In the course of my life I have noticed coincidences quite as strange.

The learned Upton, in his preface to the "Faëry Queen," was led to observe the striking coincidence, the absolute similarity of character, between Spenser's Rosalinde and his Mirabella.

Something still more singular is, that the FIRST part, where you have found a coincidence in some events within your observations on LIFE, was DRAWN from OBSERVATION of mine also, and I meant to have gone on with the story, but on SECOND thoughts, I thought myself TWO CENTURIES at least too late for the subject; which, though admitting of very powerful feeling and description, yet is not adapted for this age, at least this country.

"It came last night at two o'clock ... just after the clock struck two" Professor Marshall looked quickly at his daughter, and she saw that he too had heard the clock striking in the dreadful night, and that he noted the coincidence.

And just so long as unskilful and untaught people cannot tell coincidences from cause and effect in medical practice,which to do, the wise and experienced know how difficult!so long it will have plenty of "facts" to fall back upon.

It is, manifestly, the ancient office of a seer, and after making interrogatories about it, from persons supposed to be best acquainted with the manners and customs of the people, the existence of such an order of persons among them offers a curious coincidence with one of the earliest superstitions of mankind.

He gives a variety of tests calculated to check frauds and chance coincidence, and he publishes opinions, hostile or agnostic, by geologists.

The liveliness and grace of Goldsmith's style were never more plainly manifested than in this delightful story; and its faultsit contains many coincidences and improbabilitiesare far more than atoned for by the masterly portrait of the simple, manly, generous, and wholly lovable vicar who is the central figure of the story.

When we contemplate the coincidence of circumstances and wonderful combination of causes which gradually prepared the people of this country for independence; when we contemplate the rise, progress, and termination of the late war, which gave them a name among the nations of the earth, we are with you unavoidably led to acknowledge and adore the Great Arbiter of the Universe, by whom empires rise and fall.

"Damned odd coincidence, isn't it?"

How amazed, how overjoyed he was, when he discovered the strangest coincidence!

Again, when we find practically the same strange neglected sparks, not only rumoured of in European popular superstition, but attested in many hundreds of depositions made at first hand by respectable modern witnesses, educated and responsible, we cannot honestly or safely dismiss the coincidence of report as indicating a mere 'survival' of savage superstitious belief, and nothing more.

When he did so it was with no very pleasurable feeling; and it is probable that Marston, too, would have gladly escaped the coincidence which thus reduced them once more to the temporary necessity of a Tate-à-Tate.

" "You see perfectly well," replied Tribourdeaux, "that there exists between the facts of this story a curious coincidence, since you are able to guess so exactly their relation.

And your impending departure may explain certain strange coincidences.

Because, of course, she couldn't have foreseen, even by the surest instinct, the coincidence that brought Harber and Barton together.

How far the languages of America may furnish coincidences in their grammatical forms, is a deeply interesting inquiry.

And since then many things have happened, strange and significant coincidences.

But, considering that Sterne was in the habit of passing nearly half of each year alone in London lodgings, the realization of his wish does not strike me, I confess, as so dramatically impressive a coincidence as it is sometimes represented.

"If we could live far from the vain world of man" The solemn head indicated a coincidence of opinion.

This is no bad starting-point for an extravaganza; but even Mr. Shaw, though a despiser of niceties of craftsmanship, introduces no coincidences into serious plays such as Candida or The Doctor's Dilemma.

Thus we lose an interesting coincidence: but we gain what is of greater value; a just and prompt sacrifice to truth and candor.

What a coincidence we should have met here.

If I had even suspected that the idea in question was borrowed,I should have disclaimed originality, or mentioned the coincidence, as I once did in a case where I had happened to hit on an idea of Swift's.

In reality her flight merely coincided with the inevitable shooting of its wings; and the specialists have mistaken coincidence for destiny.