5973 examples of incident in sentences

Subsequently, Gardiner remembered that little incident, which was not without its results.

It was at the French opera that many of his most celebrated works were first given to the world; and an incident which took place at the performance of one of them showed that, if the frequenters of Versailles were dissatisfied at the inroads lately made on the old etiquette, the queen had a compensation in the warm attachment with which she had inspired the Parisians.

One portion of the rejoicings was marked by a curious incident, in which the same body whose right to a special place of honor at ceremonies connected with the personal happiness of the royal family we have already seen admittedthe ladies of the fish-marketagain asserted their pretensions with triumphant success.

He even proposed to repeat his visit on Shrove-Tuesday; but when the evening came he changed his mind, and insisted on the queen's going by herself with one of her ladies, and the change of plan led to an incident which at the time afforded great amusement to Marie Antoinette, though it afterward proved a great annoyance, as furnishing a pretext for malicious stories and scandal.

In the spring of 1784, the court and capital wore wrought up to a high pitch of excitement by an incident which was in reality of so ordinary and trivial a character, that it would be hard to find a more striking proof how thoroughly unhealthy the whole condition and feeling of the nation must have been, when such a matter could have been regarded as important.

To divert his grief, he, at the suggestion of Lord Burlington, who paid his expenses, rambled into Devonshire, went next with Pultney to Aix, in France, and when afterwards on a visit to Lord Harcourt's seat, witnessed the incident of the two country lovers killed by lightning in each other's arms, to which Pope alludes in one of his letters, and Goldsmith in his "Vicar of Wakefield.

Taken together his works are a monstrous satire on humanity; and the spirit of that satire is shown clearly in a little incident of his first days in London.

In looking over the published report of these proceedings a few days ago, my attention was arrested by an incident which brought forcibly home to my mind one painful circumstance in which my position here to- day contrasts sadly with that which Lord Canning then occupied.

In crossing one of the numerous streams, we had to wade or swim our horses over, an incident occurred which rather alarmed me.

One of these amused and disgusted us by turns; for, after giving an epitome of his career, which was a chequered one, he related an incident that had recently occurred on a plantation he had been visiting, and, as it presents a novel feature in the asserted rights of slave-holdershow profane, I will not stop to inquireI think it worth recording.

By preferring romantic incident to the portrayal of character, Stevenson differed from his great Victorian predecessors in the field of fiction.

Stevenson, however, surpassed Scott in swift delineation of incident, in pictorial vividness, and in literary form.

Kipling's stories depend for their interest on incident, not on analysis.

It could not therefore suppress the trade; but would eventually aggravate those miseries incident to it, which every enlightened man must acknowledge, and every good man must deplore.

Milton is not so close to his fighting angels as Homer is to his fighting men; but the war in heaven is an incident in Milton's figurative expression of something that has become altogether himselfthe mystery of individual existence in universal existence, and the accompanying mystery of sin, of individual will inexplicably allowed to tamper with the divinely universal will.

It was proof of the rapidity with which the actual presence of war works indifference to sudden shocks among a people that this woman could discuss the incident quietly.

I regarded the incident as being closed and was perfectly willing that it should remain closed.

The incident is perfectly natural and probable; all one can say of it is that it is perhaps an over-simplification of the dramatist's task.

The moral peripetythe sudden dissipation of some illusion, or defeat of some imposture, or crumbling of some castle in the airis a no less characteristic incident of real life, and much more amenable to the playwright's uses.

Each scene, each incident has its magic spelllike the little woolly toy lamb, he presses the fact, and "baba" the appropriate sentiment comes forth.

Mary, the Indian nurse, however, did not regard the incident so calmly.

Indeed there was an incident in her life so sad that from the day of her recovery she was considered to be under the special care of the Good Spirit, so that even the most influential chiefs or hunters had a superstitious fear of showing any temper, or making any bitter retort, no matter what she might say.

It will deserve the consideration of Congress also whether among other improvements in the militia laws justice does not require a regulation, under due precautions, for defraying the expense incident to the first assembling as well as the subsequent movements of detachments called into the national service.

In the next year, 1767, occurred an incident upon which Boswell dwells with extreme complacency.

A short time after this incident he radioed to St. George and we intercepted the beam.

5973 examples of  incident  in sentences