But if you do not find solace there, perhaps you should take up embroidery. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

It had opened, perhaps due to the force with which it hit the ground. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The warmth of the night perhaps, a swelling somewhere in the old wood. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I never found out whether this is so and perhaps it is. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw her in a black gown and widow’s cap; frigid, perhaps, but not uncivil: a model of elderly English respectability. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

I might perhaps have consulted Saruman the White, but something always held me back.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Grace huffed out a laugh that made Maya wonder if her sister perhaps had Mob ties. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

They had left the Hogwarts grounds completely; they had obviously traveled miles — perhaps hundreds of miles — for even the mountains surrounding the castle were gone. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

For a second, perhaps two, he did not know where he was, was still in his sleep somewhere. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

"They shall not cross, Cat," Edmure scrawled, "Lord Tywin is marching to the southeast. A feint perhaps, or full retreat, it matters not. They shall not cross." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

They were speaking in low voices, perhaps thinking that they were whispering when they were not. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

She was tall, slim and dark—perhaps twenty-eight years of age. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I preached unity, I must act like a unifier, even at the risk of perhaps alienating some of my own colleagues. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was intrigued, rather than frightened, as I perhaps should have been. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Ash decided that perhaps she was mad that night, so she stepped past the lanterns and entered the clearing. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frightful had arrived in the Galapagos Islands, six hundred miles out in the Pacific Ocean, where the birds and reptiles had lived for hundreds of thousands of years, perhaps millions, without predators. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

She was small and pale, with the frightened air of an ill-used child, but her scrawny, underfed body did give off a hint of woman, so perhaps she was twelve or thirteen. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Would she eat in the cafeteria, or in the Egress downstairs, or perhaps out on the lawn somewhere? Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps it will, perhaps not. If I strike it sharply will it not mar the surface even more? See the hammer marks there already.” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

He was a firmly masculine type; perhaps he was disliked only because he had matured before the rest of us. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another kestrel, perhaps his mate, conies to that cry, and after a few million years all the kestrels are calling each other with their individual note of Kee-kee-kee.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

They looked red, but perhaps that was just the firelight. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

They each held something in their hands, a club perhaps, or a shotgun. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

But in the dark now and no glow showing and no lights and only the wind and the steady pull of the sail he felt that perhaps he was already dead. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, there is a strength, a power even, in understanding brokenness, because embracing our brokenness creates a need and desire for mercy, and perhaps a corresponding need to show mercy. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Or perhaps it was love; every time he had a fit, he was comforted and held by the children’s new, pretty governess. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All impurities burned out and ready for a glorious flux, and for that—more fire. And then either the slag heap or, perhaps what no one in the world ever quite gives up, perfection.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He wouldn’t do anything obvious, but perhaps he could find a loose thread, or a long splinter from the table. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Or perhaps Wari was pulling back for its own internal reasons. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

A thick salt-and-pepper beard now covered his face—perhaps to hide the scars from his attack. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

As the onlookers scrutinized the position, Bobby’s ploy became obvious to all: Although not profound, it was cunning, perhaps ingenious, and even brilliant. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

For some reason, though—perhaps because I have an appointment and haven’t worn out my welcome yet—I get taken to an inner office where a young woman interviews me absentmindedly. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beyond the confines of the circus there seems to be little place for such things, though perhaps that is part of the man’s point. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

As Hector went back to the battle he turned aside to see once more, perhaps for the last time, the wife he tenderly loved, Andromache, and his son Astyanax. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He backed it up beside the bulldozer, stopping perhaps ten feet from the bush. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Jefferson thus became perhaps the last person in America to recognize that he was running for the presidency against his old friend from Massachusetts. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The ash of fireworks perhaps, or grass I’d uprooted in my desperate struggles. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Contrary to Mrs. Scatcherd’s expectations—or perhaps in response to her rebuke—we are a quiet lot, even the older boys. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

He was thinking: with Morrill gone, I have perhaps three hundred men. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She tensed, her legs preparing to leap from the bed—perhaps toward the balcony, since Elena stood between her and the door. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“I thought that—and please don’t take this the wrong way—perhaps she had been suffering from dementia,” she said. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It is perhaps this characteristic that makes the usual bestiary so outlandish to the twentieth-century mind. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was waiting there, hidden, praying that somebody—Gareth perhaps?—would be able to do the miracle quickly: or, if not, that they would overlook him, that his absence would not be noticed. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is perhaps the most orienting part of the geek experience for many lads like Jesse: They see the Net as a separate world, their world. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was at least twenty-five hundred times greater than St. Helens, but perhaps eight thousand times more monstrous. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Lombardy, the large, pale, and intense Roman Catholic priest, was perhaps the chief supporting actor in the drama at Reykjavik. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“If you’re so sure,” said an impertinent girl, perhaps the one with the disdainful chin, “why don’t you go out there and take a look?” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hagrid shook his head; his expression was disbelieving but sympathetic, and Harry knew that Hagrid thought he had sustained a blow to the head, that he was confused, perhaps by the aftereffects of a jinx.... Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

It is perhaps one of the most baffling phenomena in history. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Papin was well aware of this: he proposed to the Royal Society a ship of eighty tons, perhaps 100 feet long, costing ‘but four hundred pounds’ to build. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The waters were still agitated, and perhaps they would never be truly calm again, but the great force had gone. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

If Scythe Faraday had selected him as morally capable of the job, perhaps he was. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“Or perhaps, to confess that you yourself are worried and frightened? You need your friends, Harry. As you so rightly said, Sirius would not have wanted you to shut yourself away.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“Far from it, sir. You would, perhaps, think me rude if I inquired in return whether you are a philanthropist?” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

This, perhaps, was the final contribution of Nazism to genetics: it placed the ultimate stamp of shame on eugenics. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

But perhaps there is more than an issue of translation here? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Jasper’s voice shook a little, with anger perhaps. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

There was perhaps a minute in which to act. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

When he looks again he studies the face more closely, still thinking that perhaps it’s a mistake, that a tap on his father’s shoulder will wake him. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I felt like a sprite or a hungry leprechaun, turning over leaves in search of a treat, looking under weeds for a pot of gold, or perhaps a turnip. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I scan the ceiling again and again—perhaps the lights have blinded me so much that I can no longer see him—but he’s nowhere to be seen now. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It hovered for a moment like a sea bird waiting for the great sea winds to catch it up so it could range long distances—perhaps all the way to the Middle Kingdom. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

For all its enormous range of space, climate, and physical appearance, and for all the internal squabbles, contentions, and strivings, Texas has a tight cohesiveness perhaps stronger than any other section of America. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

That way, it was not a lie and it let them imagine some accident, perhaps involving a heavy door. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

It is easy for you, but perhaps not quite so simple for us. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

So perhaps he could allow himself a little indulgence on the way. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

According to law, Bobby would have had sixty days for a hearing and perhaps another sixty days to confront the appeal if it didn’t go his way. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Dimly, Powell was aware that the robot was making a friendly gesture, perhaps to quiet some lingering remorse in forcibly replacing the humans at the controls of the station. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

No one could memorize this layout in a day—perhaps not even in a week—and yet we weren’t allowed to bring our maps inside; they were thought to be a security risk. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could not help the girl, but perhaps the courtesy would please her. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Less beautiful perhaps when the two arrows caught him, one in the neck, the other in the chest. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Then, finally, it descended into the relatively cool, green beneficence of the Puget Sound region, perhaps the only region in America that was not sweltering that summer. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

If she hit the ground on her back perhaps it would not hurt so much. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The best thing—in Shadow’s opinion, perhaps the only good thing—about being in prison was a feeling of relief. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Everyone was very friendly and understanding and polite and suspicious and afraid, and almost nobody signed, although many began to wonder if Ruby wasn’t perhaps a saint. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before we both faint dead away, Mr. K says to me, “Now watch and perhaps you can learn a thing or two.” The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

If, instead of trying to intimidate your young brother, you would emulate him and use that mind of yours, perhaps you’d find things much easier. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was also—perhaps as a result—something of a hypochondriac. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

But no one comes out to speak to him, so perhaps there is no one. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

They suggested that the planet was totally covered with water—except perhaps for an occasional limestone-encrusted island, like the cliffs of Dover. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Madame,” Poirot waved an airy hand, “detectives have to ask all sorts of questions. For instance, perhaps you will tell me the colour of your dressing gown?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps she would wear it to a dinner party at the villa of some great lord or count, perhaps to the palace itself. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

I could see him moody, difficult, irritable perhaps, but not angry as she had inferred, not passionate. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Stanley told the truth, but perhaps it would have been better if he had lied a little. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

It occurred to me that perhaps she was laughing at me, at my life. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

In any other circumstance, he and Kamau would have been sent to one of the city’s orphanages, and perhaps they would have been separated, but his brother hadn’t let that happen. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Sickly, feeling abandoned by his parents, quarrelsome, unsociable, a virgin to the day he died, Isaac Newton was perhaps the greatest scientific genius who ever lived. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or perhaps you want to become a veterinarian, work in a kennel, or work with horses. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

I replied that I did not remember her name, but recalled her number, and that she was a pleasant woman of perhaps two-score years. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“Oh, well,” she said, “perhaps he likes it. Don’t go by me. Tell me, did you get any clothes in London or Paris?” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

It was like being with a stranger, one of the masters from school, perhaps, it felt odd. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Or perhaps, he thought unhappily, he was only putting off what would certainly be an ugly confrontation. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Rachael rested very slightly on the fore-part of her feet, and her arms, as they hung, bent at the joint: the stance, he reflected, of a wary hunter of perhaps the Cro-Magnon persuasion. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

A noise of tramping feet and harsh shouts: Orcs were coming up to the Cleft from the far side, from some entry to the tower, perhaps. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“My son here convinced me that perhaps I should prioritize my list of enemies.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“The snow in the dark, it plays tricks on your eyes....But perhaps we ought to Disapparate under the Invisibility Cloak, just in case?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

It was a little scrap of a thing, this mouse, perhaps still a baby, on its first foray into the world. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps she might; but it is not every man’s fate to marry the woman who loves him best. Miss Hawkins perhaps wanted a home, and thought this the best offer she was likely to have.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

Tired of mutant hunting, Muller wondered if he could accelerate the production of mutants—perhaps by exposing flies to heat or light or higher bursts of energy. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Or perhaps I’m projecting, because that was how I felt. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she wondered if this was her own failure rather than his, if perhaps she lacked a certain strength that would compel him to include her in his pain. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The ivy which used to soften the effect of that bright red facade had been stripped away, perhaps to preserve the brickwork. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I knew then, and know now, virtually nothing about Julian’s life outside of the classroom, which is perhaps what lent such a tantalizing breath of mystery to everything he said or did. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Something about the children terrified it, or perhaps it was terrified all the time. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She and some of the engineers turned out for the parade, enjoying the celebration, allowing themselves, perhaps, just a sliver of pride in having been a part of such an achievement. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The Rupp property is on a rise, an exposed plateau, from which he could see the harvested, glowing land of River Valley Farm—scenery that occupied him for perhaps an hour. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Could he perhaps ambush her as she was going into a bathroom? Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I see these things as scenarios, to be played through and discarded, perhaps simultaneously. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

What had been worse than all the other people’s houses – perhaps, in some ways, even worse than here – had been the private hotel. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

They were conversing in low voices, perhaps arguing, and the young wife appeared worried at what her husband was saying. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

It was the first time in her life her brow had ever had to furrow, and Adela gasped when she realized what she had done, horrified that she had somehow damaged it, perhaps permanently. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I play on his vanity, and so, perhaps, become his creature like all the others. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you see those names?'' he asked, pointing up at the chiseled letters listing people no longer alive. “There's a family behind every name—a mother or father, brothers and sisters, perhaps a wife. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

She wouldn’t be able to smoke them out—her five remaining matches had perished at the same time as the kudu meat—but perhaps she could use a long stick to fish out the honey. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

But perhaps I always sensed I was going down too easy. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Most striking, perhaps, is the overwhelming evidence that implicit bias measures are disassociated from explicit bias measures. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

One more day of drinking, perhaps, and then I’ll get myself straight tomorrow. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cushing introduced John to the systematic discipline required in medical research and, perhaps more crucially, to the idea that the X-rays produced in physics labs could be deployed to treat tumors. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Well, it took ten hours—or perhaps ten minutes—and then Sarai was standing before him with her hands on her hips. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He had confided in me, thinking that perhaps I would be the one person who would side with him. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Joff would need to punish Father, the lords would ex-pect it, but perhaps he could send him back to Winterfell, or exile him to one of the Free Cities across the narrow sea. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

If she ran, she thought, perhaps she could make it to the stairs before he caught her. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

For two, perhaps three seconds, a terrific battle of minds for status and authority was waged between a boy and a tiger. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

We have to build horns on our roofs so that the nagging once-people can slide up them and perhaps ascend to the stars, the source of pardon and love. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

None of them said anything, but many of them were hoping, perhaps, that the other expeditions had failed and that this, the Fourth, would be the one. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you trust me not, then I must tell what I think; and that is not perhaps well. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

She didn’t say “perhaps never,” but each silently added it, thinking of Father far away, where the fighting was. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hate you! I was angry perhaps at first, but my anger soon began to take a proper direction.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

Observers in the audience have heard the pop and are amazed by the famous actor making a sudden surprise appearance on the stage—perhaps adding some comical whimsy to this very special evening. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

He was standing in a ruined village, among the remains of houses and a central tower and a wall that perhaps was a place of worship. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I suppose she was taking inventory, what I had, what she didn’t have, doing the simple arithmetic and, perhaps a few days later, exacting some new promise from Papa. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old ones say Independence is for the young, and perhaps this is true. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Liberty was perhaps the most fundamental of those values. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

These were clothes for sauntering along the veranda at Mackinac or perhaps going on a jeep safari, but patently not for hiking. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

He had knocked his father down and perhaps there were some new positions on the chessboard, but the game would go on. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am expecting to find Cardan as I left him, cowed and quiet, perhaps even more miserable than before. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Still, the swallow couldn’t shake the vague notion that perhaps they were not. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Finally, I came up with a plan which, while perhaps not exactly as Mr Farraday had requested, was the best, I felt sure, that was humanly possible. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

A more helpful measurement perhaps is that it was four times the salary of the Lucasian professor of mathematics at Cambridge: so let’s say £400,000. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

And perhaps, one day, a grandmother, arriving in America laden with hand-knit sweaters and gifts, leaving, a month or two later, inconsolable, in tears. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Still, somehow the Angel kids survived this—perhaps by a means that I might describe as... not entirely natural. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

His hands did shake, but not all that noticeably, and perhaps the Inigo of before the brandy would have bested this fellow now in sixty minutes of solid fencing. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Meade will be . . . cautious. It will take him some time to take command, to organize a staff. I think . . . perhaps we should move quickly. There may be an opportunity here.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Friends is perhaps an inaccurate word to use. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Cudgeon was one of perhaps five fairies who called Root by his first name. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

But perhaps I too had the capacity for plunder, maybe I would take another human’s body to confirm myself in a community. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the clothes smelled like a hospital, perhaps from being stored in mothballs. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The weather of Winter is so relentless, so near the limit of tolerability even to them with all their cold-adaptations, that perhaps they use up their fighting spirit fighting the cold. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Men could hear the laughter through the closed door and were properly frightened at what was going on, feeling, perhaps, that they were the butt of the laughter—which to a large extent was true. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She was trying, perhaps, to imitate the conditions of Julius in his prison cell. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Miguel explained to her that they would not be able to see each other for a long while, perhaps never again. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s the youngest national League president in history, perhaps the only person in this world Hilly’s afraid of. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t until the fall of 1944 that Jones at last conceded that perhaps the team should be doing more on other fronts. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“I wouldn’t put him in charge. Oppie hadn’t put him in charge. Oppie knew him just as well as I did, perhaps better.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

But she must have seen him coming toward her, and perhaps she would take the hint. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I'd hoped the Augurs had, at some point in time, expanded on their original prophecy—perhaps even described what the Aspirants should expect. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

It seemed shorter than the journey south, perhaps because his mind was elsewhere. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He thought perhaps it would be nice to kill something, from spite. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps it was the nervous strain of enduring Dad’s driving; perhaps it was simply that fourteen persons have different personal habits. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

A perhaps uncalled-for gush of pity came over my heart: I was moved to say— Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

I believe I uttered some words, perhaps in a rather half-hearted way, to the effect that I could not inconvenience them to such an extent. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Then tears come; and, like the rain on the ropes, they brace us up, until perhaps the strain become too great, and we break. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

The voice was light, perhaps only a child’s voice, singing sweetly and thinly, on the barest breath, and Eleanor smiled and remembered, hearing the little song more clearly than Mrs. Montague’s voice continuing about planchette. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

He even expected it to be monstrous, but perhaps there was no preparing for one’s first monster. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Perhaps her sin was so extreme that it could not be forgiven; perhaps her pride was so great that she did not need forgiveness. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Surprisingly, no one had fallen yet—perhaps because the path to the flag was fairly easy: balconies, windowsills, and trellises covered most of the space. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The reasoning was this: I simply could not stand what I had become—stale, perhaps, or stalemated by what appeared to be my faltering body. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“For a year perhaps,” I said, “not forever. Who could endure such a filtering of sunlight and fresh air as they do?” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No,” he said, “on the face of it, no. But I don’t know what the note refers to. Perhaps you do. Or perhaps de Winter does?” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

He wonders if perhaps she’ll ask him more about these things. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“In short,” said he, “perhaps, Miss Woodhouse—I think you can hardly be quite without suspicion”— Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

Maybe some seedlings had not been planted into their underwater beds properly, or perhaps our pig was eating the wrong kind of garbage, or maybe one of our chickens was dirtying our doorway. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a vile and muddy war, and Yossarian could have lived without it—lived forever, perhaps. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“I’m wondering,” Nicodemus said, “if perhaps there wasn’t more to the story. Some stronger reason to think they were really taking the motor away, or that they knew how to use it.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

There can be little doubt that they were produced as part of a magic ritual, perhaps to ensure a successful hunt. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turned to him and said: 'If you will perhaps follow me, sir.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

I know nothing, Ygritte, he thought, and perhaps I never will. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“You think so? Well, then perhaps he intends to read them cover to cover.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

And perhaps cry out and stare or simply reach down her hand and say, “What's this?” and hold up the hidden book with touching innocence. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Being my friend’s, I have no right to expose it in any degree to the public eye, but perhaps you may not dislike looking at it.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

Otherwise, her questionnaire was filled out as perhaps no questionnaire in this world deserves to be filled out. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Undaunted–well, perhaps mildly daunted–Planck turned to other matters.* A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Perhaps it was the deep silence around them, perhaps the salty wind off the water, perhaps the sense of forest and solitude; for whatever reason, this walk was a pleasure. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

And that is perhaps the first and most fundamental thing that all novice oarsmen must learn about competitive rowing in the upper echelons of the sport: that pain is part and parcel of the deal. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

We mustn’t swoon over every extraordinary number that comes before us, but it is perhaps worth latching on to one from time to time just to be reminded of their ungraspable and amazing breadth. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

A group of people came out of an office building—perhaps the tallest one in town at about ten stories. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person— perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

If she could only move it to the edge of the bed, perhaps it would fall off and reach the knife. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He appeared a taciturn, and perhaps a proud personage; but he was very kind to me. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Tyrion studied their faces; they would indeed be well rewarded, he vowed to himself, but perhaps not quite as they imagined. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

But perhaps that is merely because they feel themselves to be more unfortunate than us. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Were you unsatisfied with the life you have found here? Do you perhaps regret your choice? ” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“Such as those used to carry rice, only perhaps double thickness, lined with more straw and silk. The vases would be well protected.” A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

It is good that it is growing daylight; perhaps the attack will come before noon. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was perhaps the only time during my work in corrections when being small and light was an advantage; aside from a little pain in my neck, I didn’t get hurt. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sitting room would once have been called a drawing room, perhaps; then a living room. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Along the road for perhaps a quarter of a mile she had been passing and admiring a row of splendid tended oleanders, blooming pink and white in a steady row. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was a long night, perhaps the longest in my life. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eight women came, thrilled that a female pilot was finally getting the chance they had been denied so long ago and perhaps a little sad that they weren't flying along with her. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

