Here's t'ye, Glenfern, an' your wife, an' your wean, puir tead; it's no had a very chancy ootset, weel a wat.
"Marriage"
Susan Edmonstone Ferrier
"I am delighted," began Basil, but with a worried face, "but these red-tape negotiations are so terribly chancy that I really can't advise you to build on hope, only to be hurled down into bitterness.
"The Club of Queer Trades"
G. K. Chesterton
Dr. Grenfell could be perfectly sure that he would have to run a gauntlet all the way-picking and choosing between crags on the one hand and bergs on the other: just such a risky, "chancy" course as he most relishes.
"Grenfell: Knight-Errant of the North"
Fullerton Waldo