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  • Perhaps the years of abuse, ridicule and scorn make a fully grown redhead all the stronger for it. Times, Sunday Times
  • There is a great deal of feeling and perhaps some bitterness, but do you not all agree with me that it is quite possible, since there is a fashion of armament in Europe, and since there has been no withdrawal on the part of the Admiralty from the stand taken by the First Lord some months ago, to have the entire Canadian people approach this situation in a calm and in an impartial manner? Canada and the Empire
  • Yea, we see in that wailing infant of a week, the outspringing of an immortal spirit which may soon hover on cherub-pinion around the throne of God, or perhaps, in a few years, sink to the regions of untold anguish. The Christian Home
  • Perhaps it comes straight out of that party line dictionary that was written in a smoke-filled room in Sevastapol Street by the same faceless Provo apparatchik who a few years back advocated the practically endless use of the term 'securocrat'. Archive 2009-01-01
  • All the more perhaps for that, she was born sagacious, which is a less pleasing, but, in a bitter pinch, a more really useful, quality. Erema — My Father's Sin
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  • Back in our world, custom has perhaps staled Shakespeare's infinite variety a bit.
  • But perhaps you just feel sorry for the poor rabbit. Times, Sunday Times
  • Most rural stations had a staff of at least six, and perhaps up to a dozen, who them carried out the duties of stationmaster, signalman, booking clerk, ticket collector, porter, shunter, lengthman and lampman.
  • Now the word "prayer" to non-Muslim readers will evoke an image of people perhaps silently clasping their hands together, leaning forward in a pew, and either silently, to themselves, or in a quiet tone, speaking heartfeltly to God. David Horowitz Freedom Center
  • Only a very strong, perhaps only a globally dominant, power can sustain informal empire in the long run.
  • You will read for yourself, by and by, many others: stories of older Saints, and perhaps of brighter Saints, or it may be even of saintlier Saints than these. A Book of Quaker Saints
  • ‘I'm sure the retained men are not valued as highly but they work 12 hours and then are on call - if those bleepers go then they have to race to the station, perhaps to save someone's life,’ he said.
  • Why such a paper has never been given to the world, I am much at a loss to say—but, perhaps, the autorial vanity has had more to do with the omission than any one other cause. The Philosophy of Composition
  • Perhaps some time in the future bonds will be issued for foreign investors. Inside Perestroika: The Future of the Soviet Economy
  • Now that Gonzalez has rejected the Yankees, perhaps he can concentrate on turning a disappointing season into another banner year.
  • Perhaps the tomatoes were underripe to start with. Times, Sunday Times
  • And it was perhaps insensitive to try to sell pet funerals to distressed purchasers. Times, Sunday Times
  • They were too cool to play an encore, or perhaps they had simply run out of songs. Times, Sunday Times
  • The narrator is somewhat sardonic about his guests and is perhaps influenced by the three whiskies he's had and the cleanskin he's finishing up with.
  • Matters went on pretty well with us until my master was seized with a severe fit of illness, in consequence of which his literary scheme was completely defeated, and his condition in life materially injured; of course, the glad tones of encouragement which I had been accustomed to hear were changed into expressions of condolence, and sometimes assurances of unabated friendship; but then it must be remembered that I, the handsomest blue coat, was _still in good condition_, and it will perhaps appear, that if I were not my master's The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 262, July 7, 1827
  • This, perhaps the greatest period of an already great life, has been sensitively written about by memoirists and historians.
  • Tessa Morris-Suzuku of Australian National University perhaps the most widely known Australian historian of Japan presented a paper on colonial Karafuto, one of many topics she is currently researching. 2007: Japan Top Ten Year in Review
  • Having worked himself into this ridiculous kind of phrensy, which lasted, perhaps, from twenty to thirty seconds, he suddenly discontinued it, and suffered his features to relax into their natural form; but the motion of his head seemed to have so stupified him, as indeed it well might, that there remained an unusual vacancy and a drowsy stare upon his countenance for some time afterward. Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, Volume 1
  • Perhaps these dark thoughts are why he can be restless at night. Times, Sunday Times
  • Perhaps not surprisingly, the researchers found that employers were considerably more likely to offer interviews and jobs to applicants with white names.
