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The Soul watches for its chances, and leaps in at surprising moments: the arm clothed in white samite may reach forth out of the bosom of all sorts of curious quagmires; and when it does, should be held in reverence as still and always a proof of the underlying divinity of man.
We're shut up away from the big world outside in a little world of our own, and such chances fall to every man and most of the women here: a shrapnel bullet or a shell-splinter might stop me before another hour goes by, from ever saying what I've felt for weeks on end had got to be said what I'd risk a dozen lives, if I had 'em, to get the opportunity of saying to you."
The motion became easier, but the pace was terrifying to a desperate degree; for it seemed that he sat upon nothing, but was being whirled through the air as from a catapult at the heels of his father, who pounded furiously through the darkness a dozen yards ahead. For three minutes at least he felt at every stride an extreme uncertainty as to his chances of realighting in the saddle.
My young scatterbrains find it hard to understand that the beast which was so precious two days ago is now of no value whatever. When, owing to the chances of my net, a renewed demand for the Ephippiger sets in, then they will bring me the Cricket, the despised Cricket. Such a trade could never hold out if now and again my speculators were not encouraged by some success.
B.J. decided to take the chances of a battered skull rather than let both the windward runner and the tiller-runner have a slash at him. He gathered himself for a dive into the air. But, just as he was about to leap, a sudden gust of wind lifted the windward runner off the ice at least two feet.
"I'll provide for that." He spoke to the station-clerk, and conducted her across the road. "You are quite alone, Miss Middleton?" "I am: I have not brought my maid." "You must take off boots and stockings at once, and have them dried. I'll put you in the hands of the landlady." "But my train!" "You have full fifteen minutes, besides fair chances of delay."
A girl who stands all day behind a counter runs some risks in health, but her chances are still as good as those of the fine lady who broods over imaginary ailments till they become real. To those who must work I have but little to say, for they have a narrow margin of choice. There are several suggestions to be made, however.
Ah, we all play, and with what varied success! How many poor, unlucky wights turn up deuces all their life, while others, born under luckier stars, hold a fistful of kings and queens! How many eyes grow dim over the faint chances of small digits, while others sparkle in the reflected light of those regal robes!
The chances of driving this steer out were slight if we should ever reach him. The possibility of forcing a way in was remote, and if we succeeded in penetrating to the centre of the jam and failed to break it, we should certainly be wedged in and crushed. If Ump's head had been cool, I do not think he would ever have permitted me to join in such madness.
"The more people there are to hear it, the more chances there are of its getting back to shore." Joe blew back into the cabin a few moments later. "Everything all right?" Curlie shouted. At the sound of his voice, the girl started, looked up, then smiled; Joe nodded his head. "Say, Joe, I'm hungry," shouted Curlie. "There's bread in the forward cabin and some milk in a thermos bottle.
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