adjective
Etymology
Origin of unchancy
Example Sentences
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I ken naught at a' save that his father's son was i' trouble, an' trying to gie thae weary, unchancy lawyers the go-by.
From Winter Evening Tales by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston
Thin I heard Spitfire clatterin' away in the dark an' I ran, draggin' the little goat after me to get past the place where the unchancy ould road dips down.
From Love of Brothers by Tynan, Katharine
His own birthday was on the thirteenth of the month, and he often laid his sorrows to that unchancy date.
From Hillsboro People by Fisher, Dorothy Canfield
O curst be the day, and unchancy the hour, When I sat me adown to the spinnin' o't!
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Rogers, Charles
Acquittal on a trial is a poor way for a Vestal to escape the worst possible fate, a last resort, at best, and an unchancy reliance, even as a last resort.
From The Unwilling Vestal by White, Edward Lucas
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