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Sentences starting with accident

Accident may effect the cure which art seems incompetent to perform. [6]
Accident had let him render her a service, not unimportant, once at Versailles, and he had been so courteous and considerate afterwards, that she had let him see her occasionally, but never yet alone. [11]
Accident is the great chemist and toxicologist. [3]

Sentences ending with accident

Yes, 'twas done with his own gun--by accident--by accident! [11]
I dropped pap's whetstone there too, so as to look like it had been done by accident. [5]
My cousin Laura was of course deeply distressed to feel that her thoughtlessness had been the cause of so grave an accident. [6]
To Eva this was no accident. [10]
People said it was an accident. [5]
But soon there was an accident. [5]
This was no vain self-deception; had it not been so, would he have come in person to her couch of pain, or cared for her so kindly after the accident? [10]
We took the twenty-five aboard, and delivered twenty-five into the tug--among them several aged ladies, and one blind one--and all without accident. [5]
It does seem to me that if Mr. Bloke had let the intoxicating bowl alone himself, he never would have got into so much trouble about this exasperating imaginary accident. [5]
It was hard to believe that this was anything more than a temporary effect of the accident. [6]

Short sentences using accident

An accident decided the question. [9]
I had only one accident. [5]
An accident decided it. [11]
The accident has happened. [5]
Was that produced by accident? [5]
It was just an accident. [4]
It would be an accident. [11]
Fame is an accident. [5]
It's quite an accident. [12]
Was that accident? [5]

Sentences containing accident two or more times

That it was your brother was an accident, and--" "It was an accident that the penalty must fall on Claridge Pasha, and on you, madame. [11]
Then perhaps she would be sorry for the accident to the Notary; for it was an accident, in spite of appearances. [11]
If by accident we wake at two in the morning a couple of nights in succession, we have need to be uneasy, for another repetition can turn the accident into a habit; and a month's dallying with whiskey --but we all know these commonplace facts. [5]
But you repent that you killed him--by accident, it was by accident. [11]

