Betrayed by a word haply overheard. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
S: Then speak to him a gentle word haply he may mind or fear. From Wordnik.com. [Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side] Reference
Oh, the miserable and calamitous spectacle! such as haply the world had not seen the like since the foundation of it, nor be outdone till the universal conflagration. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 12] Reference
Oh, the miserable and calamitous spectacle, such as haply the world had not seene the like since the foundation of it, nor be outdone till the universal conflagration of it. From Wordnik.com. [Old St. Paul's Cathedral] Reference
Which Death's long trance of slumber haply dreams. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet"] Reference
Where, haply, some reaper has passed on with singing. From Wordnik.com. [Poems of the Heart and Home] Reference
This too sometime we shall haply remember with delight. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference
"Consider, O King, for haply this thing is from the gods.". From Wordnik.com. [Famous Tales of Fact and Fancy Myths and Legends of the Nations of the World Retold for Boys and Girls] Reference
For those who haply lay at rest beyond the distant sea, 125. From Wordnik.com. [The Ontario High School Reader] Reference
She steals more gently along, that she may haply surprise a vision. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858] Reference
I advance from the harbour, leaving the fleet ashore; just when haply. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference
Libya to its limits, if haply he strays shipwrecked in forest or town. '. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference
Thence I pass on home, if haply her feet (if haply!) had led her thither. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference
Then haply in the tract of heaven tressed Apollo sate looking down from his cloud on the. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference
"Believers! bow down with worship your Lord and work righteousness, haply ye may prosper.". From Wordnik.com. [A Critical Exposition of the Popular 'Jihád' Showing that all the Wars of Mohammad Were Defensive; and that Aggressive War, or Compulsory Conversion, is not Allowed in The Koran - 1885] Reference
For if haply he err at all in his decrees, for that day they keep him shut up in starvation. From Wordnik.com. [The Argonautica] Reference
And I rule the shore if haply in your distant land you have ever heard of Eurypylus, born in. From Wordnik.com. [The Argonautica] Reference
The eager audience turned towards Angus, awaiting his reply, if haply reply could be provided. From Wordnik.com. [St. Cuthbert's] Reference
Men who had lost wives or children now set out in search, if haply they might find and claim them. From Wordnik.com. [A Critical Exposition of the Popular 'Jihád' Showing that all the Wars of Mohammad Were Defensive; and that Aggressive War, or Compulsory Conversion, is not Allowed in The Koran - 1885] Reference
Give her wounds water: I will bathe them and catch on my lips the last breath that haply yet lingers. '. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference
The gloom of the despondency expressed in the lines is certainly Byronian -- and haply "something more.". From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845] Reference
I asked our driver how they survived the winter (if haply they escaped the fowler) in these high latitudes?. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
But I fear lest he to whom I shall give it shall haply take no account of it when he is returned to the land. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Tales of Fact and Fancy Myths and Legends of the Nations of the World Retold for Boys and Girls] Reference
Of them will they even haply claim vengeance for my flight, and wash away this crime in their wretched death. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference
The spear flies on; where haply stood opposite in ninefold brotherhood all the beautiful sons of one faithful. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference
Surely there are armed men in this mighty horse; or haply they have made it that they may look down upon our walls. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Tales of Fact and Fancy Myths and Legends of the Nations of the World Retold for Boys and Girls] Reference
But she arose and stood before me, her eyes searching my pallid face for a verdict, if haply it might be like her own. From Wordnik.com. [St. Cuthbert's] Reference
If, haply, they were to be swept away, all means of retreat would be cut off, and a repulse would amount to annihilation. From Wordnik.com. [Three Years in the Sixth Corps A Concise Narrative of Events in the Army of the Potomac, from 1861 to the Close of the Rebellion, April, 1865] Reference
Scarcely had he said thus, when twin doves haply came flying down the sky, and lit on the green sod right under his eyes. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference
Long in truth we endured it, if haply again, though late, they might change their purpose, but ever the bitter woe grew, twofold. From Wordnik.com. [The Argonautica] Reference
I burst my bonds and fled and hid myself in the sedges of a pool, waiting till they should have set sail, if haply that might be. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Tales of Fact and Fancy Myths and Legends of the Nations of the World Retold for Boys and Girls] Reference
Such a person, we feel, is to be avoided or haply, if we be saints, to be saved from himself; but not to be accepted and understood. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of Aesthetics] Reference
British there, which haply they were not, but I saw Americans on the heights west of the Brunx who had arrived there after I passed up. From Wordnik.com. [The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn] Reference
I stood, dripping with noise, fearful lest the tide might rush in again, and looking about for my hat, if haply it might have been cast up upon the beach. From Wordnik.com. [St. Cuthbert's] Reference
Tyrrheus cheers on his array, panting hard, with his axe caught up in his hand, as he was haply splitting an oaken log in four clefts with cross-driven wedges. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference
Us, as from ancient Troy (if the name of Troy hath haply passed through your ears) we sailed over alien seas, the tempest at his own wild will hath driven on the Libyan coast. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference
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