A Consolidated Library of Anglo-Saxon Poetry

Word Explorer: chance

Number of occurrences in corpus: 49

AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 21 10 ther brother / who was then by chance outside looking and gazing at
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 314 ting for his homeland. For by chance a certain traveller / passed c
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 453 hand there, he found that by chance / he was healed, and that he f
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 816 I have been killed. / And if by chance another life was holding my s
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 829 rous things, / he gave him the chance to ransom himself. / Then, free
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 986 ield, / he asked me whether by chance I understood all that I had s
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 6 7 ever the pious priest came by chance, / with God’s help he plucked
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 15 1 f his own accord. / / # / Once by chance, the venerable traveller took
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 17 1 s required. / / # / There came by chance to the servant of God / twelve
ALDHELM.CarmEcc 4.1 23 previously neighbours / had by chance carried to the temple, to wal
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 291 eady been put to sleep by the chance of decease. / But the stupid la
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 405 s golden shrine. / But when by chance this fortunate precursor grew
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 534 pts of God. / So it happened by chance that Clement observed / his age
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 597 attress, / he looked and saw by chance in his swooning / the deformed
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 623 le he lay in bed. / But when by chance, however, they produced nothin
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 657 ons of things to come. / For by chance a swarm of bees in great mult
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 895 re was once a bishop named by chance NARCISSUS, / fragrant in the me
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1116 t of the hearth, / even if by chance it is gathered up into a wood
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1125 s with renowned praise. / So by chance his father handed this beardl
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1460 rld produces names / because of chance, if it is proper to have faith
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1461 , / if there is such a thing as chance or fate or the alignment of s
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1522 es of the Bacchantes. / When by chance he saw that the demented mult
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1551 th resonating voices. / Then by chance the aforementioned priest app
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2113 ample and celebrated fame. / By chance, twin sisters made that abunda
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2125 adorned her, / although worldly chance tied her sister / Blesella to t
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2150 eign volumes; / and likewise by chance brought to light the Greek tr
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2196 hree distinguished sisters by chance likewise / received splendid ga
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2217 / and having not cared for the chance of a husband, she followed th
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2352 ors of Christ, / there arose by chance in Rome a rumour of two siste
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2609 is greed for golden metal; / by chance there was just such a death f
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2870 y scan a text / which stands by chance a twin thing in distinct book
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 8 ressed to the stars. / When by chance those of a young and tender a
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 70 boy [Cuthbert], / who then by chance was standing on the other ban
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 253 t of the future, he said to a chance companion on the way, / ‘Tel
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 377 time for harvest came; but by chance some swift birds / are keen to
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 384 ckle to the soil? / But if by chance God tells you to commit these
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 537 d. / A good number arrive; by chance one of them offered him there
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 624 d, who had sat next to him by chance, enquired / where the cause of s
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 625 great trembling came from by chance. / He replied: ‘An angelic h
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 747 companions, who were then by chance chanting this psalm / of griev
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 757 oint. / They too, were then by chance at the sequence of nocturnal
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 878 m his blessed lips. / When by chance the holy man was nourishing a
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 920 h by this cure. / And lest by chance anyone should think that I am
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 317 ook with humility / what ruling chance commanded. Therefore accustom
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 330 committed to them, unless by chance / the sea should put an obstac
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 794 ” “Did I do wrong, by any chance, when I sent the king back?”
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 894 oo large and fell off, or, by chance, were not able to fit around t
N.MiraculaNyniae 40 supreme pontiff, / who then by chance deserved to guard the defence
N.MiraculaNyniae 190 e table with the brothers, by chance thegreens were missing. / He s