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Maybe   /mˈeɪbi/   Listen
Maybe

adverb
1.
By chance.  Synonyms: mayhap, peradventure, perchance, perhaps, possibly.  "We may possibly run into them at the concert" , "It may peradventure be thought that there never was such a time"






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"Maybe" Quotes from Famous Books



... down and interview our friend Sambo," said Harry. "He has been growing communicative lately. Yesterday he deigned to say 'Yas, sah.' Maybe we can coax something ...
— A Voyage with Captain Dynamite • Charles Edward Rich

... go around—'ceptin' this one, maybe," said Russ. "And this is only a make-believe wheel. It's the nearest like a steamboat paddle-wheel I could find," and he gave the footstool a little kick. "But all kinds of wheels go ...
— Six Little Bunkers at Grandma Bell's • Laura Lee Hope

... and fumes for a whole year to write a symphony in G minor. He puts enormous diligence into it, and much talent, and maybe no little downright genius. It draws his blood and wrings his soul. He dies in it that he may live again.... Nevertheless, its final value, in the open market of the world, is a great deal less than that of a fur overcoat, half a Rolls-Royce automobile, ...
— Damn! - A Book of Calumny • Henry Louis Mencken

... him hanged at last—it is improbable: no record or even tradition of it remains. Rabelais thought him a wanderer in England. Poitou preserves a story of his later passage through her fields, of how still he drank and sang with boon companions, and of how, again, he killed a man.... Maybe, he only ceased to write; took to teaching soberly in the University, and lived in a decent inheritance to see new splendours growing upon Europe. It may very well be, for it is in such characters to desire in early manhood decency, honour, and repose. ...
— Avril - Being Essays on the Poetry of the French Renaissance • H. Belloc

... all remain undiscovered, or at any rate would perhaps never be laid to his charge. What proof was there against him? Had he not been summoned to Venice? Who could say that he went thither as a fugitive from justice? The coachman maybe, who had waited for him half the night. One or two additional gold pieces ...
— Casanova's Homecoming • Arthur Schnitzler


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