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Maybe   /mˈeɪbi/   Listen
Maybe

adverb
1.
By chance.  Synonyms: mayhap, peradventure, perchance, perhaps, possibly.  "We may possibly run into them at the concert" , "It may peradventure be thought that there never was such a time"






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"Maybe" Quotes from Famous Books



... ship he stop outside. Wind he no blow. Plenty fella kanaka we get 'm canoe, plenty fella canoe, we go catch 'm that fella ship. My word—we catch 'm big fella fight. Two, three white men shoot like hell. We no fright. We come alongside, we go up side, plenty fella, maybe I think fifty-ten (five hundred). One fella white Mary (woman) belong that fella ship. Never before I see 'm white Mary. Bime by plenty white man finish. One fella skipper he no die. Five fella, six fella ...
— South Sea Tales • Jack London

... Bawly's papa was at work in the wallpaper factory and his mamma had gone to the five and ten cent store to buy a new dishpan that didn't have a hole in it. As for the other frog boy, Bawly's brother Bully, he had gone after an ice cream cone, I think, or maybe a chocolate candy. ...
— Bully and Bawly No-Tail • Howard R. Garis

... sailor, "and glad I allus was to help him. Maybe we are going to have a blow to-night, and if it comes so much the better. It'll make it cooler for the poor lad, for it's hot enough now. Yes, we're in for a hurricane, my lads, as sure as ...
— King o' the Beach - A Tropic Tale • George Manville Fenn

... for mother to keep on good terms with her, if she can," she thought. "Maybe it'll help divert a little of Mrs. White's temper ...
— Mercy Philbrick's Choice • Helen Hunt Jackson

... were assured of his approbation, and when Caesar was killed he deliberately claimed for himself a share of the guilt, if guilt there could be in what he regarded as the most glorious achievement in human history,[9] It maybe assumed, therefore, that Cicero's views upon the subject had remained unchanged since the beginning of the Civil War, and that his sentiments were no secret among his ...
— Caesar: A Sketch • James Anthony Froude


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