mayhap

How To Use mayhap In A Sentence

• I would like your temperate drinker to pause, and reflect upon the fact, that the quantity of brandy or rum that he took at a drink, when he commenced this downhill course, has been gradually increased; so that in the second year, what had been quite sufficient to please his palate and produce all the desired effects in the first, was then insipidly small; and more so in the third year, if, mayhap, he could with any decency lay claim to the title of _temperate drinker_ so long. Select Temperance Tracts
• Mayhap you're right, mayhap there's more to be gained by keeping this whelp alive. HERE BE DRAGONS
• If I could threaten the fellow, mayhap I could get it back for you...' `A mere bagatelle...' Cibber was shilly-shallying. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
• There's dust on the road to the east, mayhap a kay east of the town. Ordermaster
• Tis a "Lower The Boom" drink is the Mickey Finn, not a pirate... mayhap thou didst gulp it down the evening last before thou didst crawled to thine bunk? Fire Chief "Resigns" And Becomes Cartoon Du Jour
• And yet I remember that at that early age -- mayhap under fourteen -- notwithstanding, and through all its incidental attractiveness, he hazarded the opinion to me (and the expression riveted my surprise), that there was feebleness in the structure of the work. Stories of Authors, British and American
• With the Old Red Sandstone the ganoids were ushered upon the scene in amazing abundance; and for untold ages, comprising mayhap millions of years, the entire ichthyic class consisted, so far as is yet known, of but these two orders. The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed
• If you should choose to lay out a trifle of twenty pieces upon their comfort, I shall see that their food is such as mayhap many of them never got at their own tables. Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734
• If she were well and truly contrite, mayhap the Almighty might show mercy, let hers remain one of Will's secret sins. HERE BE DRAGONS
• It could have been a streak of luck, or, mayhap, something more that caused such a strange happening, but everyone will be glad that everything will be set in the right way.