The failure has arisen, perhaps sometimes from irregularity of limb, or from atmospheric distortion, but more frequently from faintness and from want of clear definition.

I may perhaps permit myself to accept your kind recognition of my devotion of time and thought to the interests of my Science and my Office.

Perhaps you may have to put up with me next time I get a holiday, and you may be sure I shall want plenty of herrings then.'

But, just before I left, I went with Mr. Christie into his study, and he said, 'Jack, I thought perhaps we might have a little prayer together before we part'; and then the words came, 'Mr. Christie,' I said, 'I can never, never thank God enough that I came here.' 'Let us thank Him together, Jack,' he said.

After the strong personality of Cosimo and his masterful manipulation of commercial and political affairs, perhaps the unambitious rule of his son Piero was a necessary and healthful corollary.

The repetition of this phrase was perhaps indiscreet, and it caused searchings of heart, as the meaning of it was borne in upon the comprehensions of the least friendly of the citizens.

Perhaps no family was quite so unpopular in Florence.

"But," he rejoined, "perhaps you may get afraid in the night; and if you do, strike on this part of the wall (suiting the action to the word)I sleep on that side."

There was a pretty violent dispute on the subject, but at length it was agreed that they should spare his life in the meantime, and perhaps have a dog-dance round him when they got to their wigwams.

But consider how easy it is to make people stare by being absurd"a proposition which he proceeds to illustrate by examples perhaps less telling than Boswell's recent performance.

She gave him the cruse; and with the old gloom upon his face, perhaps he wanted to test his courage.

Before he went, he married a beautiful little woman,[*] perhaps the most spirited in the shire, white as Kalee was black, and come, too, of gentle blood.

One night he tried in vain to recall Clotilde's features; after this experience, he told himself that perhaps he might be able to discover the mother's lineaments in the child's face, and he was seized with a great longing to see this relic of the lost one once more, to have the child home again.

Perhaps she saw an omen in his failure; perhaps she was just blindly eager to have her darling succeed.

Perhaps she saw an omen in his failure; perhaps she was just blindly eager to have her darling succeed.

We shall be ridiculed as fools, accused as visionaries, branded as disorganizers, reviled as madmen, threatened and perhaps punished as traitors.

In fact everybody is pleased to see him back except perhaps certain curious members, who find him even more chary of information than his deputy, Lord Robert Cecil.

Perhaps it would have been more seemly for me to remain in the decreed dignified retirement.

You could perhaps guess her name.

I should say, twenty-three, twenty-four,not over twenty-six, perhaps.

"Perhaps you would like that honor?

"You could, I say, be hailed by the administration in power, not as the Father of your Country, perhaps, but as its savior.

"Murder is perhaps not legal, even for the sake of one's country.

"I was just saying," he remarked, "that we have been told the adorable countess perhaps contemplates only a short visit in America after all.

Perhaps it would have been braver if I had.