fortuitous

Example Sentences

• "[I]f vve be not perverſe and vvillful, vve are to inferre that it [the tilt of the Earth's axis] vvas eſtabliſhed by a Principle that has in it Knovvledge and Counſell, not from a blind fortuitous jumbling of the parts of the Matter one againſt another, eſpecially having found before in ourſelves a knovving Spiritual Subſtance that is alſo able to move and alter the Matter."
• "[T]his concourſe of Atoms they being left vvithout a guide, it is a miracle above all apprehenſion, that they ſhould produce no inept Species of things, ſuch as ſhould of their ovvn nature have but three Leggs, and one Eye, […] But to elude the force of this Argument againſt the fortuitous concourſe of Atoms they'll excogitate this mad evaſion; That Nature did indeed at firſt bring forth ſuch ill-favoured and ill-appointed Monſters, as vvell as thoſe that are of a more exquiſite frame; but thoſe that vvere more perfect fell upon thoſe other and kill'd them, and devoured them, […]"
• "Nothing less than Infinite Wisdom can have an absolute command over fortune; the highest degree of it which man can possess, is by no means equal to fortuitous events, and to such contingencies as may arise in the prosecution of our affairs."
• "[D]uring the ten days of their stay at Hartfield it was not to be expected—she did not herself expect—that any thing beyond occasional, fortuitous assistance could be afforded by her to the lovers."
• "[T]his interview was marked with circumstances in some degree more formally complaisant than those which attended your meeting with him in our worthy publisher's; for yours had the appearance of a fortuitous recontre, whereas mine was preceded by the communication of a large roll of papers, containing a new history, called Peveril of the Peak."
• "It is not for one, situated, through his original errors and a fortuitous combination of unpropitious events, as is the foundered Bark (if he may be allowed to assume so maritime a denomination), who now takes up the pen to address you—it is not, I repeat, for one so circumstanced, to adopt the language of compliment, or of congratulation. That he leaves to abler and to purer hands."