1 I only learnt it by chance, the other day.
2 This chance raised his spirits extraordinarily.
3 So here's a chance for you to get to know her better.
4 I chanced yesterday in passing to exchange a couple of words with Katerina Ivanovna, poor woman.
5 On waking up he chanced to go to the window, and at once saw Sonia in the distance at the hospital gate.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 6: CHAPTER VIII 6 There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken.
7 "A house-porter, no doubt; so then, the office is here," and he began ascending the stairs on the chance.
8 It was when I was wandering about yesterday, rather delirious, I chanced upon a man who had been run over.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 3: CHAPTER III 9 Suppose him to have been inexperienced, and it's clear that it was only a chance that saved him--and chance may do anything.
10 She moved uneasily, and curtsied incessantly, waiting impatiently for a chance of putting in her word: and at last she found it.
11 He vividly recalled those old doubts and perplexities, and it seemed to him that it was no mere chance that he recalled them now.
12 Besides, as chance would have it, he saw Dounia for the first time transfigured by her love for her brother and her joy at meeting him.
13 He pondered and rubbed his forehead, and, strange to say, after long musing, suddenly, as if it were spontaneously and by chance, a fantastic thought came into his head.
14 And the hopeless misery and anxiety of all that time, especially of the last hours, had weighed so heavily upon him that he positively clutched at the chance of this new unmixed, complete sensation.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 6: CHAPTER VIII 15 In the previous winter a student he knew called Pokorev, who had left for Harkov, had chanced in conversation to give him the address of Alyona Ivanovna, the old pawnbroker, in case he might want to pawn anything.
16 Of course it was a chance, but he could not shake off a very extraordinary impression, and here someone seemed to be speaking expressly for him; the student began telling his friend various details about Alyona Ivanovna.