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Perchance   /pərtʃˈæns/   Listen
Perchance

adverb
1.
Through chance,.  Synonym: by chance.
2.
By chance.  Synonyms: maybe, mayhap, peradventure, 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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"Perchance" Quotes from Famous Books



... matrons, has just passed into the great beyond. Many of those of our own age, the special attraction of the returning "boys," have also gone, but a goodly number still remain. They will recall this picture with not a little interest, I am sure. If perchance cheeks should be wet and spectacles moistened as they read, it will be but a reproduction of the emotions of that beautiful day more than forty years ago. No soldier boys ever received a more joyous or hearty welcome. The bountiful repast was ...
— War from the Inside • Frederick L. (Frederick Lyman) Hitchcock

... Perchance a loftier fate Removed thy radiance from our feeble sight. Did HE, whose Spirit wills but to create, Far upward urge thy flight From this low fraction of expiring time, To realms where ages roll, ...
— Indian Legends and Other Poems • Mary Gardiner Horsford

... brain had fathomed the theory of effectual relation between the crime and the punishment. Her ideal Gehenna would be made up of countless little assorted hells, not of one vast and indiscriminate lake of flaming brimstone. Perchance this very fact had its own due share of influence upon the later theology ...
— The Brentons • Anna Chapin Ray

... popular Song supplants; TO-MORROW'S will be even worse, perchance: Drink! For the latest Coon-Song's floating by: Drink! Now the music is ...
— The Rubaiyat of Omar Cayenne • Gelett Burgess

... true,' said I, 'that they are so irascible, that if perchance their word is doubted, and they are called liars, they will fight on such an ...
— The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan • James Morier


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