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  • A man inside, trying to avoid falling, inadvertently grabbed the life raft—release handle.†   (source)
  • For more than two years the canal inadvertently diverted virtually all of the river's prodigious flow into the Salton sink.†   (source)
  • They picked foods for the pictures on the containers, inadvertently proving that American marketing is sometimes better than American cooking.†   (source)
  • Although, when a few moments after the lights went out someone stumbled in the hallway and our startled typist looked up, his fingers inadvertently shifted one column of keys to the right, such that the second half of his report was either unintelligible, or in code, depending upon your point of view.†   (source)
  • Every few seconds some hapless avatar or ship would inadvertently fly or careen into the shield and get vaporized, like a fly hitting a bug zapper.†   (source)
  • Well, there could be files that have inadvertently been missed or documents that dropped out.†   (source)
  • In your admirable haste to ensure that the law is upheld, you appear, inadvertently I am sure, to have overlooked a few laws yourself.†   (source)
  • You tell me, you see, sort of inadvertently.†   (source)
  • Inadvertently, Tim took a step back-the tail was gone!†   (source)
  • The priest whom the Illuminati had inadvertently brought to power by killing the Pope had emerged as a worthy adversary.†   (source)
  • Theoretically, it was possible for inexperienced Continuum travelers to discover the rebels' emergency portal; they could have been inadvertently reflected out of it.†   (source)
  • I merely meant that sometimes, particularly if one has been through distressing events in one's young life, one might be inclined to jump to conclusions—to inadvertently blow things out of proportion.†   (source)
  • I also felt horribly that I had inadvertently put my girls in the public eye again.†   (source)
  • The blockage caused moisture to leak into the plant's air system, inadvertently tripping two valves and shutting down the flow of cold water into the plant's steam generator.†   (source)
  • In it she explained that she'd inadvertently "repeated the lore about the origin of those cells."†   (source)
  • Inadvertently.†   (source)
  • A migrant, moving from car to car, can inadvertently step on the pressurized brake line that runs the length of the train.†   (source)
  • She was brushing herself off and getting ready to head back into the barn when she inadvertently glanced my way.†   (source)
  • Please forgive me if I inadvertently display my ignorance by my clumsy use of titles or terms.†   (source)
  • Cope; I shivered again at how close I'd come to being inadvertently responsible for her death.†   (source)
  • One day in spring practice he made this point, inadvertently.†   (source)
  • Just that I really felt bad that I might have inadvertently caused Alistair any distress.†   (source)
  • Early thrashers used to inadvertently skate into walls of glass from time to time, which was a problem.†   (source)
  • They are directly exposed to a wide variety of pathogens in the meat, become infected, and inadvertently spread disease.†   (source)
  • I was more jittery than when I'd inadvertently drunk a whole pot of Dad's tar-strong coffee while studying for finals last winter.†   (source)
  • The one time I inadvertently hit a home run during a game at school — I didn'tmean to do it — I ended up crying while running around the bases because I didn't know how else to react to the cheers, the excitement, directed at something I did.†   (source)
  • When the siren sounds two melancholy wails, street captains will make house-to-house searches for those who may have been inadvertently left behind.†   (source)
  • Rahel ignored her and blew an inadvertent spit bubble.†   (source)
  • Simon lets her go on in this vein for a time; then he comforts her, and assures her in the vaguest of terms that all will be well, and says he doesn't think any the less of her for what she has so inadvertently done.†   (source)
  • And when his father had been drinking, family devotions devolved into a terrifying minefield, where any wrong answer or inadvertent glance could trigger an explosion.†   (source)
  • Which, as I see it, was an inadvertent kindness.†   (source)
  • Her stomach squirmed as she thought about another distinction she'd inadvertently earned—the first girl to kiss a boy on Earth since the Cataclysm.†   (source)
