To sleep, perchance to dream. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Shrewsbury, and if I told my name perchance it might travel back, and I was in no mind to have my mischances retailed in the town. From Wordnik.com. [Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow] Reference
Obsolete has been keeping an eye on Alisher Usmanov Parental Guidance, unless Schillings have perchance added a short word beginning in c to their name?. From Wordnik.com. [Uzbecki Oligarchiosi: Creosotemanov Still Bullocking] Reference
I am a man of the people, a man who acts, -- I was, I mean, -- not a man who thinks; and all your subtleties of word perchance entrap me. From Wordnik.com. [Dark Ways] Reference
That 'perchance' is good, considering my riding misadventure in County. From Wordnik.com. [The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent] Reference
He hears me not; my voice, perchance, is thin. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 2 - Part I] Reference
He hears me not — my voice, perchance, is thin. From Wordnik.com. [A Review of 'Alroy'] Reference
That 'perchance' is good, considering my riding misadventure in County Cork, of which I gave an account earlier. From Wordnik.com. [The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent]
And Robert was left with thoughts such as perchance might render him a more tractable subordinate for Mr. Parsons, instead of getting into training for the Order of St. Dominic. From Wordnik.com. [Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster] Reference
Is your surname perchance Greatrex?. From Wordnik.com. [Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I...] Reference
And if, perchance, at times it sounds a little strange. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Hanging Fork and Other Poems] Reference
I might perchance discover the body of my old Superior. From Wordnik.com. [Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal] Reference
Let us question them and find if they'll perchance declare. From Wordnik.com. [Lysistrata] Reference
This may have its uses perchance, but it is nevertheless despicable. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
But the care of thine honour and reputation will perchance distract thee?. From Wordnik.com. [Meditations] Reference
'Yes, yes; it is well, perchance, that thou shouldst bridle in my tongue. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
Did I perchance leave a bear costume in the back seat of your Duesenberg?. From Wordnik.com. [A Selection From Einstein's Letters] Reference
Let me be the first, or perchance the only one, to wish you "Happy Birthday!". From Wordnik.com. [Gahl Eden Sasson: Rosh Hashanah: Why It's Your Real Birthday] Reference
When thou art there, perchance thou wilt be believed, if doubt believes in death. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
I've completely forgotten what we were here for — ah yes, to sleep, to sleep, perchance to dream. From Wordnik.com. [Ode To Poetry Slams] Reference
They that go to heaven must run for it, because, perchance, the gates of heaven may be shut shortly. From Wordnik.com. [The Riches of Bunyan] Reference
I have, perchance, lived long enough, and it would be well to pass where I may serve the gods only. '. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
If, when yarn we are winding, It chances to tangle, then, as perchance you may know, through the skein. From Wordnik.com. [Lysistrata] Reference
He thought deeply for a week, perchance he prayed, for he knew that she was praying from the depths of her soul. From Wordnik.com. [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference
Did we, somehow, perchance (and there I go again with the high level of diction, with the elevated lexicon), score?. From Wordnik.com. [make up] Reference
Instead, she was warned to keep her dress clean and rather sharply reprimanded if, perchance, dress or apron was torn. From Wordnik.com. [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference
'Sleepest thou, or art thou thinking of thy far-away Sidon, or perchance peering into the future to divine thy fortune?. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
He discerned the Cuban's purpose; the man meant to take the girl to Cuba, perchance, to make her his wife, and why not?. From Wordnik.com. [The Dock Rats of New York] Reference
I might, perchance, escape it for that time, but what assurance had I that I was not ultimately destined to such an end?. From Wordnik.com. [Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal] Reference
In his folly he had hailed himself king of her affections when perchance it was but the kindliness of her womanly heart. From Wordnik.com. [The Maid of the Whispering Hills] Reference
But if perchance he by some impossibility reappeared and threatened your happiness, I would myself -- you understand, me?. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Does not grief, after all, call forth enough tears for us to forgive joy the solitary one she perchance causes us to shed!. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
'Nay but,' will some reply perchance, 'this very thing a rational man is bound unto, to understand what it is, that he doeth.'. From Wordnik.com. [Meditations] Reference
But thou wilt say perchance, 'In those things the Gods have given me my liberty: and it is in mine own power to do what I will.'. From Wordnik.com. [Meditations] Reference
It may perchance be thought by some persons that the foregoing narrative contains many things too absurd and childish for belief. From Wordnik.com. [Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal] Reference
'As often as a father kisseth his child, he should say secretly with himself' (said Epictetus,) 'tomorrow perchance shall he die.'. From Wordnik.com. [Meditations] Reference
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