Do we say accidence or accidents

accidence 37 occurrences

We carried an accidence, or a grammar, for form; but, for any trouble it gave us, we might take two years in getting through the verbs deponent, and another two in forgetting all that we had learned about them.

With what a savour doth the Preface to Colet's, or (as it is sometimes called) Paul's Accidence, set forth!

I'll make it good upon the accidence, body [of me,] that in speech is the devil's paternoster.

And though I questioned my ability to carry on that work to its due height and proportion; yet, as that was not proposed, but an initiation only by Accidence into Grammar, I consented to the proposal, as a present expedient, till a more qualified person should be found; without further treaty or mention of terms between us, than that of mutual friendship.

All toward boys, good scholars of their times; The least of these is past his accidence, Some at qui mihi; here's not a boy

In Military Discipline he has published the Soldier's Accidence and Grammar, 4to.

Grammar N. grammar, accidence, syntax, praxis, punctuation; parts of speech; jussive^; syllabication; inflection, case, declension, conjugation; us et norma loquendi [Lat.]; Lindley Murray &c (schoolbook) 542; correct style, philology &c (language) 560.

Latin Accidence and Primary Lesson-Book, containing a full Exhibition of the Forms of Words, and First Lessons in Reading.

BINGHAM, CALEB, A. M.; "The Young Lady's Accidence;" 18mo, pp.

"The Accidence of English Grammar;" 12mo, pp.

"The Accidence and Principles of English Grammar;" 12mo, pp.

The utter futility of the old accidence has been inferred from it, and urged, even in some well-written books, with all the plausibility of a fair and legitimate deduction.

"Bingham's Accidence, 20th Ed., p. 7.

"Smart's Accidence, p. 27.

"Paul's Accidence, p. 11.

Paul's Accidence has them, and if Dean Colet, the supposed writer, did not take them from some earlier author, they must have been first taught by him, about the year 1510; and it is certain that they have been copied into almost every grammar published since.

Dost thou love?"Paul's Accidence, Ed. of 1793, p. 16.

"Paul's Accidence, p. 58.

"Smart's Accidence, p. 36.

'"Smart's Accidence, p. 29.

'"Smart's Accidence, p. 16.

"Smart's English Accidence, p. 8.

" Colet's Grammar, or Paul's Accidence.

BRAGG, GERTRUDE C. Parts of speech and accidence.

For, strange to say, "to love," which in real life is associated with so much that is bizarre and violent, is always "regular" in grammar, and this without barring accidence

accidents 1146 occurrences

And assuredly, although I have often been most violently constrained by divers accidents to follow certain courses, yet so much grace was conceded to me that, sustained by my own firmness, I passed through these agonies without revealing the pangs that tortured me.

He was a fine, fat, young deer, and died by one of the thousand accidents to which the wild animals of the forest, as well as man, are exposed.

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

He would always swear that he never had any hand in the accidents, and there was never any evidence against him that anybody could get hold of.

* Misfortune and ill luck always attaches itself in a minor degree to every team which engages in a championship contest, but most assuredly Philadelphia had more of its share of reverses through accidents to players and illness than any team of the National League.

The players recovered slightly, but had barely got into their stride again when accidents to the men began to happen.

One could never remember himself in eternity by the mere fact of having loved or hated any more than by that of having thirsted; love and hate have no more individuality in them than single waves in the ocean;but the accidents or trivial marks which distinguished those whom we loved or hated make their memory our own forever, and with it that of our own personality also.

The war has forced Great Britain to carry out the findings of this committee and to consider more seriously than ever before, and for both men and women, the problem of industrial fatigue, the relation of accidents to hours of labor, industrial diseases, housing, transit, and industrial canteens.

It will prevent accidents, and until the student has mastered the mechanical movements necessary to flight, will supplement his efforts by partially balancing his weight.

Whether she would be happy, whether she would be treated with consideration, whether she would be safe from accidents and alarms, whether her delicate health would not suffer, were the questions which troubled him.

I cannot agree with the following sketch: What is Benthe pleasant sailor which Bannister gives usbut a piece of satire ... a dreamy combination of all the accidents of a sailor's character, his contempt of money, his credulity to women, with that necessary estrangement from home?...

I was informed, the proportion of severe accidents is not larger than in Great Britain.

The inner life of his household is exceedingly charming, because one is astonished to find the graces and accomplishments of womanhood displayed in a scene which has a certain sort of savage rudeness about it after all, and where all kinds of incongruous accidents are visible in the service of the table, in the furniture of the house, in its decorations, menials, and surrounding scenery."

Every traveller should provide himself with a good handy steel, proper flint, and unfailing tinder, because lucifers are liable to many accidents.

" Travellers are always more or less exposed to the careless handling of fire-arms, and numerous accidents occur by carrying the piece with the cock down on the nipple.

Three-fourths of all the gun accidents are owing to this cause; for a blow on the back of the cock is almost sure to explode the cap, while a gun at half-cock is comparatively safe.

The field is spacious I design to sow, With oxen far unfit to draw the plough: The remnant of my tale is of a length To tire your patience, and to waste my strength; And trivial accidents shall be forborne, That others may have time to take their turn; 30 As was at first enjoin'd us by mine host: That he whose tale is best, and pleases most, Should win his supper at our common cost.

This year two accidents, the death of one colleague, and the premature retirement of another, have pushed me up the ladder of promotion, and, in addition, there has been a legacy.

"Of course there are accidents and external physical injuries; but practically all the rest have disappeared.

My littleness exposed me to many ridiculous and troublesome accidents, which determined Glumdalclitch never to let me go abroad out of her sight.

But those opinions and those tactics have been mere accidents, though perhaps inseparable accidents, of Whiggery.

But those opinions and those tactics have been mere accidents, though perhaps inseparable accidents, of Whiggery.

I am not afraid of storms, nor fires at sea, nor any of the common accidents of the ocean; but for a ship to stand still with plenty of water under her, and a strong wind filling her sails, has more of the uncanny about it than I fancy.

And the Old Man stands for that kind uh thing and has forbid accidents happening to itoh, hell!"

Not all this variety is essential to an efficient monetary system and several of the kinds survive as the result of historical accidents (political and legislative).

Do we say   accidence   or  accidents