Mayhap more; for he weighed me in the scales of his experience with all the care of gold, considering meanwhile to what uses I should be put, and how far I might be expected to advance his ends.
The phrasing would fall to be disreputable, and the story itself turn involved and to step on its own toes, and mayhap with the last of it to fall flat on its face, unable to proceed at all.
No one would care for them, drunken and mayhap garrulous, about the streets, until after the last spark of election interest had expired.
If ever prayers were said there they must have been parcel of some Black Sanctus; and if ever a Christian went there it was to be robbed and beaten, and then mayhap to have his throat cut for a lesson in silence.
He is going far, and mayhap will return no more, and I do not wish that he should think unkindly of me when I am dead.
Some mornings there was a little butter, or dripping, or mayhap bacon fat; but this morning he had to eat his bread dry.
Mayhap they had seen the insult and were laughing at it.
Mayhap faith will fail first, since it is not satisfied with blessings.
With which words of wisdom mayhap lightening his load of sins, the fat eunuch left the court once and for all.
We have friends on our side now, as thou mayst understand mayhap ere nightfall, when the answer comes.
Mayhap the Toorks are coming once more--Mai Dhunnoo said 'twas an old tale.
Mayhap he'd like to manage to have me bound, and himself go free?
Fish that are meat you'll there mayhap behold, Not die of famine, amid dreams of gold.
I rank thee aye with gods: And read this lesson to the afterdays, Mayhap they'll prize it: 'Honour is of Zeus.
Mayhap he did disguise his hand to guard him from the danger of its falling into other hands than Sir Frederick's.
This offence to him mayhap was not good policy, but methinks it had made but little difference even had I spoken in more gentle tone," said the Queen, addressing herself to me.
He should be permitted to come and tell his mother so, instead of resting as a prisoner, the which mayhap he is," I replied.
Mayhap it was the resounding shouts of victory of our now half-crazed army that did rend the heavy clouds; for one could scarce hear himself cheer, so loud were the shouts of gladness all around us.
Besides, he can do no harm, and mayhap your generosity will show him the evil of his acts, and he will then repent," and she stroked my cheek coaxingly.
But mayhap this house had become used to unholy men, during the wars of the white rose with the red.
Mayhap 'tis best that thou shouldst see him," said Mary.
Mayhap 'twas fortunate that the King had many messengers passing in and out of the city that night, or our exit had not been so easily accomplished.
WELL, to those who are disposed to glean philosophy from the mayhap less noticeable objects of this busy world, there are few sights more lovely than childhood.
This continued all the night, and I could not sleep a wink for thinking that mayhap the end of the world was at hand, and we were to be drowned by a second flood, despite the rainbow.
Ay, lad; andmayhap it bean't stove in; leastwise we'll go see.
Mayhap his father will be glad if he looks better.
Mayhap it will fit yours; God in His mercy send that both yours and mine come true!
Dennis, "you have something of a man about you, and mayhap what is good for you is good for me too.
And mayhap the Spaniards will land before we can get back to them, and then God help the poor fellows.
But mayhap I be surer footed on the plank, being a mariner of forty year.
The balance turns a little in favour of the Spaniards; by right proportion it should be two to eight; but mayhap four maroons on t'other scale would even the odds.
Meseems we be going down into the very bowels of the earth, or mayhap lower.
This is not the only service you have done me; the first was at Lindau,--mayhap you have forgotten it.
Then mayhap he would embrace her gently, like a real man, crushing her soft body to him, and love her, his ownest girlie, for herself alone.
Mayhap it was this, the love that might have been, that lent to her softlyfeatured face at whiles a look, tense with suppressed meaning, that imparted a strange yearning tendency to the beautiful eyes, a charm few could resist.
But, he further added, it is mayhap to relieve the pentup feelings that in common oppress them for I have more than once observed that birds of a feather laugh together.
And though my Meg here is mayhap no' sae well-favoured as the lassies over in Borthwick Water, or Teviotdale, I warrant there is not one of them who hath proved such a good daughter, or whose nature is so kind and generous.
He laughs the longest who laughs the last," he thought to himself, "and mayhap all men will envy me before long.
Mayhap thy thoughts have run on them so much of late, that the habit hath dimmed thine eyes.
A good many of us who hadn't enough religion, and a good many more of us who mayhap had too much religion, look rather contemptuously upon the methods of the Salvationists.
Mayhap some day a hostile shell descends out of a clear sky upon his battery; and then the men are mess and the guns are scrap and that is all there is to that small chapter of the great tale of the war.
I returned earlier than I had thought to do, led mayhap by some angel that sought to have me back in time.
Mayhap you have," she whispered in return, and then, marvelling at her boldness, blushed.
Mayhap some one had perished there while endeavoring to bribe the jailor to release a prisoned friend.
Mayhap the anchors would hold; but on their lives they would take no risks.
Just throw yourself round on this wet ground a bit more an' mayhap He'll take away the voice He's given ye already!
If so, mayhapthe common-sense of the situation will appeal to you, though I don't know.
You rob me first, and now you would come preaching and whining, in search mayhap of another field or two for your priestly friends.
Or mayhap they have come to the mouth of the gorge, and are marshalling their ranks.
Mayhap he had cause to be bitter against me, for his land was given to the abbey for my upbringing.
Mayhap while he imparts to me the nice customs of the court, he will in turn learn of me something he wots not of.
Mayhap he can suggest a remedy, for well doth he ken Elizabeth's humors.
Mayhap not," answered the boy regarding the tower with anxious eyes.
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