Verb

It chanced that I found a solution the very next day.

if a bird's nest chance to be before thee

I chanced on this letter.

Once it chanced that Geoffrey Riddell (Bishop of Ely), a Prelate rather troublesome to (w), made a request of him for timber from his woods towards certain edifices going on at (Glemsford).

Mr. Mason, shivering as some one chanced to open the door, asked for more coal to be put on the fire, which had burnt out its flame, though its mass of cinder still shone hot and red. The footman who brought the coal, in going out, stopped near Mr. Eshton's chair, and said something to him in a low voice, of which I heard only the words, "old woman,"—"quite troublesome."

Shall we carry the umbrella, or chance a rainstorm?

Come what will, I will chance it.

He chanced upon a kindly stranger who showed him the way.

Verb

Then the heerdmen, fleed and went there ways into the cite, and tolde everythinge, and what had fortuned unto them that were possessed of the devyls.

(Richardson)

(Dryden)