"Chance upon" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... met her by chance upon the boulevard two days before. No one of us had had any idea that she was not in Ireland, whither she had retired upon her marriage, and where her passion for hunting kept her most of the year, and when we learned that she had already spent six months in the Pyrenees, and would be ...
— Jonah and Co. • Dornford Yates
... their treasure-cave; Where henceforth sudden gleams of spring would pass Thorough the four-walled darkness of the room; And sounds of spring-time whisper trembling by, Though stony streets with iron echoed round. And as they crossed a field, they came by chance Upon a place where once a home had been; Fragments of ruined walls, half-overgrown With moss, for even stones had their green robe. It had been a small cottage, with a plot Of garden-ground in front, mapped out with walks Now scarce discernible, but that the grass ...
— A Hidden Life and Other Poems • George MacDonald
... chance upon people of poor courage, they leave them with life enough to tell the story.—What is it, Mathew?' asked she of the old serving-man ...
— Lord Kilgobbin • Charles Lever |
