peradventure

• They saw much of each other; became intimately confidential and soon were treading a dangerous path,—though not so dangerous, peradventure, as has sometimes been inferred from the two poems, 'Radicalism of Passion' and 'Resignation', which belong to this period. —  The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller
• It directs our onward look to a blessed certainty instead of a peradventure, and it deduces important practical consequences from the hope. —  Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John
• Still I see well that, if you think proper to balance accounts with the author, you will find yourself much his debtor; for against his excellent and religious discourses, his lofty and, so to speak, divine conceptions, you will find that you will have to set nothing but words and phraseology; a sort of merchandise so ordinary and commonplace, that whoever has the most of it, peradventure is the worst off Monseigneur, I pray God to grant you a very long and happy life. —  The Essays of Montaigne — Volume 01
• This, peradventure, accounts to some extent for the singular attraction which operations in the Near East, or Palestine, or anywhere other than on the Western Front, always seemed to present to certain highly placed men of affairs. —  Experiences of a Dug-out, 1914-1918
• If once the fog should enfold him he would be lost in the Pacific or killed on the rocks almost beyond a peradventure, and yet he was heading for such a fate with all the strength that he possessed. —  The Ape, the Idiot ; Other People

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