You are--" Alas, that accidents are always my fault!
With regard to his shooting, there is no scion of royalty who has been the cause of more gun accidents than the prince.
It was in January, 1854, that the accidents of a Senate debate threw into Congress and upon the country the firebrand of the repeal of the Missouri Compromise.
And yet they are neither such accidents as be proper unto it, since they may almost all befall man without it; nor are they such accidents as be inseparable from it, since imprisonment may fall to a man and none of them therein.
As for those other accidents of hard handling, I am not so mad as to say that they are no grief, but I say that our fear may imagine them much greater grief than they are.
First, those other kinds of grief that come with imprisonment are but accidents unto it.
The accidents and misfortunes which are the lot of letters in this country, seem also to attend post-letters in their progress through the Post-offices of other countries.
The accidents that befell the coaches were sometimes of a really serious character, and of very frequent occurrence--some of them, or perhaps many of them, being due wholly to carelessness.
A person writing in 1822 remarks as follows:--"It is really heartrending to hear of the dreadful accidents that befall his Majesty's subjects now on their travels through the country.
This will assure health as well as happiness, barring the accidents that may come to any human being.
They are just as much accidents as any other of the mischances of life, for it is as dangerous to be run into by a microbe as by a trolley car.
There are some accidents that cannot be provided against.
Why should you lose all that at once, give it up, for the accidents of cholera infantum and a man, as likely as not, with a consumptive lung?
By the irritation that all these applications and accidents induce, warts and vegetations are the but too frequent results.
Often-occurring accidents in harems make complete eunuchs a desideratum.
It was not the model cried up by fashion and circumstance: its excellence was adapted to the true and just moral taste, incapable of change from the varying accidents of manners, of opinions, and times.
Showing how a Frenchman who abhorred the Sea was most unwillingly and by a series of accidents driven round the World.
Few of them, indeed, had escaped without severe accidents at one time or another, while trying some specially difficult feat, and many had been lamed for life.
Then came (if the reader cares to know what I mean by Fors, let him read the page carefully) the fearful accidents to his only sister, and her death, L.
I say in general, because a thousand accidents may interfere to prevent its being so.
But in case of accidentsit will be safest in your custody till I come to town again on the 12th of May.
Sometimes their career is quite distinct from that of the people, and to write it, as the national history, is as if one should number the accidents which befall a man's weapons and wardrobe, and call the list his biography.
But the accidentsof a state are not self-subsistent.
Only the philosopher expresses himself in a more precise and definite manner, when he says: "In all changes in the world, the substance remains, and the accidents alone are changeable.
For accidents (in so far as they inhere in a substance) are co-ordinated with each other, and do not constitute a series.
It is unmoved by the consideration of any accidents and miseries that may result, and unalterable.
We are liable to the accidents of health and sickness.
When accidents occur, people are too excited to acquire immediately a knowledge of what they should do; and many lives have been lost for want of this knowledge.
Serious accidents having occurred to babies through their catching hold of the blades of sharp instruments, the following hint will be useful.
In accidents people act not so much from reason as from excitement: but good rules, firmly impressed upon the mind, generally rise uppermost, even in the midst of fear.
Accidents in connection with the use of elevators are common throughout the country, and in Kansas City had, until within a short time, become of altogether too frequent occurrence.
Some say odd accidents have happened to grand stands at race meetings, through iron bolts being inadvertently removed.
Joseph, who had seen too many accidents not to know he was doomed, even if it had not been visible upon the faces of his wife and children, betrayed the greatest uneasiness.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "accidents" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
