Eric usually sat with Duncan and Llewellyn, immediately behind the benches allotted to chance visitors.

Althea and I chanced one day to be passing the Royal Oak, as the chief inn of the village had been new christened, just as there reeled out of it a young gentleman whom every one had deemed a most hopeful pious youth, Mr. Truelocke in particular having a great opinion of him, though I never liked his demure looks for my part, nor his stiff way of dressing himself.

But did not Chance at length her error mend? Did no subverted empire mark his end? Did rival monarchs give the fatal wound, Or hostile millions press him to the ground?

Le Jeu, la chance et les theories scientifiques modernes.

It is not customary to walk or make visits before dinner, and if by chance any one calls, he is received in the bedchamber.

No storm or chance his vessel thither drives, No! to secure and bless you, he arrives.

And I, chancing my luck, replied, "Yes, the great von Moltke himself said that peace is a dream, and not even a beautiful dream."

Who envieth none whom chance doth raise Or vice, who never understood How deepest wounds are given with praise; Not rules of State, but rules of good.

Discreet in her retirement as well as in her life, she had not left to chance the selection of a place where she might die.

Sometimes a Shark follows a steamer in the open sea, day after day, waiting for whatever may chance his way; and it is astonishing what strange objects he will swallow.

"Going to let that plane close in on us, and maybe riddle us?" The Master smiled, as he made answer: "I'll chance the bullets, this time.

"As soon as he reloads he'll chance another shot at where he thinks we're lying, and that will be his last.

Yet I should hardly, perhaps, have evoked this particular corollary from that man of leather's observation, if I had not chanced one evening to come across those old book-bills of my friend Narcissus, about which I have undertaken to write here, and been struckwell-nigh awe-struckby the wonderful manner in which there lay revealed in them the story of the years over which they ran.

They seem so plain when close to view Bill Barker, an' his brother too, The Jacksons, men of higher rank Because they chance to run the bank, Yet friends to every one round here, Quiet an' kindly an' sincere, Not much to sing about or praise, Livin' their lives in modest ways

Let us, then, speak of Waterloo coldly from both sides, and render to chance the things that belong to chance, and to God what is God's.

He does not know where to find either wife or brother, and has not the slightest wish to look for them; yet in the first house he goes to, the home of a lady whose acquaintance he chanced to make on the voyage, he encounters both his wife and his brother!

V We rode in different directions toward the hollow, the better to chance meeting with Emett, but none of us caught a glimpse of him.

P.S. I would advise your little Shock-dog to keep out of my way; for as I look upon him to be the most formidable of my Rivals, I may chance one time or other to give him such a Snap as he wont like.

Oft I had heard of Lucy Gray; And, when I crossed the wild, I chanced to see, at break of day, The solitary child.

So when it came to the last, and Jean scrambled in, and began to hold tighter than either of the others, I just said my arm would be black and blue, and I would rather chance the danger of falling out, in a seat by myself, than put up with it.

It chanced one dark

Nelson and I sat out on the observation veranda again, and he told me many things of all this land, and how often the poor adventurers coming out West will climb on to the irons under the trains, and then cling for countless miles, chancing hideous death to be carried along; and how, sometimes, they will get lost and die of starvation.

Just one further chance remainedto depart in the first gray of dawn.

Its aim is to utilize the now almost wasted time from four to six years, a time when all negligent and ignorant mothers leave the child to chance development, and when the most careful mother cannot train her child into the practice of social virtues so well as the truly wise kindergartner who works with her.

And, "right so," who should chance to come cantering by, the big drops of rain pattering after him, but the knightliest man in that old town, and the fittest to perfect the fine old-fashioned poetry of the scene!