1211 examples of may well in sentences

"I hope the man won't want to come ferreting in the place; that may well be left to the police; but if he does I can't very well refuse him leave.

It is this Mesozoic continent (which may well have lain in the neighbourhood of what are now the shores of the North Pacific Ocean) which I suppose to have been occupied by the Mesozoic Monodelphia; and it is in this region that I conceive they must have gone through the long series of changes by which they were specialised into the forms which we refer to different orders.

Surrounded, as we in cities are, by schools especially planned, especially equipped, to make children ready for college, we may well wonder how country children in rural district schools, with their casual schedules and meagre facilities, are ever so prepared.

Still, Acts of Parliament have been repealed, and the invaders may well have hoped that, with the King's support, their influence might increase until they were strong enough to have the clause revoked.

"Yes, you may well colour up!"

And had he, missing the Bocas, been wrecked and perished, as he may well have done, against those awful walls?

For with the best of us the hour of death is an awful hour, and we may well pray, as every Sunday, to be delivered in it.

So long I kept for you an undimmed eye, Surely for grief this hour may well be spared, Though could you know I still must keep it dry.

Everybody else appeared to me to be speaking of it, or of Bob himself; but I had him on my nerves and may well have formed an exaggerated impression about it all.

Well might he have cried with his knightly ancestor of the "Round Table," "Me forethinketh this shall betide, but God may well foredoe destiny."

Whoever has any doubts of this may well resolve his doubts in the light of the Argument entitled "The Bible against Slavery."

It may well be, that those of the South, who "have lived in pleasure on the earth and been wanton and have nourished their hearts as in a day of slaughter," should speak of "prosperity:"

Surely, then, the Southern planter may well assert that he sees not sufficient inducement to follow our hasty wholesale example.

"Ere yet Cheops built the Pyramids, or Joshua commanded the sun to stand still, yea, before the first sensation tingled in the first nerve made out of the dust, the beginnings were laid of these events of this day and hour, and, in particular, of that one which may well astonish you and grieve youviz., that the locket is intended for and inscribed to Agnes Ainslie.

It may well be questioned whether such a plan would ever have succeeded: but it must not too hastily be called chimerical.

" "Ay, you may well thank him, Amory," broke in the old Huguenot, who had returned after escorting his illustrious guest to the carriage.

It may well be pleasant to you, who are released from the woman whom you ruined, who can turn now to another without any pale face to be seen within the salons of your court to remind you of your perfidy.

Of the God who can work in this way, it may well be said that he loves to work by little things.

If we remember the old use of choruses, which was to lift up and excite the fancy, we may well believe that he intended this flourishing Poet to act as a chorus,to be a "mighty whiffler," going before, elevating "the flat unraised spirits" of his auditory, and working on their "imaginary forces."

Indeed, it may well have been that in the dimmer past some Beekman serf on bended knee had handed a gilded harp to some King O'Connell on his throne.

beer,"but I should doubt if, in a transaction of this nature, the Dukedom of Tuscany was ever before so assorted; and if the Duke were obliged to make this peace, he may well say, "necessity doth make us herd with strange companions.

Though it is impossible to furnish any test by which a speculative thinker, either in Political Economy or in any other branch of social philosophy, may know that he is competent to judge of the application of his principles to the existing condition of his own or any other country, indications may be suggested by the absence of which he may well and surely know that he is not competent.

This may well be the case and still have little to do with insanity.

It may well have been so, although at the time, of course, nothing of the kind occurred to me.

Nor is the supposition absurd, though at first sight it may well so appear.

1211 examples of  may well  in sentences