23 Metaphors for accidents

By so many unforeseen accidents is prudence itself liable to be embarrassed!

This unlucky accident was 300 l. loss to Mrs. Thomas: yet still the grand project was in a fair way of succeeding in the other wing of the building.

From a child's nativity, the first ill accident that can likely befall him in this kind is a bad nurse, by whose means alone he may be tainted with this

This accident, was the occasion of bringing Mr. Wycherley into favour with George duke of Buckingham, who was passionately in love with that lady, but was ill-treated by her, and who believed that Mr. Wycherley was his happy rival.

XIV HEROES Old Principle's accident was a great event in the village.

" "Inscribed by my husband at sunset, April 3d, 1843, in the gold light, S. A. H. Man's accidents are God's purposes.

It took it for granted that the old man and child whom I saw together after the accident were the same ones whom I had seen together before it occurred.

All news, good, bad, and indifferent, flies equally fast in Joppa; and had there been a town-crier deputed for the purpose, Phebe's accident could not have sooner become a household tale in even the most distant districts of the place.

All this is, of course, the accident of history; but the accidents of history are its most important incidents.

" "And did you not assure him that the child who went to the city, on the train that night after the accident was not his son?"

And as if the accident were an everyday affair, he departed without fuss and having steadied my nerves by his entire self-control.

Accident, though tempered in various degrees by jealousy, hatred, envy, or love, was the supreme motivating force.

He compares the evils of his own day with the splendours of the past, and asks whether the accident of birth is the real source of nobility; a man must be judged by himself and his acts and not by the rank of his forefathers; these were the sentiments that gained him a mention in the Fourth Book of Dante's Convivio.

" "You can put off consulting me just as long as you please; but this accident is no reason why you shouldnt do it at once.

You can hardly doubt now that your accident in the fog was really an attempted murder.

One morning he found that his donkey had nearly strangled himself over-night with the halter, and Decros could not shake off the impression that this accident was an omen intended to convey some message from the other world.

The accident that turns one into the road is only the means which Providence takes to procure the working out of certain ends.

Nothing you can say can alter the fact that you took the children trespassing in the Rodding Park preserves against my most stringent commands, and this deplorable accident to the Squire is the direct outcome of the most flagrant insubordination.

The advantage of this arrangement is obvious; for, while more than a sufficient quantity of steam is generated for the purposes requited, the only possible accident that could happen would be, the bursting of one of these barrels, and a temporary diminution of the steam-power of one-fortieth part.

Clever, witty, insatiable fellows they, for whom a planet ought to be set apart, where all the murders are wrapped in impenetrable mystery, and the smallest railroad accidents are frightful catastrophes.

The only accident that can happen to the track is the breaking of a fish-plate.

This accident,this seeming accident,was the foundation of Sydney Smith's opportunities; not of his success, for that his own merits procured, but of the direction to which his efforts were applied.

"Were it not that the accident will somewhat incommode Douglas, and greatly fidget you, I should not much regret it, for to me there is a peculiar charm about this old stone house and its quaint surroundings.

23 Metaphors for  accidents