CHANCE in Classic Quotes

1  There was not even the hope of a chance caller.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIX

2  Well," said Stuart, "she hasn't had a chance to say anything yet.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I

3  Jerry, there's no girl in Savannah you'd have less chance of marrying.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III

4  Ef you hadn't talked wid dem, dey wouldn had no chance ter treat me lak a mule or a Affikun.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII

5  Even now--even now, I'd take a chance on getting home in spite of the Yankees, if it wasn't for this baby.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XX

6  Your only chance is to follow the troops down the McDonough road and pray that they won't see you in the dark.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIII

7  But there had been no opportunity to say them, and she knew now that perhaps she would never have the chance to say them.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV

8  If India and Honey who disliked her so much were to be present at the leave taking, she would have no chance for a private word.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV

9  It was in a saloon in Savannah, on a hot night in spring, when the chance conversation of a stranger sitting near by made Gerald prick up his ears.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III

10  There's only one way you can help me," she said dully, "and that's to take me away from here and give us a new start somewhere, with a chance for happiness.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXI

11  Just as soon as the commissary department was safely on its way, she'd start Pork for Macon and take the chance of having the precious horse picked up by the army.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII

12  Then he lay awake at night thinking of all the charming gallantries he might have employed; but he rarely got a second chance, for the girls left him alone after a trial or two.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI

13  And it'll be ten o'clock before Boyd gets a chance to tell her that it wouldn't have been honorable for any of us to stay in college after the way the Chancellor talked to you and me.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I

14  But there was always a chance, always a chance, she thought in the long night hours as she padded back and forth across the cold floor of her bedroom, with Ellen's faded shawl clutched about her nightdress.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI

15  Poor India, thought Scarlett, she's had so much trouble keeping house since her mother died that she's never had the chance to catch any beau except Stuart Tarleton, and it certainly wasn't my fault if he thought I was prettier than she.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI

16  Secession, war--these words long since had become acutely boring to Scarlett from much repetition, but now she hated the sound of them, for they meant that the men would stand there for hours haranguing one another and she would have no chance to corner Ashley.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI

17  These two industriously spread the rumor that the Southerners and Democrats were just waiting for a good chance to put the negroes back into slavery and that the negroes' only hope of escaping this fate was the protection given them by the Bureau and the Republican party.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXI