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Sentences starting with chance

Chance has thrown together at the table with me a number of persons who are worth studying, and I mean not only to look on them, but, if I can, through them. [6]
Chance contrives that though he directs all his efforts to prepare an expedition against England (which would inevitably have ruined him) he never carries out that intention, but unexpectedly falls upon Mack and the Austrians, who surrender without a battle. [2]
Chance had played into his hands with perfect suavity. [11]
Chance allusions to his bachelor establishment in town and the place of his family on the Hudson, could not have been made by a millionaire, more naturally. [5]
Chance sight of her on a passing stage or amid a group on some mountain lookout was all he ever had, and he did not even know certainly whether she was the perfect beauty and the lovely character he thought her. [4]
Chance puts the Duc d'Enghien in his hands and unexpectedly causes him to kill him--thereby convincing the mob more forcibly than in any other way that he had the right, since he had the might. [2]
Chance forms the characters of the rulers of France, who submit to him; chance forms the character of Paul I of Russia who recognizes his government; chance contrives a plot against him which not only fails to harm him but confirms his power. [2]
Chance placed me between a young dandy from Lexington--one of several the General had brought in his train--and Mr. Wharton, a prominent planter of the neighborhood with whom I had a speaking acquaintance. [9]

Sentences ending with chance

It is in your power to spoil my chance. [10]
By Heaven, with you to sit, it's my chance! [11]
If nothing'll do you but a disturbance, out with it like a man ('ic)--but don't rake up old bygones and fling'em in the teeth of a passel of people that wants to be peaceable if they could git a chance. [5]
But the best years of your life are going, and your education and your nature have not their chance. [11]
If the publishers would only give him a chance! [4]
I knowed he would be changing it around every which way as we went along, and heaving in new bullinesses wherever he got a chance. [5]
It is hard work to resist this grinding-down action.--Now give me a chance. [6]
She was at work on what they said was her greatest picture when she took sick, and every day and every night it was her prayer to be allowed to live till she got it done, but she never got the chance. [5]
I have often wondered that people didn't see the stuff that was in me, and give me a chance. [11]
Their wills were with him they had come to fight, and fight they would, if they could but get the chance. [11]

Short sentences using chance

Et il avait une chance! [5]
I jump at the chance! [5]
She'd jump at the chance! [11]
It gave me no chance. [11]
Literature was a mere chance. [4]
A chance, said I? [9]
What chance have I, anyway? [4]
Now Gaston had his chance. [11]
You chance upon good-natured times. [11]
It's your chance for life. [11]

Sentences containing chance two or more times

Such a chance --such a chance as he had had! [11]
If a youth passes by, it may happen, no doubt, He may chance to look in as I chance to look out; She would never endure an impertinent stare, It is horrid, she says, and I mustn't sit there. [6]
There's the chance of--no, there's no chance of that, but it's as well to be on the safe side. [12]
Jim Sturgis said he knew of no joke in the matter--his clients could not be punished for indulging in what some people chose to consider a game of chance until it was proven that it was a game of chance. [5]
But I'll never have a chance now; I'll never have a chance to try the new way. [11]
A precedent always has a chance to be valuable (as well as the other way); and its best chance to be valuable (or the other way) is when it takes such a striking form as to fix a whole nation's attention upon it. [5]
That leaves something for the other person to take hold of: he has a chance to reply to the Reply, he has a chance to refute the refutation. [5]
Mr. Clay's chance for an election is just no chance at all. [7]
There was the chance, the faint, far-off chance. [11]
I had a chance to be glad about a minute, then straightway a chance to be sad again. [5]

