happy chance

By happy chance, the fellow was standing not ten feet from him.

A happy chance: I kept the same compartment all the four years.

"What a happy chance, since she is from the district attorney's office.

I usually read the obituaries first as there is always the happy chance that one of them will make my day.

It's been a happy chance that brought me after all to Constantinopolis.

But you might say it was a happy chance that made me ride this way."

By happy chance, Octavian was close to the remaining bridge.

It's by your happy chance that I've met you here today, sir."

By happy chance she made only two errors, both in the first few bars and neither glaring.

"By a singular and happy chance, we are able to some extent to check what passed along this road during the night in question.

A happy chance brought you here in time.

It would have been a very happy chance.

"Ah, well, it is a happy chance that you recovered him so easily.

But tell me what happy chance brought thee to Avignon?"

Are you by any happy chance a long-distance runner?"

But for the happy chance of the gold stuffing, your suspicions would probably never have been aroused."

If by some happy chance she were to be seen as guilty only of causing him a heart attack well, she'd settle for that all right.

'Good,' said Reg, vaguely, 'by a happy chance there seems to be some ready in the kitchen.

It was not art, but happy chance, that led the poets in search of subjects to impress the tragic quality upon their plots.

By a happy chance Parvill caught my eye.

"A happy chance that I could warn you," said Metrobius.

Indeed, it's a happy chance that you came on this of all days, for tomorrow the royal party is leaving to return to Aber."

Now, by happy chance, he is minister of decentralisation and, naturally, close to the prime minister.

And, as an additional incentive to show himself, a happy chance had now offered him the opportunity of putting Julian in the wrong.)

By happy chance or splendid calculation they were heading straight for the one drift which was still open to Cronje.