The voyage would take two more days, perhaps longer. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, they remained bound by a memory of a fleeting intimacy that had apparently ended with no bitterness and perhaps even some hidden warmth. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

AMOS: Delphi — perhaps if you were prepared to accompany them? Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

I should say good-bye to him in the lounge, perhaps, before we left. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

A glimpse of blackout blinds in a window across the way, the Ford 8 on its blocks, perhaps. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He sent to die 83rd to tell them of his move to the left, asking if perhaps they couldn’t come a little this way and help him out. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, I knew of families who did read to one another as a regular pastime; perhaps it was not so strange. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

He was anxious to find out a little about these people who owned Soldier Island, but the man Narracott seemed curiously ill-informed, or perhaps unwilling to talk. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Jefferson noted, somewhat gratuitously, that perhaps in New England vestiges of feudalism remained and thereby misled Adams. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Any creature above the level of the sides would be struck and perhaps knocked into the river. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Justice Department official warned that there were more fugitives hiding out in the Osage Hills than “perhaps any other county in the state or any state in the Union.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

When she heard huge, her mind tried to adjust—okay, perhaps it was like the Galapagos tortoise she’d seen in the zoo once, with a shell big enough to ride on. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Or perhaps a complete urbanization, or a completely caste-ridden society, or complete anarchy, is the answer. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Milling about were hundreds upon hundreds, perhaps thousands of Minute Men. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

They imply philosophical claims which are difficult, perhaps impossible, to defend, yet in practice they work well. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Given all the absences, there were more Democrats than Republicans by a margin of 4-3, with the Democrats perhaps more likely to push the bill out of committee. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

So sorry, but Ike should perhaps be killed now with a poisoned arrow. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have an idea that Gatsby himself didn't believe it would come and perhaps he no longer cared. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

It now seemed impossible that Ron and Hermione would make up with each other before the holidays began, but perhaps, somehow, the break would give them time to calm down, think better of their behavior... Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I haven't heard the cannons fire yet, so perhaps Glimmer is in some sort of coma, her heart still struggling against the wasp venom. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

A little creative lying can draw attention, indignation, and—perhaps most important—the money and political capital to address the actual problem. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Perhaps, some argued, perhaps it would have been better if Kino took the one thousand five hundred pesos. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But perhaps I am, after all. I think you had best come with me.” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

For the moment, though, it was sated and perhaps even asleep. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He seemed genuinely sceptical, perhaps because I wasn’t making more fuss. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I dreaded starting all over, trying to repeat my news in a new language to new hearers, failing again perhaps. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, perhaps because the poetry had opened her heart, Kit raised her eyes and made a discovery. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

I think today if we forbade our illiterate children to touch the wonderful things of our literature, perhaps they might steal them and find secret joy. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The warriors, he imagined, were gathering their gear, perhaps making ready to strike camp. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

None of his “leads” had led anywhere, except, perhaps, down a blind alley toward the blankest of walls. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was unbelievable, but perhaps only the unbelievable could be believed. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once, when she was littler, Sansa had even asked Mother if perhaps there hadn't been some mistake. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Suddenly I felt an urge to go look at her, perhaps I had really never seen her. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

His smile, as he leads the younger boys around campus, should perhaps have a hint of a sneer underneath. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

And then, on top of all that, you for a mate, and children, perhaps—what more can the heart of a man desire? Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If we make haste,” said Lydia, as they walked along, “perhaps we may see something of Captain Carter before he goes.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

Perhaps it’s an old one of his, perhaps it’s been in his gym bag for months and he just hasn’t got around to throwing it away. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

And perhaps the symbol on the bow of one of the first starships would be a dodecahedron, with the inscription “Starship Theodorus of the Planet Earth.” Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

For Joe Rantz, perhaps more than for any of the other young men sitting by the Montlake Cut, something hung in the balance that afternoon, and he was all too aware of it. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

It was perhaps not more dangerous than shirking an evening at the Center. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He was a man of perhaps sixty, frail and bowed, with a long, benevolent nose, and mild eyes distorted by thick spectacles. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

And then perhaps afterward we can tour a museum or the Anne Frank House? The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

“And though I felt a pinch of dislike, I thought that it was perhaps all a part of the necessary ethnic cleansing of Germany,” Henry said. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Something will happen this evening, or perhaps tomorrow. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Fought off this assault, thinking all the while coldly, calmly, perhaps now we are approaching the end. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked perhaps blankly, because Quentin sighed and turned the page and pointed at an illustration: two trapezoids on their sides, the small ends facing one another. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Richard watched the smile that pulled her mouth up at one end, a sardonic smile that he imagined hid something else, perhaps dissatisfaction. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Certainly they would not have wanted Gregor to starve to death, but perhaps they could not have endured finding out what he ate other than by hearsay. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t Jorge’s cart, but perhaps the Keeper had borrowed something sturdier. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was hopeful that since for once I wasn’t the focus of the dysfunction, perhaps we could address some of the real issues going on. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

This theory means he must either have wanted to run away or was perhaps knocked on the head and somehow forgot about us. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But now,” Ba said, “I think, perhaps, the word was faith.” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

I was uncertain if this referred to Bud or to a literal blue jay, or if, perhaps, we were heading into the territory of senile dementia. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“If the pigeon knows the way,” said Millard, “perhaps it knows the combination, too.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

I have no desire to make you “tough” or “street,” perhaps because any “toughness” I garnered came reluctantly. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

There was a line of drops from the wall to the wardrobe—perhaps what had first turned Theodora’s attention that way—and a great irregular stain on the green rug. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Of the many ways to fail on a dating website, not posting a photo of yourself is perhaps the most certain. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

That perhaps the ways of his mother and his father had occupied whole regions of his heart. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

If perhaps it was a secret hour in which men rose like giants from dragon’s teeth and, while the women slept, clustered in their kitchens. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was, perhaps, genuinely attempting to enlist my help. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Ugwu nearly choked when he came close and realized that the rotten smell came from her water: it had previously been used to soak cassava, perhaps for days, and was being reused. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I wrote to Albus, describing, perhaps insensitively, the wonders of my journey, from narrow escapes from chimaeras in Greece to the experiments of the Egyptian alchemists. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

We were to do a story together on Atlanta’s Negro business and civic leaders, and perhaps some others. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Arthur was the heart’s king of a chivalry which had reached its flower perhaps two hundred years before our antiquarian author began to work. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the old days a hunter would shoot or trap animals just to feed his own family, perhaps his village. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I realize that my humble home isn’t as fancy as the Baudelaire mansion,” Count Olaf said, “but perhaps with a bit of your money we could fix it up a little nicer.” The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

In a square perhaps fifty yards on a side the ground was carpeted with broken human bones and scraps of thousand-year-old fabric. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Because the disease was crippling, it may have provided Roosevelt with a greater compassion for the underdog; or perhaps it improved his striving for success. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wondered if perhaps he was experiencing something like that. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

It was a large cage—perhaps four feet high—and inside was a strange-looking bird: black, as big as a small crow, but with stripes of color on its side. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Excuse me,” says Salim, “but can you perhaps call Mister Blanding and tell him that I am still waiting?” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

“Thanks, Dad. Can’t wait to write an essay on it,” I say, my tone perhaps a little too chipper. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“You were just a little — overenthusiastic. Still out cold. Er — perhaps it will be best if we don’t revive him until we’re safely back in the castle. We can take him like this....” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Good. Then perhaps you can tell me—for your master to do his best work, how many pieces per year might I expect from him?” A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Whether it was a cry of happiness or sadness, relief or fear, Ivy could not say, but perhaps it was all of these at once. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

The faces of the others were set and Harker’s grew ashen grey; perhaps he guessed better than any of us what was coming. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Or perhaps especially by a tomb raider from a family of assassins. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

In the fading twilight, a thousand people, perhaps more, milled around talking and laughing. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I think perhaps I had better see Mr. Favell,” I said. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Or perhaps creatures of the deep dragged them overboard. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“I have, perhaps, something to contribute to your store of knowledge,” said Poirot. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bishop is an important job, but perhaps not as significant as the term bishop might communicate to people of other faiths. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

But perhaps by merely accepting a bowl from them, she had fallen into their power. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I need to go, too!” cried Fenoglio, perhaps intending to dissuade Meggie from carrying out her plan, but the guard closed the door in his face. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Or perhaps because they needed Emenike, who had information that nobody else did. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Now Betty was coming up the stairs, calling to them as she came, a little too harshly perhaps, given Jackson’s ordeal of the morning. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“The day after tomorrow. Unless . . . things work out. A miracle, perhaps . . .” Where were the people being taken? Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Debating perhaps whether to tell him or pretend she does not know. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Not yet, perhaps, but when he could walk farther. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

He did not know; perhaps he would return for the early dinner and perhaps he would not It all depended upon the company which he found over at Klein's and the size of “the game.” The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would thrill, titillate, and if all went well perhaps even shock. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

So I thought perhaps they were all sick with the war and trying to forget it. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And yet I knew and loved Sonia Armstrong. What do you think, then? That I would not soil my hands with killing such canaille as that man Cassetti? Well, perhaps you are right.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

That seems simple enough, and perhaps it can be done, but not by me. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

While perhaps a more provincial cause, it had all the advantages of a more concerted and tightly focused political agenda in which each man played a clearly defined role. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Jo, your turn will come in time, perhaps, so listen to my ‘plans’ and help me carry them out, if they are good.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

“With some money down,” I replied, for an uneasy remembrance shot across me of that symmetrical bundle of papers at home—“with some money down, and perhaps some anticipation of my expectations.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Not at all. You are sixteen now, quite old enough to be my confidant, and my experience will be useful to you by-and-by, perhaps, in your own affairs of this sort.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the briefest, most foolish of moments, I thought that perhaps it was I who had been selected, but of course it was Chasca to whom Yawar now turned. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

In our wing there is only one night sister, perhaps she has something to do in one of the other rooms. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was congratulating me on the success with my rockets, suggesting that I continue my education and perhaps I might one day find a job in the space business! October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He arrived at this after long observation of the construction of termite nests, which excepting perhaps a man-made city are the most formidable edifices in nature. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hera and Poseidon were having an intense discussion with another goddess in green and gold robes - perhaps Demeter. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The tail looked much larger when he got next to it, with a major part of the vertical stabilizer showing and perhaps half of the elevators. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps this is what drew me out into the night to follow my father and Chavez down to the bridge, or perhaps it was some concern I had for my father. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or perhaps Gaia’s forces had arranged some pretext to keep the tourists and construction workers away. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

We may be reminded of prisoners trying to look out from small cell windows, or perhaps “blindfolded” targets of execution. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, what wilderness there was quickly came into contact—perhaps a better word would be “collision”—with the area itself and the people who were stopping there. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Or perhaps it only said Aauuu, the usual sound of the wind. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the first days of September, some unknown person who probably lived somewhere to the south of the Ebola River perhaps touched something bloody. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

All said I was wicked, and perhaps I might be so; what thought had I been but just conceiving of starving myself to death? Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Or perhaps they care a great deal about education, and about their children in general. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Much more it was because of a secretly held belief—or perhaps not even a belief, merely a hope—that O’Brien’s political orthodoxy was not perfect. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“Well, thank God Miss Annie has left for a while. Now perhaps I can play my lute without her rasping denunciations assailing me from across the alley.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It occurred to me that perhaps in his mind finding a Jew to blame for the rash of disappearances on Maxwell Street might be better for his department’s reputation than simply ignoring them. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He saw her leave in the mornings and thought perhaps she and the major had arranged a regular meeting place until she came by one evening to give some stockfish to Olanna. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Reader, I am pleased to tell you that the Pea was a kind person, and perhaps more important, she was empathetic. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

The path unwound; perhaps it was taking them somewhere, willfully, since neither of them could step off it and go knowingly into the annihilation of whiteness that was the grass on either side. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

They are beginning to suspect that perhaps there is something to it, but Lies and the rest of the family renounce their claims to Vincent's paintings. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Mona seemed to see the confusion in her face, for the old woman said, “You read that book tonight. And when you return to the Academy, perhaps you will have something to teach your teachers.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Until Elgar, Vaughan Williams and perhaps Parry in the twentieth century, no composer commanded as much respect, pride or admiration among Britons. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“Crispin,” he said, “for one so unwilling to see the world when first we met, perhaps you notice too much now.” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

But perhaps one should not be looking back to the past so much. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Surely you didn’t think you could fool my Whisperer. How typically juvenile. I’m afraid my Whisperer is foolproof, Reynard. Or perhaps I should say childproof—they amount to the same thing.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Inside the jar, just below the edge of the label, Sophie could see the putting-to-sleep dream lying peacefully on the bottom, pulsing gently, sea-green like the other one, but perhaps a trifle larger. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The kind of child, perhaps, who wouldn't live to grow up... And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

The feet were extraordinarily small, the ankles were still slender, and, perhaps most remarkable, the calves were still firm and evidently never had been knotty. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know,” said Frank, “perhaps he’s gone for a walk.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“If you can remain hidden in the forest for another day, I’ll find some food to sustain you for a while. And perhaps someone will know the best way to go.” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

And we would be changed perhaps, never sitting quite like this again. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The sea would splash inboard perhaps, run down the deck. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Had he obeyed at once, perhaps only Claudius would have been slain and Hamlet and I would still be together. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

She pauses for a moment before adding, “Though perhaps he is better known as Prospero the Enchanter.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She must know I’m Irish from the papers Mr. Schatzman filled out when he brought me in to the Children’s Aid several weeks ago—or perhaps it is my accent, still as thick as peat. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“That’s a good reason for almost anything—a hit used perhaps, but still quite serviceable.” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Libraries were full of ideas—perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Patiently adjusting his stride to her clumsy crawl he brought her home to the pack, perhaps against Jello’s will—she would never know. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He quickly pushed something—a crab trap, perhaps?—down under the water. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Both Negroes and whites have gained this certainty from the experiment—because I was a Negro for six weeks, I remained partly Negro or perhaps essentially Negro. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Leaders of Lawrences Berkeley and Livermore empire during the postwar bonanza, which enriched the university and secured the Rad Lab’s position as the preeminent center of high-energy physics in the nation, perhaps the world. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

But love, which had, perhaps, like a benevolent monarch, swelled the population of his neighboring kingdom, Death, had not himself descended: they owed him no allegiance here. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

And when Vaughan had gone to see Bigheart on his deathbed, perhaps Bigheart had incriminated not only Hale but also Burt in the murder plots. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Aiming for Tyrion’s feet, perhaps, but it landed on his knee. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Variation has been maintained by occasional contact between different islands of speakers, and perhaps also by random mutations. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Spend it unwisely, most likely, perhaps even disastrously on drink or worse. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

For some students perhaps these ideas provided a way of accepting benefits suddenly theirs, accruing simply to race. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or perhaps she had been forced to jam her thumb down the spout of a boiling kettle until it was steamed away. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

There will be lots of disputing among the experts over what is certain and what not; perhaps the heat and duration of dispute could be adapted for the measurement of uncertainty. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lived out of cans, but then perhaps his former wife did also. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

She did not know how much later it was—perhaps it was in the small hours when she was sent to get fresh towels. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He could follow the Wall east, perhaps all the way to the sea, a longer route but a safer one. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

There was a sink and a toilet and a bathtub, and in the bathtub a little girl of perhaps five. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Her hair is snarled and untamable and perhaps even whiter than his. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Thales, the first Greek astronomer, learned how to do this from the Babylonians, or perhaps through the Egyptians. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Libby and I had rehearsed this speech, and perhaps even over-rehearsed it. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Otherwise he might have to pass it to Cecilia in company, watched perhaps by her mother who had been rather cool toward him since he came down. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Instruments of this general sort were common in the early seventeenth century, but Galileo’s were made especially for him and were perhaps the most sophisticated. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Or perhaps, like me, she tried to forget it all and think instead about a spoonful of rose petal jam. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

And perhaps it was not evil I saw but merely the way of all hearts when fear has stripped off the husk of kind pretensions. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

And perhaps you might pretend, afterwards, that it was only a trick and that you just said it to make them stop and didn’t really mean it. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

She begins to trail off, but perhaps emboldened by a glass and a half of wine, she continues. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

At first no one paid much attention to him, figuring perhaps that if he was ignored he might go away. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or perhaps there is something particularly dangerous about the Martian surface. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

So perhaps she had simply happened on the boy at an unusual moment, when he had something on his mind, probably a school assignment. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Or was it, perhaps, only the echo of a thousand headlines that had already screamed their violence into the deepest corners of her soul? 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

And again, perhaps it was not even unorthodoxy that was written in his face, but simply intelligence. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

It was clear, to Mrs. Richardson’s practiced eye, that they wanted to talk about it, that perhaps they had been waiting to talk to someone about it for a long, long time. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The voice suggested that perhaps he had better spell it. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

She must be in the bathroom, perhaps scrubbing the pink tub. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

No cursing in a house, even if the owner is not present, and—perhaps to keep us in practice—no obscenities even in the office. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was perhaps a hundred fifty million miles back, in February, I got into a fight with Blake Grunwald. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

There must have been hundreds—perhaps thousands—of books, their titles embossed in shiny letters. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

An inmate, perhaps surrounded by empty gas cans, stooping to light a match. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If I am earning wages,” she said suddenly, “then perhaps you will all think I am of some use, even if I’m not a boy.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

All major news outlets seemed to indicate that we were about to go to war with Iraq, and the news cycle, though always insane, had been perhaps especially insane lately. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

We watched her for perhaps five minutes, but the mosquitoes were chewing us up, so we withdrew and returned to our camp feeling considerably elated. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

If severe enough, a solar flare could cause the crew to become sick, and perhaps even die. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The salsa tasted funny, or perhaps it was the aftereffects of the bad air. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I asked when I gave it back, not sure, perhaps, what I had expected his real name to be. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were many constraints—perhaps, we feared, too many. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kim would spend a few more days in Ch’ulp’o, visiting the potters whose work most interested him, perhaps stopping by the kiln site occasionally. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

There’s another part of me, my brain, perhaps, that’s telling me this is too good to be true. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

I heard him make a survey of the house, seeking something, perhaps, which he did not find. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

In fact, before his career was cut short by cancer, Bickel would become perhaps the finest constitutional scholar of his generation. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Because he is also invoked against rats, he will perhaps aid us in the office, too. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Bobby spotted Reuben Fine—perhaps America’s second strongest player—in the audience, he became especially excited, since Fine’s books had become almost chess bibles for Bobby. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Surely in Hartford, or perhaps even here in Wethersfield, she would find willing buyers, even though she had not yet worked out a plan for approaching them. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

The old, on the other hand, are shrewd, “sour-tempered,” crabbed with disappointment, and have “many opinions but no knowledge”: they never leap wholeheartedly into a thing, but always hedge around it with “maybe” and “perhaps.” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Nightshade, perhaps. A few berries only. Leaves, moistened in wine, applied to the temple.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

He got up, his movements deliberate, and at first she thought he was coming closer to her, or perhaps wanted the toilet, but he walked to the front door, opened it, and left. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

We heard the clanking of the drabware behind us, and turned, startled, to confront a young man of fashionable dress and perhaps twenty summers. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The idea made me think that perhaps I shouldn’t have pointed that out to her—getting a cop’s attention would definitely bring their harebrained trip into Mexico to a standstill. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

And yet perhaps, they said to each other, perhaps it would not take actual shape for a time. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We shall be able to pay the landlord, and eat, and perhaps even put by a little. We may even make enough to visit our son—would not that be good?” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tom sang most of the time, but it was chiefly nonsense, or else perhaps a strange language unknown to the hobbits, an ancient language whose words were mainly those of wonder and delight. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Or perhaps it was a lingering effect of the dream he had that morning. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then let it come and cried for perhaps three, four minutes. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doctor, a great Jewish doctor, a prisoner like ourselves, was categorical: “We have to operate! If we wait, the toes and perhaps the leg will have to be amputated.” Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

