http://wordie.org/words/perchance Comments for the word 'Perchance' http://wordie.org http://wordie.org/words/perchance#comments "Those which lately even I tasted only to repent of it,--for I am semi-civilized,--which the farmer willingly left on the tree, I am now glad to find have the property of hanging on like the leaves of the young oaks. It is a way to keep cider sweet without boiling. Let the frost come to freeze them first, solid as stones, and then the rain or a warm winter day to thaw them, and they will seem to have borrowed a flavor from heaven through the medium of the air in which they hang. Or <a href="/words/perchance">perchance</a> you find, when you get home, that those which rattled in your pocket have thawed, and the ice is turned to cider." - 'Wild Apples', Henry David Thoreau. Thu, 13 Dec 2007 23:18:30 +0000 http://wordie.org/words/perchance#comments http://wordie.org/words/perchance#comments Or in my case, "To lie down, perchance to sleep." (See <a href="/words/insomnia">insomnia</a>.) Fri, 05 Oct 2007 19:29:21 +0000 http://wordie.org/words/perchance#comments http://wordie.org/words/perchance#comments "To sleep, perchance to dream." Fri, 05 Oct 2007 18:54:07 +0000 http://wordie.org/words/perchance#comments http://wordie.org/words/perchance#comments or, at least I shall dream about it. Wed, 28 Feb 2007 17:17:00 +0000 http://wordie.org/words/perchance#comments