More example sentences with the word chance in them

If--always according to your notion of the convention--if I don't get out, and haven't any chance, they tell me on pretty good authority Austen Vane will get the nomination. [9]
But you had your chance with me, and you threw it down like a piece of rotten leather. [11]
You shall have your chance to live, but I shall throw you in the river, and you can then fight the river. [11]
Assisted by a young apothecary, Sir Charles washed and dressed the wound, which was in the left groin, and to our anxious questions replied that there was a chance of recovery. [9]
It wouldn't be you, Tom Sawyer, if you was to let such a chance go by. [5]
How pleasant do you think it is to have an arm offered to you when you are walking on a level surface, where there is no chance to trip? [6]
At the fort you surrendered before we had a chance to fight. [11]
I can tell you more when I have had a chance to talk with Dr. Pindar. [9]
You see, if you marry the prince"--he meant the younger man--and he crooked one finger, "you forever lose the chance of marrying the other, and you will displease the court besides. [2]
Yassir, I gives you jes one chance mo', and dat's _now_, en it las' on'y half a second--you hear? [5]
The only chance you have is to ignore the thing from now on. [9]
You has had yo' chance, en you has trompled it under yo' foot. [5]
Through all the years, down beneath everything, there had been the helpless knowledge in her own small, garish mind that she had little sense; now she realized that she was given a chance to atone for all her pettiness by doing one great sensible thing. [11]
In all the years he had taken no chance to pay tribute to the woman who, in a real sense, had been his mistress of body and mind for one short term of life, and who once, and once only, had yielded to him. [11]
It takes a year to mature the canes--on the high ground three and six months longer --and there is always a chance that the annual cyclone will rip the profit out of the crop. [5]
He had already written 'Their Wedding Journey' and 'A Chance Acquaintance' when 'A Foregone Conclusion' appeared. [5]
Mela said she would, the first chance she got; and she added, They would be much pleased to have him call. [8]
Not that he would have prepared, if he had had the chance, for I do not think he would. [5]
An ordinary man would have no chance at all. [9]
Waiting, in silence, would have been agreeable enough, for I was full of matter for reflection, and wanted to give it a chance to work. [5]
I thought I would go and hide somewhere till I got a chance to slide ashore. [5]
Even if we would be I'd take this chance to get her out. [13]
Albeit methought it would be a happy chance if we might stand at the altar at the same time with Herdegen and Ann, Gotz's impatience, which had waxed no lesser even during his journeyings, was set against our waiting for my brother's coming. [10]
His art, too, would be a comfort to him, and if he only had the chance of making his way in his career he would have no difficulty in winning Agatha. [10]
Beard, with that wonderful encounter with General Grant which sounded so much like a Fifth Reader anecdote of a chance meeting with royalty. [9]
He's broken a woman's heart and spoilt her life, and, if he lives, there's no chance for her, none at all. [11]
That old Silence Withers would do just as her minister told her,--even chance whether she gives it to the Parson-factory, or marries Bellamy Stoker, and gives it to him after his wife's dead. [6]
No clever man with the instinct of a highway robber could fail to notice what a chance for business was here offered. [5]
Every chance was with me then. [11]
So he played with him every time he got a chance. [5]
He kept me with him all the time, and I never got a chance to run off. [5]
Here's Adam Hunt with both feet in the trough, and no more chance of the nomination than I have, and Bascom and Botcher teasing him on, and he's got enough votes with Crewe to lock up that convention for a dark horse. [9]
The Cossack officers wished to take advantage of this chance to capture some horses, but one of the superior officers, who was acquainted with the higher authorities, reported the incident to a general on the staff. [2]
But what I wish to say is, that notwithstanding certain unfavorable things in the condition of the English laborer and mechanic, his chance is better in the main than it was fifty years ago. [4]
But I am willing to admit this much: we do crowd the orders a trifle when we get a chance, which is most of the time. [5]
I fear chance will not be so propitious as to bring you to town while I am there; otherwise, how glad I should be if you would call. [14]
I guess it will be long enough before they get a chance at him again. [4]
It was a wild chance, but he got there badly battered. [11]
To tell the whole truth is to bring fresh shame upon Mrs. Llyn and her daughter, and not to tell the whole truth is to take away my one chance of getting out of this trouble. [11]
When every one who wanted a chance had had it, the man who had introduced the story would give it its original ending--then you could take your choice. [5]
There are those who demand the presence of a woman in order to be heroes.... "Give us a chance, can't you? [9]
Then; for a while, he had gained a meagre living by sewing up bursted sacks of grain on the piers; when that failed he had found food here and there as chance threw it in his way. [5]
And after a while Honora was thankful that chance had sent her in this hour to him rather than to Mrs. Kame. [9]
Under that building which we pass every day there are strong dungeons, where neither hook, nor bar, nor bed-cord, nor drinking-vessel from which a sharp fragment may be shattered, shall by any chance be seen. [6]
If the spirit which imbued the founders of this nation means anything, Mr. Bass, it means that the able men who are given a chance to rise by their own efforts must still retain the duties and responsibilities of the humblest citizens. [9]
The only thing which gave either any chance was the very thing Baker & I proposed,--an adjustment with themselves. [7]
One never knew whether some chance remark, some allusion in the papers, would tell her you had killed her father. [11]
He knew that, whether he was to blame or not, the company owning the vessel would discharge him and make a devotion--to--passengers' safety advertisement out of it, and his chance to make a livelihood would be permanently gone. [5]
I had hoped when I planned the series to bring down this novel through the stirring period which ended, by a chance, when a steamboat brought supplies to Jackson's army in New Orleans--the beginning of the era of steam commerce on our Western waters. [9]
I reckon that when he resolved to fight, himself, he thought he might get killed and not have a chance to forgive me any more in this life, so he made the will again, and I've seen it, and it's all right. [5]
