by happy chance
Example Sentences
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It would transpire that, by happy chance, the virus was maximally infective only when patients were at their most unwell and usually already in hospital.
From The Guardian • Mar. 24, 2013
If, by happy chance, he should prosper in the new country, he would send for wife and children.
From America First by Greene, Frances Nimmo
The sun shone with a clear, benign, but heatless shining: a ghostly, remote, yet quite limpid light, which seemed designed for the lighting of other planets and systems, and to strike here by happy chance.
From The Purple Cloud by Shiel, M. P. (Matthew Phipps)
Nothin' to be done till the marnin'," echoed Spruce with a sigh, catching these words by happy chance; "All the same, she's a fine young lady, and 'er orders is to be obeyed.
From God's Good Man by Corelli, Marie
But when, by happy chance, the show stopped opposite our door, I saw enough of that ancient drama to be thrilled with terror and delight.
From Father and Son: a study of two temperaments by Gosse, Edmund