In their millions the frog songs seemed to have a beat and a cadence, and perhaps it is the ears’ function to do this just as it is the eyes’ business to make stars twinkle. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Papas breathing was always noisy, but now he panted as if he were out of breath, and I wondered what he was thinking, if perhaps he was running in his mind, running away from something. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Many of Ernest’s friends and colleagues pondered that heritage after his death, but perhaps the oddest judgment came from Robert Oppenheimer. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Maybe this was my punishment, and perhaps justly so. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“It would,” admitted Dr. Trefusis, “perhaps be salutary for you to recount it.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Such was Woundwort’s monument: and perhaps it would not have displeased him. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were reminded of their personal sorrows; and perhaps felt themselves to share in a sorrow that was universal. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

According to this theory “safety” was a higher value than justice, perhaps the highest value. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

He considered being offended, then decided that perhaps Butler was right. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

The railroad tracks bisected the park, perhaps not the optimal design. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Now, perhaps, you can understand why I’ve never told this story before. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

For perhaps twenty seconds they were hauling at him. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He was about to say something—“You can knock me out anytime,” perhaps—when Jimmy fell into the booth. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

A new defensiveness had begun to creep into Blaine’s tone when they talked about his friends, perhaps because he sensed her discomfort with them. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

On the far shore, perhaps eighty yards away, Katz spied a continuation of trail and a white AT blaze. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes—yes; but where is Mr. Briggs? He perhaps knows more of Mr. Rochester than you do.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

But the sun, which had perhaps two hours or so to go before it set, was in his eyes and he couldn't make things out distinctly. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

The water was murky, but he could see perhaps six feet and there was no obvious way to get into the plane. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

They emerged through a trap at the back of a stable, having come perhaps a distance of three blocks under Rhaenys's Hill. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“After what you have done to me, very brave indeed. Or perhaps you are simply very foolish.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know what I expect from this; some way of testing her reaction, perhaps. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first step, again, is to create a common yardstick, perhaps a tiny ruler half an inch long. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Ignoring the waitress’s growing anger, Blair continued to press for service, arguing, with a logic that only infuriated the woman, that if Woolworth’s didn’t want to serve the public perhaps they should sell membership cards. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Children,” she said, “perhaps those video games you like to play have addled your brains.” Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Mabel and Ana and the man Gramps would become or perhaps was already. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

No screams, no pleading wails—or perhaps the Terranovas’ TV was turned up too loud to hear it. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

His rucksack—or perhaps it is the stone deep inside—seems to grow heavier with each step. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

For some reason he was always referred to as “The Threarah”—perhaps because there happened to be only one threar, or rowan, near the warren, from which he took his name. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps,” said Scythe Curie, “but then again, perhaps not. There are some traditions not even the unscrupulous among us would dare break.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The woman bit her lip; she bent her head and bowed severely before me in a way that perhaps no one could anymore and then trundled out of the room between us. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thought he saw Cathy’s door close very silently, but perhaps the leaping candlelight had fooled his eyes, for a portiere seemed to move too. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She wondered if she should mention her skill with the threads, her hope that perhaps she could use it as a way of making a living. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He moans and turns away, perhaps thinking that this too is a part of the dream. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Polly thought immediately of Clay—perhaps he had found them once more. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or perhaps—-and this is a less charitable but just as likely answer—she doesn’t know the right answers herself. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

He was clearly a junior scythe, just a few years out of apprenticeship, in his early twenties perhaps—still an age where numbering one’s years felt important. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

A couple stepping out of a café; a businessman on his phone; a woman beginning to cross the street against the light, then coming back, perhaps fearing that jaywalking would get her gleaned. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Such a notion is familiar to us from the cults of earth deities of later times; its origin perhaps goes back to the Old Stone Age. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

In one catastrophic event all of them and many, perhaps most, of the other species on the Earth, were destroyed.' Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have no idea why only Christ’s face was blown away in the explosion—I have to wonder if perhaps that’s just the way God allowed it to happen. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

They hadn’t kidnapped her because of her connection with Mrs. Coulter; so perhaps they weren’t in the pay of the Gobblers after all. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

And he stood in the cockpit listening, perhaps, with the fog closed in around him. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

At first, glaciers blocked the way from Alaska to the rest of America, allowing no more than perhaps a few isolated pioneers to investigate the lands further south. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Did you, perhaps," he said "capture this demigod near the galley?” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Moreover, there was his godlike quality of each year expanding in size, perhaps eventually to fill the universe. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

“Mrs. Buckman,” he said, “perhaps you would like to retract those last words? They seem unnecessarily harsh.” Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

Shawn raised his arms to block the punch, but when Dad saw this he lowered his fists, perhaps remembering that Shawn had only recently regained the ability to walk. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I thought I might do some writing along the way, perhaps essays, surely notes, certainly letters. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

A breeze, or perhaps it was an animal, had shaken a branch. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Ralph could hear a tiny chattering noise coming from somewhere perhaps from his own mouth. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

He is perhaps best known for this quote: “We will turn this prison from a scrap heap into a repair shop.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She probably went out there, probably once and then no more, and doubtless she did not ask, not even Judith, perhaps knowing she would not be told or perhaps because she was waiting. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cecilia’s enthusiasm, for example, seemed a little overstated, tainted with condescension perhaps, and intrusive too; her big sister wanted each bound story catalogued and placed on the library shelves, between Rabindranath Tagore and Quintus Tertullian. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The grunts and panting of a man in violent labor or perhaps—I thought with a sickening shudder—one seized by ecstatic bloodlust. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Uhh ... perhaps in English. In Japanese a story would have an element of invention in it. We don’t want any invention. We want the ‘straight facts’, as you say in English.” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

He had expected to find them impressive, perhaps even frightening. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Still, if he was going to be a fugitive for the rest of his life, it would help to have some money, perhaps a treasure chest full of money. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

“You have been there, perhaps, Monsieur le Comte?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

If there was little they could do individually to turn the situation around, perhaps there was something they could do collectively. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Sputnik was proof, American policymakers assumed, that the Soviet Union had intercontinental ballistic missiles—many of them, hundreds perhaps, with the power to hurl an atomic weapon at US cities. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

After the palmer perhaps there would have prowled a rather more sinister figure: one of those who “sleep by day and watch by night, eat well and drink well, but possess nothing.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I say ridge; the word perhaps gives an incorrect impression of how steep the rise from the shore was. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

At most perhaps a bit of sand from the beach. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

His toes, which peeked through leather slippers, seemed feminine, perhaps because they were so clean; they belonged to feet that always wore shoes. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

But perhaps the rose didn’t seem noteworthy to them. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Yes, we are a part of this universe, we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts is that the universe is in us. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

A study he’d been working on for four years could any day be accepted into Nature, perhaps the most prestigious journal in his field. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

She could anticipate his shrug, and, picturing him, laughed, perhaps the worst thing she could have done. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps, Eleanor’s sister whispered in the privacy of the marital bedroom, perhaps Dr. Montague—if that really was his name, after all—perhaps this Dr. Montague used these women for some—well—experiments. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Nico had expended so much energy travelling through shadows . . . perhaps he was starting to fade permanently. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I’d made the mistake of thinking that perhaps we’d grown closer, and were no longer enemies, since she was not torturing me for the past week—but perhaps she had only stopped because of Kalinda. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Hale seemed to be trying to ascertain whether she knew anything and, perhaps, to be warning her not to divulge a word if she did. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes I do not know which is my country. Until today I had thought perhaps it was this.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am, perhaps, overgreedy, but I sense a good cook instinctively. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

This greenhouse is one of his rooms, perhaps his favorite; perhaps in better times he tended the plants himself. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“I believe that the school is afraid of a lawsuit, and that perhaps is why they lost their sense of proportion, no? Please do not repeat me.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“The door will have been locked and I don’t have the key. Another time perhaps.” Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

It was like a page torn from a book, a historical novel, perhaps, dealing with the captivity in Babylon or the Spanish Inquisition. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought perhaps he did not like what I had cooked. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

For perhaps five seconds it was within the angle of Winston’s vision. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Perhaps he’d hunt her down tonight, or perhaps not—she hadn’t the faintest idea. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I felt a shoulder moving, perhaps mine, reversing clips I had taped together. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The young lady, however, seemed slightly bored with her own singing ability, or perhaps just with the time and place; twice, between verses, I saw her yawn. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

No, Agatha Swanburne would sit calmly upon her trunk to wait for her ride to Ashton Place, and perhaps take out a favorite volume of poetry to pass the time. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

And perhaps the green shutters were closed only because night was already falling over the surrounding mountains. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

First he took out the tendons, bringing the troll to its knees, then he abandoned the mace and went to work with gauntleted hands, perhaps deadlier than the mace had been. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Most importantly, perhaps, how can I incorporate music into a curriculum that marginalizes the arts? Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

I began to wonder if perhaps he was even unaware of the hole in the roof; one day I made so bold as to mention it to him. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

But if you are told that you have a 10 percent chance of dying within the next year, you might worry a lot more, perhaps even choosing to live your life differently. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Now that I have recalled this episode, another event from around that time in my father's career comes to mind which demonstrates perhaps even more impressively this special quality he came to possess. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

So if she were granted one small wish, perhaps it would only have been Not to Know. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

His visit home suddenly seemed much longer than a week, perhaps because of the endless gassy churning in his stomach from eating only fruit and nuts. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Perhaps both of us were thinking of our history, or perhaps only I was. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Many felt, perhaps unfairly, that the ANC as a whole had become the preserve of a tired, unmilitant, privileged African elite more concerned with protecting their own rights than those of the masses. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many, perhaps most, of our messages will be indecipherable. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bryan’s uncle was spotted with them, so perhaps the uncle had been lying to Agent Burger, to cover not only for Bryan but for himself as well. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

In middle age I was assured that greater age would calm my fever and now that I am fifty-eight perhaps senility will do the job. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next moment, then, we were all relieved to be arguing again—a bit artificially perhaps—about the tokens. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps he has seen me outside, lurking; perhaps he’s upstairs, just hoping that if he ignores me I’ll go away. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The flutter was dead above him now, ten feet perhaps, perhaps more, and could bats see in the night? The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He just stood at the pavilion, perhaps watching the emperor as well. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

He excelled at reading people perhaps because he spent so many years trying to make himself unreadable. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Tomorrow night, perhaps. Tonight we should be glad we got across all that space without getting a meteor in our bulkhead or having one man of us die.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or perhaps it was merely the shaking of his own. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

People went to the corrida to see Belmonte, to be given tragic sensations, and perhaps to see the death of Belmonte. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Also, it felt vaguely embarrassing—like perhaps there was something wrong with her. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Despite the traffic fumes, there was a scent of fresh vegetation around, newly cut grass perhaps from the hospital gardens, or from young trees along the riverside. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Then, maybe, perhaps, I could use them as a weapon? Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I embraced them more tightly this time, aware that, possibly, I wouldn’t be seeing them in a long time, perhaps for many years. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, perhaps it would. But it would have to be the smallest of smallest sips...” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

“Measuring tape and thermometer,” he told himself, “chalk for an outline; perhaps the cold intensifies at night? Everything is worse,” he said, looking at Eleanor, “if you think something is looking at you.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

At one end of town, I spotted what I had come to find—a steep, broad eminence, perhaps 1,500 feet high and several miles long, which was almost entirely naked of vegetation. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The boy had come up softfoot, or perhaps he had been there all along; in this blind black world, Bran could not have said. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Their tabletop haircuts that sat on their heads like tall hats surprised him, but perhaps it was part of their hip image, to have retro haircuts. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

It has occurred to me that perhaps they might like to breakfast with us, my family and a very few friends, but I would not ask this unless it is thoroughly agreeable to them. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

And at the Sunday morning cocktail party, there had been just one or two women with whom she thought she might, perhaps, become friendly, after a time. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

That didn’t stop me from imagining her, perhaps even looking down on me now. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

With three incomes, the family might soon be able to afford a house of their own, perhaps on one of the wide macadam streets of Englewood. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

But we humans now represent a new and perhaps decisive factor. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘But perhaps after all I is letting you have a little peep.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sound spilled out of him, uncontrolled, and he looked down at the clear blue pool and thought, blithely, that perhaps that shade of blue was also the color of hope. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

They knew they’d have, if nothing else, a room, perhaps a cabin of their own. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Such was Charn, that great city, the city of the King of Kings, the wonder of the world, perhaps of all worlds. Does your uncle rule any city as great as this, boy?” The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

“I could not pay you. I hoped that perhaps my thanks in the form of a meal...” A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

“You ladies need a course in botany. And perhaps geometry, too.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cora’s assailant was boyish and slender, perhaps the son of one of the other hunters. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

"And sons too, of an age with yours. When she hears, perhaps she . . . she may take pity, and ..." "Send my daughters back unharmed?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

But it seemed that to Dumbledore, the fact that their families lay side by side in the same graveyard had been an unimportant coincidence, irrelevant, perhaps, to the job he wanted Harry to do. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

They hung over the golden barrier, singing behind them, light around their heads, weeping, perhaps, for John, struck down so early. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Another never came or wrote, perhaps because of some pressing personal problem which had intervened. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

He smiled peacefully and gently, perhaps very graciously, perhaps very mockingly, exactly as the Illustrious One had smiled. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

I explained to a group of several hundred Africans, Indians, and Coloureds that volunteering was a difficult and even dangerous duty, as the authorities would seek to intimidate, imprison, and perhaps attack the volunteers. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought perhaps that on moonlight nights Old Dan would be able to hear the deep voices of the hounds as they rolled out of the river bottoms on the frosty air. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a question, but I had no answer, for perhaps I had known it. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

There was something cherubic about his face, yet he looked older than his thirty-five years— perhaps it was the sharply etched creases at the comers of his eyes, or the air of authority he projected. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

My heart rejoiced at this hint, and I pressed: “Then you have perhaps heard of their king? You have perhaps heard of the fate of their king and his daughter?” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

And perhaps this is the rationale of all risky sports: You deliberately raise the ante of effort and concentration in order, as it were, to clear your mind of trivialities. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe the Mist made it look like a fishing boat, or perhaps the cruisers thought the Argo II was a tourist attraction. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

But perhaps instinctively he did not tell those stories close to each other. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

To enter them, we would somehow have to penetrate a fourth physical dimension—not an easy undertaking, surely, but perhaps a black hole would provide a way. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pilot had flown away, perhaps thinking I was just another native fisherman waving at an aircraft I knew that the color of my skin was very dark now. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hundreds, perhaps thousands of bottles of wine rested in brick alcoves. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Four regiments would be perhaps two thousand men. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My lord, perhaps it is too soon. Perhaps Krios or Hyperion should lead—” No. The voice was quiet but absolutely firm. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Any attempt to take decisive action against slavery in 1790, given all these considerations, confronted great, perhaps impossible, odds. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The cowled figure perhaps surveyed us, or perhaps was hunched in sleep or even death. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Ifemelu was uninterested in church, indifferent about making any religious effort, perhaps because her mother already made so much. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

People joke afterward that perhaps they did not want to miss opening night. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“You keep waiting and waiting and looking,” he said, “and one night, perhaps.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

This discrepancy between evolutionary success and individual suffering is perhaps the most important lesson we can draw from the Agricultural Revolution. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took him perhaps a second—one precious second—to work out what had happened. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

From the end of the spit to the boat there was perhaps a hundred feet of open water. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

He could be found on fall afternoons with a rake in hand, or a splitting maul perhaps. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He had expected something horrible—a skull, perhaps, or a bundle of snakes. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“And perhaps you forget that I warned you about lying to me.” Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Helmuth decides to return the book later, at lunch, perhaps, or when he's sent on another errand to file papers. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

“And perhaps that will be true. Perhaps I will succumb to the perils of the forest, and it will be the Witch who comes to claim my child.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

For the boys speak a jived-up transitional language full of country glamour, think transitional thoughts, though perhaps they dream the same old ancient dreams. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

For some odd reason — perhaps my brain had just reached its Female Logic Overload Point — I didn’t call out after her. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the rumors of vast underground conspiracies were true after all—perhaps the Brotherhood really existed! 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

At a passing glance, one might think her eyes blue or gray, perhaps even green, depending on the color of her clothing. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

In Aunt Maggie’s eyes I was a plainly marked failure and she feared that perhaps she would have to feed me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some believe they are natural features, perhaps relics of lightning fires, and some believe that they are man-made, burned or cleared to provide land for summer grazing. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

And perhaps not too many people buy plants for Christmas, because the store was quiet and nearly empty. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Here the lights were set in the ceiling; at the far end, Mrs. Frisby could see, the long tunnel continued and looked as if it slanted upward again—perhaps to another entrance, a back door. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

With Hush Puppies as well, perhaps the shoes caught the attention of Connectors precisely because they weren’t part of any self-conscious, commercial fashion trend. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cook, perhaps, presiding over crumpets and sugarplums. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Gogol had stopped then, thinking that perhaps his father would agree. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe, or perhaps, he concedes, he just mixed up the different locations, given everything on his mind. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Ulbrickson was also the least talkative man on campus, perhaps in the state, legendary for his reticence and the inscrutability of his countenance. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“In the meanwhile,” he observed rather elliptically, “the voice of the nation will perhaps be heard.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Or perhaps the whole world is poisoned with wickedness and lies, and it’s best to learn that now. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Or perhaps it was just that whenever I looked at myself, I saw weaknesses where a few years earlier I had seen strengths. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

It could have been left behind by mistake—some of Mia’s paperwork or Pearl’s schoolwork, perhaps, overlooked in their hasty departure. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I have a blanket to look forward to afterward, I hope, perhaps a tepid dish of kailketany a la guerre—that is, cabbage and potato mash without the potato and with not very much cabbage. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

A reporter wrote, “Men knocked each other down as they rushed onward. Women shrieked and fell, fainting, only to be trampled and perhaps killed.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

A typical whale song lasts for perhaps fifteen minutes; the longest, about an hour. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps they hadn’t really kissed at all; perhaps it was all just an illusion. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, other perhaps less spectacular work is concerned with viruses. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

And perhaps this attitude, held in spite of what they know and have endured, helps to explain why Negroes, on the whole, and until lately, have allowed themselves to feel so little hatred. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

For a good distance, perhaps two hundred yards, it was fairly clear. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mistake in trusting Dr. Lange plagued me; perhaps my judgment was unreliable. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Maybe I want to “be somebody,” as Jesse Jackson likes to say, somebody generous, competent, brave, and perhaps, above all, noticeable. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Ames didn’t know why he answered as he did—perhaps to save discussion. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps this month . . . perhaps this winter ... or next spring. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Or perhaps our little village had become odd in its isolation. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

But perhaps more interesting is the question of higher dimensions. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Carlyle knows this, and perhaps this is why he chose an art project for today. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Perhaps you learned something, or perhaps the concentration required calmed you, even if you did lose a preponderance of games. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“They found you. I could have kept you hidden, perhaps. But once I was convinced of how earnestly they sought you, once I had grasped their true feelings, I allowed you to be found.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

And perhaps it was for the best, since so many activists were arrested. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I thought that perhaps she was looking out for me, so I opened my handkerchief and waved it. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

“And perhaps I can pass this one off as a genuine Agulen. Who could tell?” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

To take “charity” for granted, to revel in this charity towards people whom one did not know—perhaps it came from having had yesterday and having today and expecting to have tomorrow. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps he has been longing for a tiny home—something smaller, of course, than Hill House; perhaps he will come home with you.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

He wore a hunting shirt and a look of discontent; his girl was perhaps sixteen, and regarded us with distrust. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“So, perhaps, it is time for the paper to return to the book.” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

By year’s end perhaps eighteen thousand had died in the city area and the disease was racing through the countryside in every direction. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

And, even though the Klan may not have been as deadly as generally thought, it was plenty violent and, perhaps worse, had ever greater designs on political influence. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Humans had perhaps a million years to get used to fire as a thing and as an idea. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chacko, on the other hand, from the moment he had entered the house, or perhaps from the moment Comrade Pillai had arrived, had undergone a curious process of invalidation. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had been hurt too when they pulled apart; one day, perhaps, they’d be able to talk about it; but for now he felt full of sorrow and regret that he’d hurt her. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Some have said that my father was ahead of his time, but the truth is he was on time and perhaps we were late. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

