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Definition of Chaunces
1. chaunce [v] - See also: chaunce
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chaunces
Literary usage of Chaunces
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Elizabethan Critical Essays by George Gregory Smith (1904)
"... to expresse most miserable calamities and dreadfull chaunces, which increased
worse and worse, ..."
2. The Complete Works of John Lyly by John Lyly (1902)
"We delight in good chaunces, we laugh at mis- chaunces; we delight to heare the
happines of our friends, or Country; at which he were worthy to be laughed ..."
3. A Literary History of the English People from the Renaissance to the Civil by Jean Jules Jusserand (1906)
"... Jack Cade, Henry VI., Jane Shore, and many others, whose "chaunces," thus
recalled and made popular, were to supply with tragical 1 All this mechanism ..."
4. Animaduersions Vppon the Annotacions and Corrections of Some Imperfections by Francis Thynne, Frederick James Furnivall (1875)
"... yow sett 1 printed ' chaunces' in the Household Ordinances (p. ... one marc ;
and eche for his chaunces iiii s. viii ct." Liber Niger Damns Regis Ed>v. ..."
5. Chronicles of London Bridge by Richard Thomson (1839)
"... chaunces, hearing the Bridge to be kept and manned, ran with greate haste to
open the passage, where betwene bothe partes was a ferce and cruell ..."
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