Those who were not directly engaged in the hunt now came up and congratulated the men upon their success, and Fitzhugh was at once hailed as the winner of the buffalo cup; while all sympathized with Hecksher, whose chance had been the best at the start, but who lost by reason of his horse falling and rolling over him.

["When we consider the vast amount of time comprised in the Tertiary period ... the chances that man as at present constituted, should be a survivor from that period seem remote, and against the species Homo Sapiens having existed in Miocene times almost incalculable.

The great majority here, on the wharf, dazed or excited, lugging miscellaneous possessionsthings they had clung to in straits so desperate they knew no more how to relax their hold than dead fingers dothese were men whose last chance had been the Klondyke, and who here, as elsewhere, had failed.

Our only chance is the stairs.

" "Chance," she declared, "is a wonderful thing.

"You don't deserve ityou reelly don't," she said, more in sorrow than in anger; then with a sharp change of tone, "And you three 'ave been allowin', I s'pose, that our best chance to escape notice is travellin' around with a fur coat an' a sixty-foot Theayter Royal? .

If the guns were giving voice that chance was tripledand

This would all mean a revolting injustice in the nature of the world, if it were not that the difference between parents and son is phenomenal only and all chance is, at bottom, necessity.

The aspen was an untidy tree; he was not sure that he liked the tree, and if one is in doubt whether one likes or dislikes, the chances are that one dislikes.

It is recognised in almost all grades of the middle class that the chance of a daughter marrying, and, further, the chance of her marriage being an assured provision for her maintenance throughout life, is by no means a certainty.

"I figured that the chance of her being up there was so mighty slim that we'd better be ready to ride when you got back," said the mountain ranchman.

It began to look as if the chances of leaving our bones to bleach upon the desert were the most prominent ones.

But Garibaldi swept all that away, and Macomer's chances with it, and the countess is a disappointed woman, for her husband has remained just what he always wasplain Count Macomer, with his name and his palace, neither of them extraordinary.

"Just a chance," was the answer.

By-and-by his good wit told him his only chance was calmness; they could not long confine him as a madman, being sane.

But the chances were a thousand to one that she had been killed by a maniac.

I pass hour after hour in my cell, meditating, hoping, despairing, following in fancy the voyage of my little barrel, tossed about at the mercy of the currents and whose chances of being picked up, I fear, are becoming fainter each day, and killing time by writing my diary, which will probably not survive me.

It was a most daring venture we were to make, and one wherein the chances were no less than ninety and nine out of an hundred that we would be killed or captured before having well started on the enterprise, and yet the attempt must be made, however faint-hearted we might be, for, as I have already said, there was as much danger in retreating as advancing.

Let chance be my guide.

" "Chances are plenty for those that have money.

The sails were split, the mainyard shivered, the wind blowing fresh, the night setting in; and all our chance was to make for Corfuor, as F. pathetically called it, 'a watery grave.'

It was clear, then, that our only chance of success was by going round, instead of through, the desert.

I would have accompanied him, but my only chance of reaching Messina in time for the next steamer to Naples is the diligence which leaves here to-morrow.

How many accidents has he had which luckily were slight but which easily might have caused his destruction? Chance is the great element in life.

I ain't 'ad a chance o' gettin' 'is address yet.