  • Reminded by the familiar instrument, he had thought of Gurney whose face he had seen in a smuggler band, but who had not seen him, could not see him or know of him lest that inadvertently lead the Harkonnens to the son of the Duke they had killed.†   (source)
  • The day before I'd been informed that the final examination papers in a psychology class, Perceptions 301, "were inadvertently burned."†   (source)
  • In the process of examining the train and subdividing it into parts we've inadvertently stopped it, so that it really isn't a train we are examining.†   (source)
  • Shortly after Colleen turned two, I inadvertently set off a fateful series of events that would lead us to leave Florida.†   (source)
  • When my fingers brushed one of my hair ornaments inadvertently, I came up with an idea.†   (source)
  • He looked at her with genuine interest, as if she were something under a microscope, as though she were some medical marvel that had inadvertently materialized in his kitchen.†   (source)
  • THERE HAVE BEEN five great kisses since 1642 B.C., when Saul and Delilah Korn's inadvertent discovery swept across Western civilization.†   (source)
  • I inadvertently looked at the door.†   (source)
  • Faolin was gone, I did not know whether Saphira's egg was safe or if I had inadvertently returned her to Galbatorix, and Durza ….†   (source)
  • She was the pretty little toddler who had inadvertently destroyed one of Mahtob's birthday cakes.†   (source)
  • One day, Wilton Mkwayi inadvertently referred to "Suitcase" within Van Rensburg's hearing.†   (source)
  • She sincerely believed she had drifted into her affair with Steve Kemp almost inadvertently.†   (source)
  • So Luma tried to make sure she didn't inadvertently speak Arabic, even when it was easier, and she disciplined herself not to play favorites.†   (source)
  • He grinned at his inadvertent rhyme.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Sykes jumps a little, and turns her head quickly, inadvertently swinging the door open an extra couple of inches.†   (source)
  • Oscar Danilo Blandon, the so-called Johnny Appleseed of Crack, may have been the instigator of one ripple effect, in which by his actions a single person inadvertently causes an ocean of despair.†   (source)
  • I had inadvertently skipped customs.†   (source)
  • By convincing Bob that Percy was a friend, Nico had inadvertently saved their lives.†   (source)
  • As I alluded to before, I don't want you inadvertently to do something that'll get you in trouble later.†   (source)
  • Like an inadvertent omen, if an omen can be inadvertent.†   (source)
  • Joe Rosenthal landed on Guam on that day, and inadvertently created the myth that his now-famous photograph was "staged."†   (source)
  • Nala grumbled a very loud complaint (I was inadvertently squashing her to my bosom).†   (source)
  • Gardeners came by arrangement, and removed in wheel-barrows those that had inadvertently remained behind.†   (source)
  • Jack looked down and realized he'd inadvertently stepped over part of the threshold, unlocking the scenario from its frozen state.†   (source)
  • He smiled a quick, inadvertent greeting.†   (source)
  • He was much better acquainted with the fate of a tribe of first cousins who had wandered away north in a diversionary movement and pushed inadvertently into Canada.†   (source)
  • I looked down and opened my hand to reveal the object I had inadvertently grabbed from under the stone.†   (source)
  • The few encounters he's had were characterized by caution, by him feeling like he was walking on eggshells, not wanting to offend, inadvertently, with an inappropriate tone or casual remark.†   (source)
  • She was so incensed that she inadvertently lit a fire in her hand—which, luckily, she'd since removed from my knee.†   (source)
  • The drunken undercover agent had inadvertently given it away when he said, Just remember that prostitution is a criminal offense.†   (source)
  • Still, Matron was sure of one thing: the image she witnessed when she'd inadvertently looked up a short while before, that was one she'd never ever forget.†   (source)
  • What if I inadvertently told them how to do it?†   (source)
  • She chattered and wiggled with her usual nervous anticipation until she inadvertently grew still.†   (source)
  • "You're perfectly right," Teleborian said, inadvertently coming to her rescue.†   (source)
  • This was Greater Los Angeles in an age of change, crackling with the energy of doom, yearning for the Apocalypse, where an unintended slight or an inadvertent trespass on someone else's turf might result in a thermonuclear response.†   (source)
