accidentals

• “The "accidentals", the nonthinkers, the delusional are not necessarily lost causes, you know?”

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• “Most of them involve "accidentals," matters of punctuation or spelling.”

  The Big Word in 'Ulysses'

• “It would be impossible to fill the wall-cases, if properly proportioned, with these few, even given all the favourable conditions of procuring the "accidentals" and varieties, under ten years.”

  Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.

• “This use of accent for characterization is also quite distinct from its use with "accidentals," or tones foreign to the prevailing tonality.”

  Style in Singing

• “In the following examples, the tones marked [accent symbol] are "accidentals," and for that reason should receive a faint stress.”

  Style in Singing

• “Hither resort those "accidentals" of fancy that make the stage, the drawing-room, and all the schools of artistic endeavor interesting or peculiar.”

  The Titan

• “These "accidentals" as the painters say were quite as we wished them to be.”

  A Daughter of the Middle Border

• “An uncultivated listener, hearing an oratorio of one of the great masters, would detect discords again and again in the strains; and as a matter of fact, what are called "accidentals" in music are discords, but discords inserted to heighten the harmony.”

  The Ministry of the Spirit

• “My understanding is that the 'accidentals' of bread and wine remain (a mystery for sure) but not the reality of bread and wine.”

  Historical Christian

• “accidentals," where in their youth they had been apt to shy.”

  The Judgment of Eve

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