chanced造句

She chanced to speak fluent Spanish.

I chanced to be thinking of the same thing.

On our holidays we chanced upon an interesting antique store.

I chanced on this old photograph in his drawer.

If a servant chanced to vex her, it was always — 'I shall tell papa!

Astronomer Art Hoag first asked this question when he chanced upon this unusual extragalactic object.

It so happened / chanced that I' d met her a few years before.

Wandering in the garden one day, he chanced upon his sister-in-law sketching with watercolors.

One day he chanced upon Emma's diary and began reading it.

It chanced that when Martin was leaving, he overtook Brissenden already half down the walk to the street.

I never chanced to see its kind in any market; it would be the cynosure of all eyes there.

A few days later, it chanced that jean Valjean was sawing some wood, in his shirt-sleeves, in the corridor.

An ox, grazing in a swampy meadow, chanced to set his foot among a parcel of young frogs, and crushed nearly the whole brood to death.

Now, it chanced that an old man sleeping in a hovel on a pallet of straw was, awakened by these cries.

But in down-to-earth William and nice, middle-class Kate, maybe the monarchy has chanced upon a marriage that can help it reinvent itself.

He chanced uponApollo's oxen grazing on a meadow and drove a number ofthese animals away, tying tree branches around the feet of thecattle to make their footsteps dim.

Some Dogs found the skin of a Lion and furiously began to tear it with their teeth. A Fox chanced to see them and laughed scornfully.

IF, ON any day over the past few decades, you had chanced to be strolling in the early morning at Lyford Cay in the Bahamas, you might have seen a wiry, determined figure power-walking in the sea.

Chou Chung-wei broke off in the middle of his patriotic speech when his eyes chanced upon a box of "Phoenix" brand matches, made in Sweden, lying beside a silver-plated ashtray.

When a blackbird chanced to sing in the upper branches it was as if some angelic being had dropped down out of the sky into that green translucent cloud of leaves.

This Ching was not a real general, of course, but merely a stocky, red-faced wanderer who had chanced to be near Peking one day when the emperor's henchmen required an army in a hurry.