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May-be we'll be better off and blither, and learn something,
Remembering Whitman ... Frank Wilson 2006
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May-be it is yourself now really ushering me to the true songs, (who knows?)
Remembering Whitman ... Frank Wilson 2006
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May-be it is you the mortal knob really undoing, turning - so now finally,
Remembering Whitman ... Frank Wilson 2006
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May-be, I he and him too much: but it is his own fault if I do.
Pamela 2006
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May-be there was some sense in his coming all that distance.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being Kundera, Milan, 1929- 1984
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May-be she did see it all, -- but with far other eyes, now.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865 Various
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"May-be 'twas that, my friend," said the woman, taking up the pail to fetch the water from the well across the common.
A Loose End and Other Stories S. Elizabeth Hall
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May-be he's all jest 'z he ought to be, -- I caan't say that he a'n't, -- but he's aout late nights,' n 'lurkin' raoun 'jest' z ef he wuz spyin 'somebody;' n 'somehaow I caan't help mistrustin' them
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860 Various
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"May-be he's your's though, madam?" she said apologetically.
Dawn Harriet A. Adams
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May-be one is now reading this who knows some wrong-doing of my past life,
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