Perhaps

Examples

• Perhaps you had better go after my friends at once, because the weather is warm, and I can not 'keep' long. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• He perhaps knows more of Mr. Rochester than you do. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The letter, perhaps, began in bitterness, but it did not end so. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• You know, I'm a stranger here, so perhaps I'm not so quick at understanding what you mean as if I'd lived all my life at Milton. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Perhaps if it was, your little mercenary wretch of a daughter wouldn't make so free with it! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The most important of all modern improvements on the bicycle was perhaps the pneumatic tire. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Oh, bring him by all means, she said smiling; perhaps I can get a tip out of him on my own account. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• But perhaps I ought to do so. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Perhaps, when my back was turned, he did call her in? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Perhaps some would say she was very handsome. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Perhaps you will take Mr. Pickwick away,' said the Serjeant, 'and--and- -and--hear anything Mr. Pickwick may wish to communicate. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• He would try to write it and if he had luck and could remember it perhaps he could get it down as she told it. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Perhaps more than anyone else, the Fabians are responsible for turning English socialist thought from the verbalism of the Marxian disciples to the actualities of English political life. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Perhaps I had better say, that you must submit to be mildly bored rather than to go on working. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• We compromise her safety, perhaps, by staying here. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Pray for me, Eliza; perhaps the good Lord will hear _you_. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• It is perhaps natural for a European writer writing primarily for English-reading students to overrun his subject in this way. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• If you will, for once in your life, remember that you are mortal, perhaps you will thoroughly understand him too. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Perhaps I speak with some little partiality. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• It is fortunate, for you will perhaps be able to post me up. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Perhaps I would make a settlement on her, said Esterhazy; but mind, she must be very young, very fair, and almost innocent. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• But perhaps the world will doubt the existence of such an artiSt. What will they doubt? Plato. The Republic.
• Perhaps they did, but it is of infinitely greater importance to mention that at this point also I lost my patience, opened my eyes, and interfered. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Perhaps we do,' said Mortimer, laughing also. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• But some sense that perhaps the economic man is not a self-evident creature seems to have touched our author. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Perhaps he did, having just left a pleasant little smoking-party of twelve medical students, in a small back parlour with a large fire. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Nothing has more individuality, save perhaps watches and bootlaces. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• I cannot precisely define what they expected, but it was something pleasant: not perhaps that day or that month, but at an indefinite future period. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• When I became Joe's 'prentice, Orlick was perhaps confirmed in some suspicion that I should displace him; howbeit, he liked me still less. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• I foresee trouble for that girl--perhaps want of motherly care--and I only wish you to be ready to be a friend to her, in case she needs one. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.

Editor: Margie