Low water, too, when every rock's got its chance at the canoe. [11]
And now, if what Philip said was true (and I doubted it not), here at last was the chance come again to win her without whom I should never be happy. [9]
Yet deep behind what never they forget, Who ever see in life's chance or mischance. [11]
We shall see what he will do: he has his chance now, once for all. [11]
Tell me, Sophy, what do you think would happen, if he should chance to fall in love with Elsie, and she with him, and he should marry her? [6]
On chance news-stands were displayed newspapers in Russian, Bohemian, Arabic, Italian, Hebrew, Polish, German-none in English. [4]
The qualities that were born in her had to wait for circumstance and opportunity--but they were there: they were there to stay, whether they ever got a chance to fructify or not. [5]
However, it seemed well worth while to chance it, so he fell to groaning with considerable spirit. [5]
It is not well to starve on the chance of help coming, and then die fighting with weak arms and broken spirit. [11]
Melissa knew full well that any attempt now to separate Philip from Serapion would be futile; however, she would not leave the last chance untried, and asked him gravely whether he had forgotten his mother's tomb. [10]
We found that we were not manly enough nor brave enough to do a generous action when there was a chance that it could get us into trouble. [5]
Their conviction that we were lost was forgotten in the cheer of a good supper, and before the reaction had a chance to set in, I loaded them up with paregoric and put them to bed. [5]
By and by we talked about what we better do, and found there warn't no way but just to go along down with the raft till we got a chance to buy a canoe to go back in. [5]
But he said we didn't know enough to take the chance when we had it, and he wouldn't ever offer it again. [5]
As it fell, we could be alone together for a few minutes only, and had no chance of speaking to each other privily. [10]
That is the way with those Goobra people--they can't seem to let a chance go by to throw it in your face that their day is three hundred and twenty-two of our years long. [5]
We give them water, earths, salts of various kinds such as they are made of, with a chance to help themselves to air and light. [3]
These stayed to watch the "mad Inglesi," as a foreigner called him, knocking his head against the foot stool of an unresponsive god of chance. [11]
And probably there was, though he himself had never yet had a chance to find it out. [4]
By chance she was turning over the Academy pictures of the year, and came at last to one called "A Japanese Beauty of Old Days"--an exquisite thing. [11]
My only chance was to git to you. [11]
Our first care was to create a delay in the trial of the case in order to give the public excitement a chance to die down. [9]
Indeed, what chance was there to win her at all? [4]
The new master was so kind and courteous, he seemed to take everything in such a natural, easy way, that there was no chance to pick a quarrel with him. [6]
He said he was so fond of the parson that he felt he had to give him a chance of good things. [11]
He said there was now but one chance of finding coal against nine hundred and ninety nine that he would not find it, and so it would be wrong in him to make the request and foolish in Mr. Montague to grant it. [5]
All they brought was notice from the English to Joan that they would presently catch her and burn her if she did not clear out now while she had a chance, and "go back to her proper trade of minding cows. [5]
Some chance allusion was made by a lady to an article in a recent magazine which had pleased her more than anything she had seen lately. [4]
In short, everything was getting tangled up together, and there would be no chance of disentangling the threads in this chapter. [6]
The trouble, however, was genuine enough, Virginia's rival paper seized upon the chance to humiliate its enemy, and presently words were passed back and forth until nothing was left to write but a challenge. [5]
After that I was delayed by various details; even on my way here--but for that I cannot be sorry for it gave me this chance of finding you alone. [10]
Now at length was come his chance to be of use in life,--to dedicate the labor of his hands and of his brains to Abraham Lincoln uncouth prophet of the West. [9]
I believed I was clinging to the ideal of art, and that all I wanted was a chance. [9]
Tracy said he was better in oils, but would take a chance with these. [5]
Truth is, Phips was anxious that Gering should have no chance of objecting to the scoundrel who had, years before, tried to kidnap his now affianced wife--who had escaped a deserved death on the gallows. [11]
Why, that he was absolutely astonished that he had a son who had the chance to tell a lie and didn't. [5]
No, Sybil Eglington was a woman who never had her chance. [11]
The defiant lad was a noble fellow, after all, and risked his own chance in behalf of one who, if he escaped with him, threatened to bar the way in which, in youthful blindness, he hoped to find happiness. [10]
You see, I was "bluffing" that last time in the field; it would be natural for them to work around to that conclusion, if I gave them a chance. [5]
But if he wants to deceive me, he had better remember that where the head of a son of Cyrus is about to fall, a Greek head has but very little chance. [10]
When this administration wants to chalk up a desirable name for early promotion, the Hosannah would like a chance to sudgest. [5]
I have long wanted a good chance for getting acquainted with the social sphere several grades below that to which I am accustomed, and I have no doubt that I shall find matter for half a dozen new stories among those connections of mine. [6]
I was only waiting for you to give me a chance. [5]
Ruth's course was vindicated now, and it certainly did not become Philip, who had nothing to offer but a future chance against the visible result of her determination and industry, to open an argument with her. [5]
These verses are very well for a beginning, but a man of promise like you, Mr. Hopkins, must n't throw away his chance by premature publication! [6]
Unfortunately, there was very little chance of showing sympathy in its active form for a gentleman who kept himself so much out of the way as the master of the Dudley Mansion. [6]
You'll agree with us, that to give him even the most distant chance of escape, if we could help it, would be monstrous. [12]
That would give us the chance to ring in a lot of society correspondents and get the thing written up in first-class shape. [8]
I groped along up to my cubby, and hid it there till I could get a chance to do better. [5]
On the way up the hills I had a chance to observe Roscoe closely. [11]

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