Use incidents in a sentence
Sentences starting with incidents
- Incidents occurring in the progress of our civil war have forced upon my attention the uncertain state of international questions touching the rights of foreigners in this country and of United States citizens abroad. [7]
- Incidents were related evidently confirming the opinion that everything was going from bad to worse, but whether telling a story or giving an opinion the speaker always stopped, or was stopped, at the point beyond which his criticism might touch the sovereign himself. [2]
Sentences ending with incidents
- There is no space here to tell of many incidents. [9]
- Remembering his keen sense of humor, Clemens reported to him cheering and amusing incidents. [5]
- His life was rich in similar incidents. [10]
- If the will of every man were free, that is, if each man could act as he pleased, all history would be a series of disconnected incidents. [2]
- But that five minutes of waiting were filled with awkward incidents. [11]
- She hadn't any characters and she had n't any incidents. [6]
Short sentences using incidents
- The incidents are curiously parallel. [4]
Sentences containing incidents two or more times
- In its application we know there will be incidents temporarily painful; but, after all, those incidents will be fewer and less intense with than without the system. [7]
More example sentences with the word incidents in them
- I have told you as briefly as I could what, if I were to tell with all the incidents and feelings that accompanied it, would fill volumes. [4]
- He filled it with episodes and incidents that Washington never heard of, and he did it so convincingly that although I knew none of it had happened, from that day to this I do not know any history but Sala's. [5]
- The manner in which, after he permitted her to speak, she had disclosed in a low whisper her happy yet disquieting secret, hovered before him now as one of the most pathetic incidents in a life full of varied experiences. [10]
- There were hours when, Ditmar's passion leaving spent itself, they achieved comradeship, in the office and out of it; revelations for Janet when he talked of himself, relating the little incidents she found most illuminating. [9]
- And as he watched her, in silence, the colour that flowed and ebbed in her cheeks registered the coming and going of memories; of incidents in her life hidden from him, arousing in the man the torture of jealousy. [9]
- In the country village where there are no theatres the people make dramas out of each other's lives; the most trivial incidents are magnified and talked about--dramatized, in short. [4]
- Her father was very considerate, and even kept back many incidents, but the invalid was too weak for so unexpected and startling a communication. [10]
- Here the author used to sit for hours, weaving histories out of the casual incidents passing under his eye, and the occupations of the busy mortals below. [4]
- It was not until later reflection that he realized Mr. Bentley might, by an intuitive sympathy, a depth of understanding, have drained something of his state, since the incidents which followed were to be accounted for on no other grounds. [9]
- When one is traveling in Europe, the daily incidents seem all alike; but when he has placed them all two months and two thousand miles behind him, those that were worthy of being remembered are prominent, and those that were really insignificant have vanished. [5]
- In "Shirley" she took the idea of most of her characters from life, although the incidents and situations were, of course, fictitious. [14]
- It is hard to tell how far such little incidents affected her in what she did that afternoon; but they had their influence. [11]
- Far from attempting to hide or ignore the struggle by which she and her husband had attained their present position, she referred with the utmost naivete to incidents in her career, while the whole table paused to listen. [9]
- Had it anything to do with the incidents of the past night? [10]
- Therefore, from 1905 to 1909, I kept drawing upon all those experiences of others, from the true tales that had been told me, upon the reminiscences of Hudson's Bay trappers and hunters, for those incidents natural to the West which imagination could make true. [11]
- Throughout my life there have been days and incidents, some trivial, some important, that linger in my memory because they are saturated with "atmosphere. [9]
- The incidents of the war cannot be avoided. [7]
- The story of the two brothers--David Claridge and Lord Eglington--in that book was brewing in my mind for quite fifteen years, and the main incidents and characters of other novels in this edition had the same slow growth. [11]
- Whether to tell the story of men that have lived and of events that have happened, or to create the characters and invent the incidents of an imaginary tale be the higher task, we need not stop to discuss. [6]
- His progress up the river, however, was marked by incidents whose significance he did not at once see. [11]
- Behind some of the most striking incidents in the history of New France, New England, and New York, was a woman. [11]
- Perhaps one of the most satisfactory incidents of his sojourn was a dinner given to him by the staff of Punch, in the historic offices at 10 Bouverie Street where no other foreign visitor had been thus honored--a notable distinction. [5]
- Two incidents of the journey back are vividly impressed on my mind. [10]
- When I began the incidents of yore, Still in my soul's depths treasured, to record, A voice within said: Soon, life's journey o'er, Thy portrait sole remembrance will afford. [10]
- It transfers to the banks of the Mississippi the incidents of a strange murder which was committed in Sweden in old times. [5]
- One party insists that such adjustment oppresses one class for the advantage of another; while the other party argues that, with all its incidents, in the long run all classes are benefited. [7]
