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Example sentences for "she might"

  • Madame de Cintre blushed a little and seemed to say that if begging his pardon in words was impudent, she might at least thus mutely express her perfect comprehension of his finding her conduct odious.

  • She might talk to her to very good purpose.

  • But I am very fastidious; she might not at all.

  • She, Lady de Courcy, could doubtless help him; she might probably be able to fit him with a wife who would bring her money onto his birth.

  • She might surely as well be called feudal England, or chivalrous England.

  • During his prison days his wife had to support herself as she might.

  • Was he to make her over, to make any portion of her over to others, if, by doing so, she might be able to share the wealth, as well as the coarse manners and uncouth society of her at present unknown connexions?

  • If Beatrice invited me to her wedding, she might manage as to that; I should ask no question as to Lady Arabella.

  • Her object was to get one of the envelopes lying on the secretary's table, stamped with the die of the Institute; and in order to get it she was about to ask if she might write a note.

  • After making her payment, and looking at a few of the drawings on the walls, in the company of three gentlemen, the only other visitors to the exhibition, she turned back and asked if she might be allowed to see a list of the members.

  • She might object, remonstrate, shed tears, talk of his being too old, and plead that her life would be rendered miserable.

  • She might, by this time, have become impressed with the sinfulness of long indulgence in unavailing woe, or the necessity of setting a proper example of neatness and decorum to her blooming daughter.

  • When they came near the castle where the brothers were to meet, the Princess got into a chair carried by four of the guards; it was hewn out of one splendid crystal, and had silken curtains, which she drew round her that she might not be seen.

  • She entered it and asked if she might be allowed to stay there.

  • Mr. Crawford desired that might not be thought of: he was very sure his sister had no wish of acting but as she might be useful, and that she would not allow herself to be considered in the present case.

  • She might have to endure the reproach again and again; she might hear it, or see it, or know it to exist for ever in every connexion about her.

  • She alone was sad and insignificant: she had no share in anything; she might go or stay; she might be in the midst of their noise, or retreat from it to the solitude of the East room, without being seen or missed.

  • She humbled herself much among them and crouched on the ground and made semblant as though she would have cried them mercy, and gat herself as nigh the cross as she might.

  • The story saith that the damsel went her way toward her mother's castle as straight as she might, but sore dismayed was she of the Voice that had told her she might not be succoured save of her brother alone.

  • And Messire Gawain cometh to meet her and saluteth her, and she returned the salute as fairly as she might.

  • Mrs. Hudson had evidently armed herself with dignity, and, so far as she might, she meant to be impressive.

  • She might do--she may do--something that would make even more starers!

  • She might be grave by nature, she might be sad by circumstance, she might have secret doubts and pangs, but she was essentially young and strong and fresh and able to enjoy.

  • She might be coming in at any minute now.

  • They seemed to exist now only in so far as she might come to see them--come and sit in such a chair, and drink out of such a cup, and let him put this cushion for her back, and that footstool for her feet.

  • So long as she feels you're there, waiting, she might turn to you at any moment.

  • Nevertheless, suffer as she might, she was as resolute as ever; she would not move by a hair's breadth from the course that a supreme obligation marked out for her; she would be faithful to the end.

  • At any rate, one thing was certain: she might be Albert's wife, but she would always be Queen of England.

  • She might think it was contrived, in case of the worse, to convey to him the means of anticipating the sentence.

  • Otherwise, she might think 'his life was want only thrown away or wasted,' and that might trouble her.

  • She might think a thousand things," Carton said, "and any of them would only add to her trouble.

  • She might come to live with us, Dora could have a room to herself as she always wants, and Ada and I could share a room.

  • There is a girl in the Sixth who looks quite old, as if she might be 24, and "our" lieutenant offered her a rose too.

  • At last Dora has said something to me about Viktor, but she spoke very coldly; there must be something up; she might just as well tell me; she really ought to seeing all that I've done.

  • I'm sure it can't be true that she has such a name, she might be called Eugenie or Seraphine or Laura, but Anastasia, impossible.

  • She might easily, when the crown devolved on her, induce her Parliament not only to give the regal title to her husband, but even to transfer to him by a legislative act the administration of the government.

  • She might, if such were her pleasure, make her husband her first minister, and might even, with the consent of Parliament, bestow on him the title of King.

  • Another party was for placing the Princess on the throne, and for giving to him, during her life, the title of King, and such a share in the administration as she might be pleased to allow him.

  • She might well be struck with surprise and dismay.

  • This was a slave and a queen, a queen who would fain obey that she might reign.

  • She might, indeed, inclose her letters to their several postmasters.

  • She might as well take all her dresses, and it was no harm if one had too many wraps.

  • She might, without a sign of sin, love a man of her choice as well now as if she were chained up to no other at all.

  • There lay the sting of it: the Countess seemed the soul of honour and fairness in this matter, test her as she might.

  • Try as she might, and dangerous as she assumed the acquaintanceship to be, Lady Mottisfont could detect no fault or flaw in her new friend.


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