Accidentally

Examples

• No, they were talking together as if they had accidentally met in the street. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Miss Lucas perceived him from an upper window as he walked towards the house, and instantly set out to meet him accidentally in the lane. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Its first rise in my mind appears in the above-mentioned little paper, accidentally preserved, viz. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The coroner's jury found that he took the poison accidentally. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Fine evening for a walk, Mr. Franklin, he said, as if we had just accidentally encountered each other at that moment. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• My diary informs me, that I was accidentally passing Aunt Verinder's house in Montagu Square, on Monday, 3rd July, 1848. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The clerks and servants cut him off by back-passages, and were found accidentally hovering in doorways and angles, that they might look upon him. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Ah, I recollect that I once accidentally offended her, and I have never seen her since. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• It is so long since I have seen her, except now and then for a moment accidentally in town! Jane Austen. Emma.
• And he decided that, according to the vulgar phrase, he had done it 'accidentally on purpose. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Many striking examples of the power of explosives have been accidentally furnished of late, in the course of making munitions for the European war. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The name of the firm is accidentally blotted in my diary, and my sacred regard for truth forbids me to hazard a guess in a matter of this kind. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• You never saw him before you and he met accidentally at the bank? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Wery glad you've looked in accidentally, Sir. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The spinster aunt trembled, till some pebbles which had accidentally found their way into the large watering-pot shook like an infant's rattle. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• She saw nobody from the house then, except a certain Mr. Hartright, who accidentally met with her in the churchyard here? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• He was seated in his black velvet cap, with his newspaper, three-and-sixpence accidentally left on the table, and two chairs arranged. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• You never find that anything goes off here accidentally, do you, my dear friend? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• We had met there accidentally, and were bathing together. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Likewise, any foreign object in the body, such as a bullet from a gun-shot wound, or a foreign body accidentally swallowed, is perfectly disclosed and located by the shadow which it casts. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Whether intentionally or accidentally, I don't know. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• This knowledge before was either preserved in secrecy, or accidentally or empirically practised, or unknown. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Mrs. Dashwood was denied; but before the carriage could turn from the house, her husband accidentally came out. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• One day, Traddles (the most unfortunate boy in the world) breaks that window accidentally, with a ball. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Well, it is just conceivable that a statesman might find himself in a position where he was not sorry to have such a document accidentally destroyed. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• After several fortnights he accidentally found his meat again. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• He knocks, receives no answer, opens it, and accidentally extinguishes his candle in doing so. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I only meant accidentally, said Thomasin. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Mr. Ablewhite's explanation is, that they acted on blind suspicion, after seeing him accidentally speaking to Mr. Luker. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I presume that should you accidentally wound an enemy you would take him home and nurse him back to health, she laughed. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.

Typist: Vilma