  • When you're crammed into a helicopter with little room to move, the last thing you need is for your weapon's safety to get kicked off inadvertently.†   (source)
  • Last known specimen was captured on the Iberian Peninsula by the famed warrior Roland who coveted its magic but inadvertently slew the animal in his impatience for its quills.†   (source)
  • Prime Minister Macmillan is not guilty of a single indiscretion, but he is the man ultimately responsible for any secrets Profumo might inadvertently have leaked to his mistress.†   (source)
  • Through a powerful telescope chained to a plate in the ceiling so it would not be inadvertently dropped from the window, he showed Alessandro the latest Austrian dispositions, upon which he had become expert.†   (source)
  • "When I discover which of you idiots inadvertently summoned me, I shall turn you into a coney and put you in a pit of wolves!" the image screamed wildly.†   (source)
  • When Bouchard opened the outer door, he inadvertently opened a door in Gabriel's memory, too.†   (source)
  • Inadvertently she gave a small wail.†   (source)
  • Yes, the killer whale was undoubtedly the dolphin's greatest enemy, and well over a generation ago experiments had been conducted at the Naval Undersea Center in San Diego, using the recorded sounds of the killer whale to frighten dolphins, for purposes of developing a device to scare them out of tuna nets, where they were often inadvertently slaughtered.†   (source)
  • Inadvertently I glanced at the girl on the diving board.†   (source)
  • At one moment, however, he inadvertently yawned, and the doctor quickly took advantage of this to insert a spoon into his son's mouth and hold down his tongue for long enough to get a look at his raspberry-colored larynx and swollen tonsils covered with alarming white spots.†   (source)
  • The blades of fan shadows came down over their two heads, as he saw inadvertently in the mirror, with himself smiling at her now like a villain.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER NINETEEN — The Inadvertent "I"   (source)
    inadvertent = done accidentally or without intention
  • Anyone can inadvertently hit an "I".   (source)
    inadvertently = accidentally
  • Was she the inadvertent victim of some Dark rite?†   (source)
  • And the harms caused by food poisoning are usually inadvertent and unanticipated.†   (source)
  • Okonkwo had committed the female, because it had been inadvertent.†   (source)
  • It inadvertently produced a new church leader in the camerlegno.†   (source)
  • And you can't make them taller:' Accorsi inadvertently made an interesting point.†   (source)
  • Then a kind guard inadvertently helped them.†   (source)
  • As they pounded on me, my foot inadvertently came up and brushed one of them in the chest.†   (source)
  • In the end, though, it was Colton who inadvertently came up with the title.†   (source)
  • He knew that Marilyn Bonner still lived in town, but he didn't want to see her, even inadvertently.†   (source)
  • Had the lack of detail been inadvertent or something she'd done on purpose?†   (source)
  • "Max!" he cried, rising at once and inadvertently shooting the barrette off his head.†   (source)
  • Rachelle, Thomas's dream-wife, inadvertently led him to Monique the first time.†   (source)
  • And, in that often exhausting, day-today effort, she'd inadvertently invested her heart.†   (source)
  • Lin inadvertently solved the problem for him.†   (source)
  • ROS inadvertently shows that both are empty.†   (source)
  • Suddenly I realized that I must have inadvertently summoned up memories of her little boy.†   (source)
  • You have — inadvertently, I am sure — been using your powers in a way that is neither taught nor tolerated at our school.†   (source)
  • In addition, he'd inadvertently rubbed some ice crystals into his eyes, lacerating both corneas "At that point," Beck revealed, "one eye was completely blurred over, I could barely see out of the other, and I'd lost all depth perception.†   (source)
  • When she had gotten up, she had inadvertently pushed her pillows—she sleeps with three of themover to my side of the bed, beneath the covers, forming a large lump where I usually slept.†   (source)
  • Most of Parzival-TV's regular viewers were gunters who monitored my vidfeed with the hope that I'd inadvertently reveal some key piece of information about the Jade Key or the egg itself.†   (source)