No, she shouted, or perhaps she only thought it, for no whisper of sound escaped her lips. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

At most, terrestrial men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

After perhaps four hours, his right arm aching with the effort, she at last lightened; the water was a shallow puddle in the middle of the cabin floor. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or perhaps it was the embers crackling and spitting on the hearth. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

I thought perhaps she had opened an atlas and pointed a finger at any old spot, but later I learned that she had a cousin in Lewiston, Idaho. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

But you think perhaps you can smell caramel wafting through the evening breeze, beneath the crisp scent of the autumn leaves. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

So perhaps this wasn’t going to be about the man on the towpath and the acorn. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

She was young, perhaps fifteen or sixteen years old, her cheeks still chubby like a child's. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

They were awaiting the arrival of Adolf Hitler and the beginning of perhaps the most spectacular public ceremony the world had yet seen—the opening of the Eleventh Olympiad. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

For a moment I wondered what to do—perhaps he’d only gone to the bathroom, perhaps he’d be back any second—and I was about to leave when I saw the note. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Or perhaps it is not armor at all. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Riley shook her head, in disbelief perhaps, or wonder. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is something irresistible about the discovery of even a token, perhaps a complex inscription, but, best by far, a key to the understanding of an alien and exotic civilization. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In all, there was perhaps one kapo for every fifty prisoners. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

For perhaps the first time ever, there was no gloating over the misfortunes of Midland. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It is better to be without the seed than bereft of the land in which to plant it. Seed is cheap, it can be bought. I can earn a few rupees, or perhaps my sons...” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was hurrying toward the house, still in high gear, and was perhaps 150 yards away when I saw him. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

And maybe now that I know what it is, and what it feels like, perhaps I can start to control its power. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Perhaps being named “black” had nothing to do with any of this; perhaps being named “black” was just someone’s name for being at the bottom, a human turned to object, object turned to pariah. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

No one else, save perhaps Jefferson, could match his record of service to the cause of independence. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Afterward a group of perhaps fifty students gathered outside the principal’s office to shout cheers for the douser, saying he had paid her back. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the night, he thought, below the loft, he would hear a sound like feet moving, perhaps. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

If they were still talking, they had decided to whisper, perhaps taking into consideration the two teenagers in the next room who had to get up and go to school the next day. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

After perhaps a portion of an Hour, another Gentleman come out of the Shed and asked us, was we the Kedron Company, and Serj. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The regent seemed greatly changed, or perhaps it was I who had changed. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was here to settle, to found a home, a family, perhaps a dynasty. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“And what with the hot morning and standing about all last night you are not perhaps feeling quite like yourself, Madam,” said Frith. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

We Navajo Marines were tough and determined, perhaps even more so than most of the non-Indian Marines who later served by our sides. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one protected him or loved him so much, except, perhaps, Tam Lin. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

If we are going to get the most out of art, we will have to learn how to look and think for ourselves in an intelligent way, which is perhaps the hardest task of all. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, Bobby was obsessed with chess and spent hours playing and studying it, but perhaps not any more than musical prodigies practice their craft. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Not as dark and mysterious, perhaps, but more alive. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He had spoken to her normally, sounding a bit tired, perhaps, but not in great pain. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

His voice was slightly nasal, perhaps because he needed to have his tonsils and adenoids removed. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

No grief or sorrow lived longer than a day in their little heads—and, who knows, perhaps the mild night air had already made them forget that this was not their own story. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He distrusts everyone, she reflected, and perhaps for good reason. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I thought of my mother, waiting patiently for me to arrive, worrying about her only daughter, perhaps her only surviving family member. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

"Yes, and just now my worm is thinking that perhaps it is time I took my leave." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The fragments of the glass marbles that she saw looked like the remains of eggshells one finds beneath trees in springtime: like empty, broken robin’s eggs, or even more delicate—wren’s eggs, perhaps. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Gibbs is perhaps the most brilliant person that most people have never heard of. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“But perhaps he may be a little whimsical in his civilities,” replied her uncle. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

Perhaps he ought now to have a church of his own—John wondered if his father wanted that; he ought, perhaps, to be leading, as Father James now led, a great flock to the Kingdom. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Winnie actually got a fright when Gregory took her aside, thinking that I was perhaps ill. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I see I am becoming preoccupied with these memories and this is perhaps a little foolish. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

It wouldn’t be hard, he said, if Estraven would take a false name and hire out as a cook or farmhand, which would not be pleasant, perhaps, but certainly better than returning to Orgoreyn. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Granting that Armstrong was mad, what was to prevent him having killed off all the others and then committed suicide by throwing himself over the cliff, or perhaps while trying to swim to the mainland? And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

She was doing a hot necropsy in Level 4, perhaps the most dangerous work in a space suit. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was irrational, and Colin hated thinking irrationally, but he couldn't help but wonder whether perhaps being in the presence of the Archduke might reveal something to Colin about his missing piece. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

At close range, and with his choppers showing, I could see he hadn’t seen a toothbrush in quite some time, perhaps maybe never. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Perhaps as many as fifty; perhaps as few as ten. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Then he went into the jewelry store to buy a pearl necklace--or perhaps only a pair of cuff buttons--rid of my provincial squeamishness forever. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

He had a kite, stored in the loft, and perhaps one day he would trade it for a better kite. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

And perhaps most I loved this about her, her helpless way, love it still, how she can’t hide a single thing, that she looks hurt when she is hurt, seems happy when happy. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The priest had changed, so perhaps his religion could be made to change. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It is perhaps the property of M. Ratchett?” suggested the doctor. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Scorpions, perhaps; a jealous person had sent them to his uncle’s hut once, and his uncle woke up every day for weeks to find angry black scorpions crawling near his newborn twin sons. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

All one knew was that every quarter astronomical numbers of boots were produced on paper, while perhaps half the population of Oceania went barefoot. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

With the wind gone there would be footprints, but they were a good distance from the town and perhaps their tracks might not be noticed. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nox, who had now become her sparring and training partner, danced as well, perhaps a bit more elegantly than the others—though she still pitied the ladies who danced with him. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Even if something had been deemed useless, there was no good place to throw it, except perhaps down the wishing hole. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

As early societies developed, those acquiring centralized power gradually established themselves as an elite, perhaps originating as one of several formerly equal-ranked village clans that became “more equal” than the others. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The male seemed suddenly to totter, perhaps from the weight of its feathers or from the weight of rejection. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Bobby’s second, the great Danish player Bent Larsen, who was there to help him as a trainer and mentor, instead criticized his charge, perhaps smarting from the rout he’d suffered at Fischer’s hands in Portorož. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She’s popular, perhaps, but closed off—she has no close confidante to help her assess reality. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

In view of the severe damage they inflict upon the nervous system, it was perhaps inevitable that these insecticides would eventually be linked with mental disease. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Under the thicket, the earth was vibrating very slightly; or perhaps there was a sound beneath the obvious thunder of the fire and scribbled ululations that was too low to hear. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

I’d expected delays, a round of questioning at least, perhaps a check of our papers. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Sacrilege! Perhaps the wild god favored us with a blessing. Or perhaps Grover’s music was so awful it scared the enemy away!” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

If you had hate, then you could see suffering—and cause it—and feel nothing except perhaps a sordid vindication. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It would serve the perhaps more important aim of keeping Reggie off the stand. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

She judged him to be midlife, perhaps the same age that her mother had been. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Tell me, and perhaps I will forgive you for threatening to murder me.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Today, when everything that I do has an urgency, I would not spend one hour in the preparation of a book which had the ambition to perhaps titillate some readers. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was an odd feeling and perhaps accounts for why I delayed my departure so long, wandering around the house many times over, checking one last time that all was in order. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, yes,” Ash said eagerly, and then it occurred to her that the huntress might have been making her an offer, and perhaps she — a common household servant — should have turned her down. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I did not perhaps acknowledge this to myself at the time, but as I say, what shame is there in it? The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

There was trouble ahead, and perhaps people were hurt. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

I felt that somehow they expected me to perform even those tasks for which nothing in my experience—except perhaps my imagination—had prepared me. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aru couldn’t remember—or perhaps she didn’t want to remember—what she had felt the moment the Sleeper disappeared. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I started asking around about opportunities in entertainment law, thinking perhaps that it might be interesting and would also spare me the sting of a lower salary. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

She was in the middle of an animated discussion with a group of perhaps two dozen people. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“You really seem to like these stories. Who knows, perhaps they’re all your own invention, and this Capricorn is just a rather eccentric book collector!” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

By the time Colonel Cathcart had raised the number of missions to fifty-five, Sergeant Towser had begun to suspect that perhaps every man who wore a uniform was crazy. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

And there’s a breathing in the black, for these huge things that control the day and inhabit the night are living things and have presence, and perhaps feeling, and, somewhere in deep-down perception, perhaps communication. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When that smell reaches the fool’s nostrils first thing in the morning, perhaps he’ll finally realize my patience is at an end.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

She smiled, embarrassed, because she knew it was an odd thing and that he would not understand and could perhaps find her foolish. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She closes my file and puts it aside, perhaps a gesture to imply our conversation has just become informal and off the record. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

The roofs seemed undamaged from the snow—thanks, perhaps, to Luke Stevens. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

He would raise Oak in enough bloodshed that he would turn into someone like Madoc, or perhaps someone more secretly cruel, like Dain. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Now his eyes reached a point perhaps three hundred feet from the top. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

All we can say for sure is that, in places where Khoisan peoples had lived for perhaps tens of thousands of years, there are now Bantu. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Lancelot had several other adventures during his first quest—it lasted a year but perhaps only two are worth repeating in detail. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or perhaps it was the pepper spray at Greyhound—he had surely inhaled enough of the gas to cause some internal reaction. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

"The ones you need are hard to find ... so young, to know their letters . . . perhaps older . . . not die so easy : . "No. The younger are safer . . . treat them gently ..." "... if they kept their tongues . . ." ". . . the risk . A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“But I thought, perhaps there’s a healer among you ...” “There’s no healing what he’s got,” said Millard, and at the sound of his voice in the empty air the boy’s head jerked up. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Or perhaps there is a different spanking story to be told. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

In the interim, Mr. Ewalt had decided that perhaps he ought not to have allowed the girls to enter the house alone. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

I froze, too terrified even to scream, then realized that it was just some small animal that I had frightened—a fox, perhaps, or a rabbit. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

At one point, the boy revealed that perhaps he was spending a lot of time online. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I can easily imagine us there, at the appointed time and place, anxious suddenly to reconsider, perhaps even to grant a disastrous last-minute reprieve. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

We hove up onto shore just as the sun was dimming behind acres of gray clouds, perhaps an hour left until full dark. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The laughter was soon forgotten, perhaps because nobody had ever fully believed the prince story—Kayode, after all, always called Emenike Bush Boy behind his back. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

His curly brown hair was matted around the sides and back from weeks of being crammed under that hat, or perhaps a helmet. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

But now, as she came toward him, Dustfinger thought he saw something like concern in her eyes, perhaps even pity....What had that writer fellow said to make the girl look at him like that? Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Don’t fret,” Dad said, perhaps sensing my unease. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Christ! Brodatt, stay on the phone. Davenport, you run to the wireless station; perhaps one of those girls can help. Get me a German speaker! Now!” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

And so I begin to question if I even really deserve to be loved at all—and if I don’t deserve to be loved, then perhaps I don’t deserve to be alive. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Omakayas liked him less with every day that passed, and wished desperately that someone, Old Tallow or her Auntie Muskrat, perhaps, would ask Mama if they could keep him. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

She had been good once—perhaps better than good. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Therefore, in his view, it was not as dangerous as perhaps the Army people believed. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"It looks smaller," Theon confessed, "though perhaps that is only the distance." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The earliest pieces were all probably written down by his father, and perhaps improved in the process. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

But perhaps Octavia liked them because they were small, soft, and squeaky. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

And if trust is one of the foundations of love, perhaps the staring is a way to build or reinforce it. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“A rat, perhaps, or pheasant chicks. Lucky for us it had killed, otherwise it might have been quicker. Still, fortunately we did the right thing. We really came out of it very well,” said Bigwig. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even Chacko had no really complete explanation for why the Communist Party was so much more successful in Kerala than it had been almost anywhere else in India, except perhaps in West Bengal. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Or perhaps, yes. As far as I understand what you have said, I suppose I must keep the Ring and guard it, at least for the present, whatever it may do to me.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

They say that his brother was tall and slender, so perhaps he was, too. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mona was asleep in her chair by the fire, and perhaps it was the greenwitch’s presence that made it possible for Taisin to finally see her. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Coming to New York had perhaps been an unconscious attempt to keep the old freezing unit going, but it hadn't worked; hot water had gotten into its coils. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

With deep sorrow and perhaps a good deal of relief, Rick lodged his father in the McLean Asylum in Waverly, Massachusetts. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He said the words with a particular kind of scorn, and Koffi had the sense that, perhaps, he wasn’t just talking about the sky anymore. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“Mrs. Frisby—are you perhaps aware of this?—your late husband was one of our greatest friends. You are welcome here.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

And perhaps it was best that he would no longer visit in the evenings. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Hundreds, perhaps even thousands of people have seen Mr. Evans in the streets of Harlem. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes were pale and watery and he could not seem to stop blinking, but perhaps that was only the light. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

About a billion years after the Big Bang, the distribution of matter in the universe had become a little lumpy, perhaps because the Big Bang itself had not been perfectly uniform. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps he does, perhaps he does. But it would be a much bigger ‘bird’s wing on my hat’ if you won that scholarship. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

Or perhaps a civilization unimaginably more advanced than ours will be able to decipher such recorded thoughts and feelings and appreciate our efforts to share ourselves with them. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no need for her to be so anxious, thought Lyra, but perhaps she wasn’t used to danger. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A deficiency of these vitamins has been found to accompany mouth cancer and perhaps cancer of other sites in the digestive tract. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Radio and television speech becomes standardized, perhaps better English than we have ever used. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sat staring imperiously across the table at no one — at a portrait, perhaps, on the wall. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Adding to his misery was his feeling of impotence; for perhaps the first time in his career, he was confronted with an engineering crisis he could not fix himself. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

From today's vantage it is difficult to imagine the impact maize must have had in southern Mexico at the beginning, but perhaps a comparison will help. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It was unnatural and uneasy, but if it worked again tomorrow, the next day, and the day after that, perhaps I would become less afraid. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

The loss of the raft was perhaps not fatal to my body, but it felt fatal to my spirits. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“But I think perhaps I was too hasty. You met my terms too quickly,” he added. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

It was perhaps the first time Constance had ever used that word, and though she’d quite possibly said it by accident, no one wished to spoil the moment. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

They chuckled about how tribal Nigerian politics was, and perhaps these chaps were not quite so ready to rule themselves after all. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

It seemed to Oppenheimer that the opportunity to keep atomic weapons under control via international agreement was slipping away, perhaps never to be recovered. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

What had from afar seemed to be one sheer mountainwall was split into several long steep ridges, separate isles perhaps, between which the sea ran in narrow sounds or channels. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Verrazzano was one of the first Europeans the natives had seen, perhaps even the first, but the Narragansett were not intimidated. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

But perhaps the best explanation of why Bobby cast aside all financial offers came from Bobby himself: “People are trying to exploit me. Nobody is going to make a nickel off of me!” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Thus man, and so also perhaps the universe, could not have been around all that long. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Burnham saw to his delight that Olmsted had given the directors somewhat more than they perhaps had wished to receive. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Fringed by mountains, the basin was about a hundred miles long from north to south and perhaps half that size from east to west. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Alas, perhaps I’m not prepared for this: sex noises. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

But if insecurity was the primal source of Hamilton’s incredible energy, one would have to conclude that providence had conspired to produce at the most opportune moment perhaps the most creative liability in American history. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

She engaged in disputes that annoyed the local nobility, and she sold soporific and perhaps hallucinogenic drugs as do contemporary Mexican curanderas. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

According to this theory, there are either many different universes or many different regions of a single universe, each with its own initial configuration and, perhaps, with its own set of laws of science. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stares at the butt-strewed ground, perhaps seeing an eternity in appliances unfold before him. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We do. We’ll talk about it on Wednesday. But no more chores—or perhaps, just one more.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Play quietly,” said Mrs. Bramble, “and if the manager appears, you’d better go out to our cottage. Or perhaps you could show Brad around. He might like to see the kitchen.” Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

After dinner he asked to use the phone and talked long distance for the rest of the evening—“perhaps for four hours,” Browne later recalled. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

By the time Dr Meredith arrived, he had revived considerably and the doctor soon left again, making only vague statements to the effect that my father had perhaps been 'over-working'. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Ibni had not stolen the little ingot, perhaps he had stolen nothing at all. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

She remained in that position for hours, perhaps days. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

My own memory of Shawn begins in the kitchen, perhaps two months after the second accident. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“I should say so most assuredly. Pierre Michel has been employed by the company for over fifteen years. He is a Frenchman—lives near Calais. Thoroughly respectable and honest. Not, perhaps, remarkable for brains.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Father Gregory says, Would you like to sit and be silent, perhaps pray a few minutes? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The existence of this romantic tendency constitutes at least a small part of the emotional makeup of most mathematicians, and is perhaps surprising to those who think of mathematicians as cold rationalists. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or perhaps it was some subtle snare to prove she was not loyal. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I would take the binoculars, and perhaps the gun. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

And perhaps Uncle wanted to make up to us for all the time we had been living out here like this, trying to prove he was wrong about our never being able to fly. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is usually reported that the youngster crawls on all fours, makes those sounds learned from his foster parents, and perhaps even thinks like a wolf. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Prosperity and peace came to the city, and slowly it became one of the most magnificent cities of the land, perhaps even outshining the emperor's Capital City. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Many, perhaps most, early states adopted slavery on a much larger scale than did chiefdoms. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

But perhaps some of the enslaved people had the personal pleasure of realizing that they had knowledge that the plantation owners needed. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

The draper sat upon the cobbles of the street, his hair lank, and a daughter of perhaps my age wandered about through the wreckage, picking up silks and attempting to drag them back inside. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Sometime during the night, perhaps, my brother here on this bed will change form, melt, shift, and become another thing, a terrible thing, a Martian. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were a deep violet, while her ears were the ears of a cat, perhaps, gently curved, and dusted with a fine, dark fur. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

He thought there would be more very soon, that perhaps even now the entire army was up. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Bobby, as was typical, arrived past two o’clock, the restaurant would be sparsely filled: perhaps a Danish hippie, two American tourists, and three young local girls preoccupied with what they thought was important gossip. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He was wearing black dress pants and a black shirt and looked as if he might be going somewhere special, perhaps for work. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

That, perhaps, is a lesson for history, and I'll leave such decisions to Jack and his ilk while I try belatedly to study the lesson of my own life. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Or perhaps it’s an attempt to convert people,” Twinkle mused. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Perhaps not at all, perhaps he had just been alive one second, and dead the next, without any pain in between. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

He saw thousands of men, ten, twenty thousand, perhaps more, spread across the vastness of the beach. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“The Roman genius, and perhaps the Roman flaw,” he said, “was an obsession with order. One sees it in their architecture, their literature, their laws—this fierce denial of darkness, unreason, chaos.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Also, there are time constraints, scheduling issues, materials and resources, and perhaps curricular or administrative support. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

And perhaps they will rejoin the Queen and it will be as it was, as it always should have been. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once Petra remembered Fort’s sentence We shall pick up an existence by its frogs, she pointed out to Calder that perhaps it had been some kind of strange clue. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

I could make them up, perhaps, and be convincing about it, to buy myself more time, but you would catch on eventually. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

