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Sentences starting with possibly

Possibly it is your skull: you want to look out for that. [5]
Possibly he contemplated writing a story with this idea as the theme, but He seems never to have done so. [5]
Possibly the difficulty wouldn't be so great as many people suppose. [6]
Possibly in his visions he travels far away from the gross world and his regular washing, and feast on succulent rats and birds'-nests in Paradise. [5]
Possibly because he thought that he discovered in me a talent for poetic expression, he showed me unusual favor, even read his own verses aloud to me, and set me special tasks in verse-writing, which he criticised with me when I had finished. [10]
Possibly he wondered that Voban did not strike, and he himself took a delight in showing him his own wrongs occasionally. [11]
Possibly I may succeed; but you--you scorn it, and fly from her son. [10]
Possibly I may see you, for I shall be in St. Louis a day or two in November. [5]
Possibly that was really the way of it. [5]
Possibly no intelligent person was deceived, but in the estimation of the mass of the people the Spectrum increased its reputation for enterprise and smartness and gave also an impression of its fairness. [4]

Sentences ending with possibly

It may go today, possibly. [5]
If it be imitated once, it has a chance; if twice a better chance; if three times it is reaching a point where account must be taken of it; if four, five, or six times, it has probably come to stay--for a whole century, possibly. [5]
After a great deal of effort we managed to discern some little fine yellow specks, and judged that a couple of tons of them massed together might make a gold dollar, possibly. [5]
Possibly. [5]
Possibly. [11]

Short sentences using possibly

Moreover, a possibly harmful one. [5]
Possibly there were four. [5]
I couldn't possibly do it. [2]
Possibly it was both. [5]
Possibly more. [5]

