Pennington, as though by mere accident, succeeded in following Dave Darrin down the ladder.

"] "Pretty soon little accidents began to happen to the Giant.

In addition to the loss of Thurston, who, to do him justice, was a very good forward, the school team was weakened still further by an unfortunate accident which befell Rowlands, who twisted his ankle, and was forced to leave the ground at the very commencement of the game.

Many fatal accidents take place in that fortress, you know.

"I can see it was a pure accident," Gifford answered.

She caught the next train, but unfortunately it was late on arriving at Victoria owing to a slight accident to the engine.

By a sad accident, which mortified him extremely, he happened to see, late in the afternoon,hardly conscious that he was looking across the street,that Madame John wasdressing.

He knew Bryan from Hobson at oncethat unlucky little accident in the go-cart having left its mark forever on the nose of Sir Bryan Newcome.

If she had Mr. Saffron's "record" before her, she would expect to read of a vain ostentatious man, ambitious in his own small way; the little plant of these qualities would, given a morbid physical condition, develop into the fantastic growth of delusion which she had now diagnosed in the case of Mr. Saffrondiagnosed with the assistance of some lucky accidents!

But, as no one is better aware than these two learned, acute, and philosophical biologists, all such arrangements must be regarded as provisional, except in those cases in which, by a fortunate accident, large series of remains are obtainable from a thick and widespread series of deposits.

During the whole of this day it was impossible that I should sleep for a minute; since if at any point I should find that I had miscalculated my rate of descent, or if any other unforeseen accident should occur, immediate action would be necessary to prevent a shipwreck, which must without doubt be fatal.

I refer, of course, to the Under Tow, which has caused some Untoward accidents.

As he does not tell us whether the dish remained whole after its escapade, we must conclude that it was broken, and that the dreadful accident caused, immediately, a damp to descend upon his effervescent spirits.

It was a curious accident, though.

He had been Aid-de-camp (among other rare accidents and fortunes) to a Persian prince, and at one blow had stricken off the head of the King of Carimania on horseback.

There are, moreover, in these tragedies unexpected accidents, which so affect even the hardest nature that calculations are cast aside, and the old loyalty resumes a temporary sway.

Their souls are swung high above time and space in one never-ending kiss,the kiss of that predestined irrefragable union, of which meetings and partings and kisses and caresses and words, and every other fragmentary mode of expression, are but trivial accidents, to which distance is still nearness, and nearness is still distance.

'MY DEAR KEATS, 'I hear with great pain the dangerous accident you have undergone [recurrence of blood-spitting from the lungs], and Mr. Gisborne, who gives me the account of it, adds that you continue to wear a consumptive appearance.

It would have been a singular accident if the first barricade against the coup d'état had been made with this omnibus, which, after having aided in the crime, would this have aided in the punishment.

A sad depression of spirits, a most unaccountable nervousness; from which I have been partially relieved by an odd accident.

It has, however, not been so generally recognised that this diseasefor it is nothing lessis due not to any national depravity but to constitutional and structural defects, which are themselves the result of an unfortunate series of historical accidents.

"I now knew, of course, that Mr. James Allerdyke had sent those jewels direct to Mr. Fullaway, immediately on his arrival in Hull, and that they had fallen by sheer accident into Van Koon's hands.

There are men now living who have shot numbers of tigers on foot, but the numerous fatal accidents recorded every year, plainly shew the danger of such a mode of shooting.

While a scholar there he met with a severe accident on the 27th January, 1890.

I found myself wobbling badly, and all the stories I had ever heard of nasty bicycle accidents came back to me with a rush, headed by Jeeves's Uncle Cyril's cheery little anecdote about Nicholls and Jackson.