She may have been a little puzzled by my words; or perhaps it was that they had for some reason displeased her. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps that is how things are done here, I thought, perhaps the real quality of the paint is always determined by the man who ships it rather than by those who mix it. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you think perhaps those things would be more difficult to reconcile if you were not part of them yourself? Perhaps to the point of driving one mad? The mind is a sensitive thing.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Oh, no,” he said, “not humans. Another day, perhaps. I’m sorry, Doli, believe me. But not the humans.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

‘I can’t abide fog,’ said Sam; ‘but this seems to be a lucky one. Now perhaps we can get away without those cursed goblins seeing us.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

There would be hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of them. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Butler, perhaps trying to circumvent complaints that might short-circuit his offer, did not disclose ahead of time to Langley’s engineering staff that the newest recruit was black. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

She was in the wood at the end of the world, or perhaps at the beginning. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

So terrified was I that some irregularity would interfere with enlistment—some unforeseen objection—I perhaps answered with too great an exactitude, too punctilious a range of detail—desperate for approbation. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

We didn’t have a TV or radio, so perhaps he never learned how it ended himself. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

"Sam Westing paid for my education. He saw that I was accepted into the best schools, probably arranged for my first job, perhaps more, I don't know." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ugwu paused; perhaps he had gone too far with the suggestion. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Exactly the same as yours do, though perhaps a bit dimmer. Don’t give up hope, though. Let us keep looking. Maybe we’ll see something.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“When you first came and I began making those marks, you were in perhaps your second year—already on two legs and able to talk.” A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

It did not know what humans are; or perhaps you could say that it knew only too well what humans are: it knew that humans are meat. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“An ornamental pond. A fountain or miniature cascade, perhaps.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Nathan no longer said perhaps; only a faint spark of hope, obstinately refusing to die, brought him out each dawn to scour the heavens for a sign. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We have not determined how far it shall carry us,” said Mrs. Gardiner, “but, perhaps, to the Lakes.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

Why, Maine extends northward almost to the mouth of the St. Lawrence, and its upper border is perhaps a hundred miles north of Quebec. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Abigail had wagered her reputation, her job, and perhaps her overall career on a hunch. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

"He did not tell me why. Perhaps he is loath to part with the warm burrow between her thighs, even for a night. Or perhaps he is that certain of his victory." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Perhaps if I hadn’t pulled her up so sharply—perhaps if I’d just made a joke of it and carried on—she’d have seen how absurd it was and laughed. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The soldiers, sensible, perhaps, of my anguish, did not speak. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The two guards were not in view: they were up on the hill, perhaps, or hidden in the bracken. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

One woman was soon to give birth; perhaps that would happen tonight, and the others would attend her, muffling her cries and assessing the value of the infant. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The commercial bull-fighters stayed once, perhaps, and then did not come back. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

It was their first experience with the inexorable logic of women, which is overwhelming even, or perhaps especially, when it is wrong. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I felt bad for him, and thought the inmate with the tray in his hands was perhaps being oversensitive. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The separate languages of the Indo-European family were at one time, perhaps five thousand years ago, maybe much longer, a single language. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

An inglorious way to begin an adventure, perhaps, but then we can't control when or how adventure may find us. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

My father, who took turns visiting his wives and usually came to us for perhaps one week a month, had arrived. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most likely Holmes forged the envelopes or else duped Emeline into preparing them by persuading her they would be used for a legitimate purpose, perhaps for Christmas cards. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

It is perhaps difficult for white South Africans, with an ingrained prejudice against communism, to understand why experienced African politicians so readily accepted Communists as their friends. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In late 1942, some officers had talked about recruiting her and her team to work with the U.K. on “outstanding problems”—which perhaps included Enigma. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Benton smiled back awkwardly, thinking that perhaps Rameel had convinced himself that he could convert tribal peoples to a complex faith like Christianity in as little as twenty minutes. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

If you bite your lip and understand that this is the only world, you will perhaps persist and endure. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

But perhaps they were already so much frightened that they would not fight at all? Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But perhaps my aunt, my forerunner, caught in a slow life, let dreams grow and fade and after some months or years went toward what persisted. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He then added, “You walk funny”—a reference, perhaps, to Fischer’s athletic swagger from years of tennis, swimming, and basketball. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Pleasant Pond was a vacation spot—we could hear the happy shrieks of children splashing and swimming perhaps a hundred yards away—though we couldn’t see anything of the lake through the trees. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Yet he was among several friends and advisers cautioning me that perhaps I had written enough. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here tens of thousands of Germans—perhaps as many as a hundred thousand by some estimates—lined the route, cheering and waving Olympic, Nazi, and occasionally American flags, shouting greetings in German and English. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

She might be exchanged, perhaps, shipped back to the Iron Islands to her husband’s loving arms. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“El Patron told him everything. He was closer to the old man than anyone, except, perhaps, you.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He does not realize the attack is en echelon for a while; he thinks perhaps it is a diversion, and he will be hit on another flank. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I did something to annoy him, and he shouted it out that first day for perhaps an hour, nonstop—and thereafter, whenever his off-kilter brain told him to, which was pretty much daily. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had never been jealous before, but now she began to find in herself an instinctive and perhaps justified hatred of the Reverend Mr. Rolf. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He rambles on, joking that perhaps Asher Wing of the Phoenix Riders—well-known for unconventional draft picks—has figured out something that the rest of us haven’t. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I think perhaps she saw the wide twisted mouth and embarrassed eyes of Martin Hopps on her and felt that in some way she was reimbursing him for his stolen life. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I knew nothing of them then and perhaps little more now. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He was a professional and he knew that as a good doctor knows it, bending down for perhaps the last time over a doomed beloved patient. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ugwu sensed that Mr. Richard was talking too much, for his benefit, perhaps to keep him awake until the doctor came. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

There would be few recognizable pieces of the comet left—perhaps only a smattering of small grains from the non-icy parts of the cometary nucleus. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

With all his security upgrades, Thread has paid little attention to the fence, perhaps feeling harsh weather and wild animals are enough to keep everyone safely inside. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Hall had become so adept at running climbers of all abilities up and down Everest that he got a little cocky, perhaps. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

My mother read aloud; perhaps the others could hear how calmly. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only when Ugwu lay in a real bed did he think that perhaps he was not going to die after all. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Of all the food-acquiring methods of Aboriginal Australians, millet harvesting is perhaps the one most likely to have evolved eventually into crop production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You allude, perhaps, to the entail of this estate.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

Petra Cotes was perhaps the only native who had an Arab heart. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

In pity for his friend, and perhaps for himself, Vetch tried to turn aside for a little that rude ceaseless wind that bore the rain. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Which is why perhaps it is good news that in February 1999 the International Astronomical Union ruled officially that Pluto is a planet. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

They believed he was secretly a Communist, and perhaps even in touch with Soviet agents. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

To his way of thinking, the Big Bang occurred after a single ambitious person seized power, perhaps in a coup. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The court system, however, was perhaps the only place in South Africa where an African could possibly receive a fair hearing and where the rule of law might still apply. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“While I do wish they were perhaps a bit more discreet in their work...I can’t deny that this is twice this month that they've saved us from a rather rare and unfortunate accident.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

He thought of the journey they’d made to him and how their lives, perhaps, would buy his farm back. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

What he really meant—and she knew it—was that he was afraid she would be distressed by it, and perhaps blame him for her distress. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Weismann had proposed a radical alternative: perhaps hereditary information was contained exclusively in sperm and egg cells, with no direct mechanism for an acquired characteristic to be transmitted into sperm or eggs. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Yet there Lexie was, looking pale and uncertain and perhaps even a little red-eyed—all of which was most unlike Lexie, too. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

This time—this time, when she would need far more comfort—perhaps she would turn to Marcus. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Ron looked as though he would have liked to reply scathingly, but perhaps he didn’t want another row, because he contented himself with shaking his head disbelievingly while Hermione wasn’t looking. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

It’s not clear, but perhaps she was thinking about Japanese naval codes. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“The Tenth Edition is not due to appear for some months, I believe. But a few advance copies have been circulated. I have one myself. It might interest you to look at it, perhaps?” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Within a couple of hours of my arrival I began to see the flaw in my analysis of Karhide—it was already out of date—and also began to feel uncomfortable, perhaps unsafe, in Erhenrang. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

If he stayed Derek would die of thirst in two, perhaps three days. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

The small concession—just one of perhaps a hundred much more important demands—placated no one. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps he hoped for an answer this time, or perhaps he merely paused for emphasis, since he got no answer. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

Occasionally, in the course of my work, someone would make a remark suggesting that perhaps the War on Drugs is a racist conspiracy to put blacks back in their place. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

They must have taken her ’round the rooms they use for the orderlies—perhaps even planted a few as dummy prisoners. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Vic goes on to say that if there is some problem, perhaps he can straighten things out. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

There was a metallic screech as he changed gear—a good sign perhaps. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Salvador, now that your father has died aboard Captain Ortega’s boat, perhaps Ortega will favor you more. He had no insurance for his crew. He may feel he owes the Torres family something.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

I stood outside, in full view of the bar, with my hand in my pocket, for perhaps five minutes. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

But in time, something in Seabiscuit’s demeanor—perhaps a conspicuous lack of sweating in the workouts, perhaps a gleam in the horse’s eye that hinted at devious intelligence—made Fitzsimmons question his assumptions. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

His clear blue eyes seemed to be able to see great distances, even into the past, or perhaps the future. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Our father was working at the Spreckles Sugar Factory, five miles from town and could not get off, or perhaps didn’t want to, for fear he could not stand the strain. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps—the thought crawled over me like a cold sweat—perhaps even my preliminary, accidental discovery had been engineered. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

By this argument, belief in demonic magic ought not to have declined until there was a general improvement in living standards, and perhaps not until the development of the welfare state. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

But perhaps he has been hooked many times before and he knows that this is how he should make his fight. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

We have no way of knowing, and perhaps this piece of human scum, who sits here today begging for mercy, is wise in not telling us. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The view extended for perhaps fifty miles, but people said you would never again be able to see for a hundred miles. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We will pick up next time, perhaps?” he said, and then he smiled and I went cold. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could read and write, but I knew none of the skills needed to survive in the unfamiliar, perhaps hostile lands that lay beyond the fields and folds of our little parish. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

The Chinchorro mummies were often repainted, indicating that they were not quickly interred but kept on display, perhaps for years. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Or perhaps the boots were making her see things. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

But perhaps it is also raining, a cold, slanting, merciless rain, with thunder and lightning playing on the neighboring hills. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

"So lets hear from that littlun who talked about a beast and perhaps we can show him how silly he is." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Or perhaps the person touched a crushed insect, or perhaps he or she was bitten by a spider. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She felt that she must see what that beauty-charm in the box was; and, perhaps, use a little of it herself. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we passed through the outskirts of Hartford, Dad was subdued and repentant; perhaps a little frightened. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought perhaps his face spoke of frustration and unhappiness. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

For a moment I thought it must be inhabited—perhaps the poor man on the beach lived here—but I looked around me again, and saw no sign of recent occupation. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

We are perhaps the only nation which tried as a matter of national policy to wipe out its indigenous population. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seems forever ago, and perhaps it was, though things weren’t really so different. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

But perhaps they would not always live here, perhaps there had been a quarrel, perhaps she had come to hate this dark house as much as he did, perhaps... I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

On the one hand, perhaps almost any well-watered temperate or tropical area of the globe offers enough species of wild plants suitable for domestication. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Wyatt says of her: “She thinks: Why spend all of our time fixing problems when we can perhaps devote a little time preventing them in the first place?” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

And he would run up and hold her and perhaps even kiss her, once, on the lips. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

I should say now that there were no women on the streets, only men, thousands of men; and perhaps carefully locked away in the buildings might be a few hundred Tang women. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They seem to be designed to be read by someone who knows Shay quite well. By you, perhaps.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I tried to go then, but they wouldn't hear of it; perhaps my presence made them feel more satisfactorily alone. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Now, Wormtail,” said the cold voice, “perhaps one more little reminder why I will not tolerate another blunder from you. “ Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He could not construct for the child’s pleasure the world he’d lost without constructing the loss as well and he thought perhaps the child had known this better than he. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Drawings were often superimposed randomly, perhaps because new images were necessary before each hunt. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z

He shrugged, “I suppose that forms some of the basis for resentment toward them on the part of the technicians here. The robots are perhaps too willing to impress you with their greater knowledge.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Fires—perhaps on ships—burn far out to sea, and the stars shudder in their constellations. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

But perhaps this is the only way we can start. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

He had perhaps lost consciousness for a few seconds. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Colin Maclaurin and Brook Taylor, perhaps the best British mathematicians in the era of isolation from the Continent, discovered how to use calculus to rewrite functions in a totally different form. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

There had been hope and expectation, perhaps some anxiety, before each birth; they were natural feelings. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I tried to breathe normally; I tried not to tremble, hoping he would think I was still asleep, and perhaps go away. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

"And what I've been thinking is this. After we're done with what I need—got you back to Wall, given you to Victoria Forester—perhaps we could do what you need." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I would keep you from the revels, but Madoc has specifically instructed that you participate in them. So heed my advice. Be careful, and perhaps you will find ways to be pleasing.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Oh, well,” said Miss Franny, “perhaps three times the size of your dog.” Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Bragging to one colleague about the magnitude of the bombardment program at Berkeley, he could not resist adding that “perhaps before long, the evidence will be such as to convince the most skeptical. . . even Chadwick.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

She was supposed to sit and read until he came to fetch her, but she was beginning to think perhaps she had waited too long and she should venture out on her own. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

As she passed the kitchen Coraline could hear, in the sudden silence, the drip-drip of the water from the leaking tap or perhaps the other mother’s long fingernails tapping impatiently against the table. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

These memories can be painful, but perhaps some things should never go away— they should be kept in the forefront of our minds to provide continuing lessons for daily life. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

That was another lesson I had learned perhaps too well: people meant pain. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

A large muddy water buffalo, led by a boy perhaps a year or two older than Minli, wandered through and was ignored as a commonplace occurrence. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

The result was a revealing portrait of a man in pain: psychic and perhaps physical. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

You may find yourself inspecting a nearby ponderosa pine, perhaps, or an aspen or sweet gum, puzzling out the magic. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

But perhaps in part because inmates cannot be “broken” as quickly as they used to be, their sentences in these segregation units now drag on and on, sometimes for years. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aegon Dragonlord had perhaps a fifth that number, the chroniclers said, and most of those were conscripts from the ranks of the last king he had slain, their loyalties uncertain. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I am feeling very sleepy; the cold is perhaps beginning to tell upon me, and nature must have rest some time. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Edna laughed and Olanna laughed along, but already she was thinking that perhaps she did need to talk to somebody, somebody neutral who would help her reclaim herself, deal with the stranger she had become. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“But perhaps it is the whole point of being alive? That life is a state of death denial?” he asked. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“It is true,” agreed Poirot, “that the food in Syria was not, perhaps, quite suited to my stomach.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first baseman charged the ball, and Herbie, perhaps acting on some latent instinct that was a holdover from a previous incarnation, stumbled over to cover the bag at first, in itself a good idea. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

For perhaps half of an hour, we fled thus. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“But perhaps you will benefit from my wisdom.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

It is perhaps conceivable that a planet could survive the evolution of a star into a pulsar; or a planet could be captured at a later time. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

With a dowry it was perhaps possible she might marry again; without it no man would look at her, no longer a virgin and reputedly barren. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had the face of one who walks in his sleep, and for a wild moment the idea came to me that perhaps he was not normal, not altogether sane. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

They became quite popular, which could perhaps be attributed to their down-home personalities, or to the fact they had one of the few working indoor toilets on the street. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

But an impact with a large comet, such as Hailey’s Comet, whose nucleus is perhaps twenty kilometers across, should occur only about once every billion years. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He did not know what Qhorin had in mind, but perhaps it was a chance. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

But, perhaps worst of all, he insisted that Dasch and Burger "were not living up to the orders" given to them in Germany. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

We have disguises that, perhaps with some embellishments from Tigris’s furry stock, could get us safely there. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

If I moved in to organize them they would resent it, perhaps become frightened, perhaps swarm out into my ventricles like bees. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The three of us do not speak loudly in our barracks, perhaps because we are sensible that these are men, and we are boys; these others are whole, when we know ourselves broken. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

‘Merry Brandybuck is looking out for a nice little hole for me, or perhaps a small house.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

In a moment of illogical compassion and perhaps some weakness, I said: “All right. Bring him out.” This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“No no no,” I said, perhaps too nervously. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

You might, perhaps, spot the two electrical meters, but those—per city ordinance—were concealed at the back of the house, along with the garage. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

With Millennium Challenge, then, Blue Team was given greater intellectual resources than perhaps any army in history. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Call and Caroline, perhaps, but not the others. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t need to voice her other suspicion—that perhaps somehow Arobynn had bribed the guards in Endovier for her safety. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Was perhaps the stem too long, the edge too thick? The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Or perhaps she’s one of those, Pile it on, I can take it, a martyr. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

They went on into the adjoining small room, perhaps a pantry. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

I was nine years old and still hoped that perhaps his eyes might move. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

No last half-hour on the terrace, not even ten minutes perhaps to say good-bye. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“You are wondering, perhaps, about your young friend,” said Lucius, “the one with the continually running nose. Yes. He brought you here, weeping, begging for my assistance. ‘Put him together again/ he said. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

He would move to a dwelling, have a set of parents and perhaps an older sibling. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I’m tempted to say that Thursday evening was peculiar, or perhaps macabre, but the fact is, I have no bill-filling adjectives for Thursday evening. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

He was a dark-faced man; his skin, perhaps from sun, was a black red, as though some Norse or perhaps Vandal blood was perpetuated in him. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

At its peak, there were around 150 active members of the Youth Corps in Durham, with a core group of perhaps thirty highly committed individuals. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The opposing view, called the ‘Replacement Theory’ tells a very different story—one of incompatibility, revulsion, and perhaps even genocide. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought perhaps it was not very tactful to talk about blindness, and I glanced at the nurse. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Lancelot, perhaps slightly biased by having first met her with no clothes on, thought that Elaine was the most beautiful girl he had seen, except Guenever. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

In her periphery, she felt people watching her—other beastkeepers who’d perhaps thought her either lost or dead—but she ignored them. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The eyes were dark and enlarged, by fatigue perhaps. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Or perhaps there had been no such offer. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Acorns containing secret messages, perhaps, but they hadn’t mentioned anything like that. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Old age, in short...One day, perhaps, it will happen to you...if you are lucky....” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I heard the telephone ring while I was at breakfast and I thought perhaps Frith would come into the dining-room and say. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

But the door had not shut tight for some time, so perhaps he’d shut it as best he could. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

“No — perhaps not, though there’s been talk. Kit, I know your uncle would be very angry about this. Promise me you won’t go there again.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

It was not the sound they had been expecting to hear—the noise of hoofs and jingling armor, mixed, perhaps, with Calormene battle-cries. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

My grandmother supervised his menu religiously, feeling guilty perhaps about earlier things she had run through his system. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

She knew many curses, and was better at causing sickness, perhaps, than at curing it. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

But that, the likelihood of their temporary nature, perhaps made them even more powerful in their beauty. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

"That woman has magic powers. She might decide to turn you into something even sillier than a mouse. A cockroach perhaps." The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

The open source movement has grown to more than eight million users, perhaps the geekiest social movement on the Net, since its members and passionate adherents are programmers and designers. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he did so, betrayed them thus, perhaps Olakunde was among them; I still do not know his fate. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

I asked, though I knew he was perhaps twenty by now and surely long gone from St. Luke’s. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“I was sent to meet a train that’s due in. I thought I would make use of the valuable time and perhaps reunite some precious items with their owners.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I ran into her perhaps a decade later. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Here was he, junior to the judge by perhaps twenty years, and yet with a vastly inferior sense of self-preservation. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

“All right, perhaps the stables are a bit challenging to clean. Perhaps they do make me nauseous when the wind blows the wrong way. But so what? My clients still pay me well.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

He published a paper suggesting that perhaps “transformed” cells behaved the same not because they’d become cancerous, but because they’d been contaminated by something—most likely a virus or bacterium—that made them behave similarly. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Alas, the habit of fear dies hard, and perhaps I will never trust anyone again. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“You’ve had your chance to look over these books. If you need more time, you’ll need to make an appointment, and perhaps someone can assist you.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

