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What would I do? From what quarter could I attack Constantinople? How would I hold it when I had taken it? K. asked me the questions. With the mud of prosaic Whitehall drying upon my boots these remarks of K.'s sounded to me odd. Lord K. made a grimace; he thought this too chancy. The best would be if we did not land a man until the Turks had come to terms.
Of course, he has never accomplished very much in his profession. Chancy says all the men downtown look upon him as a failure; but, then, he is such a perfect gentleman, and, as I tell Charley and Jane, one can't have everything. How different your life would have been, my dear daughter, if you had listened to the prayers of your mother, and married a gentle Christian character like Arthur Peyton.
"I see there is a Bernstoff man in the States who says that the war is over and Germany has won and they tell me Whiskers-on-the-moon says the same thing and is quite pleased about it, but I could tell them both that it is chancy work counting chickens even the day before they are hatched, and bears have been known to live long after their skins were sold."
This may sound like a steer, but it's straight." Hopalong thought for a minute and then leaned on the cigar case: "I reckon I'll take about a dozen of yore very best cigars, Charley. Got any real high-toned brands?" "Cortez panatella two for a simoleon," Chancy replied. "But, seein' that it's you, I'll throw off a dollar on a dozen.
He's a sort of chum who, when he has a bottle of pickles, somebody else is sure to eat 'em. Ahalala isn't so bad. It's one of them chancy places, of course. You may and you mayn't, as I was a-saying before. When the great rush was on, I did uncommon well at Ahalala. I never was the man I was then. 'What became of it? asked Caldigate with a smile.
And it was Quita who leant forward and grasped the bridle with a steady hand. Her action gave him the chance he wanted of getting close enough to speak a few words of encouragement in a hurried undertone. "Don't lose heart. It's an ugly drop. But he fell clear of the tree; and these khuds are the most chancy things imaginable. I'm off after him, as fast as hands and feet can take me."
It winna dow for onybody but you and me ever to see him, or to wait on him; and, when we dow, he maunna be allowed to see either yur face or mine; but I will put my awd mask on, that I used to wear at night sometimes when there was onything particular to dow, and I thought there wad be danger in the way; and," continued he, as the doating parent rose in his bosom, "it wadna be chancy for him to see my Fanny's face at ony rate; and when ye dow see him, ye maun have your features so concealed, that, if he met you again, he wadna knaw ye.
It is a game of skill, but at the same time the uneasy motion of the ship is constantly interfering with skill; this makes it a chancy game, and the element of luck comes largely in.
Tulliver, entering thoroughly into the possibility of an inopportune decease. "There's never so much pleasure i' wearing a bonnet the second year, especially when the crowns are so chancy, never two summers alike." "Ah, it's the way i' this world," said Mrs. Pullet, returning the bonnet to the wardrobe and locking it up.
And Smithers had betrayed him. He was angry, bitterly angry, with "swats" and "muggers" who spent their whole time grinding for these foolish chancy examinations. Nor had the practical examination been altogether fair, and one of the questions in the written portion was quite outside the lectures.
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