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Example sentences for "might prove"

  • The veto was a mode of encouraging reflection; it might yield to a prolonged campaign, but it was regarded as a barrier against a hasty popular impulse which, if unchecked, might prove ruinous to some portion of the community.

  • Nasica was an embarrassment to the senate and he might prove a convenient scapegoat.

  • But the voice, which the senate kept stifled during the security of its rule, might prove valuable in a crisis.

  • In short, he would not have any honest citizen endure to be praised, except it might prove advantageous to the commonwealth.

  • Verily we have created man of the mingled seed of both sexes, that we might prove him: and we have made him to hear and to see.

  • It is he who hath appointed you to succeed your predecessors in the earth, and hath raised some of you above others by various degrees of worldly advantages, that he might prove you by that which he hath bestowed on you.

  • It is he who hath created the heavens and the earth in six days, (but his throne was above the waters before the creation thereof),c that he might prove you, and see which of you would excel in works.

  • Who hath created death and life, that he might prove you, which of you is most righteous in his actions: and he is mighty, and ready to forgive.

  • He now determined to follow the stream to its source, as his active mind already began to see that it might prove a very useful ally to them in many ways.

  • His zeal was great as that of his superior, and the valuable presents whereof he was made the bearer, might prove a bait sufficiently tempting to lure the simple Abyssinian into a fresh connexion.

  • But he had gradually begun to comprehend how commerce, equitably conducted, might prove a truer source of wealth than forays into the territories of the heathen.

  • It may be received as an axiom that no Bedouin will speak the truth, although the doing so might prove to his obvious advantage.

  • Could I by any means so master their secret as to possess myself of its mystic power, it might prove an effective aid to my plans of self-defence, or of escape.

  • We lay heavily pitching at our anchors till afternoon, when Captain Morton determined to get his anchors, if possible, and run down to where the foreign schooner lay, thinking it might prove a safe anchorage.

  • The idea had early occurred to me, that if I had some object to which I appeared very much attached, it might prove to be for my advantage; the Indians might hold it, in my absence at any time, as a sort of surety for my return.

  • This stock had been procured at much expense; and his excellency hoped that the people among whom he left it would see the advantage it might prove to them, and cherish it accordingly.

  • Clay's rather obvious failings included an indulgence in coarse vainglory, though he had generally the sense to check it when it might prove a handicap.

  • He feared it might prove illusory, but he could keep his secret no longer, and summoned courage to test his fortune.

  • Hitherto he had been noted for his mental and physical force, and recognized as a daring, unscrupulous fighter whom it was wise to conciliate, and it might prove damaging if rumors that he was not all he seemed got about.

  • Ronald was ready enough to fight, but could not help thinking that they just then had had enough of it, and therefore hoped that the stranger might prove a friend.

  • He had not forgotten their kindness; and if they were destined to be made prisoners he was too happy to be their captor that he might prove to them his gratitude.

  • The hope came to him that Deede Dawson was thinking he might prove of use, and that was the thought which, above all others, he wished the other to have.

  • He might prove a useful recruit for them, though," Dunn thought, and a sudden idea flashed into his mind, vivid and startling.

  • That, and the discovery of the new-comer's identity, might prove to be of the utmost importance.

  • Method, especially to the common People, might prove a little too obscure and embarrassing, I have specified here the exact Weight of Water, contained in such Vessels or liquid Measures, as are most commonly used in the Country.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    another prophet; left hand; might appear; might come; might even; might feel; might get; might happen; might perhaps; might probably; might require; might serve; might still; might take; mighty arms; mighty fine; mighty hand; mighty host; mighty king; mighty monarch; mighty nice; mighty nigh; mighty sight; mighty wind; pounded mace; this belief