That’s because, as we saw in Chapter 5, there were no more than nine areas of the globe, perhaps as few as five, where food production arose independently. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The position was, and perhaps it may as well be laboured for the last time, that Arthur’s father had killed the Earl of Cornwall. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ate perhaps once every two days, feeling no need of food but knowing that without it he could not complete the journey. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

We’d gone perhaps a mile in jagged silence before Augustus said, “I failed the driving test three times.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

I only had to add, “pushed him out of the tree” and the chain of implausibility would be complete, “then I ...” just those few words and perhaps this dungeon nightmare would end. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Astronomers today believe there are perhaps 140 billion galaxies in the visible universe. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

For some reason—perhaps because they were smaller—the mice were kept in cages-within-a-cage. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

He walked to Plummer Street, thinking that perhaps Lina was coming by way of the city’s edge, as he had, to avoid being seen. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

After I’d completed that horrible task—perhaps the worst task of my life—I tried to focus my fractured attention back on Sergeant Capricorn Caputo. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

Bribes perhaps, or a rumor that any inn employing a certain red-haired musician would be losing the business of a large number of wealthy noble customers. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Somehow, in some almost miraculous way, his fingers were finding holds in the crevices, and he was now perhaps fifteen feet closer to the top, farther from death. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The combination, therefore, resulted in a tour that was fully explained, perhaps even over-abundantly explained, at every step. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Leaned in and said something to Ali in the backseat, perhaps one last-ditch effort to change his mind. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Or are we perhaps just chasing a mirage? A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

More of the free folk chose the woods after that—one in ten, perhaps. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Or perhaps, not so much different as more so. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

At nine in the morning, there was nothing more than a light chop on Lake Washington, a typical gray, late fall day with light winds out of the southeast at perhaps five miles per hour. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Most of the Gladers had remained quiet through it all, perhaps worried that speaking would make everything vanish. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

It was a picture off a jigsaw puzzle, or perhaps a holiday brochure advertising a forgotten England. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

It would be helpful if I could grow a thicker skin, too—armor, perhaps—but we’re almost at the door. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“I think she was surprised. And perhaps her feelings were hurt. She certainly didn’t express herself very well. Shocking, really, that a romance novelist could be so inept at the language of the heart.” Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

They are people like Gabriel Witter, who is perhaps the most interesting person I’ve ever known, and I don’t say that just because he’s my brother. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

The widespread neglect of the problem of chemical mutagens is perhaps due to the fact that those first discovered were of scientific interest only. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I don’t need to find a family here, and perhaps it will be for the best if I don’t. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“I know that you are studying hybrids,” the friend wrote, “so perhaps the enclosed reprint of the year 1865 by a certain Mendel...is still of some interest to you.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

‘If the Queen is knowing that part of her dream is true, then perhaps she is believing the rest of it is true as well.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Getting run over by a truck was perhaps the most annoying thing that had ever happened to her. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The trees seemed to have moved at their tops, leaning toward each other to create a roof across the path; they would protect him from rain, he realized, and perhaps that was a good thing. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Even so, Tyrion would sooner have used some of his mountain clansmen to guard the manse; Chella's Black Ears perhaps, or the Moon Brothers. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Someday these answers may seem as obvious to us as the earth orbiting the sun—or perhaps as ridiculous as a tower of tortoises. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cheese was everywhere, cheese centers, cheese cooperatives, cheese stores and stands, perhaps even cheese ice cream. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once on the third floor she thought to check the nursery; perhaps the children had lost interest in the squirrel and found their way back there. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

But perhaps you had best throw this letter onto the fire after reading it. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

But perhaps this shouldn’t have come as a surprise. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Tell me of his death, sir, if perhaps you witnessed it, or have heard some wanderer tell the tale. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

At one time when he was feeling so badly toward the end, he had thought perhaps it was a dream. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

We would probably have gone on and discussed the war and agreed that it was in reality a calamity for civilization, and perhaps would have been better avoided. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

At home I was quiet, so perhaps I seemed formal to my relations and other Spanish-speaking visitors to the house. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

His father was still in the camp or perhaps dead too. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

There were perhaps a dozen police officers in there. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

But such rabbits or raccoons or opossums as may have roamed those bottomlands and perhaps never visited the farmers’ cornfields were doomed by a judge and jury who neither knew of their existence nor cared. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“I know this is a big day that many of you have been waiting for—perhaps even rehearsing for.” George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

If so, they would perhaps have noted that the white hoof and horn with which it had previously been marked had now been removed. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

We watched him fly for perhaps four minutes around the Esperanza estate while we stood knee-deep among the flowers. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ruth, perhaps seeing danger, said to me quickly in a stage whisper: “Not a word!” and smiled again. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Big structures, such as mountain ranges, survive tens of millions of years; smaller impact craters, perhaps a hundred thousand'; and large- scale human artifacts only some thousands. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But perhaps their owner had died, and they had run away together, or perhaps they had been lost from some car traveling across country, and were trying to make their way back to familiar territory. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before he was to be ordained, he was made an attractive offer of secular employment, which—perhaps because he felt himself indifferently suited to an ecclesiastical career—he found himself accepting. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had always assumed she came to live with us because she wanted to be near us, but perhaps it was more complicated than that. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

There were heraldic devices worked or stamped on the sides—enormous Mack eagles with two heads perhaps, or wyverns, or lances, or oak trees, or punning signs which referred to the names of the owners. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The second, and perhaps more interesting, fact about these explanations is that all of them are describing a very different way of tipping an epidemic. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Then stun her with it, Pellinore. Give her a good bang on the head with it, man, and perhaps the will get concussion.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought it was a cramp, that perhaps I had poisoned my­self with the algae. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe my dogs were lost; the train had a wreck; someone stole my money; or perhaps the mailman lost my order. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Ah, perhaps you are right. Jon despaired of me often enough, yet I grew into a good king." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Each time he made the turn, he saw only the white, unused, buckling sidewalk, with perhaps, on one night, something vanishing swiftly across a lawn before he could focus his eyes or speak. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve met Coach K a half-dozen times,” Russ says, as if Coach K were just any old person and not the head of perhaps the best collegiate basketball program in the country. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He begins to moan, shaking violently, and it occurs to me that perhaps he is merely cold. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I should feel inclined,” he said, not looking directly at us, “to get away for a bit. Take a short holiday. Go abroad perhaps.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps his mother really was dead; perhaps both his parents had fallen down dead that morning. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He seemed keen to change the direction of the conversation; perhaps he did not want to be her teacher either. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He did not know, and perhaps this doctor did. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ash stared down at the ground and perhaps, yes, there was a broken leaf, but the hoofprint was so faint that it was hardly visible. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He blinked at her, perhaps surprised himself, then murmured to the mare, jumped down. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

She told him that she missed his “rocking”—which apparently involved them sitting close together, perhaps in one of Riverbank’s swinging chairs. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“She’s to receive ten lashes for her incompetence. If you’re intent on helping her, perhaps you wish to take on her punishment?” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Though following them to my death will, perhaps, be worth something. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Sapiens, on the other hand, developed techniques that relied on cooperation between many dozens of individuals, and perhaps even between different bands. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I asked questions, too, but perhaps I refused to acknowledge the signs. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

"A knife, perhaps. A good sharp one, and a bold man to wield it." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Perhaps, after all, he had exaggerated things, perhaps he had been happier. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

"Perhaps, Lillie, dear,” Grosie said slowly, "perhaps you were a little—too—efficient.” Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although it runs contrary to the heritage of Aristarchus and Copernicus, perhaps we are the first. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Hopewell apparently sought spiritual ecstasy by putting themselves into trances, perhaps aided by tobacco. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

But perhaps his proposition could lead to escape. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He did not know why the Thought Police should choose to deliver their messages in such a fashion, but perhaps they had their reasons. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

They were too far away for their faces to be seen clearly, and perhaps that was a good thing. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, perhaps you’ll just have to take the examinations in September and get your report then.” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Keep them close. Very good. There is even more to you than I’d thought, Reynard Muldoon. Very well, I’ll keep her close, as you do, and perhaps one day she will prove useful.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Absently, and perhaps for some comfort, she let her fingers brush the hilt of the dagger on her hip. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

If I gave them my food perhaps they’d leave me alone? Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

So, perhaps, was music, both vocal and instrumental; excavating Caral, Shady discovered thirty-two flutes made of pelican wingbones tucked into a recess in the main temple. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

On some level, I think, he’d decided that if he couldn’t go to a school like Chicago, then perhaps he ought not go at all. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Neither Augustus Waters nor I spoke again until Patrick said, “Augustus, perhaps you’d like to share your fears with the group.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

The sound of his waking voice, perhaps a caw as hoarse as mine had been when I’d washed up on this very shore. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

When he came in he could give me an idea of the state of affairs, and perhaps tell me what had actually happened to Clifton. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course that was in 1938 and they have all been bombed to bits since, so perhaps Beryl and her kiddies are dead already, in which case my tears of envy are very selfish. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Had I asked outright for a drink, they would perhaps have given it. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Today, the corresponding number is perhaps a few hundred kilometers. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the Queen would stamp her foot, or perhaps sulk for a day. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

A black broad-brimmed one; perhaps a homburg . . . humbug? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

A sail perhaps on ocean, next time, for Jonas had a memory of ocean, now, and knew what it was; he knew that there were sailboats there, too, in memories yet to be acquired. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Very Homeric. Of course, it would be grammatically correct but perhaps a bit off contextually.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Rather for liking the king better than his cousin, perhaps.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

And then I thought that perhaps it wasn’t a letter from Mother. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I think it must have arrived while the real Bathilda was alive, but perhaps she wasn’t in any fit state to read it?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Some similar dinners, if there were dinners that could be considered similar, might have calligraphed menus on sturdy paper describing each course in great detail, or perhaps just listing an intriguing title or name. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

But the sisters were close, though perhaps not as close as the Dovelies had been. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Painted Table was more than fifty feet long, perhaps half that wide at its widest point, but less than four feet across at its narrowest. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“I do not believe in miracles. But I grant that there are things—events and beings, perhaps—beyond the reach of reason,” I say, turning my thoughts into words with difficulty. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

He hopped down off the window seat and said, "You may sleep here tonight. I'll give you some of my own men as a guard, some Stone Crows perhaps—" "No," Sansa blurted out, aghast. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I’m hoping that Gideon got out alive; perhaps there was another chamber down in that rabbit warren of his. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

She weighed the plum in her hand, and for just a moment it seemed to represent everything she wasn’t—or perhaps every sweet, insipid thing she was. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

On the other hand no garage man who had seen him ever came forward--and perhaps he had an easier, surer way of finding out what he wanted to know. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

"But I have no wish to be a lord of anywhere," he told her, "or of anything, except perhaps my lady's heart." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

But now that I remember her, she must not have been too old, maybe Wu Tsing’s age, so she was perhaps fifty. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cicadas trilled through the humid air; overhead, the rustling leaves made their own kind of serenade, a sign that, perhaps here, things were safe. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

He played for perhaps twenty minutes in all, only making one small mistake that I could hear. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

More surprisingly perhaps, there are no facts in Robert Boyle’s New Experiments of 1660, his first account of the air-pump experiments, only phenomena. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The creek flowed past the roadside, coming from outside, crossing, perhaps, paths that I would follow. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

He finished fifteenth, and was awarded a ballpoint pen, perhaps because he was the youngest player. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It would be so simple, to run full out, perhaps to even climb a tree above the fog line, which seems to top out at about forty feet. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

"Would that I could. I am kept too busy here. My father relies on me, now that I am returned. Come peace, perhaps . . ." "Your coming might bring her peace." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Well, perhaps you’re right,” he said, “it would have been a lot of fun, all the same. I suppose I had better be going, hadn't I? Come and have a look at my car.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps to see them one more time, perhaps to bury them. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Some stars would have no suitable planets—perhaps they would all be giant gas worlds, or tiny asteroids. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We used to write all kinds of things like that. I don’t know where we got them, from older boys perhaps.” The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ernest would inherit his father’s vigor but perhaps not all his athletic finesse. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

In the Sandleford warren no rabbit of his age would have been asked to tell a story, except perhaps to a few friends alone. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pantalaimon became a tern and flew to her branch for a second, to acknowledge that perhaps they had been insolent. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later, his first scene with Bobby, when the shirts come off, causes the same reaction it had back at Truman, only louder—with perhaps six hundred high school girls shrieking. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

By everyone’s best estimates, she had been outside for approximately twenty minutes when the fire chief opened the door, and in the snow for perhaps two. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“She was perhaps fourteen when she sang them for me,” he said, his voice unsteady. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Moss repeated, perhaps louder than he’d ever been, and he saw people in the crowd nod at him, smile, raise their fists in the air. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The first fall was seven or eight feet, the second perhaps ten. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She knew she would die of her sickness, or perhaps from thirst, from starvation, or from the Japanese, who she was sure were marching right behind her. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Happily for Charles—and perhaps not coincidentally— with age also came better health. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a few moments, perhaps, they would fall silent, lighting a joint and tracking its passage from man to man, inhaling, holding in the humiliation. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

This crushed her crush, and perhaps also made her overlook Curt. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

But perhaps, if this was so, they might have a good way to persuade me out of it. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Then he went on: “But It is here, and I’ll find It. It is in the hold, perhaps in one of those boxes. I’ll unscrew them one by one and see. You work the helm.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

The orange slipped from her hand, or perhaps she dropped it, because she left it there on the terrazzo floor of the veranda. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was first thought to be hot intergalactic hydrogen, an immense amount of it never before seen, perhaps enough to close the Cosmos and to guarantee that we are trapped in an oscillating universe. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dagmer was no true uncle, only a sworn man with perhaps a pinch of Greyjoy blood four or five lives back, and that from the wrong side of the blanket. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Or perhaps he’s just relieved by the presence of the bottle. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

There was only one exception — two white owls from Point Hope carried small amounts of DDT, perhaps acquired in the course of some migratory journey. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

This was a habit of his, perhaps because he worked with fruits and vegetables all day, randomly sampling them for freshness and flavor. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The shouting seemed louder here than on the plaza, perhaps because the mob was so much closer. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“She seems just a little bit stiff,” I said, after a moment or two, “perhaps she thought I was going to interfere with the running of the house.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Lively perhaps, but exactly what Hoagland couldn’t use, material any spy would read and crabbily say was inedible paper. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sounded worried, as if, perhaps, he should have made them stay. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Artemis was perhaps the only person alive who could take full advantage of his recent acquisition. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

They did not breathe, or seemed not to, perhaps, for several minutes. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps...perhaps she wanted to stay here for reasons other than her eventual freedom. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

She thought sometimes, lying on her bed alone, and thinking of all his kindness, that perhaps John was that son, and that he would grow one day to comfort and bless them both. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Harry felt sickened and angry: At this moment, excited eleven-year-olds would be poring over stacks of newly purchased spellbooks, unaware that they would never see Hogwarts, perhaps never see their families again either. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Though perhaps what has changed are the eyes that see it. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

By the time Joe and the boys had limbered up and paddled to the starting line, at a little before 5:15, perhaps twenty-five thousand people had entered the regatta grounds. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Not surprising, therefore, that Charles continued his Not Marty list with “—to have the expense & anxiety of children— perhaps quarrelling.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or perhaps the tears were caused by the swirling dust and lint. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Then, perhaps, if he felt like it, he condescended, threw them at us and then gave each of us a swift kick in the bargain, just to make us feel his utter contempt. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

For all its undoubted sincerity, Oppenheimer’s letter displayed a brazen disingenuousness, perhaps its author’s chief character flaw. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Or perhaps it was because she had not asked for details, had not expected to understand details. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Or perhaps—what was likeliest of all—the thing had simply happened because purges and vaporizations were a necessary part of the mechanics of government. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Perhaps he was thinking that we might carry it the rest of the way to the river and throw it in; perhaps he was just interested in looking at it, as he was in everything. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Initially I had thought with hard work I could overcome a fundamental squeamishness and distaste for my subject, that perhaps with even harder work I could simulate something like a talent for it. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I started to think about spacecraft big enough for whole families to be launched—to the moon, Mars, perhaps the stars themselves. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Suppose we had a magic gravity machine—a device with which we could control the Earth’s gravity, perhaps by turning a dial. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it’s perhaps stretching it to claim students who’d left were an actual taboo. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would take a fancy to a person for no reason, and be friendly one day perhaps and sullen the next. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

It had seemed to Matthews, perhaps, as though everything had been over bar the shouting. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

‘And if I can tell a story as good as yours, perhaps you will accept my life and grant the safety of my people.’ Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ancestors were telling her something was wrong, or perhaps they merely wanted her to stop putting off her trip to Zimbabwe. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The walls were studded with nails; perhaps the Yoruba occupier had hung up many photos. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He is held for perhaps a week without charge or bail, without the privilege of communicating with anyone, including his own relatives. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

There is no translation for this word and perhaps it is just a noise such as a man might make, involuntarily, feeling the nail go through his hands and into the wood. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or perhaps he had acted, and died for it. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He held me there, my nose touching the bowl, for perhaps a minute, then he let me up. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The yellow dog had hated her, perhaps even meant to kill her, but Omakayas hadn’t counted on such a cruel and sudden end to the dog’s cowardly life. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

But perhaps an even greater principle was at stake, Bateson realized. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

And perhaps the cat, who lay above, where Alyce had left him, carefully licking the soft pink pads of his feet. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thus, she intended to keep Gwydion alive; perhaps, Taran thought wretchedly, Gwydion would be better off dead. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

And not one of us liked it, except perhaps little Nina, who was too young to know. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of all the catastrophic fates that can befall you in the out-of-doors, perhaps none is more eerily unpredictable than hypothermia. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

They fear to swallow a great hoax in public, a hoax already refused by Karhide, a hoax perhaps even invented by Karhide. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

I searched for an opening, a way to enter the world of the Negro, some contact perhaps. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

But, she thought, if she married Daniel, perhaps Naka could send her to school. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We were friends at Hogwarts. Listen, Harry — perhaps we should leave it here for tonight. This charm is ridiculously advanced....I shouldn’t have suggested putting you through this....” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

I thought that perhaps by paying close attention, I would begin to understand, but I did not. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

My feet hurt, I was light-headed with stress and bad meals, and the idea of perhaps eating real food and sitting in a chair — or even sleeping in a bed! — sounded like bliss. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was perhaps a bit thicker than she would have liked, but the weight was about right. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

On the island, perhaps, she would finish healing. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Dies of heart disease in 1870, perhaps die most beloved General in the history of American war. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I believe we have perhaps chosen you too quickly to be a missionary. What I thought was great potential to spread the word of God turned out to be, well...” Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

If the firstborn does better, then perhaps it feels more...acceptable? City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Violet had guessed, during her climb, that it had found some notch in the stone, or part of the window, or perhaps a piece of furniture inside the tower room, and stuck there. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

Somewhere in the Galaxy there are stars— perhaps dozens of them—that are the brothers and sisters of the Sun, formed from the same cloud complex, some 5 billion years ago. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Well—if she won’t come to us willingly, perhaps we can blackmail her—now’s our chance— Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Or was this, perhaps, the work of a repeat killer—someone like Dr. H. H. Holmes, who had murdered at least twenty-seven people, many of them during the 1893 World’s Fair, in Chicago? Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

We walked for perhaps three hours, talking little because of the steepness of the climb but enjoying being out and keeping a good pace. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“But then again, perhaps not. I don’t doubt that you’ve forgotten things, being a man yourself.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

‘I do not know. You might call it far, perhaps. But what does that matter?’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

In the same way, and perhaps quite unknown to us, other plants that we ruthlessly eradicate may be performing a function that is necessary to the health of the soil. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

But there was another finding in the survey that perhaps explained why parents were not all that concerned: They themselves were massive consumers of media. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

