chance

On that evening a stranger who might have chanced to be in Baltimore could not have gained admission into the great hall for love or money.

Somehow I seemed to have chanced across a second ailment with a forbidding reputation that carried no immediate threat to my well-being.

Just wheRe she had paused, the brook chanced to form a pool, so smooth and quiet that it reflected a perfect image of heR little figure.

He chanced to put it out in Mrs. Charmond's presence.

The old man, happening in course of time to look that way, at length chanced to see him to his unbounded astonishment.

Perhaps he had chanced to hear the news. Otherwise, when we told him that, he would feel surprised.

Wandering in the garden one day, he chanced upon his sister-in-law sketching with watercolors.

One day when he was wandering in the garden, he chanced upon his sister-in-law sketching with watercolours.

when he chanced upon a fine human creature, he suddenly wished himself a man having a family.

then he chanced upon kiplings poems , and was swept away by the lilt and swing and glamour with which familiar things had been invested.

I was ready to give it as a gift for my school in Beijing when I chanced upon the following story.

One day, he chanced to say to Magnon as she handed him his monthly stipend of ten francs: "The father must give them some education. "

Unless one of those long iron scorpion bolts chanced to find an eye the queen's pet monster was not like to be brought down by such toys.

That venerable lady chanced to be a spectator of the scene, and ever after made it her favorite narrative.

There are a lot of witnesses around the world , affirming that they chanced to have seen some strange things in the sky .

The next time Heathcliff came, my young lady chanced to be feeding some pigeons in the court.

She chanced to be in when I called. It chanced that she was in when I called.

A few days later, it chanced that Jean Valjean was sawing some wood, in his shirt-sleeves, in the corridor.

I chanced upon a website with a green and red flag that I'd never seen before, and thought it was about another country.

He once chanced to see a general on horseback, in full uniform, pass along the street, Comte Coutard, the commandant of Paris.

Thus one day the bird chanced to meet another bird, who boasted to him of his own situation.

Some months before he had chanced upon a stray copy of Mr. Pope's ingenious translation of the Iliad.

One day, I chanced upon one of those men who live habitually on intimate terms with the most notorious courtesans. I questioned him.

She chanced to be in the restaurant when I was having dinner with an old friend of mine.

It chanced that Marius' solitary strolls led him to this plot of ground, near the water.

Now, it chanced that an old man sleeping in a hovel on a pallet of straw was, awakened by these cries.

If you had come to China during the battle against SARS, you would have chanced to watch how the Chinese cohesiveness was at work.

He chanced upon a volume of Swinburne and began reading steadily, forgetful of where he was, his face glowing.

A few moments later, about three o'clock, Courfeyrac chanced to be passing along the Rue Mouffetard in company with Bossuet.

Once some blind men chanced to come near an animal that someone told them was an elephant.

It chanced that she was in when he called.

An ox, grazing in a swampy meadow, chanced to set his foot among a parcel of young frogs, and crushed nearly the whole brood to death .

A few years later, while in New York, he chanced upon a pizza shop called Giordano.

I chanced acrodd him in a metro station.

I chanced to see him sitting by himself on a bench when I was wandering.

Astronomer Art Hoag first asked this question when he chanced upon this unusual extragalactic object.

The day finally came for me to pack my car and leave. I shook his hand and chanced a hug.

The fifth was a very tall man, and chanced to take hold of the elephant's ear.

It was cloudy outside, but she chanced it without her raincoat.

At last he chanced to sail back towards the place from which he had started.

But in down-to-earth William and nice, middle-class Kate, maybe the monarchy has chanced upon a marriage that can help it reinvent itself.

I chanced to see our old headmaster in the street the other day.

I chanced to see her yesterday.

She appeared on television and in the press, including on the cover of an in-flight magazine that Jarvik chanced to pick up.

It chanced that when Martin was leaving, he overtook Brissenden already half down the walk to the street.

Some shepherds who chanced to pass by saw him there, and stopped to inquire why sheep should be thus served.

I chanced to see your brother in the street.

He chanced to raise his eyes towards the ceiling.

I chanced upon the book in a small bookstore.

The fifth, being a very tall man, chanced to take hold of the elephant's ear.

They happened [chanced] to have their instruments with them.

We chanced upon him in the park yesterday.

Now, we note this detail, for the pure satisfaction of being exact, it chanced that the 16th fell on Shrove Tuesday.

I chanced to be out when he called.

I chanced on this old photograph in the back of the drawer.

I chanced upon an old schoolmate in the street yesterday.

I chanced to be thinking of the same thing.

One day Cosette chanced to say "father" to him.

Coming down Sixth Avenue this evening, Hurstwood chanced to cross east through Twenty-sixth Street toward Third Avenue.

I chanced to run into an old classmate this morning.

They chanced to be staying at the same hotel.

He chanced climbing the cliff without a safety belt.

When the storm subsided, the divers tried their luck for sponges in the local waters and chanced on the wreck.

Or a few outstanding debts you chanced to mislay in your indecent haste to depart ?

I chanced to be there when the accident happened.

On a business trip in the capital, Jia Lian chanced to meet Liu.

One day he chanced upon Emma's diary and began reading it.

There he chanced on a first edition of the handbook.

We chanced telling her the truth.

I was looking for the book I wanted, and chanced upon another with the same title.

his appearance was chanced and it was amazed at all of us.

There chanced to be some strangers in the house.

I chanced upon this old photograph in the back of the drawer.

She chanced upon Hugh in a restaurant in Paris.

It chanced that them other sent the two maidens to the next town to buy.

Thumbing vaguely through it, he chanced on a chapter called "The Death of Birth" , about the extinction of species.

She chanced to speak fluent Spanish.

It chanced that he was on the playground when I came over to visit him.

31And it chanced, that a certain priest went down the same way: and seeing him, passed by.

It chanced that someone found the lost ring.

It chanced that we succeeded.

I chanced to meet him yesterday.

It is true. The Pooles chanced to make their acquaintance in Taunton this week.

He chanced to win the contest this time.

We chanced to be out when she called.

I chanced to meet an old friend in the park today.

I chanced on a copy of the collection of Shakespeare's poems in the library.

Guess who i chanced on while i was in the city today?

I shook his hand and chanced a hug.

I chanced on him last week for the first time in years.

I chanced to meet him.

I chanced to see my friend in the street.

She chanced to be in the park when I was there.

I chanced to open the door when mum came in.

That way, if an electrical storm comes up or a beehive is chanced upon, it will be the florist who is rushed to Mount Sinai.

Jerry chanced to get a chance to study abroad.

Being superior to physical suffering, it sometimes chanced that they were superior to any consolation which the missionaries could offer;

One Sunday evening, it chanced that they were banished from the sitting-room, for making a noise, or a light offence of the kind;

The daughter of my friend chanced to study in my class.

One chanced to bite him on the thigh

I was browsIng through a second-hand book store when I chanced on(upon)thIs old edItIon

on our vacation we chanced upon an interesting antique store

In the middle of another conversation, he chanced to exclaim

She chanced upon a robot tall

The grief that chanced a-yesterday has taught the soul to listen

The grief that chanced a-yesterday is silence that incloses