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  • Anyway, I started this piece with a background salvaged from a project I am not going to finish - it was a piece of hand-dyed fabric in dark pink and turquoise - two colours listed among the preferences, which was fortuitious, I think.

    July Arch katelnorth 2008

  • It of course deserves strong co-billing along with many other fortuitious discoveries since then, both physical and philosophical, for the growing embrace of the multiverse vision among specialists, a grand sweep of inflationary reasoning which obviates the speciality of the quirky laws, constants and initial conditions underpinniing our paltry universe.

    Do Atheists Exist? Sean 2008

  • Nonetheless, most were masterpieces in their own right and the fortuity of their recovery to modern awareness seemed to me both a bit romantic as some, I would imagine, were scattered on battlefields or hidden at some point and wildly fortuitious.

    Mammoth Figurine 2007

  • I am glad I was forced to change my plans – it is fortuitious accidents such as these that lead to happy challenges for the cook, and memorable meals.

    Tigers & Strawberries » Book Review: The Story of Corn 2005

  • I discovered Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time series a decade ago due to a fortuitious visit to a Florida bookstore, where I was given a free promotional copy of the first half of The Eye of the World the first book in the series.

    Archive 2005-10-01 2005

  • In any case, the timing of the anthologies release is fortuitious.

    stonetable.org » 2003 » June 2003

  • To call a mutation “lucky” or “fortuitious” is just as scientifically unverifiable as calling it “God-given” or “teleological”.

    The first cracks are showing - The Panda's Thumb 2005

  • I discovered Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time series a decade ago due to a fortuitious visit to a Florida bookstore, where I was given a free promotional copy of the first half of The Eye of the World the first book in the series.

    The Golden Crane Flies For Tarmon Gai'don 2005

  • On Friday Mr Justice F H Grosskopf held that Heneways had established that the loss caused by the theft was a 'casus fortuitus' (fortuitious or unavoidable accident) and not by any fault on its part.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • Many instances might be given to show that events of the greatest importance have often depended upon what at the time appeared to be the most fortuitious and trivial events.

    The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination 1959

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