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  • The symbology and text don't seem to coincide.†   (source)
  • Walter's release coincided with increased media interest in the death penalty, triggered by the increasing pace of executions.†   (source)
  • I discovered that my activities coincided with the daily rituals of certain other people.†   (source)
  • Worse still, it coincided with an even deeper dip in his Keeping skills, which made him still more aggressive, so that during the final Quidditch practice before Saturdays match, he failed to save every single goal the Chasers aimed at him, but bellowed at everybody so much that he reduced Demelza Robins to tears.†   (source)
  • It coincided with a desire to leave Africa; the salary was excellent; Muldoon had taken it on for a year.†   (source)
  • The death of my mother coincided with the departure of the Ericson family, and our purchase of that farm.†   (source)
  • Mothers lost their children, whose confused, sad cries coincided with the gunshots.†   (source)
  • But that Christmas of '53, when Owen and I walked under the bridge, was the first time our being there coincided with the passing of The Flying Yankee—the express train that raced between Portland and Boston, in just two hours.†   (source)
  • Phineas bought things only on impulse and only when he had the money, and since the two states rarely coincided his purchases were few and strange.†   (source)
  • A crisis in a heroine's life could be made to coincide with hailstones, gales and thunder, whereas nuptials were generally blessed with good light and soft breezes.†   (source)
  • What we need is a pre-prank that coincides with an attack on Kevin and his minions," she said.†   (source)
  • "I am honored," he began, "that my coronation coincides with our most revered holiday.†   (source)
  • McKusick's research on the Lacks family coincided with the beginning of a new era of genetic research, in which the concept of risk to patients would change completely.†   (source)
  • If Ender isn't the one, if his peak of military brilliance does not coincide with the arrival of our fleets at the bugger homeworlds, then it doesn't really matter what our training method is or isn't.†   (source)
  • The editor of the Sunday Times, Ken Owen, was enroute to Base Camp with his wife at the time, midway through a trekking vacation that had been arranged to coincide with the South African Everest expedition, and was being led by Woodall's girlfriend, a young Frenchwoman named Alexandrine Gaudin.†   (source)
  • A wise choice indeed, because it coincided with the instant Mulch decided to launch his earthen offensive.†   (source)
  • There we'll keep our hands busy in a new, independent nation, whose hopes coincide with our own.†   (source)
  • Perhaps they simply move from hemisphere to hemisphere looking for the warmest skies, and the birthing season coincides with their arrival in southern latitudes.†   (source)
  • This coincided with the credit flimsy code.†   (source)
  • Overall, though, there was little that coincided with Jacob's stories or my own observations.†   (source)
  • Part of the immense satisfaction of the Christian story is that the two great celebrations, Christmas and Easter, coincide with dates of great seasonal anxiety.†   (source)
  • And with his stopwatch in his hand corrected to the astronomical clock in the shop, Father conceded that the first stroke of the English clock time after time coincided with the hour.†   (source)
  • That it happened in a particular time and place, coinciding with the disappearance of the Sumerian language.†   (source)
  • The late-1960s expansion of the McDonald's restaurant chain coincided with declining fortunes at the Walt Disney Company.†   (source)
  • It was sheer luck that their stay at the mall coincided with a spell of mild weather.†   (source)
  • Some of them coincide.†   (source)
  • The work took almost three years, and it coincided with a brief civic revival owing to the boom in river navigation and trade, the same factors that had maintained the city's greatness during colonial times and for more than two centuries had made her the gateway to America.†   (source)
  • This is a road Phaedrus used all the time, and flashes of his memory coincide everywhere.†   (source)
  • Ishmael heard the whine of the landing craft plummeting over the sheaves of the boat blocks; then men were going overboard into them, snaking their way down the cargo nets with packs on their backs and their helmets strapped on and timing their lunges to coincide with the bobbing of the boats below.†   (source)
  • I cursed the luck that had timed my arrival in the hotel cafeteria to coincide with Hilda's.†   (source)
  • Recorded history's version does not coincide with the truth, but these are the facts, because they were passed down by word of mouth through the years, and every Maycombian knows them.†   (source)
  • He's got a legion of demons working on his cage, and he's timing his release to coincide with your waking Ra.†   (source)
  • So when he received Dick's invitation, and realized that the date Dick proposed for his coming to Kansas more or less coincided with the time of Willie-Jay's release, he knew what he must do.†   (source)