  • They seemed to be in a serious mood, perhaps brooding on the deteriorating human behaviour that cannot see that he is cutting the same very branch that he is sitting on.
  • There are other constraints on the firm's capital, however, most importantly perhaps, the takeover constraint.
  • I have a feeling that someone has all the email from both accounts, and they are right now in some sort of shady deal to sell the data to $someone (or perhaps to Palin herself). MetaFilter Projects
  • I am listening to your day-tales, though I wonder that this time might be better spent mistranslating health warnings from foreign cigarettes and pasting them to a gallery wall or, perhaps, composing a biro haiku on the arch of a foot, proclaiming: Day 9: Better Spent Time
  • The gorillas 'behaviour has strong similarities to the children's game tag, but is perhaps more like a playful exchange of punches that must be well-judged to ensure it does not escalate into a more serious fight. Gorillas learn about injustice and revenge by playing tag
  • Acrylic is perhaps the fastest-growing segment of the glazing market.
  • Perhaps this contradictory nature is the key to its undeniable appeal. Times, Sunday Times
  • On this side of the Atlantic, the word means “style” or perhaps “poise” or “polish,” as in classy or a class act. Feckless Youth
  • Perhaps the minister should be praised for tightening the regime? Times, Sunday Times
  • Perhaps if he hadn't looked so unwontedly silly, then he would have been able to keep it down, but instead he snorted.
  • Blair's answer should be embalmed in the Labour party constitution, perhaps as a better substitute for the old clause four.
  • When you hear the words, " adventure travel" , perhaps you think ofthe Venetian merchant Marco Polo, the distinguished African explorer David Livingstone, or North Pole adventurer Robert Peary.
  • Perhaps her most productive period was her five-year stint as a foreign correspondent in New York.
  • As the days and games tick by, perhaps they will implode under the pressure of expectation. Times, Sunday Times
  • Perhaps I've been corrupted by Photoshop, but regardless, the GIMP just feels unusably arcane and clunky. December 29th, 2007
  • This was no obvious gaffe as it would have been had it emanated from the lips of George Bush, oh no, this was perhaps a "knowing casualism". Look, Obama just doesn't make gaffes, OK?
  • A reed basket of ha'penny nails to go with it lay in the jumble of objects at the far end of the table; something perhaps left behind by the carpenters who had furnished the room. Sick Cycle Carousel
  • Perhaps inspired by the elegant Georgian style houses he recalled from his boyhood in Haverhill, Massachusetts, he trimmed his two-story clapboarded house with quoins and a cornice with dentils.
  • Instead of being crushed at once, as perhaps the writer expected, it darted forward, quite briskly and cheerfully, at six or seven miles an hour; requiring no spur or admonitive to haste, except the shrieking of the little Egyptian _gamin_, who ran along by asinus's side. "[ Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men.
  • This woman, dressed in a headscarf, long peasant dress and sweater, stands with her arms folded in front of her as if she is slightly cold or perhaps waiting for a tardy child.
  • Perhaps spurred by the era of Republican dominance and a reassertive ruling class, historians have given new attention to the plantocracy.
  • Perhaps tools like moviolas might have more efficiently weeded out the dabblers - it's hard to say since moviolas were part of a more elitist type of technology and denied many an opportunity.
  • Two toed sloths are perhaps more heterothermic than any other mammal.
  • Trevelez is, perhaps, Spain's highest village, the gateway to the Upper Sierra Nevada and the winter ski-slopes, and was as high as I drove.
  • The essence of this approach, perhaps, is the avoidance of process waste by using automation to avoid "information backflow".
  • Taking a dig at the BWSSB, a corporator noted perhaps a cess should be levied on BWSSB every time sewage is let into storm water drains maintained by the BMP.
  • In an age of change, unchangingness becomes more precious to people than we perhaps understand, even in ourselves. Times, Sunday Times
  • Perhaps you are thinking that partner has asked for a club and so that is the suit you should switch to. Times, Sunday Times
  • Partly it's just a recovery attitude after a very busy month, but it's more than that; ennui perhaps.
