300 adjectives to describe chances

Had they after this been seen by the enemy there would have been little chance of either of them reaching the British lines alive.

Now that he was in overwhelming force he thought he saw an even better chance of earning gratitude from rebels and winning converts to the loyal side by a still greater act of clemency.

He had stumbled on the place by mere chance the year previously, during the course of a long walking tour, and discovered the possibilities for the angler in a small and unnamed river that runs past the outskirts of the little village.

You shall never have the slightest chance of self-assertion, of impressing your own individuality upon the world?

He had run desperate chances, dominated desperate crews.

But it was not in the Third Form only that Diggory began to find friends; for by a lucky chance he was fortunate enough to make a good impression on the minds of the great men, who, as a rule, took no further notice of the small fry than to exact from them a certain amount of obedience, or in default a certain number of lines or other "impots.

Then your grandfatherif by fortunate chance you happened to have oneasked after his wife and children, and had they missed the croup; then told him his corn was looking well.

Looking back after all these years, it seems to me that the moderate Royalists (centre droit) threw away a splendid chance.

And, though the blind chance that mismanaged the world had chained them to uncongenial, though certainly well-meaning, persons, this was no logical reason why he and Patricia should be deprived of the pleasures of intellectual intercourse.

Did you come for no other purpose than to find me?" "Nothin' more," I said, not minded to let him know that if he could show any reasonable chance of rescuing

That they did not cover more ground that first day was a pure chance, not likely to recur, due to an unavoidable loss of time at Pymeut.

My agents, as you call them, originate nothing; they execute only what I decide" "But then no circumstances are taken into account,no bad luck, no evil chances, no loss unexpected.

But if the cook knoweth the manner that Lord Carlile does mix and pepper it, let that manner be followed to the smallest fraction of a pinch!" On Buying Old Books By some slim chance, reader, you may be the kind of person who, on a visit to a strange city, makes for a bookshop.

"It has to be done quietly and without the remotest chance of Anne's ever hearing of it, and without the remotest chance of its ever having to be done again.

There's a bare chance you might give 'em the slip in the squabble, for I shouldn't knock under while there was any fight left in me.

What earthly chance stood I against a lithe young brave, accustomed from his childhood to war?

Had they encountered the sea there was, with full freights in their holds, it might have been imprudent to expose them even to this remote chance of having their decks swept.

But even as it was, he had a rare chance of impressing the authorities.

Holding the most powerful position in the nation, he never came upon the scene but to commit some new act of ingenious pusillanimity; while, by some extraordinary chance, every woman of his immediate kindred was a natural heroine, and became more heroic through disgust at him.

If, however, the water should by any ill chance grow tainted and emit a bad odor, nothing can be done to restore it, and, unless it is at once changed, the creatures will die.

It seemed as if the commandant had much the same as told me he was depending upon the Minute Boys to bring him word of the first sign or sound of danger, and I was nervously afraid lest, by some unlucky chance, I might disappoint him.

The first impulse of genuine resentment was given when the Lusitania went down with its neutral passengers, a defenseless ship on a peaceful errand, drowning more than a hundred Americans of both sexes and all ages without the slightest notice, or the faintest chance of escape.

What a singular chance that had brought her here to his homethe daughter of a man who came to demand a long-unpaid debt!

My agents, as you call them, originate nothing; they execute only what I decide" "But then no circumstances are taken into account,no bad luck, no evil chances, no loss unexpected.

"We're needing a good deal more before this thing really gets on its feet; and when our people know what work can be done in State schools, and what a glorious chance we have, I think they'll see that the money is provided.

300 adjectives to describe  chances