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Maybe   /mˈeɪbi/   Listen
Maybe

adverb
1.
By chance.  Synonyms: mayhap, peradventure, perchance, perhaps, possibly.  "We may possibly run into them at the concert" , "It may peradventure be thought that there never was such a time"






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"Maybe" Quotes from Famous Books



... "Well, maybe you're telling the truth," he grunted. "But, dang me, if I can get the hang of it. You might belong to any country almost by the cut of your jib; you say you've fixed things up with the blessed Japs, and you're running a cargo of coal for the blessed Rooshians. It's queer, ...
— The International Spy - Being the Secret History of the Russo-Japanese War • Allen Upward

... in His hands. But the auld laird cared for none of these things; though I am sure when he left you so poorly provided for in this world, he behoved to have given you a good hold of the hope of a better;—besides that, it makes us contented with a very humble lot here below. I am, maybe, too free-spoken, Miss Jean, but ...
— Mr. Hogarth's Will • Catherine Helen Spence

... going out piece-work I visits every farm in the parish. The other men they works for one farmer for two or three or maybe twenty years; but I goes very nigh all round the place—a fortnight here and a week there, and then a month somewhere else. So I knows every hare in the parish, and all his runs and all the double mounds and copses, and the little covers in the corners of the fields. When I be at work ...
— The Amateur Poacher • Richard Jefferies

... "maybe he's about over with his bust. I'll run over this afternoon and see what I can do with him. If Tom Welton would only tear himself apart from California, we'd ...
— The Rules of the Game • Stewart Edward White

... for my secret; or maybe I'll tell Cousin Penny, and beg her to let me peep if I truly promise never to go in," thought Button, knowing well who her best ...
— A Garland for Girls • Louisa May Alcott


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