"Chance on" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... through such niggard opening as they will allow her. To the man of war, a veritable Gibraltar; a maze of possibilities in defence; a stupendous undertaking in attack, an undertaking which will brook neither error nor miscalculation, and from which nature has eliminated much of the element of chance on the one side to place it to the credit of the other. Of such a kind were our Colenso, Magersfontein, Stormberg, and Spion Kop heights. You at home at your ease, taking in from the map in a second a perfunctory impression of the topography, which it would ...
— On the Heels of De Wet • The Intelligence Officer
... can't tell when he first decided to go one better and drown me. He couldn't count for certain on bad weather, though he held my nose to it when it came. But, granted that he wanted to get rid of me altogether, he got a magnificent chance on that trip ...
— Riddle of the Sands • Erskine Childers
... said his wife, with authority. "We'll take a chance on it. If it isn't the right thing, we can sell it to the ...
— A Fool and His Money • George Barr McCutcheon
... Paris boast of boulevards where one can sit and drink There is no such chance on Broadway, at the Brower House, 'I don't think.' And where else are there fair soubrettes in pipe clayed tennis shoes, And boys in silken sashes promenading by in twos Oh you can boast of any street of which you're proud to know But ...
— Adventures and Letters • Richard Harding Davis
... for some reason which I do not know and which you will not tell me, there is such bad blood between you and my father that you can't—you won't—won't even take a chance on me?" ...
— Poor Man's Rock • Bertrand W. Sinclair
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