peradventure
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Comanche Ruler returned $15.40 and $6 at 29-1 odds, while Peradventure was another three-quarters of a length back in third and paid $6.20 to show.
From Washington Times • Oct. 3, 2014
Peradventure, some of the enormous oaks by which it was surrounded had sprung in but few removes from the acorns of the trees which shaded the courtier of Nero.
From Rule of the Monk or, Rome in the Nineteenth Century by Garibaldi, Giuseppe
Peradventure some of them have many ancestors in common with him, and we ourselves are only removed by a few forbears from his line of descent, in which we accompany him back to Adam.
From A Literary History of the Arabs by Nicholson, Reynold
Peradventure, p. 181my husband will accompany you; and if so, you will find him highly useful.
From The Bible in Spain - Vol. 2 [of 2] by Borrow, George Henry
Peradventure Sir Hugh is dead: great Heaven, perhaps executed on the scaffold!
From William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale by Curling, Henry