belike
Americanadverb
adverb
Etymology
Origin of belike
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Example Sentences
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When I look at the quiet forest I wonder what it will belike to live there, to build houses and create a settlement.
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
"But we'll have time enough for - that. You'll be wanting to sleep beneath my roof, belike, and eat me out of pigs."
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
“I thought belike ’twas money, but I knew not that it was so much.
From Peggy Owen Patriot A Story for Girls by Madison, Lucy Foster
Though some be lies, as you belike have espied them, Yet other some be true, by proof I have well tried them.
From Gammer Gurton's Needle by Art, Mr. S. Mr. of
"True, and 'tis somewhat in our favour, for you perceive the wind has shifted in the night to west-sou'-west, and belike we can sail close-hauled better than she can."
From With Drake on the Spanish Main by Strang, Herbert
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