pr'aps

"It will not do," said the leader, half aloud; "they've got scent of us somehow: pr'aps they've some men inside to help them, we'd better be off."

Nearly Lost but Dearly Won Theodore P. Wilson

He was pretty well filled up wi 'grog, or pr'aps he wouldn't ha' been quite so venturesome.

In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India Herbert Strang

"Seeing you was clever, I thought pr'aps I'd better try to look more grown-up."

The Limit Ada Leverson 1897

But sposin 'a judge stood up another man that looked pretty much like him, an' asked me to swear one of the guys into ten years in Sing Sing, pr'aps I'd weaken.

Thoroughbreds William Alexander Fraser 1896

But pr'aps Rushton got the preference -- Sweater may 'ave told' im the others 'prices.'

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists Robert Tressell 1890

For all she's so young, she's a widder, an 'pr'aps it's as well she should be, seein' how shockin 'her' usband treated her afore he was took where no doubt he's bein 'done as he did by.

The Unclassed George Gissing 1880

Well, pr'aps you ain't far wrong neither; but I'm not goin 'to be spliced yet-a-while, lass.

The Lighthouse 1859

"Ay, natives pr'aps," growled Jarring, "an 'cannibals who are fond of eatin' white folk -- specially women!"

The Coxswain's Bride also, Jack Frost and Sons; and, A Double Rescue 1859

Well, pr'aps you ain't far wrong neither; but I'm not goin 'to be spliced yet-a-while, lass.

The Lighthouse 1859

Rance and some of the others were examining, and who had showed some symptoms of returning consciousness; "but his wound is a bad one, and if you ain't a murderer yet, pr'aps it won't be long afore ye are one."

Digging for Gold Adventures in California 1859