accidentals

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

Archive 2009-04-01

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