"Chance upon" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... they are fortunate enough to get into a better class of work, and when they chance upon some well-organized establishment and are drawn into the union as a matter of course that we find Polish girls in unions at all. Intellectually they are not in the running with the Russian Jewess and the peasant ...
— The Trade Union Woman • Alice Henry
... heard that passionate appeal for another chance upon more than one previous occasion. He had heard the husband who had tortured his wife to death make a passionate appeal to God to give him another chance. He knew that God had never given him another chance with the ...
— Phyllis of Philistia • Frank Frankfort Moore
... back with Lancelot. They ride until they happen by chance upon the Waste Manor where the King and Messire Gawain were lodged; and they were armed, and were minded to go forth from thence. But the seven knights guarded the issue, all armed. The King and Messire ...
— High History of the Holy Graal • Unknown
... like our friend, John Bailey, moved to small inland villages where they modestly plied their trade, selling their wares to only a limited circle of purchasers. Of these scattered craftsmen we have, as I told you, scant information. It is merely when we chance upon their names in early town records or a clock turns up to testify to their knowledge of their craft that we have tidings of them. But with the Willards it was different. They have left behind them a collection ...
— Christopher and the Clockmakers • Sara Ware Bassett
... If one were to chance upon an altar in this German Athens inscribed to the "unknown god," he might be tempted to suggest that that deity's ...
— Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands V2 • Harriet Beecher Stowe
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