More example sentences with the word possibly in them

No one but your brother himself can possibly explain the strange way in which he disappeared. [10]
I hope to write from the Sea of Tiberius, Damascus, Jerusalem, Joppa, and possibly other points in the Holy Land. [5]
It was not worth more than a dollar, or possibly a dollar and half, before the captive students began their work on it. [5]
The senator's face wore a look of concern which could not possibly be misinterpreted. [9]
Mr Slum then withdrew to alter the acrostic, after taking a most affectionate leave of his patroness, and promising to return, as soon as he possibly could, with a fair copy for the printer. [12]
I fancy she will have tried to reach the sea, and to get to Egypt or possibly to Alexandria; and there--you know what the Greek city is--she will fall into utter ruin. [10]
Besides, all you will have to do will be to state what you have seen, and then, if I possibly can, I will bring you back under the tender escort of this arm, to your mother once more. [10]
Like all bachelors who have lived a lonely life, Master Byles Gridley had his habits, which nothing short of some terrestrial convulsion--or perhaps, in his case, some instinct that drove him forth to help somebody in trouble--could possibly derange. [6]
When I contrast what I have achieved in my measurably brief life with what he has achieved in his possibly briefer one, the effect is to sweep utterly away the ten-story edifice of my own self-appreciation and leave nothing behind but the cellar. [5]
I don't know what for, but possibly they are devising new and mysterious ways for remunerating authors. [5]
Her last words were that, after we put into Aden, she would possibly take me at my word. [11]
These extraordinary towns were ten miles apart, a few months ago, but were growing so fast that they may possibly be joined now, and getting along under a single mayor. [5]
Under Necho they were recommenced, and possibly finished by Darius. [10]
For now we were in London for London itself, to do shopping, to see sights, to be our own master and mistress, and to live as independent a life as we possibly could. [6]
I know too well that what I say will not reach the eyes of many who might possibly take a hint from it. [6]
How could a week or ten days with Jerry possibly affect my newborn, resolve? [9]
Some instinct taught Washington that his present lack of money would be an obstruction, though possibly not a bar, to his hopes, and straightway his poverty became a torture to him which cast all his former sufferings under that held into the shade. [5]
But what it was, no one could tell: it might be some caprice of a sick and half-crazy man, or it might relate to public affairs, or possibly to family concerns. [2]
Katharina's whole being was in wild revolt; she did not know how she was able to return Heliodora's greeting, and to ask her how she could possibly play the lute with a headache. [10]
Once, while I was hungrily taking in one of these surprises, and doing my best to get all I possibly could of it while it should last, I was interrupted by a young and care-free voice: "You're an American, I think--so'm I. [5]
The sick man was going to be swallowed up in the flames before it could possibly arrive. [6]
Our first emotion was deep, unutterable gratitude, our next was a foolish rage, born of the suspicion that possibly the hotel had been visible three-quarters of an hour while we sat there in those cold puddles quarreling. [5]
My brother's wife was astonished; and represented to her the hardships and fatigues of such a trip, and said my mother might possibly not even survive them; and said there could be no possible interest for her in such a meeting and such a crowd. [5]
Now an Eletto was again to be chosen, and whoever was elected would have command of at least three thousand men, and possibly more, as it was expected that other regiments would join the insurrection. [10]
I shall be very glad to take you in this evening, but I can't possibly do it before. [10]
Dr. Butts looked upon them as possibly expressing wishes which would be his last, and noted them down carefully immediately after leaving his chamber. [6]
In such an undertaking he needs every moral support and influence that can possibly be brought to his aid and thrown around him. [7]
They can't possibly understand it all now. [6]
I know your uncle--I know that he will make his borrowed throne as wide as he possibly can; but when we return home he will be quite content to sit on a narrow seat again. [10]
Why should the two halves of a brain not show a natural difference, leading to confusion of thought, and very possibly to that instinct of contradiction of which I was speaking? [6]
We mean to treat you, as near as we possibly can, as Washington, Jefferson, and Madison treated you. [7]
Features a little too sharp, a keen, gray eye, a quick and restless glance, which rather avoided being met, gave the impression that she was a wide-awake, cautious, suspicious, and, very possibly, crafty person. [6]
It revolted her to reflect that he might in some ways possibly resemble Ditmar. [9]
There are seventy thousand (and possibly one hundred thousand) Chinamen on the Pacific coast. [5]
The sound of those familiar words, spoken by accident as they were, opened the way to a better understanding, as nothing else could possibly have done. [11]
It is at this point that you gentlemen come in, for it was your business to unload 250,000 volumes upon the public in five years if you possibly could. [5]
The fact that this one is lamellibranchiate in its formation, simply adds to its interest as being possibly of a different kind from any we read of in the records of science, but yet in no manner marring its authenticity. [5]
How I got this impression, and how it may possibly be remedied, I will now try to show. [7]
You may possibly think me too candid, and even accuse me of incivility; but let me assure you that I am not half so plain-spoken as Nature, nor half so rude as Time. [6]
So what was the use of performing various operations on the French who were running away as fast as they possibly could? [2]
When I reached the street I was wondering whether Gorse and Dickinson and the others, Grierson especially, could possibly have entertained the belief that I would turn traitor? [9]
I had doubted the relapse perhaps; possibly I had believed in it, but had not realized it. [5]
The next morning the fair holidays were to end, school would begin and Adrian had intended to finish his tasks this evening; but the visit to the English riders had interfered, and he could not possibly appear before the rector without his exercise. [10]
She knows that the edge of a broken teacup may be sharper, very possibly, than that of a philosopher's jackknife. [6]
She must wake the dreaded man, the only man who could possibly help her. [10]
His own mother, the aged duchess, could not have looked upon him with more affection, and possibly not have pampered him with so many luxuries. [4]
Vast as are the advances of our Science and Art, may it not possibly prove on examination that we retain other old barbarisms beside the use of the astrological sign of Jupiter, with which we endeavor to insure good luck to our prescriptions? [6]
I was certain that, if Roscoe or Mr. Devlin were present, a prohibitive influence could be brought to bear; that some one of strong will could stand, as it were, in the gap between them, and prevent a pitched battle, and, possibly, bloodshed. [11]
Phanes answered quickly that the Achaemenidae were rejoicing in the thought that a war might possibly be near at hand. [10]
It seems singular that no command of any importance appears to have been given to the brave Scot; but, possibly, the part played by the Major when under parole at Fort du Quesne, was weighed by the Imperial authorities. [11]
