimney-stacks and gables are now — noisy, then, with rooks which have yielded to a different sort of rookery.
Reprinted Pieces
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Hasan said to himself, “By Allah, needs must I enter yonder palace; perchance relief awaiteth me there.”
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Isle of Shepey, had he not, on board the Fire-fly, chosen to embrown his face, and carry black ringlets over his own; a trick, perchance, to set the Protector on a wrong scent.
The Buccaneer A Tale
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'This citadel wouldn't happen to have a hot bath, perchance ?
THE ANCIENT FUTURE: THE DARK AGE
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If perchance you've missed Bassani plenty of time to catch up and read his hauntingly great novel which captures that mood of the Jewish family in Ferrara in the early 1930's with what feels like astonishing accuracy.
The Leopard
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I looked at the double doors in horror and wondered if perchance Toplis might be hiding inside.
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_antepenultima_ as to say [_co-ue ` ra ` ble_] ye shall seldome or perchance neuer find one to make vp rime with him vnlesse it be badly and by abuse, and therefore in all such long _polisillables_ ye doe commonly giue two sharpe accents, and thereby reduce him into two feete as in this word
The Arte of English Poesie
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_Percalus. _ (rising and moving the arbute boughs aside with the tip of her sandal), "And, unless thou wouldst wait very long for my father's consent, perchance thou mayst have to ask for it very soon -- too soon to prepare thy courage for so great a peril.
Pausanias, the Spartan The Haunted and the Haunters, an Unfinished Historical Romance
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One with velveteen antlers sticking up out of it and a slogan across the front that says `The Moose Is Loose", perchance ?
SOMETHING IN THE WATER
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Only a fool alloweth an enemy inside his own house in hope of trapping him within his own chambers when first he could set ambushments outside and perchance ensnare him there.
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Behold the mountain rillet, become a brook, become a torrent, how it inarms a handsome boulder: yet if the stone will not go with it, on it hurries, pursuing self in extension, down to where perchance a dam has been raised of a sufficient depth to enfold and keep it from inordinate restlessness.
The Egoist
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In such cases the hunters may become the hunted, and may perchance be 'strafed' themselves.
Stand By! Naval Sketches and Stories
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In like manner the commander of Fort Casimir, when he found his martial spirit waxing too hot within him, would sally forth into the fields and lay about him most lustily with his sabre; decapitating cabbages by platoons; hewing down lofty sunflowers, which he termed gigantic Swedes; and if, perchance, he espied a colony of big-bellied pumpkins quietly basking in the sun, "Ah! caitiff Yankees!" would he roar, "have I caught ye at last?
Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete
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Or, perchance, mystery and importance have been found, during his long and varied experience with the unsophisticated tourist, excellent things to increase the volume of importance attached to the exhibited articles, and the volume of "pice" in his exchequer.
Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama
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Perchance he/she (I really felt it was a smarmy male.) didn't know 'ironical' was a real word in much the same way folks confuse the "irregardlessness" of it all?
No, i have time
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I will go out on a limb and suggest a certain melancholic mood perchance?
Rebecca Reminds - They're Perfectly Normal
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He may perchance find a few of the curved Omani daggers with handsome sheaths adorned with filigree silver, to which is usually attached, by a leather thong, a thorn extractor, an earpick, and a spike.
Southern Arabia
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One day perchance I shall tell you.
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Could it perchance be that we aren't producing the right stuff, because we don't have enough of a rugby culture, because an embarrassingly small number of new recruits has been attracted by successive ‘strategies’ laid out by the blazers?
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For evil purposes are, perchance, due to the imperfection of human nature; that it should be possible for scoundrels to carry out their worst schemes against the innocent, while God beholdeth, is verily monstrous.
Consolation of Philosophy
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The kind of educationist with whom no one would trust a poodle for half an hour may and does constantly assume, on a scale involving millions of children, from year to year, that all is well if the girl be taken from home and put into a school and made to learn by heart, or at any rate by rote, the rubbish with which our youth is fed even yet in the great name of education: though perchance whilst she is thus being injured in body and mind and character, she might at home be playing the little mother, helping to make the home a home, serving the highest interests of her parents, her younger brothers and sisters and herself at the same time -- not to mention the unborn.
Woman and Womanhood A Search for Principles
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Perchance there will be questions of invasions of privacy at some later time, since the victims would seem to be identifiable.
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If some of these may, perchance, find a kernel of profit out of the mass of chaff attendant, my idle half-hours in the postmeridian of life will not have been entirely misspent.
Recollections and reflections : an auto of half a century and more,
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The clouds have no notion of being caricatured, and the trees keep cautiously away from the brink of such streams -- save, perchance, now and then, here and there, a weak well-meaning willow -- a thing of shreds and patches -- its leafless wands covered with bits of old worsted stockings, crowns of hats, a bauchle
Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2
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Or maybe, perchance, every human born unto this world is in possession of a soul.
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That confession was required before Communion is evident from the penitential ascribed to St. Columbanus, which orders (can. xxx) "that confessions be given with all diligence, especially concerning commotions of the mind, before going to Mass, lest perchance any one approach the altar unworthily, that is, if he have not a clean heart.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
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Anyway, I wish you a great life Scarlet and perchance we shall meet again.
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To sleep, perchance to dream...
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My Lords, the explanation of this is to be found in the placability, perchance, I may say, in the facility and pliability, of the female sex.
The Heart of Mid-Lothian
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`Would you, perchance, have made any phone calls since these events unfolded?
A DEATH IN TIME
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If, perchance, they possess any excellence above their society, they consider it as a redeeming grace for their importunities, and, calculating on the vulgarism _ad captandum_, that what is dearest bought is most prized, they make their friends pay freely for their admiration.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 277, October 13, 1827
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But this "pure love" soars beyond David's, and finds it a duty to be unthankful, lest perchance some selfish element mingle itself with its superhuman, superangelic purity.
God's Way of Peace: A Book for the Anxious
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Note that this is _canticum_ and the effect of the two "sing-songing" slaves on the audience must have been much the same as, upon us, the spectacle of a vaudeville "duo," entering from opposite wings and singing perchance a burlesque of grand opera at each other.
The Dramatic Values in Plautus
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Does Mr Boas, perchance, partake this implied opinion, that authorship unsexes; and is it therefore that he allows himself to deal out such hard measure to the
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845
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`And if that Mr Kohn is perchance one of us, which I doubt, it strikes me we're better off without him," Laura said.
OUT OF THE ASHES
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Through the years the myth has arisen that New Yorkers are the most sophisticated of sports fans, ready to cheer what they consider a great performance even if, perchance, it is recorded by someone who plays for a team in another city.
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A passenger perchance ride on the wagon prevent a fatal accident.