  • In doing so, the larger goal is to create a lasting bond in our schools that transcends grade level, socioeconomic and sociocultural differences, and to deal with possible learning disabilities that inadvertently keep students distant, rather than close, separate, rather than bonded.†   (source)
  • He could not stop himself dwelling upon Dumbledore's inexcusable trust in Snape … but as Hermione had just inadvertently reminded him, he, Harry, had been taken in just the same … in spite of the increasing nastiness of those scribbled spells, he had refused to believe ill of the boy who had been so clever, who had helped him so much … Helped him … it was an almost unendurable thought, now … 'I still don't get why he didn't turn you in for using that book,' said Ron.†   (source)
  • Dad would've joked that he and Mom had tortured me with their stories one too many times and had inadvertently brainwashed me.†   (source)
  • The moment she had insulted James Potter, his whole body had relaxed, and as they walked away there was a new spring in Snape's step… And the scene dissolved… Harry watched again as Snape left the Great Hall after sitting his O.W.L. in Defense Against the Dark Arts, watched as he wandered away from the castle and strayed inadvertently close to the place beneath the beech tree where James, Sirius, Lupin, and Pettigrew sat together.†   (source)
  • She goes around the corner and stands in the middle of the toy area, inadvertently getting the hem of her robe caught up in a Ninja Raft Warriors battle module, and knocks on the door to the potty.†   (source)
  • In what came to be, perhaps inadvertently, a kind of Ole Miss pincer movement, Leigh Anne had brought in Sue Mitchell to tutor Michael every night.†   (source)
  • According to the Labrador Retriever Club, a national hobbyist group formed in 1931 and dedicated to preserving the integrity of the breed, the name Labrador retriever came about quite inadvertently sometime in the 1830s when the apparently geographically challenged third earl of Malmesbury wrote to the sixth duke of Buccleuch to gush about his fine line of sporting retrievers.†   (source)
  • During the fight, the dragons inadvertently lit the peat with the flames from their mouths and the fire had burrowed underground, where it remained smoldering ever since.†   (source)
  • Her hands inadvertently slid from his hips to his stomach, and she wondered if he noticed the way their bodies were pressed together.†   (source)
  • Max saw that each was purposefully left incomplete, lest it inadvertently trigger some sort of unintended consequence.†   (source)
  • Previous to Stone's paper, most discussion of contamination dealt with the hazards to other planets of satellites and probes inadvertently carrying earth organisms.†   (source)
  • But then they realized that they had stumbled inadvertently into a solution to the limitations of needle exchange programs.†   (source)
  • If you inadvertently take out the antivirus, ten days from now this world will have a population of two.†   (source)
  • Another time, he saw a Kull behead a soldier with an inadvertent swipe of a shield while turning about.†   (source)
  • Then there is behavioral residue, which is defined as the inadvertent clues we leave behind: dirty laundry on the floor, for instance, or an alphabetized CD collection.†   (source)
  • Another favorite described how he inadvertently bedded down beside five hibernating bears in a Canadian cave.†   (source)
  • In addition to his acting, he did the Lincolns an inadvertent favor by saving the life of their eldest son.†   (source)
  • He frequently forgot the rules, was hopeless at calculating probabilities, and inadvertently tittered on several occasions when dealt an attractive hand.†   (source)
  • Distracted by her anxiety over losses at Ashton's, she inadvertently drove past the store, and had to make a U-turn in the parking lot of a dreary old apartment complex called the Lakes.†   (source)
  • Gebrew, instrument of God, had inadvertently stepped on the trailing umbilical cord, causing the placenta to break free.†   (source)
  • The world was facing a crisis inadvertently caused by Tom, and he was off learning the fine points of romancing Rachelle.†   (source)
  • It was important for him to take notes in the event another lawyer, hours from now, inadvertently stepped into the same territory.†   (source)
  • Fourth, reporters safe on ships miles from Suribachi and editors half a world away not only failed to report the full range of facts, they inadvertently created a confusing myth about the flagraisings that continues to this day.†   (source)
