The Chamber was taking breath after the holidays and the last ministerial crisis, and giving the new ministry a chance.

I took no chances, but began at once to shout, as soon as I saw the men had noticed his coming.

I got you your chance.

" With young Noaks as centre forward, Hogson and Bernard on his right and left, and other big fellows to complete the line of hostile forwards, the home team seemed to stand no chance against their opponents.

"If I saw the slightest chance of danger I would not hesitate to take your advice," Kelson said.

"The mills at Royal will never be rebuilt, and Millville has lost the only chance it ever had of becoming a manufacturing center.

The physical impossibility of a winter siege, the three hundred miles of hostile country between Trenton and Ticonderoga, and the fact that the other leading British general, Howe, had thirty thousand troops in the Colonies, while Carleton had only ten thousand with which to hold Canada that year and act as ordered next year, all went for nothing when Germain found a chance to give a good stab in the back.

I have been anxious for some time to broach the subject, but I saw that our going would be a trouble to you; now, since fortune offers this chance, we must seize itthat is, those of us who feel it a duty to go"; and she looked meaningly at Merry and her daughter.

I'm missing a chance, to-day that, mark my word, would make me a rich man but for want of a few" "Harry, you mean that?" "My hunch never fails me.

He had run desperate chances, dominated desperate crews.

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

And now the door opened to admit Peggy McNutt, who had been watching his chance to stump across to the printing office as soon as Skim left there.

Besides, the governor of Mergui would probably be glad to lay hold of any plausible evidence against you, as affording him the best chance of avoiding any future reckoning either with you or his superiors.

I have calculated the chances, and mustered all our available force.

Anxious to shorten the war, and assured that Santa Anna was desirous of negotiating; warned, moreover, by neutrals and others, that the hostile occupation of the capital would destroy the last chance of peaceable accommodation and rouse the Mexican spirit to resistance all over the country, the American general consented, too generously perhaps, to offer an armistice to his vanquished foe.

His persecution went on with renewed vigour and I, having less chance there of escaping it, was nearly at my wits' end, when fate curiously enough again intervened.

Then the thought came, that I had better seize this chance to shore up the door, again.

Don't leave all the V.C. chances to me," the Sergeant implored.

If I'm going into this missionary doctor business, I want a chance to prove Christianity where they won't be able to say that Christianity couldn't have done it alone.

And out in the tangled shrubberies that surrounded the house, lurkedfor all I could tellthose infernal Swine-creatures waiting their chance.

This outlawing of the "Main-top" and difference of opinion with Diggory spoiled all chance of games and good fellowship.

The cabinet, having made up its mind to yield, overlooked no point that would increase their chances of securing the approval of the Medjlis.

"I'm allowed every possible chance, for one month, to forget every detail of the big grind which for a short time I've left behind.

I had been absent only three days; nevertheless, though the weather was fine, they had already been weighing chances as to whether I would ever return, and trying to decide whether they should wait longer or begin to seek their way back to the lowlands.

Should your Majesty refuse, the K'han has a countless army of brave warriors, and will forthwith invade the South to try the chances of war.