The Trojan hero, rejoicing to find himself once more on a field of battle, first encountered the Latian warriors, who chanced to be in his front.
For it chanced at that time that Priam proclaimed a contest of strength between his sons and certain other princes, and promised as prize the most splendid bull that could be found among the herds of Mount Ida.
This was a very terrible thing to poor travelers, as you may suppose, especially when they chanced to be sick, or feeble, or lame, or old.
There they chanced to meet Melanthius, the king's goatherd, driving his fattest goats to the town for the suitors' feast.
Agamemnon had chanced to kill a stag which was sacred to Diana, and the army was visited by pestilence, while a great calm kept the ships imprisoned.
This dispute waxed so hot that they fell to fighting; and in the fight it chanced that Remus was slain.
Then did they seize ships that chanced to be ready and laded them with gold, even the treasure of King Pygmalion, and so fled across the sea.
Telemachus welcomes the strangers, but we can feel how eager he is for them to be made comfortable as soon as possible so he can talk of his father and learn whether they have chanced to meet him in their wanderings.
On the tenth day, she chanced to espy the mouth of a cavern, within which (though it was bright noon everywhere else) there would have been only a dusky twilight: but it so happened that a torch was burning there.
It chanced that near the shore there lay a vessel, joined to the land by a temporary bridge of planks.
It chanced that a Greek from Corytus, named Acron, presented himself in the front, conspicuous in nodding plumes, and in purple trappings that had been worked for him by his betrothed wife.
And it chancedthat in those days Belus, my father, had newly conquered the land of Cyprus.
In the evening I made her dress herself again, and sent her back in a boat which chanced to pass, and she was landed in safety.
It was my friend, who, having chanced to wake up and finding that the lantern was out, had taken a sudden fancy to pay me a visit.
What a splendid field for ignorant superstition, if there had been any witnesses to that phenomenon, and if I had chanced to make a great name in Rome!
In the case to which we refer, one of the gardeners employed on the estate, chanced to be an old Englishman who had woven the straw window awnings for farm houses in his own country.
At the time when the man-of-war's boat rowed alongside of the little jetty of Fairway, an interesting couple chanced to be seated in a bower at the back of a very small but particularly neat cottage near the shore.
He was annoyed at this, but the first time hechanced to be alone with him, he changed his mind, and the two became fast friends.
Francisco, as he was coming from his father's vineyard with a large dish of purple and white grapes upon his head, and a basket of melons and figs hanging upon his arm, chanced to see Piedro seated in this melancholy posture.
In one moment, dear; I wish only to bind up this morning-glory, that poor Fanny chanced to pull down as she ran through.
But at last, one afternoon in February, she chanced to meet Thurston on the sea beach.
But only yesterday I chanced to learn from one who was well informed that old Mr. Willcoxen had sworn to make you his heir only upon condition of your finding a bride of equal or superior fortunes.
After he was gone Marian chancedto drop a note, which I picked up and read.
When they came to the city it chanced that the king was just dead, and all the city was dismayed, and wist not who might be their king.
And at length it chanced that I came to the fairest valley in the world, wherein were trees all of equal growth; and a river ran through the valley, and a path was by the side of the river.
Upon a time it chanced so, Bold Robin in forest did spy A jolly butcher, with a bonny fine mare, With his flesh to the market did hie.
About an hour after sunset the council came to an end; darkness had long since fallen, but it chanced to be full moon, and the faces of them that had been present at the council were plain to be seen.
But it so chanced that the Sultan was in a fit of the fever which troubled him in the summer time, and he sent no answer.
After Sir Launcelot had parted from his fellows at the Castle of Vagon, he rode many days through the forest without adventure, till he chanced upon a knight close by a little hermitage in the wood.
But when a little farther they came, Bold Robin he chanced to spy A hundred head of good red deer, Come tripping the Sheriff full nigh.
The EAM room which Samson hadchanced on was loaded with large keypunch machines the size of squat file cabinets.
While poking around at Eli's electronic junk shop one day, he chanced upon an electrical board precisely like the kind of board holding the clunky vacuum tubes which resided inside the IBM.
A monk it chanced was of the crew, And round him to confess they drew.
As More was one day walking up and down Westminster Hall, waiting while other people's suits were being tried, he chanced to meet Colet's servant.
It chanced that in Coventry a Franciscan monk made bold to preach publicly to the people, that whoever should daily pray through the Psalter of the Blessed Virgin could never be damned.
It chanced about this time that More had occasion to go to Coventry to see a sister of his there.
As he approached the city of Ghent, while he chanced to be turning one way to speak to his servant, his horse took fright at something lying on the road, and turned round the other way, severely straining thereby Erasmus's back.
You forget that your figures can be clearly seen from the street; so, as I chanced to be passing, and observed some fighting going forward, I came to see what it was about.
And then he had chanced to journey from Ansbach with a Russian lady, the wife of an old general, and she had wished to see Rothenburg, and was stopping at the "Stag.