  • Glaedr hinted that my heart of hearts was more important than I had originally believed, and he warned me to protect it, lest I inadvertently deliver myself into the hands of our enemies.†   (source)
  • You gave us the Raison Strain, and then you inadvertently gave us the antivirus, both sides of this most useful weapon.†   (source)
  • We therefore urge the establishment of a facility designed to deal with an extraterrestrial life form, should one inadvertently be introduced to the earth.†   (source)
  • And the barbarians, other than Wulfgar and Revjak, openly avoided him, mumbling warding prayers to their gods whenever they inadvertently crossed his path.†   (source)
  • Israel's ambassador to Washington inadvertently muddied the waters when he refused to state categorically and without equivocation that Gabriel Allon was indeed no longer among the living.†   (source)
  • Safia stared dully at her mobile phone, drugged by the opiate of fear, and then rose unsteadily to her feet—so unsteadily, in fact, that Natalie was afraid she might inadvertently press her detonator trying to maintain her balance.†   (source)
  • In announcing publicly that it was Woolf or Pollard, Howard had inadvertently set the two against each other.†   (source)
  • It was a regular task of aid agency caseworkers and volunteers to extract refugees from agreements and arrangements they'd inadvertently signed up for, and there was no way of knowing how many refugees simply paid the bills out of fear.†   (source)
  • What I then said, I realize now, inadvertently brought us to focus upon Nathan much more quickly than we might have done had the talk continued in respect to my talent and my sterling personal virtues.†   (source)
  • Seconds later, when he brushed past her in the little anteroom, Durrfeld clearly did not recognize Sophie—this pallid Polish woman in her stained prisoner's smock—but as he inadvertently touched her he did say "Bitter with instinctive politeness and in the same polished gentleman's tones she recalled from Cracow.†   (source)
  • Nathan was marvelous, bewitching, so perfectly "normal" and so delightful to be with that were it not for Sophie's wretched little references (sometimes made inadvertently during our Prospect Park picnics) to terrible moments during their past year together, I would utterly have erased from memory that cataclysmic scene when I had first glimpsed them battling, along with other hints I had had of another, blacker side of his being.†   (source)
  • His hands automatically straightened an object or two that I had inadvertently pushed awry.†   (source)
  • As I understand it, you are not really sorry for marrying Frank and bullying him and inadvertently causing his death.†   (source)
  • For it's common knowledge that you can't trust your neighbor; he may pass the disease to you without your knowing it, and take advantage of a moment of inadvertence on your part to infect you.†   (source)
  • I promised; after all, I felt that I owed her something for inadvertently making her ridiculous before the members of her church.†   (source)
  • ] In the heat of composition I find that I have inadvertently allowed myself to assume the form of a large centipede.†   (source)
  • The writer either has a meaning and cannot express it, or he inadvertently says something else, or he is almost indifferent as to whether his words mean anything or not.†   (source)
  • I trust, sir, that I have not inadvertently ——†   (source)
  • And you, if I may say so, took away my umbrella, inadvertently of course.†   (source)
  • 'I am afraid I have inadvertently touched upon a tender theme.'†   (source)
  • V An Old Move Inadvertently Repeated Charley's attentions to his former mistress were unbounded.†   (source)
  • It must have been wholly inadvertent on my part.†   (source)
  • 'Would not inadvertently lighted upon, or accidentally referred to, be better?'†   (source)
  • "Excuse me," said Margaret's young man, who had for some time been preparing a sentence, "but that lady has, quite inadvertently, taken my umbrella."†   (source)
  • Once she got blood on her hand from one of his boots, which she had inadvertently touched, and she was so sick and disgusted over it that she spoke sharply.†   (source)
  • Twenty-four hours after the simple little ceremony at old St. Roch, she had told him the story of how, inadvertently, she had spoken of certain matters connected with the Marquis de St. Cyr before some men—her friends—who had used this information against the unfortunate Marquis, and sent him and his family to the guillotine.†   (source)
