"Coincidental" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... by journals devoted to fashion, that trains are to be worn even longer during the coming winter than they have yet been. Coincidental with this, is the announcement made by sundry papers that "a piece of calico a mile long has been manufactured in New England." The Miss who gets this for a train will be as good as a Mile, and such is the length, dear boys and girls, to ...
— Punchinello, Vol. II., No. 35, November 26, 1870 • Various
... Collins, as I may have to say again, was a very wide reader of poetry, with a memory like Macaulay's. It was his native tendency to find coincidences in poetic passages (which, to some, to me for example, did not often seem coincidental); and to explain coincidences by conscious or subconscious borrowing. One remarked in him these tendencies long before he wrote on ...
— Shakespeare, Bacon and the Great Unknown • Andrew Lang
... too unconditional for him to know any of the conditions, instantly they appeared, full-statured, walking about Meringe Plantation with loin-cloths about their middles and bone bodkins through their noses, and being put to work by Mister Haggin, Derby, and Bob. That their appearance was coincidental with the arrival of the Arangi was an association that occurred as a matter of course in Jerry's brain. Further, he did not bother, save that there was a companion association, namely, that their occasional ...
— Jerry of the Islands • Jack London
... manner that current would be generated within them as they cut through a magnetic field. Even the pioneer inventors of electric lamps made great contributions to electrical practice by developing the dynamo. Brush developed a satisfactory dynamo coincidental with his invention of the arc-lamp, and in a similar manner, Edison made a great contribution to electrical practice in devising means of generating and distributing electricity for the purpose ...
— Artificial Light - Its Influence upon Civilization • M. Luckiesh |
