Accidents

Examples

• I send it you now, because I apprehend some late accidents are likely to revive the contest between the two countries. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• But as men, personalities, they were just accidents, sporadic little unimportant phenomena. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Why not drift on in a series of accidents-like a picaresque novel? D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Merely to leave everything to nature was, after all, but to negate the very idea of education; it was to trust to the accidents of circumstance. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• They are mere accidents so far as we are concerned. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Different accidents may sometimes keep them suspended a good deal above it, and sometimes force them down even somewhat below it. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• But my comfort was, that I observed such accidents very frequent, and little regarded. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• They say they do not have accidents on these French roads, and I think it must be true. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I should think you'll read the marriages, probably, miss, and the murders, and the accidents, and sich like? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The experiments are, therefore, sure to be watched with a great deal of interest, and it is probable that fewer accidents will occur from broken rails in the near future. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• One great source of accidents in this respect has been due to the necessity of the brakemen entering between the cars while they are in motion to couple them by hand. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Many of the most remarkable inventions are attributable to accidents noted by observing and inventive minds. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• From everything--from money, from poverty, from ease and anxiety, from all the material accidents. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Mention has already been made of office and other elevators, in which compressed air is an important factor in operating the same and for preventing accidents. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• It gave good results but for the accidents from headers, to which it was especially liable. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Shirley, usually almost culpably indifferent to slight accidents affecting dress, etc. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The accidents of the morning had helped his frustrated imagination to shape an employment for himself which had several attractions. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The different accidents of life are not so changeable as the feelings of human nature. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• So many safety devices have been invented that there is now no excuse for accidents. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Yes, Miss Louisa—they always remind me of stutterings, and that's another of my mistakes—of accidents upon the sea. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• These little accidents will happen to the best of us. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The catastrophe was so great that the biggest mine-owners met to see whether some protection against such accidents could not be devised. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• No, they have no railroad accidents to speak of in France. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• But there were more accidents and more delays in travel by coach than by train, and so, one by one, they pocketed their pride and capitulated. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Lastly, the looking-glass reflects Boots and Brewer, and two other stuffed Buffers interposed between the rest of the company and possible accidents. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Ah, those little accidents will, of course, sometimes happen, to the luckiest man, he observed. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• The author gives a more particular account of himself, and the accidents of his voyage. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• The alarm of the horses drawing other carriages was also calculated to produce fearful accidents. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• But many aviators have been drawn from a reckless class, and many accidents have been due to a desire to thrill an audience rather than to learn more about the laws of flight. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Railway accidents occurred to passengers in the first half of 1854 in the proportion of only one accident to every 7,194,343 travellers. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.

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