5651 examples of accident in sentences

"One must never permit a horse to refuse without punishing bum, for otherwise he may repeat the fault when mounted by a poor rider, and a dangerous accident may follow.

Nancy composed several letters to her Cousin Ann dated from Beulah and explaining the sad accident that had occurred.

"I wouldn't be so mean as to rig up an accident for Cousin Ann, though I'd like her to have a little one every night, just for the fun of it.

You Dirty Boy is in a hundred pieces in the barn chamber, but if Cousin Ann ever comes to visit us again, I'll be the one to confess that Gilly and I were the cause of the accident.

The Carey children had only found it by accident.

Nothing but an accident had prevented these rumours from being circulated.

Daggett was never a pirate himself, but accident placed him in the same prison and same room as that in which a real pirate was confined.

I have sent home more than $4000 worth of oil, and I hope my owner will forgive the accident off Currituck, on account of this run of good luck.

I began by accident with the year 1769, and I went on to the end of 1772.

There was this difference also to be noted, that the loss in the one trade was generally by the weather or by accident, but in the other by cruel treatment or disease; and that they who went out in a declining state of health in the one, came home generally recovered; whereas they, who went out robust in the other, came home in a shattered condition.

It was a reward of Desmond's persistence, but after all it was accident that had revealed to him the opening.

By mere mistake a Bill, slightly and necessarily amended by the Lords, was not sent down to the Commons, although directions to that effect were given, and it by accident was placed amongst the Bills ready for the Royal assent.

Pantaleon, the next evening,[b] repaired to the same place with a body of armed followers; a fray ensued; Greenway, a person unconcerned in the dispute, was killed by accident or mistake; and the Portuguese fled to the house of the ambassador, whence they were conducted to prison by the military.

In consequence of the child's being, by some accident, born in a barn, he received the name of Allan-a-Sop, or Allan of the Straw, by which he was distinguished from others of his clan.

Or hath some accident occoasted [sic] them That troubles their aspect with melancholy? Is Navar well?

"I fear some accident hath befallen them," she said at last.

The foreknowledge of what shall come to pass, crucifies many men: foretold by astrologers, or wizards, iratum ob coelum, be it ill accident, or death itself: which often falls out by God's permission; quia daemonem timent (saith Chrysostom) Deus ideo permittit accidere.

6. de atra bile, grants melancholy to be a disease of an inflamed brain, but cold notwithstanding of itself: calida per accidens, frigida per se, hot by accident only; I am of Capivaccius' mind for my part.

"The maggot which had dropped from his disgusting leg of mutton had been an accident, and beyond even his horrible planning.

The Professor's accident robbed him of a lot of the nimbleness which had been noticeable during the two preceding days, and the other members of the expedition had to move at a pace that would suit his stiff limbs.

This accident occurred a short time previous to the 8th of January, two years after Jesus had commenced preaching; it took place on Herod's birthday, the same day that John the Baptist was beheaded in the Castle of Marcherunt.

If you were to ask me as a Friend, whether I think it would suit the General Taste, I should reply that I cannot calculate on caprice and accident (for instance, some fashionable man or review happening to take it up favourably), but that otherwise my fears would be stronger than my hopes.

I made the passage to the opposite side and back without any accident, but I was in truth rather alarmed the whole time.

It would then devolve upon Lawrence to prove an alibi that Carroll knew perfectly well he could not provesave by merest accident.

She seemed extremely attached to boththough avowing for the younger a preference she frankly ascribed to the interesting accident of its parentageand she could not understand that Undine, as to whose domestic difficulties she minutely informed herself, should have consented to leave her child to strangers.

5651 examples of  accident  in sentences