← He flung back the wings of his cape with a gesture which, had not those wings been waterproof, might have seemed to hurl defiance at things in general. 🔊
← I asked if I might ask what kind of book it was to be. 🔊
← But at the time of their publication I had a vague suspicion that they might be. 🔊
← But there was still a spiritual pathos about him, sharpened for me now by the possibility that even the praises of The Preston Telegraph might not have been forthcoming had he not been the son of a Preston man. 🔊
← Had I known that he really and firmly believed in the greatness of what he as an artist had achieved, I might not have shunned him. 🔊
← I was sure Soames didn't want my company; but I asked, as it would have seemed brutal not to, whether I might join him, and took the chair opposite to his. 🔊
← "I have been unable not to hear. Might I take a liberty? 🔊
← In this little restaurant-sans-facon—might I, as the phrase is, cut in?" 🔊
← It was maddening to think that he, who had so much to tell, might tell nothing. 🔊