John James Audubon

There is the morass, wherein you plunge up to your knees, or the walking over the stubborn, dwarfish shrubbery, whereby one treads down the forests of Labrador; and the unexpected bunting or sylvia which perchance, and indeed as if by chance alone, you now and then see flying before you, or hear singing from the ground creeping plant.

American Scientist

Patti Smith

Some of us are born rebellious. Like Jean Genet or Arthur Rimbaud, I roam these mean streets like a villain, a vagabond, an outcast, scavenging for the scraps that may perchance plummet off humanity's dirty plates, though often sometimes taking a cab to a restaurant is more convenient.

American Musician

Origen

But God, who is the beginning of all things, is not to be regarded as a composite being, lest perchance there should be found to exist elements prior to the beginning itself, out of which everything is composed, whatever that be which is called composite.

Theologian

Henry David Thoreau

We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New, but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.

American Author

The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

Giacomo Casanova

Should I perchance still feel after my death, I would no longer have any doubt, but I would most certainly give the lie to anyone asserting before me that I was dead.

Italian Celebrity

Robert Browning

God's justice, tardy though it prove perchance, Rests never on the track until it reach Delinquency.

English Poet

L. Wolfe Gilbert

Perchance the chemist is already damned and the guardian the blackest.

Russian Musician

Swami Sivananda

Today is your own. Tomorrow perchance may never come.

Indian Philosopher

Used more in writing, adds a classic or poetic tone.

Literary Flavor

Not commonly used in everyday conversation, could sound old-fashioned.

Rare in Speech

Expresses a sense of uncertainty or chance without full commitment.

Uncertain Possibility

 will be worse as we get into the fall. So there are scenarios where in the US, like, if you extrapolate those numbers forward, we end up with, what, more than a quarter of a million deaths, perchance, even this year if we're not careful, and worldwide, I guess the death toll could, by the end of the year,

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 like sucker there it is sucker and pretty spending their afternoon curled up in the shade how very interesting well that's good news for us if perchance the Hinds decide not to go to

Perchance

By some chance; perhaps, maybe.

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