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Example sentences for "perhaps not"

  • And yet she did feel that it would be--perhaps not sacrilege, as Lucy had said, but something almost as troublesome.

  • Let him take care lest hardly a crust remain--or perhaps not a crust.

  • Perhaps not as much as you ought to do--on yourself.

  • Perhaps not, but I am not sure that that is my business.

  • Perhaps not," I replied, "for it is characteristic of such people to make no hypothesis at all, but to adopt for the moment any view suggested by the state of their spirits.

  • Perhaps not" "Well then, in that case we have to fall back upon the other alternative, and say that by the Good of the species we mean that of the ultimately selected individuals.

  • Perhaps not," said the cleric, drily; "but what if a general has only a sort of savage army at his call?

  • If, instead of being on his way to rejoin a mistress, he had been going home to a wife, he would not have felt a particle more of spiritual satisfaction, perhaps not so much.

  • Gyp said: "Perhaps not; but it is something when it makes others miserable.

  • Presently, all would blow away just like a cloud, and she would love and be gay, until something fresh, perhaps not at all meant to hurt her, would again hurt her horribly.

  • I still think I shall take a Tauchnitz Sophocles with me to Sea, once more to read the two OEdipuses, and Philoctetes; perhaps more carefully than before; perhaps not!

  • It has been the fashion of late to scoff at Seneca; whom such men as Bacon and Montaigne quoted: perhaps not Seneca's own, but cribbed from some Greek which would have been admired by those who scoff at the Latin.

  • But I am perhaps not a proper Judge of these high matters.

  • Perhaps not, dear father," replied Amos gently; "but some funny words have a very sharp edge to them.

  • She could talk no more, and they bade each other good-bye; perhaps not quite so enthusiastically as they might have done a week ago, but still with much affection.

  • Perhaps not; but there is in you a spiritual sense that may even transcend knowledge.

  • I cannot tell; perhaps I shall go; perhaps not at all.

  • Percy at intervals, as he continued his hurried pace, without heeding, perhaps not hearing, Herbert's persuasive accents.

  • She no more loves the Viscount than I do; perhaps not so much.

  • I have always intended, and still intend, to vote supplies; perhaps not in the precise form recommended by the President, but in a better form for all purposes, except Locofoco party purposes.

  • I agree with Judge Douglas he is not my equal in many respects, certainly not in color, perhaps not in moral or intellectual endowment.

  • So it did with me, too, perhaps not quite so hard as you may have supposed.

  • Certainly the negro is not our equal in color, perhaps not in many other respects; still, in the right to put into his mouth the bread that his own hands have earned, he is the equal of every other man, white or black.

  • To you, perhaps not, but there, where I was born, oh!

  • Perhaps not," she replied, "but I am certain he hates him.

  • Perhaps there will be blood, perhaps not-- perhaps only an end.

  • Small literary interest attaches to the play, which is equally slight and ill constructed, but is perhaps not unrepresentative of its class.

  • I give the resemblances for what they are worth, which is perhaps not much; it is unlikely that Fletcher should have been acquainted with any of the plays in question, though of course not impossible.

  • The reason is perhaps not far to seek, since, being in the vulgar tongue, they appealed to a wider and less learned audience, before whom it might have been injudicious to utter too strong an opinion on questions of church and state.

  • Perhaps not; but, to a hunter, a rifle is no trifling loss, and I could not make up my mind to lose mine.

  • Perhaps not; unless they should smell it.

  • Perhaps not so manly as robbing the dead and dying," said Hugh Ritson, and his voice was deep and cold.

  • Well, no, perhaps not; only get off--and quick!

  • Perhaps soon, perhaps late; perhaps not until a darkness deeper than this should cover the land.

  • Perhaps not," returned Stalker; "but are there not such things as disguises?


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    are not; careful examination; desiring them; distant point; furnished room; having their; male heir; more perfect; must see; need not; other wise; perhaps also; perhaps because; perhaps better; perhaps even; perhaps from; perhaps half; perhaps more; perhaps only; perhaps rather; perhaps the; quarter ounce; said huskily; this branch; three pence; your good