If she could only look at me directly, perhaps she wouldn’t have asked the last two questions. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Well, it might have been a big rat, I suppose, or perhaps a stoat. Something he went for that put up a fight.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was only a matter of time, months or weeks, perhaps. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let me see. I was really not conscious of thinking of anything; but perhaps I can retrace my thoughts.” The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z

Rachel was being so aggressive, I thought perhaps the coach should have me fence someone else to start with, considering this weapon was so new to me. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

And perhaps that was what left the deep impression on those who saw them. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

He threw them back down and, in the reverberating echo, something, perhaps a mouse, dashed across. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I should be tan, sporty, blond — a volleyball player, or a cheerleader, perhaps — all the things that go with living in the valley of the sun. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Walter, perhaps the greatest living historian of the ANC, began to tell them about the genesis of the organization and its early days. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father had tried to keep his land holy and pure, but perhaps it was impossible. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Let us shut out the night!' she said. ‘For you are still afraid, perhaps, of mist and tree-shadows and deep water, and untame things. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

And perhaps that was why the second night, when the sky darkened and the moon rose, Dragon crept out from the shadows of the trees and approached the closed, sleeping city. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

I would have given a good deal to have been able to see the notice-board intact, as it would, perhaps, have given some clue to the ownership of the house. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

“I will offer five hundred pesos, and perhaps I can sell it to my client for six hundred.” The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though promoted to a major by the Lon Nol government, Pa said he did not want to join but had to, or he would risk being persecuted, branded a traitor, and perhaps even killed. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But perhaps she could give her granddaughter a running start. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Maybe it would just be melodrama, a skin-deep slash or two, her old theatricality; though perhaps theatrical people are not less risky, but more. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

My face, perhaps appearing to them a little like his, seemed to assure them. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have always had perhaps too high a regard for the importance of face-to-face meetings and of my own ability in such a meeting to persuade men to change their views. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There are many ways to accomplish this. You could tie the ship’s anchor to your leg and let it take you down, perhaps.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Gogol hopes that perhaps the biographical portion of the lecture is over. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The marriage feast was perhaps the most unfortunate that ever took place. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘He feared I might charm Artemis into forgetting her vows of maidenhood. And who knows? Without Apollo’s interference, perhaps I would have. She would have been happier.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

There had been some argument about it probably, Rebecca defending him, and ever after this perhaps a slight awkwardness whenever his name was mentioned. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

At a military tattoo perhaps, or at some old piece of show-ground pageantry, you may have seen a cavalry charge. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fish may be monsters, and you may be afloat on a doomed vessel—a pirate ship, perhaps—unaware of the breadth and the depth of the peril it sails upon. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

The chemical industry is perhaps understandably loath to face up to the unpleasant fact of resistance. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

So perhaps the other three elements can be considered the most basic components of music. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

This she had learned in childhood, and it was one of the old Eskimo ways that she liked, perhaps the only one. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They would be gentle, formal, everyone gathered in the musty living room: her elderly uncles and granduncles, their wives, some cousins, and perhaps a baby tied on someone’s back. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later, perhaps thinking he was over the worst of it, the same man was caught leaning slightly against the wall: a born target. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other librarians suspected he somehow read while he slept, or perhaps didn’t sleep at all. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Then, perhaps, you hope that he...that he is not there. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

She seemed a placid creature altogether—eminently respectable—perhaps not over intelligent. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ugwu understood right away that it was all she could say, that perhaps she had not even recognized him and could not get herself to ask the full question: Is Odenigbo alive? Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“With that long braid, you could be a princess in a fairy tale—Rapunzel perhaps.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

And perhaps the close relationship he formed with little Mel helped to fill that space. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps you do, perhaps you don’t,” the other grumbled, but he looked thoughtful. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Besides, she already imagined taking over the running of Zoe, turning it into a vibrant, relevant companion for Nigerian women, and—who knew—perhaps one day buying out Aunty Onenu. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

That was perhaps the only mystery that was never cleared up in Macondo. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Bobby gave Michael lessons, and the young man went on to become an international grandmaster some eight years later, perhaps inspired by his meeting with the world’s greatest player. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Toscanini was perhaps the most famous personality in the musical world at that time. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

But the engineers also spent time designing strategic rockets under defense contracts, something perhaps less politically correct to advertise: Trident missiles, ICBMs, Minutemen. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“I’ve grown stronger. In a way that, perhaps, you can no longer understand. People change. You used to believe that most of all,” said Boo. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Second Wife was handsome enough and seemed healthy, but she was quite old, perhaps forty-five. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or perhaps he means it’s closed because of the work. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Later she caught a reference to a schoolmaster who was too strict, or perhaps it was an army officer. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Now I am on the other side of that night and can tell the story, so perhaps I am still alive, though I feel no sign of it. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I still doubted the white man, yet thought that perhaps Harrison had really interpreted something I had said as an insult. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many of these were stones, some carved in elaborate representations, perhaps of the areas they influenced. projects. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

But there was that thrill, even so—perhaps she’d come home early for some reason: perhaps she’d be feeling ill or have forgotten some vital papers. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mounted on their strange, monstrous beasts, the Spanish rode at the forefront of an army of perhaps twenty thousand Tlaxcalans. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Kathy took comfort in this, thinking that perhaps the city was coming under control. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Tom couldn’t help me, but perhaps the other man could—the red-haired man. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

We live, thanks to the reach of our technologies, in perhaps the most argumentative age of any in history. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

The picture is fundamentally like a newspaper wirephoto, made of perhaps a million individual dots, each a different shade of gray, so fine and close together that at a distance the constituent dots are invisible. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A girl of perhaps nine or ten years of age was standing behind them on the path. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

The horses liked it; they pranced a little during the first two miles, heartened by an extra-good breakfast and perhaps conscious of a light hand on the reins. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several dying screech owls were picked up in Wisconsin following heavy rains in spring, perhaps poisoned by feeding on earthworms. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Quickly I said, “Since there are no men to give the rites, perhaps you will not have to undergo the nettles and the ants, Chief Ramo.” Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ralph congratulated himself on being such a handsome mouse and wondered if Matt back at the inn—if he still worked there—would see the picture, recognize, and perhaps miss him. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

“The bald man said it’s all in our files, where we were sent, perhaps what happened to the rest of our family. It’s all right here.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

"That isn't the problem, my boy. You just aren't prepared for work under our industrial conditions. Later, perhaps, but not now. And remember, you'll be adequately compensated for your experience." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bobby’s attempt to find some deeper, perhaps religious meaning to his life took a wide and twisted path. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He remembers believing that he was dying, that perhaps he was already dead. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was, perhaps, the only word that had a real meaning in this place. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Appropriate, perhaps, because that is what will happen to my body when all the life leaves it; it will become cold and heavy, heavier than I have ever been. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Adiah may have been captured, but she wasn’t the one responsible for the attacks; something else was, something that was still out there, perhaps even at this moment. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Occasionally, perhaps twice a week, he went to a dusty, forgotten-looking office in the Ministry of Truth and did a little work, or what was called work. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Between tasks, perhaps a dozen times a day, the students scrubbed their cracked and bleeding chilblained hands under freezing water. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Or perhaps he was still standing by the rail of the Shearwater, wondering about me. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

But perhaps nobody was safe, with so many things getting turned upside-down. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The geographic separation between wife and husband was a proxy for the emotional distance that opened between them as the years progressed, exposing an unevenness that was perhaps present from the beginning of their relationship. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

She wrote, “It is perhaps foolish of me to say this much but my own dear Charley we now do belong to each other & I cannot help being open with you.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would not have been difficult to mistake any of them for minor clan members, cousins perhaps. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

It rests heavily on my shoulder, perhaps a fifth of my weight. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A curse perhaps, such as being turned into a raven and forced to fly north and live for seven times seven years in an ice palace—or worse, no curse at all. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

For perhaps a month I was afraid we weren’t going to get any book. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

In front of him was an enemy who was trying to kill him; in front of him, also, was a human creature, in pain and perhaps with a broken bone. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

And, perhaps, there was another reason more clear to me than to Claudia. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Or,” said Reginald, “perhaps we can find another floating barrel. That was a jolly good ride.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

His Uncle Eze’s hut was a good place to take her, or perhaps even the quiet grove by the stream, as long as the little children did not bother them. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He was not certain where he would go from there, perhaps back to South Korea. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“I can find no real fault with her save perhaps a touch of laziness, and yet I don’t like her very much. Maybe it’s that scar. How did she get it?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

If the government kept records of all the colored arrivals, perhaps among the many names was that of her mother. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

And their arguments reinforced the discordant tradition I’d found in Moorland, and I began to see discord, argument, chaos, perhaps even fear, as a kind of power. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Meeting him was perhaps the most intense moment of my life. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Jon brushed the loose soil away to reveal a rounded bundle perhaps two feet across. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“I have worked long to build bridges between ourselves and the spinners. I thought perhaps they would be more agreeable, but I overestimated my influence with them.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Or perhaps with some man in her living room, telling him about Graham Greene. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

That was surely a factor in his becoming perhaps the most accomplished American physicist not to receive a Nobel Prize, but it does not mean he failed to do pioneering research. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

For two, perhaps three seconds, a gigantic, blinding white shard of glass from a broken cosmic window danced in the sky insubstantial yet over­whelmingly powerful. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

So we shut our teeth—it will end—it will end—perhaps we will come through. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the claw of the crane had already flattened the roof, pinning his left leg, perhaps even breaking it. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

If you show people pictures of a smiling face or a frowning face, they’ll smile or frown back, although perhaps only in muscular changes so fleeting that they can only be captured with electronic sensors. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was perhaps on his way up to the eminence from which Estraven, less than a year ago, had. fallen. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

They picked a lake in the middle of the wilderness, perhaps a hundred miles east of the lake Brian had crashed into the first time. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

A man who was not afflicted by ambitions of decency in his mind might simply have run away with his hero’s wife, and then perhaps the tragedy of Arthur would never have happened. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He did not know how long she had been looking at him, but perhaps for as much as five minutes, and it was possible that his features had not been perfectly under control. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

It occurs to me in retrospect that someone might have told Professor Steinberg about me, perhaps Dr. Kerry. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

If I hadn’t gone to Whitby, perhaps poor dear Lucy would be with us now. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

That perhaps at the end of his second term in office, they would move to Chicago and he would practice law again. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although perhaps you will become a little unseen, since you see unseen things now, especially after you see more of them. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

He laughed at her, and she realized that he had drunk the wine—perhaps he had drunk too much of it. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The reef enclosed more than one side of the island, tying perhaps a mile out and parallel to what they now thought of as their beach. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

But, perhaps he could not in her mother’s presence be what he was before her uncle and aunt. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

She was perhaps half an hour from the castle, and her daily ride was three-quarters done. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Then the front wheels, or the back ones, could take an arm, a leg, perhaps his life. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

In the sunlit courtyard, people talked in scattered groups, perhaps weighing the moves of Fortinbras against the king’s defense. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The paths are haphazardly marked, or perhaps I’m just not attentive enough. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“I don’t feel Billy is perhaps extending himself quite as much as he might.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Knowing they were not there made me defenseless against them and perhaps more afraid. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now Werfel was the one who felt sick to his stomach....If something had happened to Spurge, he would be held responsible and perhaps executed. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Isabel loves to talk, perhaps more than she loves to pray. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

He was small for a giant - perhaps twenty-five feet tall, which would give him enough room to swing the massive sledgehammer in his hands. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

To the west again was a shallow, dry downland combe, perhaps four hundred yards across and overgrown with weeds and rough, yellowing summer tussocks. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not that it was easy—the journey was an arduous one, perhaps harder than the sea passage to Australia. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inigo pursued him, hurrying past the poisoners, the spitting cobras and Gaboon vipers and, perhaps most quickly lethal of all, the lovely tropical stonefish from the ocean outside India. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Others, perhaps most of the clay pots, from the way it appeared, cracked and broke into shards in the crude heat and were left in clumps in the desert. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He thought then – perhaps I do not have to be here with him. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

But most of these things, except perhaps the salt and sugar, would not keep forever, even though I did not use them up. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“You’ll go to Hillsdale,” he said levelly; perhaps he was afraid of saying too much, perhaps he thought that a kind word, or a sympathetic one, might rebound upon himself and bring her back. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

“The worst of winter, snowmelt, spring flood. Two moons, perhaps, and the bridge will welcome us back!” A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

‘Now it is perhaps necessary that we—’ he murmured huskily. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

They had a tool or a weapon that is also nearly gone, or perhaps it is only dormant for a while. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“All right,” I said, “perhaps it would look better on the larger table.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

If he couldn't track down Russian spies and bring them to trial, perhaps he could flush them out into the open. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

They suggested that he might be some exotic animal their uncle had caught in some remote corner of the world and that perhaps in his natural habitat he was wild. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead I allowed myself to sacrifice this boy and his mother, perhaps even myself, and let the old man yell this one bloody murder, if only for Mitt. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or perhaps I had said the wrong things in the right places—whatever, they had liked it regardless of the brothers, and from now on my life would be different. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

It must be a sign, we said; perhaps Henrietta wanted us to talk. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The thought of losing his friend and perhaps never seeing him again was devastating. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or perhaps it was grief that fogged his eyes. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I had so far been able to avoid Ucho and was beginning to wonder if his presence was simply an odd coincidence, if perhaps he had his own reason for being there. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Ahead lay light and safety—but perhaps just a bit too far away. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Joseph’s heart leapt at the idea that this all might be part of his family history . . . perhaps his ancestors really had been actors and artists! The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

But they sounded much grander when Queen Jadis said them; perhaps because Uncle Andrew was not seven feet tall and dazzlingly beautiful. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

I do not know what I expected—indignation, anger, perhaps sorrow: but he betrayed no emotion. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

They did not appear to be gloved, so perhaps they are not here to administer the phenol. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“Well, actually there may be an option ... perhaps we could work something out. Think positive, is what I always say. Count your blessings.” The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And as I had pointed out, this was in Neptune not Paradise, where, it may be, there perhaps is nothing else to be done. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Summer, perhaps, unless she got a job to save up for next year. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Tyrion recognized perhaps two in ten; one was Doom, the other Darkness. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I can’t see the judges over the crowd, perhaps also because I’m lying down. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

You can tell it was built for a larger gathering, and perhaps it held one before the pox epidemic. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Perhaps it was the wine, or the heat from the kerosene burner used to supplement the cranky radiator, or perhaps an unlucky combination of the two. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was eating mostly liquid supplements, with perhaps a bran muffin tossed in until it was mushy and easily digested. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man in front was dark, Sicilian perhaps, with the gentlest face, almost angelic. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Him, or perhaps the person who created him in the first place.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

But for the first time it occurred to him that he was eleven years old and that perhaps his great muscles were not quite what they had once been. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

I was glad that my mother was not dead, but there was the fact that she would be sick for a long, long time, perhaps for the balance of her life. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Singer could ignore the situation no longer, so at last he asked Antonapoulos if his stomach pained him or if he perhaps felt bad and wished to go to sleep. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

‘But just: yes perhaps, as just as our little wisdom allows. Unloose him Frodo!’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

"Hmm," he said to himself, "maybe if ... no .. . perhaps . . . Ah! Yes, this is how it can be done!" Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Somewhere or other she was suffering, perhaps far worse than he. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Once more Roy Baty sent a laser beam cutting at him, missed, dropped the tube and ran somewhere deeper inside the apartment, to another room, perhaps, the electronic hardware abandoned. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

The rise was gende, to a height of perhaps fifty or sixty feet. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Starting perhaps a hundred feet below them on the steeper side of the mountain, the patch might have been designed expressly for fuel. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Zeitoun could only think that perhaps the body had traveled far, that the man had been swept from closer to the lake all the way to Uptown. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

But perhaps, she thought, Einar would be in the meadow, tending his creatures, and would welcome her company. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

And we actually were strong, perhaps, relative to groups of clients Hall had ushered up the mountain in past years. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

I got some water, I got some bread: for perhaps I should have to walk far; and my strength, sorely shaken of late, must not break down. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Since she had not told them about Dragon and the sleeping powder, she hoped that perhaps they would decide she had, for some reason, stayed with the rats. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Tree-ear no longer woke each morning with the thought that perhaps this would be the day that Min would allow him to sit at the wheel. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

“As for you, Mr. Port- man, I’m not terribly comfortable with you traveling alone. I think perhaps you should stay, at least until things calm a bit.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

He held up the candle, looking for a fallen star, a rock, perhaps, or a jewel, but he saw nothing. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was her best effort, he knew, but perhaps because of the whiskey he’d drunk the night before, he could only bring himself to drink two cups of black coffee and eat two biscuits. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or perhaps he first noticed her in the marketplace. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ghosts that he and Petey had seen or imagined on their rides were sleeping, perhaps, and Finn had the graveyard to himself. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

We had walked perhaps 400 yards, out of sight of the camp, when Katz stopped me. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I told you,” Miss Mallory said again, patting her pockets to see if perhaps the ticket had hidden itself inside. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

It was a tiny thing, perhaps the smallest barnacle in the world. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I began to think, well, perhaps I shouldn’t worry. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

And perhaps, worst of all, no one ever would care. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

She might worry about money, about a place to stay, about safety, perhaps even about visas, but never with an anxiety that wrenched at her spine. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“I might be able to change your hair, perhaps your voice,” Celia says. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

It took perhaps twenty minutes after the farmer informed Utah Power of the accident for them to switch off the deadly current pulsing through the lines. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

For just the slightest moment, Otto thought, perhaps, he saw the hazy, yellow-clad outlines of his friends, A.M. and P.M., waving at him. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“If this is your present temper, my friend, you will perhaps be glad to see a letter that has been lying here some days for you; it is from your cousin, I believe.” Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wondered if they really believed that that was what she had meant to say, and thought, Perhaps it has us now, this house, perhaps it will not let us go. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

The first, which will perhaps become increasingly important in an inquisitive age which professes to still value privacy, makes it possible to obtain sensitive information about a group of people without compromising any person’s privacy. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Some power. What it is, our captive could not say. He was questioned perhaps too sharply, and died with much unsaid. I doubt he knew in any case." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Yet there was a space round Henry, perhaps six yards in diameter, into which, he dare not throw. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Maybe Connecticut Koreans are too distant, perhaps they think they have more money or class than other Koreans. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Briony would have gone out with her mood, probably to be by water, by the pool, or the lake, or perhaps she had gone as far as the river. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Now it is eighty thousand and leaping pell mell on in a mathematical progression—a hundred thousand in three years and perhaps two hundred thousand in ten, with no end in sight. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

But they must buy food for the journey; more crackers and canned beans and perhaps some cheese too. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

And perhaps my stomach drops and perhaps he can tell. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Or perhaps they were going to do something with him first and then come after me and the wagon. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I just thought perhaps I was going to throw up." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

It is better to think of it from the inside, perhaps with grid lines—imagined to adhere to the moving fabric of space—expanding uniformly in all directions. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And perhaps the fetus is formed by the mutual contributions of male and female parts. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

What went wrong—perhaps it was just too dark, night and fog both. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

I had expected a withered corpse, but Mr. Crumbley looked perfectly intact and surprisingly young, perhaps only forty or fifty years old, his black hair graying just around the temples. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

But she did relay it to my father, who despite — or perhaps because of — his own lack of education immediately decided that his youngest son should go to school. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or perhaps it was more like an execution. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Covered with graffiti, perhaps, or even an ill-conceived coat of paint, but underneath it all the glow of the White City persists. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Looking back to the tree, I thought perhaps I had overlooked something. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

With her right hand raised overhead, she was frantically signalling to someone—her child, perhaps, or her husband, or possibly the viewer—to drop everything and hurry over. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

But perhaps today she had lit the candle just for him, because she knew how he loved fire. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I dared to hope that because he had loved my mother, perhaps he could be made to understand my love. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Then perhaps he would tell them what she, small, skinny Lupita, had done too. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

I shall write sonatas en trio; and Slant perhaps shall be proprietor of his own plantation. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Or perhaps I was calm because I was not there, not really. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

A hundred students left the Arcanum every year, perhaps a quarter of them with their guilders. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They contained perhaps an undue proportion of spirituous liquor. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