And through all that bombardment only one patch of slates was ripped up, and that was because, for a single instant, the rods in the vicinity were transporting all the lightning they could possibly accommodate. [5]
Some pinched in tender places; some were too loose; some were too square-toed; some were too coarse, and did n't please; some were too thin, and would n't last;--in short, they could n't possibly find a fit. [6]
All such collisions tend to excite misapprehensions, and possibly to produce mutual reclamations between nations which have a common interest in preserving peace and friendship. [7]
It was a tale which the author of it may possibly have completed satisfactorily, and if he really had that good fortune I would like to know what the ending was. [5]
It did obviously suggest the idea of an underhand arrangement with Miss Cynthia, possibly involving some very grave consequences. [6]
He told the story so often, to so much hospitality, that he lost his footing on Mountain Street steps--you remember Mountain Street steps possibly, Monsieur?--and cracked his head on the last stone. [11]
So there he stands,--one book open in his hands, a volume under each arm, and one or more between his legs,--loaded with as many as he can possibly hold at the same time. [6]
But the exact stage of disillusionment she had reached in regard to Eldon Parr was unknown to him, and he feared that a further revelation might possibly sever the already precarious tie between father and daughter. [9]
Even though the Southern people will not so much as listen to us, let us calmly consider their demands, and yield to them if, in our deliberate view of our duty, we possibly can. [7]
Think of me sometimes, Lysias, and of our journey here, and of our talk, and of my parents: I entreat you, do for them all you possibly can. [10]
That he did so possibly led the author of his life to exhibit a somewhat hostile attitude towards his hero. [4]
He was so smiling and happy after that, that I could not refrain from asking him how he could possibly be so comfortable with a crushed foot. [5]
It put a singular power into his possession, which might possibly hereafter lead to something more significant than the mystification of the Widow Hopkins. [6]
And this was simply the receipt of a letter from Henderson; not a love-letter--far enough from that--but one in which there was a certain tone and intention that the most inexperienced would recognize as possibly serious. [4]
Can he possibly show that it is less a sacred right to buy them where they can be bought cheapest? [7]
And now the shout is so tremendous that it could not possibly be louder. [10]
I knew that she would insist on telling my father, and thus possibly frustrate my plans. [9]
Rostov, having finally settled with "Uncle" where they should set on the hounds, and having shown Natasha where she was to stand--a spot where nothing could possibly run out--went round above the ravine. [2]
She had never seen such a bird before, and thought it could not possibly be a usual one, for a little gold chain was fastened to its foot, and its tail seemed made of sunbeams instead of feathers. [10]
This man's coming seemed as if it might possibly give him back the treasure he had believed was lost and more than lost. [10]
Nick and I scrambled to the ground, and we did the very worst thing we could possibly have done,--we took the ladder away. [9]
He did not say much, possibly because he was convinced by the statements and arguments of the Dutch captain. [6]
Sebastian Dolores had saved Rocque Valescure from at least three years in jail, and possibly a very heavy fine as well; and this service must have its due reward. [11]
Every time I said anything they could possibly guess I intended to be funny they were to pound those clubs on the floor. [5]
She has become quite the fashion, and has more work than she can possibly attend to. [9]
It is a quarter of a century since the foregoing Preface was written, and that is long enough to allow a story to be forgotten by the public, and very possibly by the writer of it also. [6]
They take the public money into their hand for the most laudable purpose that wise heads and honest hearts can dictate; but before they can possibly get it out again, their rascally "vulnerable heels" will run away with them. [7]
It was a pretty slow concern, but it got us into Heilbronn before dark--five miles, or possibly it was seven. [5]
After all, the President concludes that possibly there may be some great objects of improvement which cannot be effected by tonnage duties, and which it therefore may be expedient for the General Government to take in hand. [7]
However, her piteous prayer that Philippus would not abandon her to her fate had prevailed to induce him to continue to see her, in the hope of possibly restricting her use of the drug. [10]
He could not possibly walk down to Eleventh; he did not want to walk even to the Elevated station at Thirty-fourth; he stopped at the corner to wait for a surface-car, and fell again into his bitter fancies. [8]
They would despair, possibly resign to go and save their families somehow, or die with them. [7]
How could Cambyses possibly refuse my last request? [10]
They cannot, however, possibly reach Naukratis in less than three weeks, and yet they will already have set out on their journey before a letter to countermand my first order could reach them. [10]
A stone might possibly penetrate to us once in a while, but it wasn't very likely; we were well protected by boughs and foliage, and were not visible from any good aiming point. [5]
This strange rule possibly owed its rise to the law, which compelled every Egyptian to appear once in each year before the authorities of his district and give an account of his means of subsistence. [10]
What he might possibly have granted me after long hesitation and consideration, and with many a delay, he yielded after mass this morning with smiling lips. [10]
A scene might possibly have come of it, but the door opened. [6]
I could not possibly give you one of the 'arguments' you cruelly hint at, on which any doctrine of mine stands; for I do not know what arguments are in reference to any expression of a thought. [6]
The watch might possibly follow Argutis; but he knew every lane and alley, and could mislead and avoid them. [10]
How could I possibly fashion an infirm old man like an eager youth? [10]
This, however, cannot possibly be; but I am most thankful for the good received. [14]
N.B.--No gentlemen can possibly be admitted in boots, or otherwise improperly dressed. [11]
She has taken poison and her life cannot be saved, though this antidote may possibly prolong it for a few days. [10]
I will now point out to the young student the mode in which he may relieve his mind of any confusion, or possibly, if very young, any doubt, which the perusal of Dr. Meigs's Sixth Letter may have raised in his mind. [3]
It was a pleasant reflection, though, that I did not hit him, because his master might just possibly have been a policeman. [5]
He had managed people for a long time and knew that the chief way to make them obey is to show no suspicion that they can possibly disobey. [2]
Perhaps he would pay the whole amount, but with a look, and possibly a word, that would make every dollar of it burn like a blister. [6]
They said the pay of the army and of the navy and of the whole governmental machine was far in arrears, and unless something was done, and done immediately, national bankruptcy must ensue, and possibly insurrection and revolution. [5]
It may possibly pay for the barrel of beef that Sherman's soldiers captured, if you can get a relief bill through Congress making an appropriation for that purpose; but it will not pay for the twenty-nine barrels the Indians ate. [5]

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