perhaps

He wore a soft black hat of clerical kind, but of Bohemian intention, and a gray waterproof cape which, perhaps because it was waterproof, failed to be romantic. 🔊

It occurred to me that "hungry" was perhaps the mot juste for him; buthungry for what? 🔊

There was a sort of music in his prose, not indeed, arresting, but perhaps, I thought, haunting, and laden, perhaps, with meanings as deep as Mallarmé's own. 🔊

The second was slightly hysterical, perhaps. 🔊

He said I was trying to get credit for a kind heart which I didn't possess; and perhaps this was so. 🔊

"Neglectyes, perhaps; but that's quite another matter. 🔊

Once or twice in the afternoon it had for an instant occurred to me that perhaps his journey was not to be fruitless, that perhaps we had all been wrong in our estimate of the works of Enoch Soames. 🔊

"Perhaps it's only that youdidn't leave enough time. 🔊

"With a number on it perhapsa number on a large disk of metal strapped round the left arm? 🔊

In that extract from Nupton's repulsive book there is one point which perhaps puzzles you. 🔊

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