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Examples
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"Mayn't I have you thrown into a den of tigers?" he asked.
In The Time Of Light dj barber 2010
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In the middle of one of her declensions she suddenly broke off and said to the tutor, "Mayn't I just give one peep inside to see what is in it before I go on?"
Heidi 2000
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"Mayn't I take you home in my car, Grace," pleaded Tom.
Grace Harlowe's Problem Jessie Graham [pseud.] Flower
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"Mayn't I carry your parcel for you?" asked a voice at her side.
The Story of the Big Front Door Mary Finley Leonard
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"Mayn't I have the pleasure of buying you some more cream?"
The Moving Picture Girls in War Plays Or, The Sham Battles at Oak Farm Laura Lee Hope
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"We may go, Mayn't we, Jane?" asked Nell, of the maid who had accompanied them.
The Bobbsey Twins in Washington Laura Lee Hope
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"Mayn't what, Acton, please?" said Grim, putting down his magazine.
Acton's Feud A Public School Story Frederick Swainson
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"Mayn't I stay if I promise to be very, very good?"
Hunter's Marjory A Story for Girls Margaret Bruce Clarke
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"Mayn't I come in, mother?" he asked, after tapping lightly.
Joyce's Investments A Story for Girls Fannie E. Newberry
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(His father died when the son was fifty years old; the thirty years he had lived since seemed a long life to the old man.) "Mayn't I look at the poetry?"
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860 Various
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