  • Perhaps you can recommend something for getting a blot off an escutcheon. MR STARLIGHT
  • Perhaps it's because of the deluge of words, perhaps it's the weightiness of the subject, but one doesn't actually become involved emotionally.
  • Simon Jenkins, a columnist with the UK's Guardian recently called Zuma a rapist and a racketeer in perhaps one of the most acerbic pieces yet the Guardian has published on Zuma.
  • My family has not forgiven me yet, but perhaps if I make these, that will smooth things over! why so much baking soda? browning effect? because there's not that much molasses (acid). and it's only 4 cups flour. somebody enlighten me! oh and for your molasses question - depends if you want the stronger molasses flavor. robust is probably what is more commonly referred to as blackstrap molasses. the light stuff I think tastes too light for something like a ginger cookie, I think. and given there's only 1/2C of molasses in this recipe to go along with 2 C of regular sugar, I'd def say go for the robust. Jeremy Zawodny's linkblog
  • Perhaps she could don a suit and fix a sport dying from self-inflicted cuts? Times, Sunday Times
  • Thus was imposed on nationalist people an undemocratic arrangement destined never to yield a nationalist majority for perhaps hundreds of years.
  • The movie would perhaps be better described as a suspenseful intrigue, but due to the inclusion of zombies, undead or not, it gets called "horror. Epinions Recent Content for Home
  • Perhaps you can entreat some strapping young lad into educating you in the ways of the world.
  • Perhaps they should have to pass their cycling proficiency test before climbing aboard. Times, Sunday Times
  • In addition, the convention seeks to impose an affirmative duty on states to prohibit, and perhaps prevent, mercenarism. David Isenberg: Outsourcing War and Peace: Part 2
  • But when it's the sole story-telling medium, as here, I also think it has a slight distancing effect on the reader, robbing the action of some immediacy and urgency, which for modern sensibilities is perhaps not ideal when dealing with such dramatic events. Brian Ruckley - News & Views
  • So the theories are that perhaps somebody intentionally detonated this weapon in what's sometimes called fragging, an intentional effort to kill officers, and in this case, two officers. CNN Transcript Jun 10, 2005
  • Perhaps the biggest problem on top was making signals to the engineers in the yard below to prevent overwinding of the hoisting engines. The Great Bridge
  • There are other claims that are perhaps insufficiently established.
  • Perhaps strangest of all, the American troops brought in their own "psyops" trucks - for psychological operations - and blared sounds that created a nightmarish duet with the mosques: old AC/DC songs, something that sounded like a sonar ping, the cavalry charge. Archive 2004-11-01
  • The criticism of our time ... is indissociable from an investigation and experience of its transcendental field (s), of the (impersonal) tendencies and haecceities which traverse it, as well as the potentialities, utopian ones perhaps, with which our present can be composed. The Skeptic's Field Guide
  • Perhaps it is greedy to have wanted more. Times, Sunday Times
  • Amazon, with the Kindle 2.0 Reader, has the option of addressing some keylow lying fruitlike support for folders, PDF support perhaps? Kindle Vs Sony Reader « Kindle Review – Kindle 3 Review, iPad Review
  • He claims he planned his appearance at the party conference for'perhaps a week '. Times, Sunday Times
  • The hair of coastal wolves also appears to be coarser and better at shedding water, perhaps to cope with the heavy rainfall on the west coast.
  • I would love to go abroad this year, perhaps to the South of France.
  • Perhaps he went for his speed and energy as it can't be for his subtlety. The Sun
  • One assumes other factors were at work, perhaps clinical depression, so that the medal controversy precipitated his decision.
  • His name was James and he was younger than me...perhaps by a year. *cue cradle-snatching jokes* He was my friend's cousin, and I remember thinking he was gorgeous when I first met him. Archive 2010-07-01
  • He added: ‘Perhaps you hedged on this, so as to avoid giving the directors of intelligence too much detailed information.’
  • But, perhaps most exciting is the large number of people the organizers tell me are coming from Quebec. Christianity Today
  • Cancer cells look too much like normal cells and most cancers (perhaps virally caused cancers are an exception) are probably expressing only genes that naturally are expressed in human cells.