When the longing was satisfied, and I returned to the house like some penitent sinner, we would both laugh if she chanced to meet me with the violin under my arm.
It chanced that my driver was an elderly man, who could give trustworthy answers to my questions about the inmates of the little house on the hill.
I chanced to see in the local paper that Clan had arrived to stop with you, and so simply timed my visit when you would feel most impelled to pay to get rid of me.
To look for a missing person in this ship; but have you chanced to see Miss Winstanley anywhere?
There had been a small rally on the part of a few friends who had chanced to meet at a dinner overnight, to go down to the White Star docks and say good-by to Helen Carstairs.
The creatures belonged to some Kourdish shepherds, who chanced to be passing that way, and the low wall of the vineyard was no protection against their attacks.
Kevork, coming to the window, followed by Barkev, and two of the ladies of the house, who chanced to be present.
When she was gone, he turned to Madame Thomassian, who chanced to be at hand, waiting for some work.
As it fell oot I chanced tae be on the look oot for something o' the sort mysel' at the time, but I wasna ower quick to let him see that I wanted it.
It chanced that on the very next day after the episode I had occasion to pass that way, and stopped to have another look at the obnoxious placard.
I thought how any traveller who chanced to pass that way would envy in his heart the tenant of that magnificent building, and how little they would guess the strange terrors, the nameless dangers, which were gathering about his head.
I hadn't a notion, but I chanced to see a little address book on the desk, and I soon found it.
You suspect Miss Lindsay with no evidence--only because shechanced to go out when you wanted to see her.
If it had not chanced that Gleason was killed yesterday, that speech would never have been remembered.
But I was in the mood to learn something from all I chanced on in my wandering; even this poor creature on his doorstep made me the wiser by one little thing.
Falkenberg had chanced to mention that morning where Petter's home was, and I now made for that.
So we had to open up on the brave fellows with all our guns; but it didn't last long at that, for there chanced to be wiser heads among the Luanians than their chief or his son had possessed.
I was just about to clamber along the jagged rocks which lie at the base of the cliff next to the sea, in search of some foothold to the top, when I chanced to see a canoe rounding the end of the island.
If it chanced to be the mainland, well and good; if an island--well, we might live upon an island.
Twenty-five of the feluccas were of a new and larger type than those with which Ja and Perry had sailed on the occasion when they chanced to find and rescue Dian and me.
One evening, along towards spring, he chanced to go into the backyard to feed Cæsar.
One day he chancedto meet Gertrude by the beautiful fountain.
Why not straight out with the information any one chanced to be fortunate enough to have?
If they chanced to catch each other’s eye, the Baron would at once look down, and Daniel, bored as he was, would gaze out of the window at the rain.
Daniel looked at his mother most attentively, and told her how Philippina had chanced to come into his family.
Then he learned that wherever she chanced to be, at home, or with acquaintances, or with strangers, she was spreading evil reports concerning Daniel and his family.
Her blood began to run warm, the fusty milieu in which she just then chanced to be cleared up and began to bestir itself.
Exercise in the open had often driven away the cares that chanced to be weighing upon her: she went skating.
At noon the heat became intense; he asked a peasant, who chanced to drive up in his hay wagon, if he might ride a little.
On the way home she chanced to meet the actor Edmund Hahn.
But if he chanced to catch sight of her, he merely shrugged his shoulders at the “frame,” as he contemptuously called her.
If she chanced to put her left foot first on the bottom step and not to notice it until she was half way up, she would turn around, come down, and relinquish the pleasure of seeing her treasures for the rest of that week.
But one day he chanced to read that Mozart’s body had been buried in a pauper’s grave.
A tortoise who chanced to pass by was selected as judge and performed the office of starter.
I chanced to ask her whether peacocks and heath-cocks were to be found in those regions.
The Pontiff chanced to see a compass, and was so impressed by the movements of the magnetic needle, which he attributed to some magic power, that he withdrew his opposition and allowed the expedition to proceed unmolested.
They were not within a mile of any house where they could ask for shelter; but they chanced to be near a wide arch which had been constructed across the road for the convenience of a railway line.
How I should like to rummage out that closet," said William one day to his cousin, when he had chanced to have a peep into his receptacle for what he had hoarded.
Godwin chose the supernatural, because it chanced to be popular, and laboriously built up a cumbrous edifice, completing it by a sheer effort of will-power.
More than ten years before the publication of The Castle of Otranto, Smollett, in his Adventures of Ferdinand, Count Fathom, had chanced upon the devices employed later in the tale of terror.
It chanced that during the dissection of the body of a person who had died of rapid consumption, my father cut his finger against the edge of the breast-bone.
In the spring of 1862 it chanced that the Bishop of Ohio visited Paris, and Mr. Forbes, then English chaplain at the Church of the Rue d'Aguesseau, arranged to have a confirmation.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chanced" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: accepted; assumed; undertaken
