Citations:accidentally

English citations of accidentally

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• 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.

  "Felix had accidentally been present at the trial; his horror and indignation were uncontrollable when he heard the decision of the court.

• 1851 — Herman Melville. Moby Dick.

  Some centuries ago, when the Sperm whale was almost wholly unknown in his own proper individuality, and when his oil was only accidentally obtained from the stranded fish; in those days spermaceti, it would seem, was popularly supposed to be derived from a creature identical with the one then known in England as the Greenland or Right Whale.

  As the line passed round and round the loggerhead; so also, just before reaching that point, it blisteringly passed through and through both of Stubb's hands, from which the hand-cloths, or squares of quilted canvas sometimes worn at these times, had accidentally dropped.

  And this reminds me that certain Englishmen, who long ago were accidentally left in Greenland by a whaling vessel — that these men actually lived for several months on the mouldy scraps of whales which had been left ashore after trying out the blubber.