- While Charmian protested that no one save Dion had ever been heard with favour by Barine, and related many incidents of her former life, Cleopatra's thoughts were with Antony. [10]
- Little incidents bear telling when they recall anything of such a celebrity as Margaret. [6]
- Let us, therefore, study the incidents of this as philosophy to learn wisdom from, and none of them as wrongs to be revenged. [7]
- Hospitals, hotels, and stores were incidents in the picture. [11]
- He merely has some people in his mind, and an incident or two, also a locality, and he trusts he can plunge those people into those incidents with interesting results. [5]
- His soul was so agitated by the horrible incidents of the day that he needed to seek consolation among those from whom he was sure to find sympathy. [10]
- Ruth, saying that she hoped the father wouldn't mind, began to put in order the front room, which the incidents of the night had somewhat disturbed. [4]
- But its varied scenes and its manifold incidents will linger pleasantly in our memories for many a year to come. [5]
- It has been said that, apart from the colour, form, and setting, the incidents of these Pierre stories might have occurred anywhere. [11]
- He did so quietly, picking out main incidents, and setting them forth, as he had the ability, with quiet dramatic strength. [11]
- I will not pretend that I have forgotten all about "The Guardian Angel," but it is long since I have read it, and many of its characters and incidents are far from being distinct in my memory. [6]
- He knows these people, he knows the selected locality, and he trusts that he can plunge those people into those incidents with interesting results. [5]
- They were lifted out of the life of that continent with sympathy and care, and most of the incidents were those which had come under my own observation. [11]
- There are many other agreements in the facts of the case and the incidents of the play. [4]
- Many incidents were opposed to it, yet it was possible. [10]
- And now occurred one of those beautiful incidents which no fiction-writer would dare to imagine, a scene of touching pathos, creditable to our fallen humanity. [5]
- But everything was on a scale so vast that it was difficult to localize these petty incidents (big as they were in consequences), and the party soon abandoned history and geography for the enjoyment of the moment. [4]
- In telling the old woman's story, he alluded only vaguely to those peculiar circumstances to which she had attributed so much importance, taking it for granted that the other minister must be familiar with the whole series of incidents she had related. [6]
- In the lives of many successful men there are such incidents, which they do not care to have inquired into, turning-points that one slides over in the subsequent gilded biography, or, as it is called, the nickel-plated biography. [4]
- But the incidents of his adventure grew sensibly sharper and clearer under the attrition of thinking them over, and so he presently found himself leaning to the impression that the thing might not have been a dream, after all. [5]
- Then followed one of a thousand memorable incidents in the life of a memorable man. [9]
- Most of the novels and most of the short stories were suggested by incidents or characters which I had known, had heard of intimately, or, as in the case of the historical novels, had discovered in the works of historians. [11]
- But we are not without peculiar types; not without characters, not without incidents, stories, heroisms, inequalities; not without the charms of nature in infinite variety; and human nature is the same here that it is in Spain, France, and England. [4]
- Far into the night she lay awake, the various incidents of the evening, like magic lantern views, thrown with bewildering rapidity on the screen of her mind. [9]
- Law--" And he named over swiftly, scornfully, a score of names and incidents, to which Father Corraine listened intently. [11]
- Ephraim was very much excited on finding himself in Washington, the sight of the place reviving in his mind a score of forgotten incidents of the war. [9]
- For a few moments he lay still in the half comprehension which comes after sleep when suddenly he remembered yesterday's incidents at the Arsenal, and leaped out of bed. [9]
- Every hour, every moment that I had ever passed in Alixe's presence, with many little incidents and scenes in which we shared, passed before me--vivid and cherished pictures of the mind. [11]
- Friends in common, modes of life in common, and incidents in common are apt to sweep away preliminaries. [9]
- One of the many, and often humorous, incidents that served to bring about this realization of a former aimlessness happened on their second Sunday excursion. [9]
- There was a manuscript of some hundred pages, closely written, in which the poor things had chronicled for many years the incidents of their daily life. [6]
- There were a lot of incidents in my career to help me along --sometimes they helped me along faster than I wanted to go. [5]
- As a mere literary criticism on Smith's writings, it would appear that he had a habit of transferring to his own career notable incidents and adventures of which he had read, and this is somewhat damaging to an estimate of his originality. [4]
- In the next letter and the one following it we get a hint of an episode, or rather of two incidents which he combined into an episode in Roughing It. [5]
- She no longer knew what had happened a few hours before, yet her memory faithfully retained the incidents that occurred many years previous. [10]
- She brooded over it till she believed it to be a duty to reproduce every detail (of course, with fictitious characters, incidents, and situations), as a warning to others. [14]
- This earthwork, it is true, menaced those held captive here, but they also owed it a debt of gratitude, for it shut from their eyes the horrible incidents on the sandy plain between the sea and the inland lake. [10]
