Happen (upon)

Usage examples of chance.

On this occasion it was unlocked, and Marian was about to rush forward in eager anticipation of a peep at its interior, when, child as she was, the reflection struck her that she would stand abetter chance of carrying her point by remaining perdue.

And the thought of Abie Singleton taking chances at the Adonis Club made his blood run cold.

If given the chance, she would have rejoined the Order, but for those who abjure their vows, there is never a second chance.

In his declaration he made rise of the singular pretext, that the more enemies there were against Napoleon there would be the greater chance of speedily obliging him to accede to conditions which would at length restore the tranquillity of which Europe stood so much in need.

I found my conduct excusable, as the chances were a hundred to one against her accepting the proposal I had been foolish enough to make.

Then that deranged half split down the middle and I became suddenly and mortally certain that Valerie had asked me to pilot the shoot as some sort of test, and that her selection of Acer was to let me know that I had missed my last chance to recapture her.

I thought that the world would be better off without Acer Laidlaw -- not to mention the GGRI board -- and that if all of them were subsumed into the stormy interior of Neptune I might have a chance again with Valerie.

It was chance, Harry was sure, that had taken Paula to the Hong Kong Shop after she had bought red primroses at the Acme Florists.

I was still more pleased at the chance which had made me acquainted with Martinelli, whom I had known by repute for six years.

Clerval, the actor, had been gathering together a company of actors at Paris, and making her acquaintance by chance and finding her to be intelligent, he assured her that she was a born actress, though she had never suspected it.

How could that potentiality come to actuality unless there be, first, an effective principle to induce the actualization which, left to chance, might never occur?

And even if the freak chance that had struck Wally with a severe loss of his mental acuity, were to hit him too, he wanted no anaesthesia, no blurring of the memory.

All he wanted now was the chance to show everyone in their circle of friends his acumen and his strength of purpose.

No addressee involved, no chance to triangulate sources for a fix of any kind.

A half-second burst transmission at best No addressee involved, no chance to triangulate sources for a fix of any kind.