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Accidental

adjective

Happening by chance or unexpectedly or unintentionally. Synonym: inadvertent. "Accidental poisoning" , "An accidental shooting"

noun

A musical notation that makes a note sharp or flat or natural although that is not part of the key signature.

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"Accidental" Quotes from Famous Books

... way on indifferent subjects, never once alluding to Olive's departure. He did so now, however, but carelessly, as if with an accidental thought. ...

— Olive - A Novel • Dinah Maria Craik, (AKA Dinah Maria Mulock)

... same sort of thing; he found a disused target in a deserted yard and couldn't resist indulging in a little secret shooting, like secret drinking. You thought the shots all scattered and irregular, and so they were; but not accidental. No two distances were alike; but the different points were exactly where he wanted to put them. There's nothing needs such mathematical precision as a wild caricature. I've dabbled a little in ...

— The Man Who Knew Too Much • G.K. Chesterton

... depend on sex, though by the influence of sex it might be quickened and accentuated. It was something much more deep and wide, something which she did not and perhaps never would understand. The sex element was accidental, so much so that the passage of a few earthly years would rob it of its power to attract and make it as though it had never been, but the perfect friendship between their souls was permanent and without shadow of change. She knew, oh!, she knew, although no word ...

— Love Eternal • H. Rider Haggard

... was now pleading for the defendant, was trying to impress upon the jury that the murder had been merely accidental, inasmuch as the merchant had thrown the missile only in sport, just to scare away the fellow who was insulting him in his own house; but, strange to say, no mention was made at all of the note, though everybody knew perfectly well that the merchant had given it, and ...

— Monsieur Violet • Frederick Marryat

... To an accidental association may be ascribed some of the noblest efforts of human genius. The Historian of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire first conceived his design among the ruins of the Capitol; and to the tones of a Welsh harp are we indebted for the ...

— Poems • Samuel Rogers

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