- Yet another glance into passing incidents before we follow the straight trail of our story. [11]
- They invented an ingenious sophism which, if conceded, was followed by perfectly logical steps, through all the incidents, to the complete destruction of the Union. [7]
- There were ludicrous incidents, too, though never lacking in a certain pathos. [9]
- But in its incidents, such as violence, intimidation, and in some cases injury to the public welfare, it often becomes an indictable offense. [4]
- And all the incidents, big and little, of Caesar's previous life had been leading up to it, stage by stage, link by link. [5]
- Such were the incidents that fanned the hatred into hotter and hotter flame. [9]
- They were merely incidents of the social state into which she was born, and she pursued her way among them, having a tolerably clear conception of what her own life should be, with little recognition of their tendencies. [4]
- There were some incidents of that festival which I may have forgotten, for the consul said afterwards that I was with his Royal Highness about an hour and a half. [11]
- One of those incidents I will set down here. [11]
- These represented familiar incidents from famous love tales: Tristan and Isolde seeing the face of King Mark in the mirror of the spring, Frau Venus as, surrounded by her court, she receives Tannhauser in the Horselberg, and similar scenes. [10]
- As he lay in the early morning recalling the incidents of his great adventure, he noticed that they seemed curiously subdued and far away--somewhat as if they had happened in another world, or in a time long gone by. [5]
- During these exercises in drawing he related many incidents of his own life, and never was he more interesting than while describing his first success. [10]
- It is wanting in cohesion, in character, even in a proper regard to circumstances of time and place; it is a map of dissected incidents which has been flung out of its box and has arranged itself without the least regard to chronology or geography. [6]
- It was Matthew I wanted, Matthew of whom I thought, and trivial, long-forgotten incidents of the past kept recurring to me constantly. [9]
- In the train I slept but fitfully, awakening again and again to recall the extraordinary fact that I was now engaged to be married, to go over the incidents of the evening. [9]
- You may suppose, however, that I find it rather difficult to amuse my friends out of the incidents of so isolated an existence. [6]
- Not the great historical events, but the personal incidents that call up single sharp pictures of some human being in its pang or struggle, reach us most nearly. [6]
- He reproduced in his theatrical war-dances, scalp-dances, and so on, incidents which he had seen in real life. [5]
- But Clement told his story calmly through to the end, sliding gently over its later incidents, for Myrtle's heart was throbbing violently, and her breath a little catching and sighing, as when she had first lived with the new life his breath had given her. [6]
- The incidents of her life ranged by in procession. [9]
- She had been harshly reproved by the older woman on account of the artist's daughter, who had been the source of so many incidents which had caused her pain, and Iras regretted that she had ever confided to her aunt her love for Dion. [10]
- The incidents arrived haphazard as magic lanthorn views, but very vivid. [9]
- A violent emotion had overpowered him; he restlessly paced up and down the river-bank rapidly reviewing in his memory the more prominent incidents of his past life. [10]
- She realised what had happened, and probably this was the first time in her life that she had ever come by instinct to a revelation of her daughter's mind, or of the faithful meaning of incidents of their lives. [11]
- Then, when I had given up all hope, through certain incidents and certain persona, a process of reconstruction began. [9]
- There was a great burst of jolly laughter all around from friend and foe alike; and thus closed one of the pleasantest incidents of my checkered military life. [5]
- I shall not go deeply into my college career, recalling only such incidents as, seen in the retrospect, appear to have had significance. [9]
- All the past four years trooped by, with their thousand incidents magnified in the sharp, throbbing light of her mind, and at last she knew and saw clearly what was before her, what trials, what duty, and what honour demanded--her honour. [11]
- I daresay he found out soon enough what the world is, and he had a lesson or two when he was quite young, in two incidents, which I may as well relate. [4]
- All difficulty about filling up the "local department" ceased, and the only trouble now was how to make the lengthened columns hold the world of incidents and happenings that came to our literary net every day. [5]
- The messenger, however, even in her haste, had told him many incidents she had seen herself or heard from others. [10]
- It is not enough to copy nature or to copy, even accurately, the incidents of life. [4]
- It happened, as do so many incidents which tend to shape a life, by a seeming chance. [9]
- Even if we did not have new material in the daily change of society, and there were only a fixed number of incidents and characters in life, invention could not be exhausted on them. [4]
- If, however, resistance continues, the war must also continue; and it is impossible to foresee all the incidents which may attend and all the ruin which may follow it. [7]
- If the war continues long, as it must if the object be not sooner attained, the institution in your States will be extinguished by mere friction and abrasion--by the mere incidents of the war. [7]
- A more advanced civilization produced more incidents, more episodes; the actor and the story-teller borrowed them. [5]
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