Chancing upon a plant which was not to his taste, he beat it over his fore leg and afterwards tossed it upwards with his trunk, as if he wanted to say, "Eat this dainty yourselves;" finally, after having appeased his hunger and thirst, he began to fan with his prodigious ears with evident contentment.
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz
He had found it while searching the junk, and, Chancing to take it up, opened the pages at the precise spot in which I had written.
"A Lady's Captivity among Chinese Pirates in the Chinese Seas"
Fanny Loviot
I wandered among the alleys and windings of the Vale of Health, noting the villas with peeling plaster and the weather-boarded and half-dilapidated cottages that make the place peculiar; and I was ascending a steep hillock with willows at the foot of it and the level ridge of the Spaniards Road running like a railway embankment past the pines at the top, when, Chancing to turn my head, I saw what appeared to be the very place for me.
"The Debit Account"
Oliver Onions