that may not be; In Amadine rests my felicity.

It is two years since the famine began, and yet been five years to come in which men may not ear, sow, ne reap.

Whether the science of the future may not supply some decentralizing agency, which shall reverse the centralizing force of modern industry, is not a wholly frivolous speculation to suggest.

That I may not in blindness grope, But that I may with vision clear Know when to speak a word of hope Or add a little wholesome cheer.

The poet is merely appealing to a mood, familiar to all of us, in which we wonder whether there may not be more things in heaven and earth than are crystallized in our scientific formulas.

I will not ask by what wonderful power you continue to torment his life; I will not even doubt that you pity while you afflict him; but I ask you to reflect whether the selfishness of your sorrow may not have hardened your heart, and blinded you to that consolation which God offers to those who humbly seek it.

How do we know that it may not be God's gracious medicine to enable them to find themselves out; to make them see themselves in their true colours; to purge them of all their play-acting; and begin all over again, crying to God, not with the lips only, but out of the depth of an honest and a noble shame, as David did of oldBehold

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"I go from here to the frontier to visit and, if possible, win over those troops whose loyalty to your Majesties has been in question; then on to secure a safe retreat in case our plan fails, which, pray God, it may not!

And now (O crowning irony!) we may not tell thee clearly by which choice thou mayst prove either.

No walls separate us from this demesne, not even the walls of our fleshly prison; yet we may not enter, even though we are already "there."

A man who can tell a reasonable story about having seen a ghost may not find many believers, but he will get plenty of listeners, for we are all eager to hear about such things.

As in the Instances I have given we have epitomized many of our particular Words to the Detriment of our Tongue, so on other Occasions we have drawn two Words into one, which has likewise very much untuned our Language, and clogged it with Consonants, as mayn't, can't, shd'n't, wo'n't, and the like, for may not, can not, shall not, will not, &

I wish the Gentleman may not be more Grave than Wise.

I pray that victory may not crown our arms until the negro stands in his acknowledged manhood side by side in this conflict with the white man, until we have the nobility to say that this war is a war of abolition, and that no concession on the part of the South shall save slavery from destruction.

"Of course, you will then be removed to the jail hospital, where I am afraid you may not enjoy the skilful care you are getting now.

The sun may not rise to-morrow, though it has never failed up to this time.

"But the place may not be quite as he left it.

I am much obliged, Mr. Greer; and it may not be in my power to make other returns.

Let me know you, let me be acquainted with you, and I would like you to know me also, though it may not repay you; and let me grow to be your wife.

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Her coloring is her strong point, and that may not last forever;" and Mary's voice was no longer silvery.

"You may not know me very well, but you know me well enough for that.

Several years since, Dr. Durbin of the Christian Advocate and Journal; gave his views on this subject as follows: "I infer, therefore, that the civil magistrate may not be called upon to enforce the observance of the Sabbath

I'll write to you, madam, as soon as we get there, and I hope with all my heart and soul that when we see what's wrong with itand there's bound to be somethingthat it may not be anything bad enough to make us give it up and go floating off in voidness, like a spider-web blown before a summer breeze, without knowing what it's going to run against and stick to, and, what is more, probably lose the money we paid in advance.