She lunched on dire forebodings of a quarrel between Frank and his father, with
accidental interruptions in the shape of cold chicken and cheese-cakes.
We all three went to it, behind the wire blind, and presently saw the client go by in an
accidental manner, with a murderous-looking tall individual, in a short suit of white linen and a paper cap.
The possibility that Dunstan had played him the ugly trick of riding away with Wildfire, to return at the end of a month, when he had gambled away or otherwise squandered the price of the horse, was a fear that urged itself upon him more, even, than the thought of an
accidental injury; and now that the dance at Mrs.
The truth is that you love her body, soul, and spirit; any
accidental matter which should tend to make her doubt that would be the only real lie.
My own
accidental cut across the knuckles was a flea- bite.
There was an astronomer, who had undertaken to place a sun-dial upon the great weathercock on the town-house, by adjusting the annual and diurnal motions of the earth and sun, so as to answer and coincide with all
accidental turnings of the wind.
His mode of dressing, and the particular styles that from time to time he affected, had their marked influence on the young exquisites of the Mayfair balls and Pall Mall club windows, who copied him in everything that he did, and tried to reproduce the
accidental charm of his graceful, though to him only half-serious fopperies.
The inquest had ended in a verdict of
accidental death, caused by the wear and tear of the chains by which the chandelier was hung from the ceiling; but it was the duty of both the old and the new managers to have discovered this wear and tear and to have remedied it in time.
Finally, to those nations who would make themselves our adversaries, we offer not a pledge but a request: that both sides begin anew the quest for peace; before the dark powers of destruction unleashed by science engulf all humanity in planned or
accidental self-destruction.
Yet this singular and almost
accidental character of his mission agrees with the divine sign which, according to our notions, is equally
accidental and irrational, and is nevertheless accepted by him as the guiding principle of his life.
If even the rule adopted should in practice justify the equality of its principle, still delinquencies in payments on the part of some of the States would result from a diversity of other causes -- the real deficiency of resources; the mismanagement of their finances;
accidental disorders in the management of the government; and, in addition to the rest, the reluctance with which men commonly part with money for purposes that have outlived the exigencies which produced them, and interfere with the supply of immediate wants.
So far, therefore, as either designed or
accidental violations of treaties and the laws of nations afford JUST causes of war, they are less to be apprehended under one general government than under several lesser ones, and in that respect the former most favors the SAFETY of the people.
