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- noun Archaic spelling of
chance . - verb Archaic spelling of
chance .
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Examples
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I'm tempted to think you ride a BMX around Williamsburg in your free time. chaunce
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As for the issue of moneye, if chaunce shal haue yt that we meet at a conferaunce (thou kan recognise me by myn brode sholdres, litel woolen hatte, and joviale expressioun), ich wille buye thee a drynke or thre.
Chaucer, Making a Quick Buck Richard Nokes 2006
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“Freend, for thy warnyng God yeve thee good chaunce,”
The Canterbury Tales 2006
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Signior Thorelloes chaunce to be one, and walked in bonds to
The Decameron 2004
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And evermore, let your favours shine on worthy deservers, without the direction of chaunce or Fortune, who never bestoweth any gift by discretion; but rashly without consideration, even to the first she blindly meets withall.
The Decameron 2004
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If I chaunce to die before I see you againe, remember me when you looke on this.
The Decameron 2004
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If by chaunce, any Mahumetan come into their handes, they flay him alyue.
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003
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They show him diuers gallant men of might, Whose wounds not mortall, hope gaue of recuer, For their saks sue they to diuorce this night Of desperate chaunce, calld vnto Deaths black lure,
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And if by chaunce they come vnto any place, where they shal stand in feare either of their persons or goods, that then you carefully cause them to bee guarded with your men, and to be conducted through all suspected places, with sufficient company; But haue great regard that they conuey not out of our countrey any of pur seruiceable horses.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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If by euil fortune it so chaunce that any trauaile that way southward, if in the mean time the wind come to the north, they are ouerwhelmed with sande, that they scatter out of the way, and can scarsely see the one the other ten pases of.
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003
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