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Mayhap

adverb
1.
By chance.  Synonyms: maybe, 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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"Mayhap" Quotes from Famous Books



... that. If I must go to the devil, it shall not be for nothing. But mayhap thou hadst a better a kept a ...
— The Adventures of Hugh Trevor • Thomas Holcroft

... suppose, or mayhap worse," he exclaimed as he threw on some miscellaneous garments and seized a life-preserver which hung upon a hook. "Now I'm ready, only I hope they have left their snakes behind. I never could bear the sight of a snake, and they ...
— The Ivory Child • H. Rider Haggard

... him. Presently, as Masetto went working one day after another, the nuns fell to plaguing him and making mock of him, as ofttimes it betideth that folk do with mutes, and bespoke him the naughtiest words in the world, thinking he understood them not; whereof the abbess, mayhap supposing him to be tailless as well as tongueless, recked little or nothing. It chanced one day, however, that, as he rested himself after a hard morning's work, two young nuns, who went about the garden,[153] drew near the place where he lay and fell to looking upon ...
— The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio • Giovanni Boccaccio

... landmarks, but youth hath such seasons until the carnal will is subdued. Then it will need to make no change in our living. Thy mother and I can grow old in this, the home of our youth, and see our children, and our children's children, mayhap, growing up, well trained in ...
— A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia • Amanda Minnie Douglas

... and I sat down looking at the dead bodies, and thinking to myself what creatures men were to deface God's image in that way, when I saw under a bush two little sharp eyes looking at me; at first, I thought it was some beast, a lynx, mayhap, as they now call them, and I pointed my rifle toward it; but before I pulled the trigger, I thought that perhaps I might be mistaken, so I walked up to the bush, and there I discovered that it was an Indian child, which had escaped the massacre by hiding itself in the bush. ...
— The Settlers in Canada • Frederick Marryat


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