If I get a foothold there, I will have both French and English for neighbours--excellent chances for picking a quarrel if desirable.
That this ideal is not a mere dream, but may consolidate into a happy reality, several examples prove; yet these examples are not so numerous as to relieve me from anxiety about your chances of finding such companionship.
So thechances are that there will be some hurry, and fretfulness, and impatience, under the shadow of that white parasol, and also that when the day is over there will be a disappointment.
Let no man console himself with the idea that his chances of success are multiplied in degree with the insignificance, or seeming insignificance, of his aims.
Nay, even if there were peace, the chances are still great that there would be some lack of propriety.
I hope not," replied Henry earnestly, "and the chancesare all in his favor.
I would not say that thechances are against you, if you did not know it already, but there is nothing truer than the fact that fortune favors those who dare much.
I will not longer trespass on the indulgence of any one who has accompanied me so far, by lingering over the accidents of my prairie life, nor tell by what chances I escaped death in some of its most appalling forms.
There should be a quarantine for suspected guilt, as for suspected disease; and the mere doubt of rectitude should not expose any unfortunate creature to the chances of a terrible contagion!
Were the chances of recovering my own equal to the risk of being myself discovered?
I 'll track him, not to offer him the chances of a duel, but to hunt him down as I would a wild beast.
And now I am approaching a chapter of my history whose adventures and chances are alone a story in themselves.
Thus did proper feeling suggest the truest politeness; for had I been more assured, the chances were I should have endeavored to say something, and consequently committed a very grievous breach of etiquette.
Their chances of finding Heaven, at last, are about equal.
In fact, so far as I can tell at present, the chances are very much against it.
Chances are though, that it's only one of those false impressions a fellow gets.
I've taken those same chances before, too, and, by Jove!
D'ye think he'd be fool enough to risk that, with the chances of the fellow being picked up any minute and squealing on him?
This dream will bring to a young woman a jealous and greedy companion though the chances are that he will be wealthy.
To dream of working in putty, denotes that hazardous chances will be taken with fortune.
If after she alights from the horse it turns into a pig, she will carelessly pass by honorable offers of marriage, preferring freedom until her chances of a desirable marriage are lost.
The chances are that some one whom you consider a friend will prove a traitor to your interest.
To see others taking soup, foretells that you will have many good chances to marry.
To be in love with another woman's husband in your dreams, denotes that you are not happily married, or that you are not happy unmarried, but the chances for happiness are doubtful.
To dream of opium, signifies strangers will obstruct your chances of improving your fortune, by sly and seductive means.
For a woman to dream that she is examining samples sent her, denotes she will have chances to vary her amusements.
For a young woman to feel that she is disappointed with the sights of Europe, omens her inability to appreciate chances for her elevation.
Anyway, I feel that it's much better for them to take their chances in the woods than to be in the hands of Governor Hamilton.
Take the chances of war," she said, smiling gravely.
Life and death held the chances even; but it was at the will of Heaven, not of the stars.
His brain, playing double, calculated with lightning swiftness the chancesand movements of that whirlwind rush of fight, while at the same time it swept through a retrospect of all the years since Alice came into his life.
Frontiersmen always regarded the chances better than even, so long as there was life.
But we are not omniscient; we must treat the chances which the concatenation of events offers us, according to probability, not to possibility.
Yes," he added, with evident relish, "the chances are good.
Well, Donald admitted, the chances were against him, and the outlook was indeed dark.
It's not what you call dangerous yet, but the chances are good, ma'am.
If you overdo on training then you injure the chances of the men of your squad.
Fellows," laughed Dick, "at one time on the train I was so downhearted and glum over the chances of a trade that I believe I would have jumped at fifty dollars.
I asked, taking what I well knew to be the chancesof a civil answer, or of a ring on the side of the head.
When the fire which Robert Harburgh had lighted burned up, we that were marksmen lost no chances at any who showed so much as an arm or a leg.
For light-wit havering with a lass bairn about a great house is but small part of the purpose of my story--though I can take pleasure in that also when it chances to come my way, as indeed becomes a soldier.
Surely their cleverness would circumvent the restrictions framed by these gamblers on the chances of life and death.
Will you sell at your own price and go with me to the top--or refuse and take your chances on substituting the state-prison for the bench?
But then I happened to think that the Missus would be among those lost; and though a man might do a whole lot better the second time, the chances was that he'd do a whole lot worse.
And his shoes was a last year's edition o' the kind that's supposed to give your feet a chance, and if his feet had of been the kind that takes chances they was two or three places where they could of got away without much trouble.
Our chances of getting on to the north looked slim.
But the comparative poverty was there amidst abounding chances to be rich in the gold country and elsewhere in a new land.
Considering all the various conditions involving the nature and extent of these lesions, the position and direction of the bones of the forearm are such as to render the chances for recovery from fracture as among the best.
Unless serious illness is beginning, the chances are that, under this treatment, the little one will be almost well by the next day.
If John is an honest gentleman who loves Mary, the chances for her happiness depend upon her common-sense and her love for John.
If driven straight at it, the chances are forty-eight out of fifty that he will balk or bolt.
I have in mind one man to whom I hesitate to name a friend, unless it chances to be one over whom he has cast the mantle of his approval.
On the other hand, do not whisper to any person who chances to be in the room.
The ambitious in both sections will prefer their chances as members of a mighty empire to what would always be secondary places in two rival and hostile nations, powerless to command respect abroad or secure prosperity at home.
With every day he gave the enemy, he lessened his chances of success, and added months to the duration of the war.
The history of this family, truly told, would be a warning for all, who expect from the chances of fortune that happiness, which is only to be found in contentment and a pure conscience.
He did so, and found that, disguised like harlequins in the flimsy bedizenment which they call Imperialism, they were playing high jinks with Britain's reputation and the chances of freedom for the oppressed in the East.
According to my notion your chances would be poor, sir.
Somebody must stay here--and I don't want you to take the chances on that wreck.
He was headed for the Point Judith whistler, and did not propose to take chances on fumbling by any detours.
What do you think of my chancesto make a dollar over and above providing I hire a tugboat and try to salvage?
This is the age of taking chances--taking chances and getting there!
The chances are ten to one ---- he will forget it.
Good use cannot be determined solely by observing the conversation of our associates; for the chances are that they use many local expressions, some slang, and possibly some vulgarisms.
Subjunctive, both clauses: The uncertainty is emphasized by the auxiliary form; the chances of rain seem more remote.
Sometimes, however, he would succeed in landing it, and then the chances were he would spill it over the deck or into the passage.
I fancy that the fact of my three collaborators being all bachelors diminished somewhat our chances of success, in Ethelbertha's mind.
It was therefore a relief when neighbors no longer considered the house in quarantine, and when the chances of seeing Rosamond alone were very much reduced.
His chances of meeting Dorothea were rare; and here for the first time there had come a chance which had set him at a disadvantage.
He and Bulstrode rode back to Middlemarch together, talking of many things--chiefly cholera and the chances of the Reform Bill in the House of Lords, and the firm resolve of the political Unions.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chances" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: chance; luck; odds; probability; prospect
