All 6 Uses of
incidental
in
David Copperfield
- As I did not even know where Miss Betsey lived, I wrote a long letter to Peggotty, and asked her, incidentally, if she remembered; pretending that I had heard of such a lady living at a certain place I named at random, and had a curiosity to know if it were the same.†
Chpt 10-12
- 'My dear Copperfield,' said Mr. Micawber, 'yourself and Mr. Traddles find us on the brink of migration, and will excuse any little discomforts incidental to that position.'†
Chpt 34-36 *
- Coming before me, on this particular evening that I mention, mingled with the childish recollections and later fancies, the ghosts of half-formed hopes, the broken shadows of disappointments dimly seen and understood, the blending of experience and imagination, incidental to the occupation with which my thoughts had been busy, it was more than commonly suggestive.†
Chpt 46-48
- When I refer to them, incidentally, it is only as a part of my progress.†
Chpt 46-48
- No matter how incidentally or naturally I endeavoured to form my little wife's mind, I could not help seeing that she always had an instinctive perception of what I was about, and became a prey to the keenest apprehensions.†
Chpt 46-48
- In pursuance of my intention of referring to my own fictions only when their course should incidentally connect itself with the progress of my story, I do not enter on the aspirations, the delights, anxieties, and triumphs of my art.†
Chpt 61-62
Definition:
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(incidental as in: an incidental expense) something that comes with something else, but is less important than itsometimes in a specialized sense, including:
- incidental expenses or when in context, just incidentals -- minor expenses not budgeted or not specified
- incidental music -- music in a play, television program, radio program, video game or some other form not primarily musical. (The term is less frequently applied to film music, with such music being referred to instead as the film score or soundtrack.)