What is "haply"

Usage examples of "haply".

Of her we bethought us as we came hither along the path from the palace, if haply my mother, her own sister, might persuade her to aid us in the venture.

And haply, as the years increase -- Still working through its humbler reach With that large wisdom which the ages teach -- Revive the half-dead dream of universal peace!

So, with your silences purfling this silence of man While his cry to the dead for some knowledge is under the ban, Under the ban, -- So, ye have wrought me Designs on the night of our knowledge, -- yea, ye have taught me, So, That haply we know somewhat more than we know.

Reader, if haply this memoir ever sees a posthumous light, think what would happen to yourself if eating and drinking, those perennial joys of humanity, which last from the infantine pap to the senile Revalenta Arabica, were taken away.

WIVES IN THE SERE I Never a careworn wife but shows, If a joy suffuse her, Something beautiful to those Patient to peruse her, Some one charm the world unknows Precious to a muser, Haply what, ere years were foes, Moved her mate to choose her.

Roman Church should first address himself to the chief Priest of that City, lest haply your clergy, being profaned by the litigation of the Forum, should be occupied in secular rather than religious matters.

Which, thus a swinish thing to flout, Though haply in its gross way good, Hangs such a jewel in its snout.

And haply doubts, amid the unblenching day, Which most or least impelled its onward way,-- Those unknown things or these things overknown.

And the people of Ultonia, having entered Dunum, celebrated the solemnities of the Mass, and in the place foreshown by the heavenly light buried the venerable body with all due veneration, and this desirable treasure, this most precious jewel, they deposited beneath a stone, five cubits deep in the heart of the earth, lest haply by stealth it might be conveyed thence.

Sir Launcelot, Small worship gainest thou of conflict here, But haply misadventure.

WIVES IN THE SERE I Never a careworn wife but shows, If a joy suffuse her, Something beautiful to those Patient to peruse her, Some one charm the world unknows Precious to a muser, Haply what, ere years were foes, Moved her mate to choose her.

Now he was striding along in front of his host, chattering happily over his shoulder, but obviously on the look-out for some belated rabbit or woodpigeon that might haply be secured as an eleventh-hour addition to his bag.

Thy father is attainted, and one whisper of where he lieth hid would bring him thence to the Tower, and haply to the block.

Did you imagine that haply, whilst we sent to Paris for your witnesses, the King might grow weary of justice, and in some fit of clemency announce a general pardon?

This poison from his writhing throat, Those hellish instruments have haply drawn, And pain hath conn'd the aspish lies by rote.