What is "aventure"

Usage examples of "aventure".

But henceforth I will my process hold To speak of aventures, and of battailes, That yet was never heard so great marvailles.

That each of you, to shorten with your way In this voyage, shall tellen tales tway, To Canterbury-ward, I mean it so, And homeward he shall tellen other two, Of aventures that whilom have befall.

Il aimait sa mere, mais il etait presse de se faire dire la bonne aventure.

But thus they met, of aventure or grace, And he saluted her with glad intent, And asked of her whitherward she went.

That other man was lodged well enow, As was his aventure, or his fortune, That us governeth all, as in commune.

Assemble all the folk of our kindred, And make a war so sharp on this country That by some aventure, or some treaty, Thou mayst have her to lady and to wife, For whom that I must needes lose my life.

Into the grove full hastily he start, And in a path he roamed up and down, There as by aventure this Palamon Was in a bush, that no man might him see, For sore afeard of his death was he.

That any while he durst therein endure: The mother was an elf by aventure Become, by charmes or by sorcery, And every man hated her company.

Yet, methinks, were they right well pleasured that I should so aventure, which indeed I might not otherwise do, seeing as I have telled to thee, that one of them is mine own true lady for to serven, and so was the only way that I might come to speech with her.

The fires whiche that on myn auter brenne Shule thee declaren, er that thou go henne, Thyn aventure of love, as in this cas.

O deere cosyn Palamon," quod he, "Thyn is the victorie of this aventure.

For which I tolde thee myn aventure As to my cosyn and my brother sworn.

Ne ther was holden no disconfitynge But as a justes or a tourneiynge, For soothly ther was no disconfiture- For fallyng nys nat but an aventure- Ne to be lad by force unto the stake Unyolden, and with twenty knyghtes take, O persone allone, withouten mo, And haryed forth by arme, foot, and too, And eke his steede dryven forth with staves, With footmen, bothe yemen and eek knaves, It nas aretted hym no vileynye, Ther may no man clepen it cowardye.

But with that word he brast anon to wepe And seyde, "I yow forbede, up peyne of deeth, That nevere whil thee lasteth lyf ne breeth, To no wight telle thou of this aventure.