According to the astrologer for the Post, “a compromise will help ease tension”; useful, perhaps, but somewhat vague. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ladies, perhaps I should bid you goodbye and be on my way to run errands.” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, in the darkness, Werner thinks the cellar may have its own faint light, perhaps emanating from the rubble, the space going a bit redder as the August day above them progresses toward dusk. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Syracuse and, surprisingly, mighty Cornell— the Big Red hope of the East—continued to hang back with Washington, perhaps playing their game. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

With that refreshment I could perhaps regain a degree of energy: without it, it would be difficult to proceed. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The son of a senator, perhaps, or an officer in the Praetorian Guard. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

It was a girl older than she was, by three or four years, perhaps; and she had hair of a color Ama had never seen before—a tawny fairness like a lion’s. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“I think perhaps after dinner we will have a little session with planchette,” Mrs. Montague said. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

A small one, in the open, perhaps on the beach. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

He was admired by his colleagues for what Kamen described as his “knack for ingenious experimentation,” though perhaps less so for his unabashed ambition in exploiting it. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The same sort of voice God uses, perhaps, when He calls souls to Him. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

As Pinmei came closer, she could see he was more of a boy than a man, perhaps only a handful of years older than Yishan. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

She had to get away before he came out into the corridor, perhaps to go to one of the locked rest rooms. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the stillness after battle I looked up at the mountain- tops; perhaps the old man and woman were watching me and would enjoy my knowing it. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Following the Cognitive Revolution, Sapiens acquired the technology, the organisational skills, and perhaps even the vision necessary to break out of Afro-Asia and settle the Outer World. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was not the Monte Carlo I had known, or perhaps the truth was that it pleased me better. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Somewhere around that same time, my parents had a meeting or perhaps a small fund-raiser at our home in support of Kennedy’s campaign. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“If friends do not matter to you, perhaps you need more incentive. Perhaps I should destroy these scrolls instead—priceless works by Archimedes!” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Is there a courtship ritual that involves, perhaps, an exchange of doctors’ telephone numbers? Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Most others believe that recent Mexican immigrants will eventually take their place in society, and perhaps someday muster political clout commensurate with their numbers, though significant impediments are slowing their progress. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The recklessness that often emerged when she felt nervous had pushed out those words, but perhaps it was best to see him right away and get it over with. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

His “entourage,” as Alvarez labeled it with perhaps a hint of jealousy, adopted his every tic and peculiarity. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

"We are all at risk," she told him, perhaps too sharply. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She feels a bit guilty for all these months of studying, aware that with her exams as an excuse, she has ignored Nikhil perhaps more than necessary. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“No, sir. Ah, I would say, sir, judging from what 1 heard, that General Hill thinks that, ah, Pettigrew is not a professional and tends to be overexcited and perhaps to exaggerate a bit.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought that perhaps I needed to prove to white people that I wasn’t like the criminals I saw on TV. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

More talk of the lessons in the leaves, perhaps? The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

I have lost confidence: perhaps all I will ever be is what I am now. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

No prose paraphrase can give any idea of Pindar, except, perhaps, something of his singular power for vivid and minutely detailed description. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would never solve the Westing puzzle; perhaps it was just as well. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, sir. General Pettigrew claims he saw them yesterday afternoon. General Hill says he was, ah, overeager. General Hill says he expects no opposition but perhaps some local militia, with shotguns and such.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or worse—perhaps he would feel obligated to tend her in her remaining days. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Only in 1675 did one of his sons, angered at being pushed around by colonists’ laws, launch what was perhaps an inevitable attack. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

A group of men with authority—doctors, lawyers, detectives, perhaps—took her into a room and told her he was gone. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

We passed through homestead and swamp, traversing a distance of perhaps ten miles in all. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The ash blew and washed away, leaving the shards to cure in the heat and sun for the hundreds, perhaps thousands, of years down to the present. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

His work was the finest in the region, perhaps even in the whole country. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Outside, the box was plain, but perhaps inside . A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

"Oh yes, Miss, I can manage. If there's to be large parties often perhaps Mrs. Owen could get extra help in." And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

“They looked rather at home in those tales, in fact. But if the children did not care for the actors’ tableaux,” she added slyly, “perhaps they will show us one of their own.” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Better down than on deck, where they can be washed away, but perhaps they fear the wrath of the captain more than the wrath of heaven. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

He laid his finger beside his nose, a sign of stealth, or perhaps deceit. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“If that is who I think it is, I know for a fact he is in London at the moment, so perhaps this is not as immediate as you think.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

It is now known that a limulus clotting system, perhaps ancestral to ours, is centrally involved in the reaction. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Amari also noticed what might have been tears on Mrs. Derby’s face, but perhaps it was just her imagination. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know much more than the name of our village and my father’s family name—though perhaps this information would be enough. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Spassky appeared on time at the backstage location; at first he sat in Fischer’s chair and, perhaps unaware that he was on camera, smiled and swiveled around several times as a child might do. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Sunshine, however, was perhaps most particularly unkind to the carpet. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

It was perhaps a change in the wind’s sound, or a change in the pattern of the sound of the sea that first warned him. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

In addition, White brought on an experienced deep-cover operative who looked more like an insurance salesman—perhaps because it was his former profession. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

So, when he had escaped those flames, perhaps in those final moments of consciousness, he had seen a man on a horse. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

"I am no sei," the Hound replied, but he took the vic-tory, and the champion's purse, and, for perhaps the first time in his life, the love of the commons. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

"In the morning, perhaps we will see the king march by. I'll record it for my chronicle." The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Finally, and perhaps a little unexpectedly, readings can be thrown out by seemingly unrelated external factors–such as the diets of those whose bones are being tested. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

They were being asked to move out of the house because the landlord had found somebody who would pay him twice or perhaps three times the rent. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The cook would be offended, and perhaps go to Mrs. Danvers. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

There are great caverns for the gardens of fungi on which the termites depend for their nourishment, perhaps also as a source of heat. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed that perhaps the nurturer was still taking him home at night. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

There was her mothers widowed brother with his boy, Dan, but the small girl, Mar, was not with him; perhaps she had been given away. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had been waiting on the steps for perhaps an hour, and were beginning to grumble about how hungry they were, when the front door opened, and Rhonda Kazembe appeared. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“The old man paused and then continued, ‘If you will unreservedly confide to me the particulars of your tale, I perhaps may be of use in undeceiving them. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had been an older brother of Lord Rickard, Bran's grandfather, or perhaps a younger brother, or a brother to Lord Rickaid’s father. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“It should, perhaps, but it doesn’t. People are bloodthirsty. It’s the nature of simple folk. Blood excites them, and they love to be excited. It takes them out of their boring lives.” Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

“After stealing his magic books! Or perhaps you may drag your dagger across his throat.” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

It is perhaps the most incongruous relationship in sports. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I caught hold of the handles of the barrow and was barely able to lift it; it weighed perhaps four times as much as I did. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the afternoon of December 18, 1959, young Mrs. Johnson was expecting guests; three women of the neighborhood were coming by for coffee and cake and perhaps a game of cards. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The material for a great epic is there, as great as the Iliad, perhaps even greater, but no poet came to work it over as Homer did the early stories which preceded the Iliad. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bran thought he could smell smoke now, but perhaps that was only the torch. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

In March of 1864 he felt a glow of personal triumph that his resentment had perhaps been justified. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

“None of us have money. All we have to sell are store vouchers and perhaps a few silver spoons and thimbles brought Over from our homelands.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

As I stood in this state of indecision, there was a dry crack of wood and a careless disturbance of undergrowth perhaps fifty feet into the woods—something good-sized and unseen. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Ah! you think yourself sharp. Well, perhaps I have: to speak truth, I have an acquaintance with one of them, Mrs. Poole—” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“When he gets honorary degrees from other places, perhaps they give him fancy robes and he keeps them here for dressing up....Pan, do you really think it’s not poison in that wine?” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I can only assume they’ve been handed down from her mother or perhaps another successful relative. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

And perhaps I will go away from here, go away forever....No. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Jesse wouldn’t argue that, but he saw her as a beautiful wild creature who had been caught for a moment in that dirty old cage of a schoolhouse, perhaps by mistake. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Or perhaps she had already asked them of her cards or the spirits. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were perhaps four meters apart when the girl stumbled and fell almost flat on her face. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

She was perhaps too young to realize that what she assumed was her love for Chacko was actually a tentative, timorous, acceptance of herself. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And did you stop anywhere along the way? Errands, perhaps? Did you visit anyone or go anywhere? Speak to anybody about anything?” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Or perhaps it was a fox. Come along, we must start back.” The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, perhaps, tomorrow you can push someone down and grab his paper while he’s trying to get up. I’m afraid, though, that our budget won’t allow this expense.” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Thank you, Albert, for offering the tea, and thank you for listening to me. I hope, perhaps, you will find what I said helpful. Especially now.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“One more week, Master,Underwood. And then, if you cannot prove your claims, it will be time for you to pursue another career. Something to suit your dramatic talents. Puppet theater, perhaps. Or tap dancing.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Your full name is Arizendikwunnem, isn’t it? You come from your mother’s people. So perhaps you look like a monkey as well,” Aunty Ifeka murmured. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Or perhaps a pack of tame hunting dogs used to tracking runaway slaves. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

And Josiah—if only I had let him continue sleeping on the first day of training, perhaps he wouldn’t have gone to the front line in the first place. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Or perhaps he had only now seen that the way was open. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I thought of the ways Nils was perhaps falling short. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

If Edward had taken the suit, and left, and never come back, he would, in effect, have doomed Mr. Loomis to stay in the laboratory—perhaps forever—probably forever. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Ignatius found himself in perhaps the most disreputable office that he had ever entered. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not as beautiful as the women in the magazine, perhaps, but beautiful. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Perhaps when Call came home—perhaps—well, at the very least when he came I could turn over my tasks to him. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps previously, I had awakened only at night; or perhaps in my distraction, my sight as well as my other faculties had been rendered inoperative. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Anyone can buy cheap paintings and reproductions to decorate a room, where they often hang virtually unnoticed, perhaps deservedly so. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

At dinner, when I brought his ale, I did manage to speak, perhaps because I truly had a question, not simply a wish to impress. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

But that doesn’t get me much, except perhaps with Miss King, this English teacher I’m going to tell you about. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

With so many strangers around, perhaps no one would notice them. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

For this reason be automatically wondered whether he had not perhaps been discourteous to the butler in his distraction. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The white God has not delivered them; perhaps the Black God will. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

It might have looked a little like Mrs. Klein when she was younger, so perhaps it was a brother. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

His music was, however, mostly enjoyed by audiences in his own lifetime, and perhaps most significantly it exerted a huge influence on the debate over music’s future direction. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

For others perhaps it is compensation for not being allowed to have children: “Be my son or my daughter for a year, and I will give you power over life and death.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

If you dropped a dime in the telescope and pointed it at Earth, perhaps you could see the big war happening there. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

I started walking, glancing over my shoulder every few seconds to see if perhaps another car was coming down the road behind me. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

The psychoanalyst was then one of the fastest players in the country, perhaps even stronger than Bobby had anticipated. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, try a bit harder, and perhaps someday you’ll be allowed to come with us.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man bent down and inspected the locket, grasping it perhaps he was Talented at solving mysteries. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

And if his regulator was perhaps on the fritz and not delivering oxygen to his mask, that would also explain Andy’s apparent lack of lucidity. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“If I only had my own tools or just a chisel of good quality...then perhaps I could make something worthy of you calling me that.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

This was his last moment in the library, and perhaps his last opportunity to foil Count Olaf’s plan. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

Not that the inhabitants would tolerate such an opinion— perhaps rightly. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, OK, I’ve never even shaved my face before, so perhaps I should have figured out this wouldn’t be a quick or painless procedure. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed to me that the earth was generous and outgoing here in the heartland, and perhaps the people took a cue from it. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her white hair—braided, perhaps; perhaps not—she touched as though replacing a wayward strand from an elegant coiffure. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Both had replaced Stonewall Jackson, who was perhaps irreplaceable. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or was it some member of the company—Mr. Heminges, perhaps, seeking a moment of solitude in which to balance his accounts? The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

“We can’t do anything. Although we could perhaps stop Prosper from jumping into the lagoon. It’s just not good enough leaving a bunch of children to look after themselves.” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

She was perhaps five and forty years, with pale eyebrows and small eyes like apple seeds. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wonders whether to praise Kat and so perhaps gain a little for himself. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Governor, perhaps this will make things a little better,” he said. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the face of the stony wall there was something like a stair: natural perhaps, and made by the weathering and splitting of the rock, for it was rough and uneven. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

If the old religion could no longer answer the questions of the children then perhaps it was time to change it. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were perhaps fifty of us in all, making the room about three-quarters full. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“A few of the atomic contacts were still too close for comfort,” they admitted—but perhaps these would be fixed by additional fiddling. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

He looked hopefully at Bogert, who was still blandly neat and whose inner tension was perhaps betrayed only by the trace of glister at his temples. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Jinny thought perhaps that was enough adventure for a few sleeps. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Most of them were hiding their faces in their hands, perhaps in an instinctive attempt to shield themselves from the dementors’ greedy mouths. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the red arrows were the ones to follow—perhaps that was the trick. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

She recalled being told about a mother and father who needed to take a long, dangerous journey and would someday return for her—or perhaps that was something she had read in a book. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

She looked at me as though she thought I was crazy; and, frankly, I felt that perhaps I ought not to say anything to anybody. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I shudder to think what that means. But perhaps it will limit Kronos’s power. For a time, at least, he is confined to a human form. It binds him together. Hopefully it also restricts him.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Criminologist Stanley Cohen wrote perhaps the most important book on the subject, States of Denial. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

She had hoped that perhaps the threads would already be dyed. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Who knows, perhaps the day will come when I’m left alone more than I’d like! The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Well, perhaps there are some days when I feel like that. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Winston had seen O’Brien perhaps a dozen times in almost as many years. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I say, shouting perhaps, from a half foot away. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

And this she had remembered as she thrust him from her; with what had perhaps been her last breath she had mocked him and his father with this name. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

He pauses, perhaps expecting applause, but receives none, so he continues. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“Well...not much better. But perhaps you deserve to be something better than a corn plant. Sorghum? Sorghum is very nice.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t something she did often, you know—once in a season, perhaps—and it was special because Jamie was there. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

So perhaps it was wrong of me to form a judgement like that. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

But perhaps, the commerçant decided, looking Mother up and down, avoiding her rigid blue gaze, perhaps he had room for the white woman. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had expected to see a carp the size of a river carp, perhaps a little bigger and slightly orange instead of brown. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But as it turns real—real skin, real cleavage, perhaps not-so-real blond hair—their faces slowly light up. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Over time, weather and earthquakes and perhaps human malice had buckled most of the walls, but their overall layout had been preserved. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Broken shingles from the roof covered the floor, there was an empty sack in a corner, some broken earthenware shards, perhaps from a dish or a plate, and a few bones gnawed clean. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Modeled after the border crossings above ground, the sign was perhaps meant as a joke among spies. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then perhaps events would take their proper course with no more need of interference from him. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was trying to discover myself—and survive perhaps—by exploring the world in dangerous ways. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Acropolis seemed devoid of mortals, perhaps because of the financial problems in Greece. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“It is certainly a fearsome beast, perhaps one of the most intelligent predators to ever walk these lands.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

This was perhaps unduly harsh; Lawrence’s effort to secure Livingston another year’s stipend through Crocker’s medical school donation attested to the esteem he held for this particular pair of arms. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Perhaps it was the reward promised me by Simon Bass, perhaps it was the thought of having to fend for myself in this unfamiliar territory, perhaps it was both. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Some have suggested that perhaps blacks felt in on the joke, laughing at the over-the-top characters from a sense of “in-group recognition.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Perhaps you will thank him for his very singular circus, and perhaps that will suffice. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Geeks, perhaps more accustomed to free expression than their non-wired peers, increasingly and disturbingly refer to schools as “fascistic” environments in which they are censored and oppressed. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a flat ridged disk perhaps two inches irf diameter, and it was thick, like the bottom of a drinking glass. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was perhaps the loveliest moment in his life. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

If she set herself apart, perhaps she would be less of the person she feared she had become. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The shopkeeper looked at her oddly, but he was from the Indies and didn’t understand her accent, perhaps, although she asked very clearly. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Of course, I survived and prospered. I have risen to be queen of the Amazons. So perhaps I should thank you.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The perhaps surprising answer is 2A, since there are three equally likely possibilities— older boy, younger girl; older girl, younger boy; older girl, younger girl—and in two of them the family has a son. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I...I was sure it was an airborne toxin of some sort, perhaps one that could be washed away. I apologize, Chancellor. I thought it was the best way to serve the Collective.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Perhaps, if he could just keep Slughorn in a good mood...perhaps if they got through enough of the oak-matured mead... Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

For him, this was perhaps the highlight of an otherwise bleak existence. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bears—animals, whatever they were—drank for perhaps twenty minutes more, then quietly departed the way they had come. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Born the same day, perhaps, then steered by codes and circumstances to serve disparate agencies. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Now I’ll see you after supper, or perhaps a bit later. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

So I added: "Since I just started at a new school, you're right now sort of my only friend, so that makes the distinction perhaps not much of a difference." Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Was it, perhaps, their friendship that bothered you? Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Her father had been consumed by hate for others—and perhaps even himself—but he had still been a great man, and had done much for the community. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

"They may not mean me ill. Men have looked at women since time began, perhaps it is no more than that." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Joinville is pleading, thinking back, perhaps, to the stories he heard at the inn. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

On the other hand, perhaps at least some humans in any large area of the globe would have been receptive to the experimentation that led to domestication. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I wandered aimlessly for perhaps a quarter hour, exploring. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It felt better than the wire, but it had little strength, and it wouldn’t last very long; but perhaps they didn’t have much further to go. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The most puzzling member, perhaps, and the least anticipated. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Though his siblings worshiped in a variety of ways, Zeitoun was perhaps the most devout, missing none of his daily prayers. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He would also have taught me German and Greek and Latin, which he knew, and perhaps I would be a Lutheran. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

He was perhaps a trifle annoyed with Tom for seeming to make so light of what even Gandalf thought so perilously important. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The boat looks no more than fifteen feet in length and perhaps five feet wide. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A large animal, he thought—perhaps a moose. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

She spent much of their time together stealing sideways glances at her, as if Ash had become some sort of strange creature or, perhaps, an invalid. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had been deported from England, after all, so perhaps he would not consider himself a returnee like them. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

That would worry them; she could tell them, perhaps, when it was safely done—when, among other things, there would be no chance for Martin to volunteer in her place. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“We must get to Washington. Isn’t there another flight— perhaps on another airline?” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Ahead, in the prow, two boys were bending over an upturned bike, mending a puncture perhaps. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Jack overheard his father telling his mother he was worried about what could happen to Jews in Poland, and perhaps they should move to Australia, one country where Jews could still go. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps after all she was not really following him about; perhaps it was coincidence that she had sat so close to him two days running. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“Very well, then, we will go away. And then perhaps”—Mary Poppins’s voice was at its most priggish—“you’ll be sorry you missed us.” Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

I do not know what emboldened me—perhaps it was his silence. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were hundreds, perhaps thousands, of cases against the city, the federal government, FEMA, police officers, the Army Corps of Engineers. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Presumably the weed is taking something from the soil; perhaps it is also contributing something to it. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

For a moment he wondered if the Ring itself had not played him a trick; perhaps it had tried to reveal itself in response to some wish or command that was felt in the room. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Or perhaps you don’t think it strange at all, for it was his way to know such things before I said a word. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

During the eighteen years of his reign, the city acquired diplomatic stature and commercial clout; its population grew to perhaps ten thousand and it established trade contacts throughout Mesoamerica. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Vindictive perhaps, but totally justified considering what Artemis Fowl had put her through. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Watching in the bushes, Omakayas and Angeline waited for them to resume their talking, but that day, mulling over Fishtail’s difficult words perhaps, the men kept their silence. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

He could cany a burning stick and build a signal and perhaps attract attention. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z