  • Just one word from this Lawson, inadvertently uttered in a moment of passion, might be the word Duane needed for his clue.†   (source)
  • He might just go away alone, as he had once said in connection with inadvertently losing his job because of her.†   (source)
  • She had inadvertently heard Nels's conversation with Stewart; she had listened, hoping to hear some good news or to hear the worst; she had learned both, and, moreover, enlightenment on one point of Stewart's complex motives.†   (source)
  • He was led to this remark by a communication inadvertently made to him by Lizabetha Prokofievna, that Adelaida's marriage must be postponed a little longer, in order that the two weddings might come off together.†   (source)
  • Whatever her sins, they were not sins of intention, but of inadvertence, and why should she have been punished so persistently?†   (source)
  • Having inadvertently witnessed Phillotson's tentative courtship of Sue in the lane there had grown up in the younger man's mind a curious dislike to think of the elder, to meet him, to communicate in any way with him; and since Phillotson's success in obtaining at least her promise had become known to Jude, he had frankly recognized that he did not wish to see or hear of his senior any more, learn anything of his pursuits, or even imagine again what excellencies might appertain to his…†   (source)
  • Among others old Fletcher remembers seeing him, and indeed the old gentleman was so struck by his peculiar agitation that he inadvertently allowed a quantity of whitewash to run down the brush into the sleeve of his coat while regarding him.†   (source)
  • Marguerite, horrified at the terrible consequences of her own thoughtlessness, was powerless to save the Marquis: his own coterie, the leaders of the revolutionary movement, all proclaimed her as a heroine: and when she married Sir Percy Blakeney, she did not perhaps altogether realise how severely he would look upon the sin, which she had so inadvertently committed, and which still lay heavily upon her soul.†   (source)
  • The danger that in some inadvertent way he had not quite covered all the tracks that might lead to him.†   (source)
  • While I was gone, however, she wanted me on important business, and thought I had come here, owing to the card, and so came after me, and I beg to tender my apologies, and hers as well, for any inconvenience we may have inadvertently caused you.†   (source)
  • In draughts, on the contrary, where the moves are unique and have but little variation, the probabilities of inadvertence are diminished, and the mere attention being left comparatively unemployed, what advantages are obtained by either party are obtained by superior acumen.†   (source)
  • We are not boy and girl, to be captiously irritable, misled by every moment's inadvertence, and wantonly playing with our own happiness."†   (source)
  • However, every added repulse of this sort which I received only tended to lessen the probability of my repeating the inadvertence.†   (source)
  • While carrying Marius' "duds" precipitately to his chamber, at his grandfather's command, Nicolette had, inadvertently, let fall, probably, on the attic staircase, which was dark, that medallion of black shagreen which contained the paper penned by the colonel.†   (source)
  • Pierre was still afraid that this officer might inadvertently say something disconcerting to himself.†   (source)
  • She was extremely gracious to Peggotty, except when I inadvertently called her by that name; and, strange as I knew she felt in London, appeared quite at home.†   (source)
  • Mabel blushed at having inadvertently made an allusion that went beyond her father's reading, to say nothing of her uncle's dogmatism, and, perhaps, a little at the Pathfinder's simple, ingenuous earnestness; but she did not forbear the less to smile.†   (source)
  • A far nobler name would long since have fallen to his share, had not a French-man of rank inadvertently given him this sobriquet, which he religiously preserved as coming from his Great Father who lived beyond the Wide Salt Lake.†   (source)
  • Mr Pluck, after feigning to be in a condition of great embarrassment for some minutes, resumed the conversation by entreating Mrs Nickleby to take no heed of what he had inadvertently said—to consider him imprudent, rash, injudicious.†   (source)
