"Inadvertent" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... have been retained to match the original text. Only such cases which strongly indicated the presence of inadvertent typographical error have been corrected; a detailed list of these corrections can be found at the end of ...
— Letters on the Cholera Morbus. • James Gillkrest
... Oldham's imitation, many prosaick verses and bad rhymes, and his poem sets out with a strange inadvertent blunder: ...
— Life Of Johnson, Vol. 1 • Boswell, Edited by Birkbeck Hill
... saw his mistake, perhaps, for he drew her towards him again, and with a tender caress and word tried to turn her thoughts in another direction; but it was too late; the impression had been made, and could never again be effaced. All unconsciously, with that one inadvertent word, M. Linders had raised the first slight barrier between himself and his child, had given the first shock to that confidence which he had fondly hoped was ever to exist undisturbed between them. In the most sacred hour her short life had yet ...
— My Little Lady • Eleanor Frances Poynter
... with the gilt buttons. It was this glance that was the beginning; it was with this quick survey, omitting nothing, that Olive took possession of her. "You are very remarkable; I wonder if you know how remarkable!" she went on, murmuring the words as if she were losing herself, becoming inadvertent in admiration. ...
— The Bostonians, Vol. I (of II) • Henry James
... than swung open, and admitted in the dark interior a regal apparition in black silk and fur which bore rapidly down upon him. The cigarette leaped from the fingers of the urban young man and he gave breath to an inadvertent "Damn!"—but it was upon Merlin that the entrance seemed to have the most remarkable and incongruous effect—so strong an effect that the greatest treasure of his shop slipped from his hand and joined the cigarette on the floor. ...
— Tales of the Jazz Age • F. Scott Fitzgerald
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