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Perhaps he WAS a firebrand; perhaps, after all, it was none of his business; perhaps--perhaps--now that Ruth would not blame him, knew nothing, in fact, of the disgraceful episode, it would have been better for him to have ignored the whole matter and taken Garry's advice Then I have done wrong again, Mr.

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  1. adverb Maybe; possibly.

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  • Major Thornton had not been bred a planter, and this perhaps was the reason, why he departed so much from the ordinary routine, and managed things so very differently from all his neighbors. —  The White Slave; or, Memoirs of a Fugitive
  • This perhaps was the least of the bonds between them. —  The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Vol. 2
  • This perhaps was the time of which Johnson wrote, when, after telling of a silver cup which his mother had bought him, and marked SAM. —  Life Of Johnson, Vol. 1
  • This perhaps will be the most convenient place to notice and estimate a certain amount of rather spiteful gossip, of which Gibbon was the subject in Switzerland about this time. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Gibbon, by James Cotter Morison
  • He expected it to be a letter of introduction: this perhaps was a relative visiting the area, or maybe a tradesperson looking for work, transferring his credentials. —  Analog Science Fiction and Fact, January 2002
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  1. From Middle English perhap : per, by (from Latin; see per) + hap, chance; see hap.

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  1. Formerly also perhap; from per + hap, n., plural haps. Cf. perchance, percase.
 

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