CHANCE in Classic Quotes

1  With each fresh blow less and less chance of life remained for those not yet killed.

War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXXVI

2  Napoleon having cut our armies apart advanced far into the country and missed several chances of forcing an engagement.

War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER I

3  He was, however, preparing to go away and it had not entered his head to regret that he was thus depriving himself of chances of meeting her.

War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER VII

4  In former battles he had only considered the possibilities of success, but now innumerable unlucky chances presented themselves, and he expected them all.

War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXXIV

5  After the loss of the Shevardino Redoubt, we found ourselves on the morning of the twenty-fifth without a position for our left flank, and were forced to bend it back and hastily entrench it where it chanced to be.

War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XIX

6  Napoleon was experiencing a feeling of depression like that of an ever-lucky gambler who, after recklessly flinging money about and always winning, suddenly just when he has calculated all the chances of the game, finds that the more he considers his play the more surely he loses.

War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXXIV

7  As soon as they left the place where the balls and bullets were flying about, their superiors, located in the background, re-formed them and brought them under discipline and under the influence of that discipline led them back to the zone of fire, where under the influence of fear of death they lost their discipline and rushed about according to the chance promptings of the throng.

War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXXIII