"Haply" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... cow of purplest ray serene Is haply grazing where I may not see; Full many a donkey writes of her, I ween, But neither of these ...
— The Re-echo Club • Carolyn Wells
... to give the more earnest heed to the things that were heard, lest haply we drift ...
— Leaves of Life - For Daily Inspiration • Margaret Bird Steinmetz
... that it came to me to cast myself upon this fair creature's mercy. Surely one so sweet and saintly to behold would take compassion on an unfortunate! Haply my wound and all the rest that I had that night endured made me dull-witted and ...
— Bardelys the Magnificent • Rafael Sabatini
... chafts o' a bit smilin' maiden o' saxteen, aughteen, or twunty, blossomin' out, like some bonnie bud or snaw-white satin frae a coverin' o' rough leaves,—blossomin' out, sirs, frae the edge o' the fur-tippet, that haply a lover's happy haun had delicately hung ower her gracefu' shoothers—oh, the dear, ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Vol. 12, Issue 346, December 13, 1828 • Various
... themselves, each in her conscious tree, eluding human approach. She steals more gently along, that she may haply surprise a vision. The little grassy plain appears beyond the wavering oak-branches. It is reached at last, and there,—surely it is no delusion,—there rests a sleeping youth! Another step, and she bent aside the boughs. He stands ...
— The Atlantic Monthly , Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 • Various
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