O my lord, this hap is what I dreamt last night; and, when I awoke. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
And Uther with his men drew to the mount, and had lost in the fight his dear knights, full seven hundred-his hap was the worse!. From Wordnik.com. [Roman de Brut. English] Reference
Wonderful, wasn't it, that it was her "hap" to light on a part of the field belonging to Boaz?. From Wordnik.com. [Fair to Look Upon] Reference
We need to determine which valid word 'hap' should match. From Wordnik.com. [Slashdot: Developers] Reference
In that onset I slew there, as hap then appaid me. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats] Reference
Now hap what will, I'le rid him with this murther. From Wordnik.com. [The Fatal Jealousie (1673)] Reference
'Twill after hap early, that illness or sword-edge. From Wordnik.com. [Beowulf An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem] Reference
Iudge whether was more good, my hap or els my hart. From Wordnik.com. [The Arte of English Poesie] Reference
I will declare how one by hap his humane figure lost. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Asse] Reference
For what may hap unless his note were sent with speed!. From Wordnik.com. [Rowena & Harold A Romance in Rhyme of an Olden Time, of Hastyngs and Normanhurst] Reference
So doth my love surmount them all, whom yet I hap to see!. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
Travel under would the water and hap spout up in my close. From Wordnik.com. [My Neighbors Stories of the Welsh People] Reference
But howe'er, his hap was that the sword so through-waded 890. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats] Reference
As if they should at th 'entrance of this newe yeare hap to die. From Wordnik.com. [A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide] Reference
Then pondering awhile he muttered brokenly, 'I'll hap ye in again. From Wordnik.com. [Border Ghost Stories] Reference
'One can't restart a business like this in this hap-hazard manner.'. From Wordnik.com. [Sarah's School Friend] Reference
But come, tell in turn what hap hath brought thee hither yet alive. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference
'Ah, 'twas part of the evil hap that hath followed me,' cried Balin. From Wordnik.com. [King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls] Reference
We saw this contempt of us, in dipping at hap-hazard into the volume. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.] Reference
Pray tell me what befel you, and by what good hap thou art still alive. From Wordnik.com. [The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01] Reference
One would think they had been shaken together hap-hazard, each in a sack. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843] Reference
Mathematicians tell us wondrous things in relation to these hap-hazard concerns. From Wordnik.com. [The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, April, 1880] Reference
A great number were carried off at hap-hazard, according as they fell into their hands. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08] Reference
And not a bird that sings in spring Is hap-pi-er than I, than I, Is hap-pi-er than I. From Wordnik.com. [The Story-teller] Reference
This time the pictures that the defense showed the jury were of Nicole in hap - pier times. From Wordnik.com. [The Trial Winds Down] Reference
There, beating up in the teeth of the wind in the most hap-hazard manner, was the Cutwater. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Oarsmen of Lakeview] Reference
An 'whatlike was the evil hap that placed ye in among that rabble o' painted beauties, may I ask?. From Wordnik.com. [The Maid of the Whispering Hills] Reference
And by good hap also he slew the other two, one with his lance, the other with his sword on foot. From Wordnik.com. [King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls] Reference
Then the market plunged, forcing Joseph back to work -- something that could hap-pen to any retiree. From Wordnik.com. [SPECIAL MONEY GUIDE, THE RETIREMENT RACE] Reference
Here he allures with rewards and offer of prizes those who will try their hap in the fleet foot-race. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference
Persian, Grecian, and the Romaine, whiche haue continued from the beginnyng mightie, moste hap - pie, bee an example herein. From Wordnik.com. [A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike because all other partes of Rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an Oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde] Reference
Without these, the work will be performed in a hap-hazard, slovenly manner, and the library itself will tend to become a chaos. From Wordnik.com. [A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries] Reference
And she went, and came, and gleaned in the field after the reapers: and her hap was to light on a part of the field belonging unto Boaz. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6] Reference
"And she went, and came, and gleaned in the field after the reapers; and her hap was to light on a part of the field belonging unto Boaz.". From Wordnik.com. [Fair to Look Upon] Reference
My things must all be bought at hap-hazard, as they can be got out of my poor little allowance, -- and things are getting so horridly dear!. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866] Reference
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