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  • And these she scattered chancewise all over the room, without even looking to see where they fell.

    La faute de l'Abbe Mouret ��mile Zola 1871

  • A fatalist as he was after his own fashion, he could not find strength to quit the pavements of Paris, but there awaited arrest, like a social waif carried chancewise through the multitude as in

    The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Complete ��mile Zola 1871

  • And on being repulsed by the ushers, he walked away, taking the Concorde bridge, slowly, as if chancewise, like a man who knows not whither he is going.

    The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Complete ��mile Zola 1871

  • And on being repulsed by the ushers, he walked away, taking the Concorde bridge, slowly, as if chancewise, like a man who knows not whither he is going.

    The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete Lourdes, Rome and Paris ��mile Zola 1871

  • A fatalist as he was after his own fashion, he could not find strength to quit the pavements of Paris, but there awaited arrest, like a social waif carried chancewise through the multitude as in

    The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete Lourdes, Rome and Paris ��mile Zola 1871

  • A fatalist as he was after his own fashion, he could not find strength to quit the pavements of Paris, but there awaited arrest, like a social waif carried chancewise through the multitude as in

    The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Volume 2 ��mile Zola 1871

  • And on being repulsed by the ushers, he walked away, taking the Concorde bridge, slowly, as if chancewise, like a man who knows not whither he is going.

    The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Volume 1 ��mile Zola 1871

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