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- chancefully adverb
Etymology
Origin of chanceful
Example Sentences
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None the less, his brain was busy with the chanceful possibilities.
From The Price by Lynde, Francis
Looking back upon it in after-years in the light of a chanceful life, he determined, with the characteristic philosophy of his profession, that it must have been fate.
From Tales of the Argonauts by Harte, Bret
The trapper reviles him when he finds him in his mink trap, for all the beauty of his ermine a worthless prize drawn in this chanceful lottery.
From In New England Fields and Woods by Robinson, Rowland E. (Evans)
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