  • They would help the communities learn which of their organizational traditions are most useful for stand control, for coordinating woodcutting in specific places, and perhaps for distributing the fruits of harvesting the forest.
  • Perhaps the question should not be how smart an individual of a species is but how smart our collective brainpower makes us.
  • The Medes, perhaps, had such chariots, though no traces of them are found in Assyrian remains. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • Perhaps he should have stuck to writing.
  • About flaws, failings, and sins in your life that perhaps only your husband know and see? Christianity Today
  • Finally, and perhaps most importantly, they show that the percentage of TH17 cells in MPE appears to be associated with survival.
  • At length, perhaps, all are rewarded by the welcome sight of a tiny trickle in one corner, or perhaps the hole turns out a "duffer," and the weary, weary work must be commenced again in a fresh spot. Spinifex and Sand
  • Two departments rely mainly on a single source for their forecasts with perhaps slight alterations to incorporate their own views.
  • Reply: skatole perhaps another ingredient! by nelswight (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 13 comments) on Tuesday, Jan 9, 2007 at 5: 28: 04 PM Terror Gas in NY?
  • Conclusion: Gracefully exit your essay by making a quick wrap-up sentence, and then end on some memorable thought, perhaps a quotation, or an interesting twist of logic, or some call to action.
  • Perhaps that is why so many athletes major in kinesiology, which is the science of the body and body language. The Strange Death of Liberal America
  • Perhaps as a society we believe the grubby hands of business should be kept off our organs, especially in death.
  • So perhaps the era of cheap documentaries is still with us. We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog
  • Perhaps acknowledging this incongruity, he spoofed his desperation in a series of photographs that mock his suicide.
  • Perhaps today's corporate entities are little more than the fishes that have crawled out of the ocean.
  • By putting up the fence, are you blocking out the view of a wonderful tree in a neighbouring plot, or perhaps a church spire in the distance? Times, Sunday Times
  • It is perhaps correct to say that Moses actually was descended from Levi, and that the later significance of the name Levite is to be explained by reference to him. Prolegomena
  • Scholars have suggested that the purpose of statues such as the Peplos Kore and other korai (the plural form of the word) was to serve as votive offerings, perhaps in this case to the goddess Athena.
  • That at the heart of it is an international comity, reinforced perhaps by international law, that we respect each other's right to govern the internal economy of their ships.
  • People across the country might reckon we all go about with cloth caps and whippets but Yorkshire is a very beautiful county and perhaps we should be shouting about how wonderful the natural landscape is.
  • On the other hand, when armed with a large umbrella or a well-fitting raincoat and perhaps a pair of gumboots, it is possible to enjoy the monsoon rains, and take time out to splash through muddy puddles and wade through waterlogged roads.
  • Perhaps because most of the cast is made up of relative no-names, we shouldn't expect the caliber of their talent to be very high, but more of the blame for the poor performances can be laid at the director's feet.
  • In this sense, mercy can be thought of as the opposite of grace, or perhaps more correctly - the inverse.
  • It's a cultural curiosity now, but perhaps a portent of the future. Christianity Today
  • Perhaps you shouldn't brush the idea aside too hastily.
  • Perhaps he wanted a serious chat to find out why her eighth album is taking so long to hit stores. The Sun
  • The granite peaks and sylvan hollows in the Blue Ridge Mountains are the results of geological changes and metamorphosis over perhaps a billion year period of time.
  • We have grasped, perhaps more than any other nation, that there is a long-run cost to dependency on the state, including an aversion to risk that eventually enervates the entrepreneurial spirit necessary for innovation and prosperity. Beware of the Big-Government Tipping Point
  • Millson regarded her thoughtfully. Perhaps she was right.
  • Perhaps the original decoration lies intact beneath the layered generations of wallpaper and ever-changing tastes in house paint, ready to be rediscovered.
  • I should perhaps add that to them CERN is of crucial importance, as it has been to me. Martinus J.G. Veltman - Autobiography
  • He's maybe late forties, early fifties, bookish, greying, bespectacled, wispy - perhaps an academic.
  • The Russian studies use sites that are perhaps the best temp proxies dendrology can offer — cold not moisture-limited sites, and whadayaknow, the correlation w/temps are much better than average. Juckes and the Indigirka River Alter Ego « Climate Audit
  • The complementary substances or substituent groups with which these nuclei are more or less firmly combined in nature exert a stabilizing and perhaps otherwise favorable influence on the curative nucleus, but do not themselves possess the vitamine type of physiological potency. The Vitamine Manual
  • Their demand for pensions deserves, said the national paper, ‘this week's, perhaps this year's, award for barefaced cheek’.
  • They knew that some of the people inside of this settlement were armed, and perhaps prepared to use those arms.
  • Most records since 1947 have been for coastal districts, which perhaps just reflects the distribution of observers at the migration seasons.
  • The five had always perhaps accepted the necessity of compromise.
  • Perhaps she was a businesswoman now, who normally wore her shoulder-length hair in a tight bun.
  • But just as terror is about to knock something shifts, perhaps enough consciousness raised that a sinister energy is alchemize, and terror turns and retreats from the door. My Journey to Report on the Horrors and Hope in the Congo (Part VI)
  • Other chants, like Agnus dei: Qui pius ac mitis, were expanded, or “troped” with additional text and music, and it was perhaps as an educational gesture that Greek, Hebrew, and Galician words were added to the ancient double-versicle “prosa” Alleluia: Gratulemur et letemur. Archive 2009-04-01
  • It is a disturbing, dark tale and perhaps one the victims might have been better left to recover from in peace. Times, Sunday Times
  • And here, in the Ramesseum, I found campaniform, or lotus-flower capitals on the columns -- here where Rameses once perhaps dreamed of his Syrian campaigns, or of that famous combat when, "like The Spell of Egypt
  • The slaughter and butchery of 200 cattle and the consumption of 40,000 kilos of beef, even if spread over a year or two, suggest the participation of many communities, perhaps from a whole clan or tribe.
  • A pretty feeble ruse, perhaps, but it works. which might work except the nobble is pretty damned big ... that's the problems; and then there's writing as avoidance of writing (kinda like this post!): Writer's Block
  • Elizabeth - You're not he first to mention grandmothers ... perhaps the notion of using mayo in cakes is not new? Chocolate Mayonnaise Cake
  • Perhaps there was truth in Croce's epigram that `all history is contemporary history". SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
  • In this light, even the discussion about successors to Heinlein nags at me, because I see it, perhaps unfairly, as another aspect of trying to come up with easy categorization in a field where such categorization is anything but easy and where labels create false expectation after false expectation. January « 2010 « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website
  • Perhaps the artist has bee brought in to polychrome a plaster relievo for an architectural decoration, and it is some third party sculptors studio. Easel on Rails
  • Unless perhaps the sixth year of the reign of Ezekias, in which Samaria was taken, they think is here called his infancy, that is, the infancy of his reign, not of his age; which even a fool must see to be hard and forced. Catena Aurea - Gospel of Matthew
  • A more traditional, perhaps ceremonial, hat is the fez, worn by older upper-class men.
  • Perhaps most of China's enterprises companies are at the state of arterialize sociality, which means taking time to learn, organize, restructure.
  • Perhaps the second most concerning misclaim being floated about the DP World deal is that it was conducted in secrecy. Ross Chanin: The Dubai Deal and Those Things Not Said
  • Perhaps I could fill inone of your office staff during the vacation period.
  • Perhaps beginner's luck was at work his behalf? Times, Sunday Times
  • Perhaps we are to view the epagomenal days as signifying Red Ice Creations
  • Otherwise this unknowable is not only compatible with knowledge but is the efficacity of knowledge, perhaps of all possible knowledge, assuming the world is like this (as opposed to the Blakean world). Chaosmic Orders: Nonclassical Physics, Allegory, and the Epistemology of Blake's Minute Particulars.
  • She, perhaps, is dead now, for when he last called she was bedrid, and nearly insensible. Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. In Two Volumes. Volume II.
