Chances

Examples

• The chances were that that matter, too, was well known to him. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• And she surveyed her position, and its hopes, doubts, and chances. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• With all the chances thus in our favour I confronted the next emergency, and played the second move in the game. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• We might hide among the great trees for a time, but the chances are small indeed for escape. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• It was necessary to destroy his chances promptly. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The chances and changes, the wanderings and dangers of months and months past, all shrank and shrivelled to nothing in my mind. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The chances against me wanted no reckoning up--they were all merged in one. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Sitting down before this dark comforter, I presently fell into a deep argument with myself on life and its chances, on destiny and her decrees. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Not to risk being done out of the sweat of my brow, by any chances, I should wish afore going further to be swore in. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Darling, you shouldn't take silly chances. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• I committed one error in trusting myself to such a blindfold calculation of chances as this. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The chances are they won't be able to wake anybody up there and if they do wake up they will be too sleepy to think. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• It has been the misfortune of my life that I have had few chances. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Once in the line, and there's lots of 'em plying to and fro, so the chances are we'd soon be picked up. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Why, the chances,' responded Mr. Bob Sawyer. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• We discussed his chances, the merits of the other candidates, and the dispositions of the voters. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• It's ridiculous, ma'am,' said Bitzer, 'because the chances are against the players. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• The chances are very small, young lady—next to nothing—for a man who gets a bad name among them. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• It is like the bullfighter who knowing what he is doing, takes no chances and is safe. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• She had gone off with a man, and the man was either a lover or was a previous husband--the chances being in favour of the latter. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Here we debated the wisdom of sinking the craft before leaving her, but finally decided that it would add nothing to our chances for escape. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• He had no real education, only such as he could pick up by chance, but he made the most of such chances as came his way. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• As to escaping, what chances there were of escape? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• He himself stayed in London, believing there were better chances for the sale of his machine there than in America. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Unless, indeed, I run the chances of a court-martial, or unless you and my father would come to Spain. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• The chances, which had been all against us hitherto, turned from this moment in our favour. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• There will be more and better light in homes; there will be more and better light in offices and factories, thus greatly lessening the chances for injury or eye-strain. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The law of chances was clearly against his escaping on this occasion. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Yes, indeed: I was not born to very splendid chances. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Becky consoled herself by so balancing the chances and equalizing the distribution of good and evil in the world. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.

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