mere luck

Happy those who, through influence or by mere luck, were selected to be exchanged for our soldiers, prisoners in France.

But it was something more than mere luck in Bonfire's case; it was the result of a whole season of observation and experiment.

But so there are in all plans; and to say Wolfe took Quebec by mere luck is utter nonsense.

He feels conscious that he does not owe his success to mere luck, but has deserved the glory.

By mere luck Evie had escaped that shock of the party, but the original one, the seven or eight years' old one, remained.