  • Perhaps the hardest question for the team is how much power to cede to China in the search for solutions - and money. Times, Sunday Times
  • Now perhaps I need to build a quick replacement for one of these machines - say a label printing machine on loan from UPS or in your case maybe your home file server. MakeUseOf.com
  • The flats tower above you - there are perhaps twenty five floors in the building, which looks grimy and worn.
  • Perhaps his most ambitious project is Hitlab.com, launched last September, an online community where aspiring artists can promote and sell their music outside record-label auspices. Akon's Recession-Proof Tune
  • The idea is perhaps extrapolated - wrongly - from his famous Interpretation of music of 1954.
  • The piece reads like it was edited by deleting large sections, and perhaps that's what happened.
  • The resulting baking had a strong garlic flavour, more acceptable perhaps in bread, but cakes, Yuk!
  • I feel their eyeballs gawking/ I look better with my high heels on", sings Danny Todd, perhaps referring to a working girl or a crossdresser. F&M playlist
  • Perhaps we can talk somewhere privately," said Kesler.
  • These include the pitcher plants of the Asian tropics, known as Nepenthes, which resemble jugs brimming with nectar—or perhaps more accurately, mouths slavering with drool.
  • Perhaps the biggest myth Yi dispelled was that he's some kind of big lumbering center.
  • Perhaps there's an interesting story there for enquiring journalists.
  • Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else. William Faulkner 
  • This posting is about intercommunication among Zapoteco villagers in Oaxaca State and the notion that communications among various villages can be improved by foreigners introducing radio signal interrelationships to, supposedly, improve inter-village understanding and, perhaps, harmony. Radio stations in Oaxaca
  • Perhaps these pragmatic effects do not strictly affect literal sentence meaning, then. The Times Literary Supplement
  • I opened it and looked at that brilliant and terrible tongue which we call a blade; and I thought that perhaps it was the symbol of the oldest of the needs of man. Tremendous Trifles
  • Making someone happy is perhaps the humblest way of approaching happiness.
  • Perhaps you wonder how so numerous a race of these beings has come to exist; but that boy at your elbow, bending under the weight of his literary burden, is a colporteur for converting the men and women of this "enlightened nation" to rowdyism. The Elements of Character
  • A considerable sweetener that may be welcome by those who have pumped money into Rotherham but perhaps not by the paying punters who will feel cheated.
  • I realize that this line of thought is, perhaps, too confusing and too disillusioning. Pavel Somov, Ph.D.: American Am-ness
  • At the peak of their growth spurt, boys in particular can be "gangly" and perhaps less co-ordinated than normal. Planet Judo
  • Perhaps his most interesting is Captain Spaulding (Sid Haig), a psychopath who commits various gruesome murders and owns a freak show themed tourist attraction. Five Horrifying Clowns | myFiveBest
  • Perhaps because black, Hispanic and Asian households tend to be larger and often multigenerational, teens in these groups are significantly more likely than white teens to recognize someone other than their mother or stepmother.
  • A spin on the foot-to-the-floor musical approach is provided by the soulful vocal of Lisa Kekaula - perhaps this is what sets this band apart from the average recyclers of pop history.
  • Some of the dogs are poorly fed or underfed, perhaps because after spending a lot of money to buy them, their owners do not want to spend any more to get them proper food.
  • Perhaps you should be reading something other than my blog, that is nothing more than a chance for me to chitty chat with my people. It’s MY Party and I’ll Blog if I Want To « Bored Mommy
  • This policy actually has a lot of logic to it, so we should perhaps give them credit for their good sense, if not their duplicitousness.
  • This seeming contradiction within the document may perhaps be explained in the following manner. Urbanization in Post-Apartheid South Africa
  • East, perhaps from the core hidden in anarchic theories of the resolution of good and evil in a higher unity. Nobel Prize in Literature 1946 - Presentation Speech
  • In their view, was found in the cell new virus individual, perhaps because of the self-protection mechanism of the virus again Tunhui cells.
  • I have no formal clothes for the occasion. Perhaps I can get by in a dark suit?
  • And, perhaps more pertinently, why do we insist on knowing about it in the first place?
