"Chance" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... slightly increased infirmity, and his old eyes will glimmer with a moist and marshy light. Then the little old man is drunk. A very small measure will overset him; he may be bowled off his unsteady legs with a half-pint pot. Some pitying acquaintance—chance acquaintance very often—has warmed up his weakness with a treat of beer, and the consequence will be the lapse of a longer time than usual before he shall pass again. For the little old man is going home to the Workhouse; and on his ...
— Little Dorrit • Charles Dickens
... township names derived from the aboriginal languages; and to some efforts for bettering the condition of the natives, by making it penal to sell or give them ardent spirits, and thus desired to render my position as a legislator useful, where there was but little chance of general action. As chairman of the committee on expenditures, I kept the public expenditures snug, and, in every respect, conformable to the laws of congress. The session was closed about the first of July—early enough to permit me to ...
— Personal Memoirs Of A Residence Of Thirty Years With The Indian Tribes On The American Frontiers • Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
... Hypochondries pent, Proves but a blast, if downwards sent; But if it upward chance to flie Becomes ...
— The Natural History of Wiltshire • John Aubrey
... creature!" said Nymphalin; "it is easy to guess that he need not be buried alive to lose all chance of marrying ...
— The Pilgrims Of The Rhine • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... not at all!" answered Nance, contradictorily. "My bunnit ain't trimmed on the congregation side, an' I want to give 'em a chance to see it all round. I'm a-goin' up ...
— Meadow Grass - Tales of New England Life • Alice Brown
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