"Coincidental" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... placed well away from the water's edge, and equipped with non-condensing engines; whereas the modern plant invariably seeks the bank of a river or lake for the purpose of a generous supply of water for its condensing engines or steam-turbines. These are among the refinements of practice coincidental with the advance of ...
— Edison, His Life and Inventions • Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin
... fiction. No resemblance is intended between any character herein and any person, living or dead; any such resemblance is purely coincidental. ...
— Space Prison • Tom Godwin
... to examine some 'superstitious practices' and beliefs of savages by aid of the comparative method. I shall compare, as I have already said, the ethnological evidence for savage usages and beliefs analogous to thought-transference, coincidental hallucinations, alternating personality, and so forth, with the best attested modern examples, experimental or spontaneous. This raises the question of our evidence, which is all-important. We proceed to defend it. The savage accounts ...
— The Making of Religion • Andrew Lang
... seems no doubt that those who have to do with cattle products, especially butchers, are subjects of acute and usually grave pemphigus. Vaccination has exceptionally been responsible for the disease, probably through some coincidental infection. The disease is not contagious, nor is it due to syphilis. It may ...
— Essentials of Diseases of the Skin • Henry Weightman Stelwagon |
