chancy

To get a light in this way was the most chancy thing in the world.

It was chancy work at best, with a possible stumble up against death at every step.

As his partner in the chancy enterprise of marriage were not her feelings and desires entitled to equal consideration?

Include as a factor Hyman by all means, for lacking him our chain of chancy coincidence would lack a most vital link.

The Pole's position was chancy enough to satisfy even his melodramatic soul.