One might, perhaps add, as 4: that the memory-image is most conformable to the actual one.
Now, once these with their retrospective tendencies are given, the recollection of any contemporary event increases, as one might say, spontaneously.
I confess that I am harassed with the incomplete romances, that leave me, when the book is closed, as one might be on a waste plain at midnight, abandoned by his conductor, and without a lantern.
This statement is not made boastfully, but simply as a market quotation, as one might say.
One might as well wear second-hand clothing as get a second-hand letter.
If indeed we had our rights, one might do something; but I don't know; I dare say if I had our land again, I should be as bad as the rest.
One might as well live in Suffolk, where the immigrants come from, and where they are obliged to burn ricks to pass the time.
One might as well have a jesuit in the house at once.
If one might venture to use such a word in reference to such a man, we might remark, that the duke had been somewhat daunted by the selection of Mr Canning.
Her youthful French governess Mademoiselle de Seilles was also peculiarly enigmatic at the mouth conversant, one might expect, with the disintegrating literature of her country.
One might as well have been named Morkin for all the covert it afforded!
One might just as well introduce one of these rocks into that jolly dark church where he had left her the other day, as put a cross up here.
A Forsyte takes a practical--one might say a commonsense--view of things, and a practical view of things is based fundamentally on a sense of property.
One might as well ask some wretched prisoner to break off the fetters that bound him, as to expect Leah Jacobi to walk out of that house of bondage a free woman.
He is very strong; one might as well try to open an oyster with one's nails as to find out anything Malcolm Herrick wishes to hide.
One might as well watch the effort of a small hairy caterpillar to follow in the wake of a sea-serpent.
Perhaps in two or three days if George continued to progress, one might go off with Noel somewhere for one's last week.
One might add, be doubtful of your policy and repress your temper: it would be to suppose you wise.
Amongst the Greek fathers, one might be unusually learned, as Clement of Alexandria; and another might be reputed unusually eloquent, as Gregory Nazianzen, or Basil.
One might as well put his hand in the fire and not expect it to burn him, as to get very warm and then cool off suddenly and not expect to be ill.
Poor rash, impulsive Zell saw it, and could not endure the slow, remorseless pressure, as one might be driven over a precipice, and one she loved seemed to stand ready to break the fall.
As the sun declined in the west, she went out and stood beside them, as one might by a dying friend.
He had but yesterday, as one might say, subsided into private life from the celebrity of the elopement and the events that followed it; and now he was made a more important man than ever, by the bankruptcy.
Mrs Skewton's world was not a very trying one, if one might judge of it by the influence of its most affecting circumstance upon her; but this by the way.
Here are a number of questions to which there are no answers and which are nevertheless perhaps not so idle as one might at first believe.
Caution and conflicting doubts, "fears within and foes without," were not so unreasonable asone might fancy, coming out of any British port.
The tragedies of Shakespeare are devoid, one might say, or at least comparatively devoid, of all preconceptions.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "one might" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