More example sentences with the word accident in them

Mr Witherden, Sir, your handkerchief is hanging out of your pocket--would you allow me to--, As Mr Brass advanced to remedy this accident, the Notary shrunk from him with an air of disgust. [12]
Nobody could tell you how to find any place in the kingdom, for nobody ever went intentionally to any place, but only struck it by accident in his wanderings, and then generally left it without thinking to inquire what its name was. [5]
Not a single word unconnected with his trade, the weather, or an accident, had ever reached the friends' ears from Chello's thick lips, and this circumstance seemed to warrant Hermon in the expectation of learning from him the pure, unadulterated truth. [10]
I'll be there, with Trulease, when you come,--by accident, you understand. [9]
Life turns the winch, and fancy or accident pulls out the stops. [6]
There were others who had climbed to success in their own way, some by happy accident, some by a force which disregarded anything in their way, and some by sheer honest rough merit, through which the soul of the true pioneer shone. [11]
These social qualities, which Miss Sally first discovered by accident, gradually made such an impression upon her, that she would entreat Mr Swiveller to relax as though she were not by, which Mr Swiveller, nothing loth, would readily consent to do. [12]
The particular accident which might interrupt his career must, evidently, be determined by circumstances; but it must be of a nature to explain itself without the necessity of any particular person's becoming involved in the matter. [6]
The accident from which he had suffered had broken his nerve, stalwart as he was. [11]
It matters little whether the needle prick him by accident or blunder or design, he will burst all bounds, and establish again the old truth that each of us will prove himself a fool given perfect opportunity. [11]
He scarcely knew whether his being locked out was an accident or whether it was intended. [11]
Two of these were killed by the Boers themselves, by accident, the other by Jameson's army--one of them intentionally, the other by a pathetic mischance. [5]
After all, it was only an accident which would hardly need a word of explanation. [4]
The petroleum story was not told to me; he told it to Joe Twichell, who ran across him by accident on a sea voyage where I think the two were the only passengers. [5]
But how great was his surprise, upon opening his door one morning, some days later, to find the grateful poodle patiently waiting there, and in its company another stray dog, one of whose legs, by some accident, had been broken. [5]
The utmost caution was enforced, and although, as I have already remarked, we handled our own guns when we were only lads of twelve years old, I can not recall a single accident which occurred. [10]
Much accident there was about that. [5]
They were the victims of an accident, which would be repaired as soon as the fact of their father's wealth had got around. [8]
She was the victim of more than accident of fate--a victim to some deep plot the mystery of which burned him. [13]
His convalescence was very slow and gradual, but no further accident interrupted its even progress. [6]
Word came to us that an accident had happened to the machinery, and that we should be hove-to for a day, or longer, to accomplish necessary repairs. [11]
I have never tried to forget that, because by it I hoped I might be remembered--an accident of price to me. [11]
Once, at a trial in court in other days, he had said in his ironical way: "One hasn't to fear the penalties of one's sins, but the damnable accident of discovery. [11]
We had agreed to that when this accident happened to Ham, and she went back to him. [9]
He sat next to Susan, who maintained her usual maidenly silence, but Honora, from time to time, and as though by accident, caught his eye. [9]
I had resolved to stay, and never more venture country-wards--but the accident has ended that. [5]
He started roughly to shoulder his way out, and whether from accident or design Captain Harrod slipped in front of him, I never knew. [9]
Wasn't it enough to have offered the lady his seat, to have rescued her from an accident, perhaps from death? [5]
There certainly seems to have been an accident of some kind or other, but it is impossible to determine what the nature of it was, or who was the sufferer by it. [5]
So they managed to damage those industries more or less, but I got even on my Accident business. [5]
But after a time consciousness returned; the wounds, though painful, were none of them dangerous, and the most alarming effects of the accident passed away. [6]
Suppose, then, that through illness or accident she lost her position, what could she do? [11]
He answered the thought: "From ten years of pain and slow recovery from an accident, and then from nineteen years' pollution, shame, depravity, crime, ending with death at the hands of the executioner. [5]
Later when she thought about the breaking of the phial, the conviction grew upon her limited intelligence that this accident would perhaps prove in the end to be the best thing that could have happened, not only for her but for all mankind. [10]
The sound of those familiar words, spoken by accident as they were, opened the way to a better understanding, as nothing else could possibly have done. [11]
She suddenly put this question to him: "Tell me all the truth about that accident to the Ruby. [11]
I do not think any of us would like to turn out the possessor of a fine estate enjoyed for two or three generations on the faith of unquestioned ownership by making use of some old forgotten instrument, which accident had thrown in our way. [6]
And, more than these, the Victoria of the blissful excursions he had known was changed as she had spoken to him--constrained, distant, apart; although still dispensing kindness, going out of her way to bring Hilary home, and to tell him of Hilary's accident. [9]
There was death, there was accident occasionally--had his own people not gone down under the scythe of time? [11]
But one day there was a terrible railway accident on a construction train, and Lebanon and Manitou made a call upon his skill, and held him in bondage to his profession for one whole month. [11]
Did you get them together by accident or according to some preconceived plan? [6]
Every portion of the wagon became a prey of its special accident, except that most fragile looking of all its parts, the wheel. [6]
Finding it in the Virgil was nothing, after all; it was a little delicate flower, which looked as if it were made to press, and it was probably shut in by accident at the particular place where he found it. [6]
But what is the trivial, temporal accident of the wiping out of a planet and its inhabitants to the infinite catastrophe which shall establish a mighty world of eternal despair? [6]
Destiny had laid the train of circumstance and accident, and who was stronger than Destiny? [11]
His companion crossed the threshold close behind him, sullen, deeply incensed, and determined to order his son to choose between his love and favour and the daughter of this unfriendly man, whom only a sudden accident had prevented from breaking the betrothal. [10]
If he writes the same word twice in succession, by accident, he always erases the one that stands second; has not the first-comer the prior right? [6]
Then, without heeding the rustling fall of some object that he had hit by accident, he gasped out: "The impudent fiend will not let me be. [10]
It appeared from the old man's letter that, while leaving the ship at Antwerp, he had met with an accident, and perhaps might long be prevented from undertaking the toilsome journey home. [10]
The countenance of the musician was towards them, and at last, as though by accident, Elizabeth looked up and saw the face of her lady. [11]
