Sentence examples for belike from inspiring English sources

"His heart beat like a tambour," she writes, and "Was the man too codswalloped to follow?" She uses such words as "belike" and "mayhap" as casually as individual characters cry "Certes!" and crowds "Huzzah!" Even as she plays with it, Cushman knows her near-medieval world.

Toward the end of the book, Grace peers up at a cathedral tower and murmurs, "Belike angels perch there and watch over us".

"Belike," Will says agreeably.

If his life were like a garden, then his daughters wouldbe like the roses growing alongside its walls, and his sons would belike young trees that formed a palisade against the world.

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He'slike Proust, like Proust squared".