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1 It chanced that in the Rue de la Verrerie, they passed in front of Courfeyrac's door.
Les Misérables 4By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 11: CHAPTER VI—RECRUITS
2 All were in haste; and as they helped each other, they discussed the possible chances.
Les Misérables 4By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 12: CHAPTER IV—AN ATTEMPT TO CONSOLE THE WIDOW HUCHELOUP
3 It chanced that Marius' solitary strolls led him to this plot of ground, near the water.
Les Misérables 4By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE LARK'S MEADOW
4 Marius no longer went to see any one, but he sometimes encountered Father Mabeuf by chance.
Les Misérables 4By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—APPARITION TO FATHER MABEUF
5 And she told herself that an intervention of the angels, a celestial chance, had given him back to her.
Les Misérables 4By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—COSETTE AFTER THE LETTER
6 Passers-by always have more chance of being gored when there are bulls on the road than when there are none.
Les Misérables 4By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—ENJOLRAS AND HIS LIEUTENANTS
7 He once chanced to see a general on horseback, in full uniform, pass along the street, Comte Coutard, the commandant of Paris.
Les Misérables 4By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE CHAIN-GANG
8 Enjolras hastily quitted the urchin and murmured a few words in a very low tone to a longshoreman from the winedocks who chanced to be at hand.
Les Misérables 4By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 12: CHAPTER VII—THE MAN RECRUITED IN THE RUE DES BILLETTES
9 Strange and sad to say, at that very moment, Marius had not yet received Cosette's letter; chance had treacherously carried it to Jean Valjean before delivering it to Marius.
Les Misérables 4By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 15: CHAPTER I—A DRINKER IS A BABBLER
10 Whenever certain sparks float on the horizon chased by the wind of events, it is impossible not to think of the Faubourg Saint-Antoine and of the formidable chance which has placed at the very gates of Paris that powder-house of suffering and ideas.
Les Misérables 4By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY ...
11 Like Foy, his predecessor, after upholding the command, he upheld liberty; he sat between the left and the extreme left, beloved of the people because he accepted the chances of the future, beloved of the populace because he had served the Emperor well; he was, in company with Comtes Gerard and Drouet, one of Napoleon's marshals in petto.
Les Misérables 4By Victor Hugo ContextHighlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER III—A BURIAL; AN OCCASION TO BE BORN AGAIN