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Example sentences for "may well"

  • It may well be that in days to come I shall be good to thee, and help thee.

  • And if thou art seeking adventures, as may well be, thou shalt soon find them there ready to hand.

  • It may well be so," said Otter; "but this word is at whiles said of something else, which no man alive amongst us has yet seen.

  • As may well be imagined, such astounding remarks were not uttered without interruption, and warm altercations from the Cardinal de Bissy, who, nevertheless, could not stop the torrent.

  • The ministers, it may well be believed, did not give him a better welcome.

  • Rochefoucauld know what had happened to his books: it may well be believed that he also was astonished.

  • The venerable martyr, for such he may well be called, bowed his head to the bench, and exclaimed: Deo gratias!

  • Oviedo has given a full account of this cavalier, who was allied to an ancient Catalan family, but who raised himself to such pre- eminence by his own deserts, says that writer, that he may well be considered the founder of his house.

  • The post, as may well be believed, was one of great trust and personal hazard.

  • But it may well be conceived, how imperfect these must have been under a calamity, which, breaking up all the artificial distinctions of society, seemed to resolve it at once into its primitive equality.

  • Pamperos happen quickly here, and though the Elsinore, under bare poles to her upper-topsails, is prepared for anything, it may well be that they will be crowding on canvas in another hour.

  • I may well say, now that I think it over, that it was this particular hen that started the mutiny.

  • He gave no orders, betrayed no excitement, and appeared, I may well say, the most casual of spectators.

  • Nevertheless, it may well be believed that since they have such a ravenous finger in the pie, it is deemed but wise to look sharp to them.

  • It may well be conceived, what an unsavory odor such a mass must exhale; worse than an Assyrian city in the plague, when the living are incompetent to bury the departed.

  • His other virtues I should ill commend, So many and so many, that whoe'er Knoweth not these, may well be said to be One without ears to hear or eyes to see.

  • Since fiercer fire for such illustrious end, Than what was wont, may well my song beseem.

  • If to my inmost heart the arrow goes, Which Love directs, may well by you be wist.

  • Do you, when you see that, thinking he has distanced you, which he may well do being more lightly armed and flying for his life, he makes for the low country again, send men in different directions to give me warning.

  • Be quick, lads, for ere long the gale will be on us in its strength, and if `tis from the south we may well be blown out to sea.

  • If you move I must perforce give the word, and it may well be that some of the ladies with you may be struck with the arrows; nor, young though my followers may be, would you find them so easy a conquest as you imagine.

  • Certainly nothing is known to the soldiers; but it may well be that if treachery is intended tomorrow, the governor will this evening explain his plans to his officers.

  • The list of warriors and statesmen by whom our constitution was founded or preserved, from De Montfort down to Fox, may well stand a comparison with the Fasti of Rome.

  • If we look at the magnitude of the reform, it may well be called a revolution.

  • I may well affirm it to have been a day of public mourning; even though it was Sunday every place of amusement was nearly deserted.

  • For my part, I gave my vote in favour of hereditary succession in Bonaparte's family; my situation, as may well be imagined, did not allow me to do otherwise.

  • It may well be supposed that he was more accustomed to the din of war than to the discussions of the tribunes.

  • When at Hamburg it may well be supposed that I was anxious to obtain news, and I received plenty from the interior of Germany and from some friends in Paris.

  • Therefore I may well say, beware of pressing a desperate man with the hand of authority.

  • Such was the avowed profession of Luckie Gourlay, which, as may well be supposed, was looked upon with a suspicious eye, not only by her neighbours, but even by the clergy of the district.

  • It may well be that Goldsmith gave undue weight to this reservation.

  • It may well be that he did not throw himself on nature with the unwavering constancy of Wordsworth.

  • The besetting sin of their imagination was the tendency to run riot; and it may well be that, save for the restraining influence of ancient poetry, they would have sinned in this matter still more boldly than they did.

  • Ruth," he said at length, "it may well be that that which you desire may speedily come to pass; it may well be that in the course of this rebellion that is hatching you may be widowed.

  • I should have married some day, and, after all, it may well be that Mr. Wilding will make me as good a husband as another.

  • Indeed, it may well be that it was to complete this that His Grace decided there and then that they should follow Grey's advice and go by way of Taunton, Bridgwater, and Bristol to Gloucester.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    another time; does mean; fifty tons; make slaves; may add; may also; may appear; may call; may come; may easily; may find; may have been the; may here; may make; may perhaps; may suppose; may take; may the; maybe you; mayest thou; mayonnaise dressing; mayor parte; play with; rate from; somewhat long; this court