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- verb archaic Second-person singular simple present form of
chance .
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Examples
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And so I say unto thee, if thou art driving in thine automobile and thou chancest to come upon a vessel in the slow lane traveling but slightly above the posted speed limitation, thou must passeth and immediately cut back in front of this vehicle, and slow thou down by at least ten miles per hour.
Appropriate Selections from The Book Steve Perry 2007
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A thistle tickleth thy heart when thou chancest to be hungry.
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Unless" chancest thou to be virginal, apart from her? "
Split Infinity Anthony, Piers 1980
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Unless" chancest thou to be virginal, apart from her? "
Split Infinity Anthony, Piers 1980
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The theme of this oration was the tremendous influence that can trail after the chancest and briefest encounter of two strangers.
Missy Dana Gatlin
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_ No truly, Abraham, thou chancest upon the right,
"Everyman," with other interludes, including eight miracle plays Anonymous 1902
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A thistle tickleth thy heart when thou chancest to be hungry.
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A thistle tickleth thy heart when thou chancest to be hungry.
Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 1872
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But if in judging him whom thou hast nothing to do with, thou chancest to judge one way, and God and truth to judge another, take heed of that dreadful tribunal, where it will not be enough to say, that "I thought this," or "I heard that;" and, where no man's mistake will be able to warrant an unjust surmise, and much less justify a false censure.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. II. 1634-1716 1823
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E'en to the man whom thou chancest to meet in life's narrow pathway,
The Works of Frederich Schiller Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller 1782
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