CHANCE in Classic Quotes

Simple words can express big ideas - learn how great writers to make beautiful sentences with common words.
Quotes from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Free Online Vocabulary Test
K12, SAT, GRE, IELTS, TOEFL
 Search Panel
Word:
You may input your word or phrase.
Author:
Book:
 
Stems:
If search object is a contraction or phrase, it'll be ignored.
Sort by:
Each search starts from the first page. Its result is limited to the first 17 sentences. If you upgrade to a VIP account, you will see up to 500 sentences for one search.
Common Search Words
 Current Search - chance in Great Expectations
1  Now, Joseph Gargery, I warn you this is your last chance.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVIII
2  Dear boy," he answered, "I'm quite content to take my chance.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LIV
3  Only come to see me as if you come by chance alonger Wemmick.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LIV
4  I left a note for you at each of the Temple gates, on the chance.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLV
5  You are one of those, Biddy," said I, "who make the most of every chance.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVII
6  For a moment I looked wildly round my trap for any chance of escape; but there was none.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LIII
7  That I cannot wish to renew that chance intercourse with you of long ago, under these different circumstances.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXIX
8  "I am glad to have the chance of bidding you good by, Mr. Wemmick," said the man, stretching out his hand between two bars.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXII
9  At length, it was voted that there was no help for the angry gentleman, and that he must either go in his chance company or remain behind.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXVIII
10  No boat would then be hired for the purpose, and no boatmen; that would save at least a chance of suspicion, and any chance is worth saving.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLVI
11  And as I felt that it came quicker, and as I felt that he saw that it came quicker, I felt that I had less chance than ever of getting anything out of him.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXVI
12  We should know at what time to expect them, according to where we were, and would hail the first; so that, if by any accident we were not taken abroad, we should have another chance.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter LIV
13  I forget in detail what they were, but I have a general recollection that he was to begin with reviving the Drama, and to end with crushing it; inasmuch as his decease would leave it utterly bereft and without a chance or hope.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXXI
14  I thought how one link of association had helped that identification in the theatre, and how such a link, wanting before, had been riveted for me now, when I had passed by a chance swift from Estella's name to the fingers with their knitting action, and the attentive eyes.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XLVIII