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Example sentences for "chancing"

Lexicographically close words:
chancels; chances; chancet; chanceth; chancilleria; chancre; chancres; chanct; chancy; chandelier
  1. At length the celebrated Lewis Morris chancing to be at Llanfair became acquainted with the boy, and struck with his natural talents, determined that he should have all the benefit which education could bestow.

  2. Presently, the Vizier, chancing to look aside, saw the prince on the carpet of blood and knew him; so he threw himself upon him, as did the other envoys.

  3. And so it happened that Fink, chancing to look up, met his friend's eyes mournfully fixed upon his face, and this touched him more than the anger of the previous night.

  4. Chancing to glance toward the gate, she exclaimed: "There is a carriage.

  5. When Clara was about thirteen years of age a distant relative, chancing to see her, kindly proposed to contribute the sum requisite for affording her every educational advantage.

  6. I dared not, do you know, leave home all day, For fear of chancing on the Paris lords.

  7. Let us endeavor to take the point of view of the average man who opened one of Browning's volumes when first published; or let us imagine the feeling of an ordinary reader to-day on first chancing upon such a poem as "The Patriot.

  8. Chancing to say that her father and his guest were gone to Church Leet, Mrs. Todhetley kept her.

  9. But I left it by the other, the passage door, chancing to be nearest to it at the moment.

  10. Then, chancing to thrust her hand in the pocket of her sweater-coat, she drew out a half dozen slips of crumpled yellow paper.

  11. Then, chancing to recall something, she asked, "But you haven't told me your plan yet.

  12. Chancing to turn, she found the dark, deeply sunken eyes of the elderly woman watching her with an expression that was hard to define.

  13. Then chancing to put her hand in the pocket of her sweater-coat, and feeling there the crumpled paper, Nann drew it out and handed it to Dories.

  14. But chancing to leave the cars at Syracuse, she was startled by encountering in the depot the very man with whom she had been associating thoughts of guilt.

  15. Going to the place named, he found it to be a very respectable boarding-house, and, chancing upon a time when more or less of the rooms were empty, succeeded in procuring for himself an apartment there.

  16. Niccola Pisano, then, chancing to be under certain Greek sculptors who were working the figures and other carved ornaments of the Duomo of Pisa and of the Church of S.

  17. The officials were in such a state of tension that they would almost have preferred chancing it on the rail to losing those four minutes.

  18. Not many minutes are they thus occupied when the gambusino, chancing to turn his eyes south-westward, sees what makes him spit the cigaritto from his mouth, and gaze intently.

  19. The guide advised it, and his advice would have been for the best, but for the ill luck of the savages chancing to come along that way.

  20. Tarzan chancing a shrewd guess that the two he had seen paddling so frantically to avoid a meeting with him had indeed come from the high priest at A-lur.

  21. Should he pursue Ja-don and the woman, chancing an encounter with the fierce chief, or bide his time until treachery and intrigue should accomplish his design?

  22. I had been requested to act as his first groomsman; and, chancing to encounter him during the day, he had informed me that he adhered to his design of being married in spite of every thing.

  23. Chancing to address him, he saluted me with the calmest and most scrupulous courtesy; and his voice was as measured and unmoved as though he were attending a parade.

  24. Meanwhile the helpless child was left hanging to the tree until a shepherd, chancing to pass by, heard his pitiful cries and went to his rescue.

  25. Chancing to be near the river Cyane, she went down to the water's edge to drink, and happily discovered the girdle that Proserpina had dropped there in her flight.

  26. All this while Kemerezzeman was watching them and wondering; but presently, chancing to look at the dead bird's crop, he saw therein something gleaming.

  27. Presently, chancing to turn my head, I saw a place of trees hard by, and started up, my weariness clean forgotten.

  28. Then as they strove together panting and cursing I rose to come at them; but the wounded man, chancing to lift his head, saw me where I stood, the moonlight on my bloody face, and uttered a hoarse scream.

  29. Presently, chancing to look my way, she catches me watching her and knits her slender brows at me: "Get you to sleep!

  30. Aye, the Faithful Friend,' says Gregory, and then chancing to look outside, claps finger to lip and comes creeping into the shadow.

  31. Suddenly, chancing to turn his head, he espied me, halted in his stride, then eyeing me askance, advanced again.

  32. So there sat I in the shade of a rock, mighty content and quite lost in the joy of my sport until, chancing to lift my gaze, I beheld my companion upon the rocks over against me gazing away across the troubled ocean.

  33. So came I at last to my habitation in Skeleton Cove and chancing to espy my great powderhorn where it hung, I reached it down and going without the cave, scattered its contents broadcast, this being all the powder I had brought hither.

  34. To this end and with great exertion, by means of lever and tackle, I hauled inboard her four great stern-chase guns, at the which labour my lady chancing to find me, falls to work beside me right merrily.


  35. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chancing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.