coincidence

"When I was a young man, I always meant to write a 'History of Coincidence.'"

Then the Material Interest found a tongue, and by a strange coincidence it was its own tongue.

The word wind, in this passage, suggested to the minds of some, who afterwards gave an account of this meeting, a coincidence which might, in the spirit of the times, be construed into a special appointment of Providence.

By a fortunate coincidence, Lady Janet's ball takes place in a fortnight.

All this is only the coincidence of conditions in which all vital organic and elemental events occur.

"Ridiculous, doubtless, but a coincidence," Major Thomson replied, turning over the next page of his book.

By a strange coincidence, he happened to be at Aldborough, inquiring after Mr.

In that word I recognized what to me seemed the most remarkable discovery I had made upon Caprona, for unless it were mere coincidence, I had come upon a word that had been handed down from the beginning of spoken language upon earth, been handed down for millions of years, perhaps, with little change.

Fentolin remarked quietly, "but there is a certain amount of coincidence about your question.

If I were to plead anything in mitigation of the preposterous fancy that a bad design will sometimes claim to be a good and an expressly religious design, it would be the curious coincidence that it has been brought to its climax in these pages, in the days of the public examination of late Directors of a Royal British Bank.

He had known the last witness seven or eight years; that was merely a coincidence. He didn't call it a particularly curious coincidence; most coincidences were curious.

'That Mr Frank and Mr Nickleby should have met last night,' said Tim Linkinwater, getting slowly off his stool, and looking round the counting-house with his back planted against the desk, as was his custom when he had anything very particular to say: 'that those two young men should have met last night in that manner is, I say, a coincidence, a remarkable coincidence.