IV If the reader thinks that all these talking Teacups came together by mere accident, as people meet at a boarding-house, I may as well tell him at once that he is mistaken.
One day he saw Mr. Bernard join her: a mere accident, very probably, for it was only once this happened.
Original sin "is not a mere accident in man, but his inverted and transformed essence or new form itself, just as when a most wholesome medicine is changed into the most baneful poison.
He drew the conclusion that original sin, by which the image of God (not the human understanding and will as such) is lost, cannot be a mere accident, but constitutes the very essence and substance of fallen man.
At the same time, however, he seriously damaged and discredited himself as well as the sacred cause of divine truth by maintaining that original sin is not a mere accident, such as Strigel maintained, but the very substance of man.
It was in opposition to this Semi-Pelagian teaching that Flacius declared original sin to be not a mere accident, but the substance of man.
It is nothing but a scratch, and was a mere accident.
I might have lost a petty-sessions to-day, inquiring into a mere accident.
I opened this door by mere accident, and without expecting to find you here.
By mere accident,' said Gerald, and he recounted how the incident had occurred.
The Tiber and Its Traffic This cannot have been the result of mere accident.
The distinction between ancient and modern history, therefore, is no mere accident, nor yet a mere matter of chronological convenience.
At last, by a mere accident, he chanced upon Filangieri going off to wait on the King; he was accompanied by a small man, in a very gorgeous uniform, studded over with stars and decorations.
Sudden anger itself cools down when it appears that the cause of the inflicted pain was a mere accident.
Uncivilised peoples who entirely excuse, or do not punish, persons for injuries which they have inflicted by mere accident, p.
Of these Names, that of the Preposition is taken from a mere accident, as it commonly stands in connection before the Part, which it connects.
The division of poetry into its peculiar lines, is therefore not a mere accident.
They never agree, in any respect, with the nouns which follow them, unless it be by mere accident.
The phonetic decay of language is not the result of mere accident; it is governed by definite laws, as we shall see when we come to consider the principles of comparative grammar.
It is conceivable for a situation to have been reconstructed in this way by mere accident, just as it is conceivable that one player may have the eight or nine best trumps dealt him.
This may be a mere accident; but it is worth noting that in following up the track indicated by Panzer we come across startling coincidences of this kind.
But, even if this were the case, it might well be mere accident, since examples only occur at rare intervals anywhere in Beowulf.
One of the letters was suffered, by mere accident, to fall into Mrs. Dal's hands, and she was quite prepared for the event when he was reported shot the next morning.
I went, by a mere accident, to an hotel where I am not known.
Too well bred to suffer this anxiety of theirs to appear, except by a mere accident, yet it was evident to me, by a hundred little circumstances, how it formed a constant subject of conversation between them.
A mere accident" here he glanced at the paper which she still held in her fingers "a mere accident has shown me that you have a difficulty; one for which neither your habits nor knowledge of life can suggest the solution.
Of how many of our strongest convictions the origin was mere accident,--ideas dropped like those seeds of distant plants that are borne for thousands of miles upon the wind, and let fall in some far-away land to take root and fructify?
We arrived at New Orleans, not quite determined whither next we should bend our steps; and hearing by mere accident of this Texan expedition, we took it into our heads we would join it.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mere accident" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