And so, in the midst of this quiet inland town, where a mere accident had placed Mr. Bernard Langdon, there was a concentration of explosive materials which might at any time change its Arcadian and academic repose into a scene of dangerous commotion. [6]
The accident to the machinery and our delay were almost forgotten in the preparations therefor. [11]
When she left the hospital, she seemed moving in a dream, as one, intoxicated by some elixir, might move unheeding among event and accident and vexing life and roaring multitudes. [11]
When he heard the day before that he would find her among Peter Schlumperger's guests in Prufening, he had joined them, as if by accident, toward evening, and Barbara had danced with him twice. [10]
Journalism, which is the accident of business and crowded populations, in great perfection. [6]
Perhaps but for the accident at Mount Desert he might have felt that his summer pleasure was needlessly interfered with, but the little shock of that was a real, if still temporary, moral turning-point for him. [4]
It must be that they are much more content with the climate and country upon which they happen, by the accident of their birth, than they pretend to be. [4]
The fitting-up of that place as a shrine is not an accident, nor a casual, unweighed idea; it is imitated from age--old religious custom. [5]
It was apparent that no one else had seen the accident. [11]
The fact is, that I myself have missed several small sums from the desk, of late, and have refrained from mentioning it, hoping that accident would discover the offender; but it has not done so--it has not done so. [12]
There's a saying that he that would cross a river twice in the same day in a boat, will do well to eat fish for luck, lest he have an accident. [5]
Call the accident that has kept you out of this despicable work a stroke of good fortune, but beware how you look down upon those whose oath forces them to crush out every human feeling from their hearts! [10]
I have said that accident exposed me at times to the influence which I had such reasons for dreading. [6]
A little less than a year before, after the Ball's Bluff accident, the Captain, then the Lieutenant, and myself had reposed for a night on our homeward journey at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, where we were lodged on the ground-floor, and fared sumptuously. [6]
It will be supposed he fell overboard during the accident to the boat. [11]
She started on suddenly perceiving him, but it was characteristic of her greeting that she seemed to feel no surprise at the accident which had brought them together. [9]
There ain't no such a thing as an accident. [5]
She was in such a state that almost any slight agitation would have brought on the attack, and it was the accident of her transient excitability, very probably, which made a trifling cause the seeming occasion of so much disturbance. [6]
It was so strange that she should use it by accident, when but a little while ago he had been ready to choke the wind out of a man's body for using it concerning herself. [11]
Two or three steps down shuffled the Chinaman; then, as it were by accident, he stumbled and fell, the tray with the beautiful china crashing down to the feet of Joel Mazarine, followed by the tumbling, chirruping Li Choo. [11]
To-morrow I shall stand in the palaestra before my comrades, and explain to them what a malicious accident deceived me, and with me this whole great city. [10]
From that accident sprang the Order of the Jesuits, and it has been shaking thrones, changing policies, and doing other tremendous work for two hundred years--and will go on. [5]
Trailing to the south, to find M'sieu' Marchand, he had an accident, and was laid up in a shack for weeks on the Tanguishene River, and they could not move him. [11]
His appearance added something to Buckner's uncomfortable state, and he said, with a show of regret and sympathy which sat upon him awkwardly from lack of practice: "It was an accident, you know. [5]
He was afraid, somehow, of Beaton's taking the matter in the cynical way; Miss Woodburn said she would break off the engagement if Beaton was left to guess it or find it out by accident, and then Fulkerson plucked up his courage. [8]
It was by some accident I said them.... [2]
What's the difference, so far's the world's concerned, whether he died by accident, or died--as he died. [11]
I will be shrewd, and buy an accident ticket. [5]
To prevent so shocking an accident, it was pulled down many years since. [6]
So soon as she could speak after her accident, she told them that they must not write to him and tell him of it. [11]
The Rose of Sharon, five and twenty years before, would have been coy--would have made believe to have done it by accident. [9]
Now, after a severe accident, she is dragging herself through life on one foot. [10]
He has never seemed to notice that he is stating his views differently from what he did then; but by some sort of accident, he has always really stated it differently. [7]
The vicarious sacrifice seemed none the less noble to the Englishman because it was involuntary and an accident. [11]
If I could see her, if I could speak to her only a moment, but this suspense--" "Perhaps her seeming avoidance is mere accident, Mr. Burley. [5]
Although, as you say, we are from that part of the country (Miss Sadler bad spoken of the Duncans as the people of importance there), it was by the merest accident that Miss Wetherell's connection with this Jethro Bass was brought to my notice. [9]
Myrtle no sooner saw the little accident of which her rural friend was the victim than she left her place in the dance with a simple courage which did her credit. [6]
One day he saw Mr. Bernard join her: a mere accident, very probably, for it was only once this happened. [6]
No man had saved so many shipwrecked folk, none risked his life so often; and he had never had a serious accident. [11]
And while they sat there just simply stupefied with wonder and awe, I sort of waved my hand as if by accident, and the storekeeper's son emerged from space and said he had come to collect. [5]
And Mrs. Enderby said, impressively: "It looks like an accident, his coming at such a time; but let no one profane it with such a name; he was sent--sent from on high. [5]
From all he said it appeared that during the last four years, from the attack of fever until the present accident, he had been living in a kind of sleep. [10]
Anyhow, it's no robbery for me to have what has been mine by every right except the accident of being born after him. [11]
Before Barine had returned that evening, something had occurred which made her mother doubly regret the accident to her brother Arius the day before. [10]
When Austen, in response to the doctor's telephone message, stood over the iron bed in the spick-and-span men's ward of St. Mary's, a wave of that intense feeling he had experienced at the accident swept over him. [9]
What has happened--I repeat it--grieves me sincerely, and I beg you tell the maiden to whom the accident happened, that her pain is mine. [10]
Mr Richard, you'll remember, if this gentleman should be found to have hung himself to the bed-post, or any unpleasant accident of that kind should happen--you'll remember, Mr Richard, that this ten pound note was given to you in part payment of two years' rent? [12]
At first he received her sternly and repellantly enough, but, as soon as she introduced herself as the ropedancer who had met with the accident, he showed himself to be a kindly old gentleman. [10]
And it so proved that it called for much patience and long endurance to carry through the duties, say rather the kind offices, the painful pleasures, which she had chosen as her share in the household where accident had thrown her. [6]
Yes, I will propose it; 'twas a happy accident that I did not throw the chance away. [5]

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