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mayhap

[mey-hap, mey-hap] / ˌmeɪˈhæp, ˈmeɪˌhæp /


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Indeed, mayhap many of them have much to give?

From Nature • Dec. 15, 2015

I have longge bin of a mynde that Holly Woode mayhap shold tayke a powddre .

From Time Magazine Archive

If citizens are frugal they will have their garbage collected until Ground Hog Day, and if they are abstemious they may have water until Lincoln's Birthday, mayhap until Washington's.

From Time Magazine Archive

As the Pope named these four, each cardinal present rose in his place, lifted his scarlet biretta as sign of agreement or mayhap retained it in firm objection.

From Time Magazine Archive

The conjurer winked at the big, rough, red-hair white man and said, “If he can do that, he must have an unusually keen eye. Could he, mayhap, demonstrate his skill some other way?”

From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis




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