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Answer for the clue "Occur by chance ", 3 letters:
hap

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Hap \Hap\, v. i. [OE. happen. See Hap chance, and cf. Happen .] To happen; to befall; to chance. --Chaucer. Sends word of all that haps in Tyre. --Shak.

Usage examples of hap.

So they abode a little, and the more part of what talk there was came from the Lady, and she was chiefly asking Ralph of his home in Upmeads, and his brethren and kindred, and he told her all openly, and hid naught, while her voice ravished his very soul from him, and it seemed strange to him, that such an one should hold him in talk concerning these simple matters and familiar haps, and look on him so kindly and simply.

It was the same apricot brandy that he had brought to the little house that Hap and I had shared.

I must tell thee, that were I fairly judged, I should be deemed no ill spear, even when I came not uppermost: for in all these games are haps which no man may foresee.

She was already afraid of what hap- pened to Lidia but she soon forgot about it.

As Joe Bob sat down again, Hap took a Kleenex from the box next to the cash register, wiped his runny nose, and folded it into the pocket of his greasy overall.

And the traveller Leopold was couth to him sithen it had happed that they had had ado each with other in the house of misericord where this learningknight lay by cause the traveller Leopold came there to be healed for he was sore wounded in his breast by a spear wherewith a horrible and dreadful dragon was smitten him for which he did do make a salve of volatile salt and chrism as much as he might suffice.

When the door opposite, across the table, opened at last, it never occurred to me that the first person to enter, after the now familiar bespectacled man in black, would be not some Eisenhower or Wild Bill Donovan or Hap Arnold or either Dulles brother, but my own father.

Really, it would be more interesting to lunch with the waterbound students than sitting in the cafeteria while her own lunch wilted watching that nasty boy, Marl Fidd, make threatening faces at Khiindi and make fun of Hap for talking all the time.

Even as these very waves thou beholdest have each his back-wash or undertow, so followeth after every sending an undertow of evil hap, whereby, albeit in essence a less deadly thing, many have been drowned and washed away who stood unremoved against the main stroke of the breaker.

FOREIGNEoveOrTwhPelrhmaipnsg,baencdaubsee the strangeness Suddenly seem, cause he doubted he could go ali into that place so ominously painted and so glaringly, Ix haPs defiantly, misaligned to the earth-he began to be dread of what he might find as their purpose, these fo who fell to Farth on petal sails.

He weened well, for that Fortune him sent Such hap, that he escaped through the rain, That of his foes he mighte not be slain.

And now it is so vtterly decayd,That any bud thereof doth scarse remaine,But if few plants preseru'd through heauenly ayd,In Princes Court doe hap to sprout againe,Dew'd with her drops of bountie Soueraine,Which from that goodly glorious flowre proceed,Sprung of the auncient stocke of Princes straine,Now th'onely remnant of that royall breed,Whose noble kind at first was sure of heauenly seed.

Some sort of Persian connec tion seemed die most likely cause of trouble at the Devonshire dump, too, at least judgtog by what had hap pened to Erasmus, while I couldn't rule out the Aztecans, either, not with Huitzilopochdism on the loose and the trail that had led me to poor soulless Jesus Cordero.

And in good sooth she spake again presently, and said: "I wot not what hath befallen nor where my soul may be, For confusion is within me and but dimly do I see, As if the thing that I look on had happed a while ago.

And if she hapt of any good to heare,That had to any happily betid,Then would she inly fret, and grieue, and teareHer flesh for felnesse, which she inward hid:But if she heard of ill, that any did,Or harme, that any had, then would she makeGreat cheare, like one vnto a banquet bid.