  • Occasionally, when there was some more than usually interesting inquest upon a parish child who had been overlooked in turning up a bedstead, or inadvertently scalded to death when there happened to be a washing—though the latter accident was very scarce, anything approaching to a washing being of rare occurrence in the farm—the jury would take it into their heads to ask troublesome questions, or the parishioners would rebelliously affix their signatures to a remonstrance.†   (source)
  • If at breakfast or dinner Elizabeth-Jane's mother inadvertently alluded to her favourite's movements, the girl would implore her by a look to be silent; and her husband would say, "What—are you, too, my enemy?"†   (source)
  • But as you, though inadvertently and without intending so unreasonable a question, asked me 'what for?' let me reply to you.†   (source)
  • Brave, because a skeary comrade in the woods," suffering his eyes inadvertently to rest a moment on the person of the abstracted naturalist, "is apt to make a short path long; and honest, inasmuch as craftiness is rather an instinct of the brutes, than a gift becoming the reason of a human man."†   (source)
  • For the quick and active Uncas soon found the impression of a foot on a bunch of moss, where it would seem an Indian had inadvertently trodden.†   (source)
  • His old dog, Pilot, lay on one side, removed out of the way, and coiled up as if afraid of being inadvertently trodden upon.†   (source)
  • On his release, he embraced me with the utmost fervour; and made an entry of the transaction in his pocket-book — being very particular, I recollect, about a halfpenny I inadvertently omitted from my statement of the total.†   (source)
  • Now and then, in the eagerness of dispatching pressing business, I would inadvertently summon Bartleby, in a short, rapid tone, to put his finger, say, on the incipient tie of a bit of red tape with which I was about compressing some papers.†   (source)
  • 'Let me see him do it again,' said he who had been kicked into the corner, rising as he spoke, apparently more from the fear of John Browdie's inadvertently treading upon him, than from any desire to place himself on equal terms with his late adversary.†   (source)
  • That party certainly did from that time apply himself to cutting in against me in a way that I will call sharp practice, and did make it, at every turn and point, extremely difficult for me to be sure that I hadn't inadvertently led up to something contrary to Miss Summerson's wishes.†   (source)
  • For though hers had been rather the laxity of inadvertence than of intention, that episode, if known, was not the less likely to operate fatally between herself and her husband.†   (source)
  • A casual or inadvertent word; the accidental dropping or turning of a card, with the accompanying anxiety or carelessness in regard to its concealment; the counting of the tricks, with the order of their arrangement; embarrassment, hesitation, eagerness or trepidation--all afford, to his apparently intuitive perception, indications of the true state of affairs.†   (source)
  • Venn appeared confused; and Thomasin, seeing how inadvertently she had spoken to a man who might possibly have tender feelings for her still, blushed a little.†   (source)
  • And is no allowance to be made for inadvertence, or for spirits depressed by recent disappointment?†   (source)
  • The prisoners I had inadvertently released had gone to the left.†   (source)
  • Rather touched by this speech, I assured him that I had so far found his behavior both gallant and gentlemanly, and apologized for any doubt I might inadvertently have cast on his motives.†   (source)
  • My inadvertent release of the other prisoners might confuse the issue for a time, but eventually a tally would be made, and a search begun.†   (source)
  • The urge to follow him with my eyes, to arrange for small "inadvertent" meetings, to watch him unawares as he went about his work, an exquisite sensitivity to the small details of his body—the shoulder-blades beneath the cloth of his shirt, the lumpy bones of his wrists, the soft place underneath his jaw, where the first prickles of his beard begin to show.†   (source)
  • I inadvertently looked at Rachel's boiledlooking bald head and got the hot/prickly skin sensation for maybe the fourteenth time since arriving.†   (source)
  • Once by inadvertence twice by design he challenges his destiny.†   (source)
  • Inadvertently her backview revealed the fact that she is not wearing those rather intimate garments of which you are a particular devotee.†   (source)
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