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Example sentences for "might not"

  • Thorpe did not know that he might not go to town on Tuesday.

  • The last time we met was in Bath Street, and I turned directly into a shop that he might not speak to me; I would not even look at him.

  • I will well, said Arthur, for I see your deeds full actual; nevertheless, I might not come at you at that time.

  • And ever she made Merlin good cheer till she had learned of him all manner thing that she desired; and he was assotted upon her, that he might not be from her.

  • So Merlin bade a knight that stood afore him handle that sword, and he assayed, and he might not handle it.

  • But it was the Argumentum ad hominem; and if my uncle Toby was not very expert at it, you may think, he might not care to use it.

  • How far the cause of all these vexations might, or might not, have arisen out of himself.

  • She could easily conceive that marriage might not be immediately in their power; for though Willoughby was independent, there was no reason to believe him rich.

  • I asked him why, for I feared that he, being a foreigner, might not be quite aware of English legal requirements, and so might in ignorance make some unnecessary trouble.

  • I asked to explain more fully, so that I might not by any chance mislead him, so he said, "I shall illustrate.

  • I would have taken him with me to see the patient, only I thought that after his last repulse he might not care to go again.

  • He bowed and settled himself in a chair with his back to the light, and became so absorbed in the papers, whilst I went to see after lunch chiefly in order that he might not be disturbed.

  • The Professor carefully tried the lock, lest we might not be able to open it from within should we be in a hurry making our exit.

  • We so judge others by ourselves, that it had never come into his head before, that he might not buy us up, and might prove honest, and prefer to be poor.

  • I should lose almost all the value that I put upon the little learning I have, which is all owing to him, and which I conquered the difficulties of, that he might not think it thrown away upon me.

  • Out of such remembrances I brought into the light of the fire a half-formed terror that it might not be safe to be shut up there with him in the dead of the wild solitary night.

  • We shut our outer door on these solemn occasions, in order that we might not be interrupted.

  • Then wee put in into the Beares skin, which him finely in every point, wee buckled it fast under his belly, and covered the seam with the haire, that it might not be seen.

  • The woman came no sooner to get information of the fact, but, that it might not go unpunished, she caused kill them both, to revenge the death of her first son.

  • Turjun put himself in the path of Vas Kor that he might not be overlooked.

  • Carthoris, too, loyal son of Helium that he was, felt that even his beloved navy might not be able to cope successfully with the combined forces of three great powers.

  • To escape the Dusarians might prove an easy matter; and then again it might not.

  • If I might not see my friends, however, at least I saw my foe, for one evening de Garcia came and stared at my prison.

  • A casual and indiscriminating observer, in passing, might not cast a second glance upon the figure.

  • He had certain recollections of racing in what he called "the good old times" when the Lecompte stables flourished, and he drew upon this fund of memories so that he might not be left out and seem wholly devoid of the modern spirit.

  • I thought I would come back later with my prize gained and throwing it at her feet ask her wisdom in return, for whatever I might not know I knew well she was wiser than I except in that one shining of the light from Eleusis.

  • It would be hard if because we are man and woman I might not do one act of friendship for you before we part.

  • But always she was a sweetness that I could not reach, a cup of nectar that I might not drink, unalterably her own and never mine, and yet--my friend.

  • If any lady has formed a dream in her soul of the Ideal Man, might not such a picture aid us all?

  • Better not try to draw anything--it might not be healthy.

  • Still, it might not be a bad idea to ascend some of these peaks.

  • Though Douglas was at war with the Administration, it was not certain that the quarrel might not be made up.

  • Those States which had been defeated in the dread arbitrament of battle, would in any event encounter difficulties, even deadly perils, in the narrow way which must come after defeat and which might or might not lead to rehabilitation.


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