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Haply is a good deal more archaic than most of the vocabulary in Children, though not too antique for the style.
The Abyss and the Critics superversive 2007
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"Haply," answered I, "thou didst this in thanksgiving to God, for that He hath given thee the mastery over thine enemy."
The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III Anonymous 1879
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"Haply," responded the Sovran, "there is in his pouch something he would look at."
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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The metre requires 'Haply' to be pronounced as a trisyllable.
Measure for Measure The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] William Shakespeare 1590
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"Haply," said he, "ye'll be acquainted with some of them.
The Sea-Hawk Rafael Sabatini 1912
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Said the Sharif, ‘Haply, thou hast some business with us which we may have pleasure of transacting?’
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Then he arose forthright and going in, searched the by ways of the house till he espied, in a wall corner among the trees, a narrow door between whose posts226 the spider had woven her webs, and said in himself, “Haply the spider hath not webbed over the door, but because death and doom is within.”
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Presently the Syrian turned over and would have taken Ali in his arms, but found him not and said to himself, “Haply he hath promised another and he hath taken him; but I have the first right and another night I will keep him.”
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The guest watched, but saw no sign in his host of praying through the night or of special devoutness and said in his mind, “Haply he hideth himself from me.”
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Haply his sin is but a slight slip, which this damsel hath made great to thee; and indeed I have heard tell that the people of two villages once destroyed one another, because of a drop of honey.
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