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Meanings of mere accident in English
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Usage of mere accident in English
1
Of course the presence of such a gathering was no mere accident.
2
And but for a mere accident the plot would have been successful.
3
He had met the girl of his choice by a mere accident.
4
It was a mere accident my chancing to know anything about her.
5
Perhaps after all I am ascribing to system what is mere accident.
6
A mere accident, only these fellows make such a fuss about it.
7
He got by mere accident, as we say, a reinforcement of Spaniards.
8
By a mere accident I hit on the old man's absorbing interest.
9
My conclusion was neither that of deliberate self-mutilation, nor mere accident.
10
To the materialist philosopher the beautiful is a mere accident, and therefore rare.
11
I found him by mere accident, helpless and in awful danger.
12
These were the eternal verities, not the mere accident of fatherhood.
13
Halicarnassus hit upon it by mere accident, and I therefore remorselessly expose him.
14
Innocence and peace-themind's essence, and all the rest mere accident.
15
There have been very popular writers who were brought out by mere accident.
16
Nor was this a mere accident, for the strain was at times severe.
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