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
Yet, while they were engaged in the search, by happy chance a wonderful concatenation of events in the pagan city of Athens determined the destiny of the nineteen-year-old ruler.
From Women of Early Christianity by Brittain, Alfred
For this reason I undertook to befriend the horse, and by happy chance it came to pass in a short time he responded as readily to my questions as to those of the two gentlemen.
From Clever Hans (The horse of Mr. Von Osten): A contribution to experimental animal and human psychology by Pfungst, Oskar
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)
The lady with him, evidently Mrs. Stump, was mated for him by happy chance.
From The Wheel O' Fortune by Tracy, Louis
