Unchancy

This far from human and Elven lands there are all manner of unchancy things prowling. ❋ Michael J. Solender (2010)

I cannot but think that there is no safety in having such unchancy creatures about ane. ❋ Unknown (2008)

What sort of unchancy firedrake do you take me for? ❋ Tony Diterlizzi (2008)

So, I knowing the people to pe unchancy, and not to lippen to, and hearing a pibroch in the wood, I pegan to pid my lads look to their flints, and then — ❋ Unknown (2007)

There was great glory and triumph in this; but why had his grace come at so unchancy a moment? ❋ Unknown (2004)

This was unchancy ground and Jim was relieved they were approaching the Adelaide turning where the red-brick shops and naphtha flares would prove a civilizing force. ❋ Jamie O’Neill (2002)

“There™s big curses and minor ones,” said the dwarven expert, “the curse of your mother-in-law and the curse of an unchancy god.” ❋ Berberick, Nancy Varian (2002)

Kerian agreed, and she did not call upon the unchancy magic until they saw clear sky above them again. ❋ Berberick, Nancy Varian (2002)

She sat like a creature born of the earth, still as stone, her eyes strange and unchancy as wind in the mad season between winter and spring. ❋ Berberick, Nancy Varian (2002)

Sendeth the Sphinx, the unchancy, the chieftainness bloodhound. ❋ Unknown (2000)

She swore by an unchancy goddess, the tempestuous daughter of Takhisis, but Dalamar noted that no one of the E'li-worshiping elves had anything to say in response. ❋ Berberick, Nancy Varian (2000)

Raistlin sometimes felt sorry he couldn't love his father more, and he was vaguely aware that Gilon was sorry he couldn't love his strange, unchancy son. ❋ Weis, Margaret (1998)

He showed them the little tricks and skillful maneuvers he had learned from a lifetime of encounters with ogres and goblins, thieves and footpads, and other hazards faced by those who travel the unchancy roads of Abanasinia. ❋ Weis, Margaret (1998)

Mayhap it was my manner, for that was rough enough-or jealousy for my size and strength; they were an unchancy, whey-faced lot. ❋ Gabaldon, Diana (1997)

` That's an unchancy thing! 'muttered Strom uneasily, but Zarono snarled: ` What boots it? ❋ Howard, Robert E. (1989)

Five, six years agone, when he first came of age and warranted his own court, he began collecting some unchancy sorts about him. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (1988)

Though Cadfael could not, on consideration, picture that wild, unchancy creature submitting tamely to reproof, much less to punishment. ❋ Peters, Ellis, 1913- (1987)

This increased my sense of [isolation]—of being forced [out of the world] I belonged to into [the strange] and unchancy world of the Dempsters. ❋ Spanish56 (2018)