As it happened, the thing worked with disconcerting abruptness as his untrained fingers fell hapchance on the spring. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Bag] Reference
A hapchance native whom he presently encountered, furnished minute directions for reaching the Dockyard Station of the Southeastern and. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Bag] Reference
He was close upon the farther end when -- upon a hapchance impulse -- he glanced over the nearest guard-rail, down at the bed of the creek. From Wordnik.com. [The Brass Bowl] Reference
And with the heel of his open hand he struck the man forcibly upon the chest, so that he reeled back, tripped over the hapchance foot of an innocent by-stander, and went sprawling and blaspheming upon his back. From Wordnik.com. [The Day of Days An Extravaganza] Reference
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