  • German's work; but what perhaps the world calls charlatanism in him is really only the reaction of genius when it comes into conflict with the brutal obstinacy of real life. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations
  • Perhaps something dirty, something shabby. Times, Sunday Times
  • The author, who seems to intend the character of Bonvolio as good, meant perhaps to shew, how the best minds, in a state of faction and discord, are detorted to criminal partiality. Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies
  • For some eerie reason I am reminded of a passage in the bible where it talks of the Anti-Christ being made into the likeness of man …. perhaps corporate personhood is what this passage really meant? Think Progress » Corporations Speak Out Against SCOTUS Ruling, Call On Congress To Approve Public Financing Of Campaigns
  • The time had come when a book of that kind was desirable and perhaps, subconsciously had been waited for, particularly by the women of the war generation and at the moment owed to the catenation of events which had nothing to do with the 'author and had nothing to do with its appearance. A Personal Confession of Faith
  • This refers to a miser, perhaps the most despised of all types in a world where generosity is the yardstick by which humanity is measured.
  • Carambola, a small tree or shrub, is thought to be native to Java or other parts of Indonesia, and perhaps also Sri Lanka.
  • Perhaps they would have but for the definite pronouncement of the mystagogue G.B. Shaw. Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned
  • Perhaps the only firm conclusion to emerge from this continuing debate is the recognition that the literary scene has become pluralistic.
  • Truly, somebody needs to post this stuff on everything from billboards to buses (and perhaps even urinal cakes) and post-haste. Jason Kitchen: When Pondering Life's Greatest Questions, Look no Further Than Yahoo!
  • Perhaps we are not so dissimilar from germs and viruses. Times, Sunday Times
  • Perhaps ongoing sandstorms in the desert will provide time to reinforce overstretched supply lines (although they are also doing tremendous damage to the equipment of the coalition forces).
  • Perhaps some feline bureaucrat has concluded that the best answer is to let the proposal stagger on and collapse, hoping to kill it with kindness?
  • Wordsworth's theory was perhaps not enounced with perfect clearness.
  • Perhaps to quell a rebellion. A Plague of Angels
  • I have called draughtsmanship of this quality an inheritance -- I might have called it perhaps with better propriety a monument. First and Last
  • This gap is important in even-numbered years in order to accommodate the spectacle of the World Cup or the Summer Olympics, perhaps even the Commonwealth Games or the European Football championships.
  • Perhaps the most interesting piece illustrated is a brooch with a moonstone intaglio of Aurora within a diamond morning glory.
  • Perhaps your own ratiophobia and intolerance is at issue, eh? The Volokh Conspiracy » A Sad Victory for Thuggery in Texas
  • Still, it's a fine way to introduce kids to some great music, though perhaps not your youngest, as the modernization is a bit dark. Critic's Corner Wednesday
  • Perhaps the next thing he should try is to lighten up a bit. Times, Sunday Times
  • Perhaps if my unit had been able to capture that bomber on that fateful night, Dr. Appelbaum would have walked his daughter to the chuppa.
  • The orders Orthoptera and Hemiptera are particularly numerous; as likewise is the stinging division of the Hymenoptera; the bees, perhaps, being excepted. Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
  • You are quite likely to see seals and perhaps otters on this stretch. Times, Sunday Times
  • It could be a hypocoristic or baby-talk form of hysterical, or it might be from the imitative word hiss; or perhaps it is a variant of another dialect term, jesse, meaning a ` severe scolding, 'which is probably from a Biblical allusion. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 1
  • Perhaps no custom reveals our character as a Nation so clearly as our celebration of Thanksgiving Day. Ronald Reagan 
  • January 29th, 2010 at 9: 17 pm if the stickiest and least ameliorable environmental problems are jet air transportation, animal-based agriculture, and large detached single-family residences with large yards, then perhaps we should talk about “limits to jet air transportation, animal-based agriculture, and large detached single-family residences with large yards.” Matthew Yglesias » The Limits to Growth
  • Perhaps one could justify riches as the reward for the skill, diligence, foresight and cunning of the original creator.
  • Perhaps his nerve is naturally too dull to admit of any excitation.

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