  • We frequently entertained them and, as members of the Islamic Society of South Texas, organized parties and celebrations to coincide with Iranian and Islamic holidays.†   (source)
  • I, myself, had mixed emotions, for the concerns of a husband and a leader do not always coincide.†   (source)
  • He wished he could repudiate Murtagh's claim, but everything Murtagh had said about his mother-their mother-coincided with the few things Eragon knew about her: Selena left Carvahall twenty-some years ago, returned once to give birth to Eragon, and was never seen again.†   (source)
  • The four years recorded in the gang's notebooks coincided with the peak years of the crack boom, and business was excellent.†   (source)
  • In short, Mr. Ambassador, your explanation of last Friday does not coincide with the facts we have physically established.†   (source)
  • The article led to a global advocacy movement on behalf of maternal health, and it coincided with Allan's appointment as dean of Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health.†   (source)
  • Story coincides with what we know.†   (source)
  • The attention paid to the team as a result of their victory coincided with a backlash against immigrants in Arizona.†   (source)
  • Coincide is two four-letter words!†   (source)
  • It would be forty-four years before physicist Donald Olson would discover that D-Day at Tarawa occurred during one of only two days in 1943 when the moon's apogee coincided with a neap tide, resulting in a tidal range of only a few inches rather than several feet.†   (source)
  • You stayed two nights, coinciding with the Voskuhl murders.†   (source)
  • MR. LOOMIS, headmaster of Loomis Town & Country, saw to it that our long holidays coincided with the long rains.†   (source)
  • Their mornings rarely coincided with Lieutenant Awn's, so it was almost always Lieutenant Awn's voice alone in prayer, and the others, when they spoke so far away, in chorus, without her.†   (source)
  • He planned the death of my woman and me but not to coincide with yours, not in a way that would detract from the high drama of his immediate victory over you.†   (source)
  • The sun beats hot as we enter the part of their seasons that coincides with spring and summer, despite it being fall and early winter at home.†   (source)
  • The problem was that her notion of morality did not always coincide with that of the justice system.†   (source)
  • A result of accommodation and compromise cannot be supposed perfectly to coincide with any one's ideas of perfection.†   (source)
  • Someone was speaking softly just outside the door… Shadrack's earlier violence had coincided with a memorandum from the hospital executive staff in reference to the distribution of patients in high-risk areas.†   (source)
  • Her body had never been found, but some insisted that her passing coincided with the appearance of a large rock off Rowan's shore.†   (source)
  • It is only with their mind that I can deal and only for my own self interest, when they see that my interest coincides with theirs.†   (source)
  • That stage coincided with my parents' return-to-the-earth period.†   (source)
  • "When you and I speak, our speech rhythms will begin to coincide in a process called alignment," he said.†   (source)
  • And sometimes, when their breaks coincided, they'd get into his car and kiss until the windows steamed up.†   (source)
  • As this coincided with the RoyalThomian cricket match, we would collect them and throw them into the stands full of Royal students.†   (source)
  • This of course coincided with something of a life crisis, and also my first go-round with Liv, and I can tell you she was a monster then, not like now.†   (source)
  • If desire and opportunity coincide, neither moral nor religious values will control oppressive behavior.†   (source)
  • My developmental years also coincided with Pa's advancement in the oil fields as he progressed from roughneck, driller, and tool pusher to drilling superintendent for a series of small companies.†   (source)
  • But he could be enormously helpful if he concludes that our interests and his coincide.†   (source)
  • If she had not been so young, she would have realized that he was nothing, that the power she was feeling had always been inside her, growing, pushing to the surface, only its season coinciding with her new lover.†   (source)
  • On the fourth and fifth days, my eyesight sharp with hunger, I saw deer and used their trails when our ways coincided.†   (source)
  • In no city did these two briefings coincide.†   (source)
  • For there were still some who wondered if the policies of the Overlords would always coincide with the true welfare of humanity.†   (source)
  • Her climax and Metzger's, when it came, coincided with every light in the place, including the TV tube, suddenly going out, dead, black.†   (source)
  • Bronek's career at Auschwitz coincided with the history of the camp itself.†   (source)
  • Knowing that I was being used for purposes I did not yet understand, I decided to do what was probably expected of me, inasmuch as it coincided with what I would have done anyhow.†   (source)
  • The Friday happened to coincide with the last day of my endurance test in the river, the terrible week of cold along the coast.†   (source)
  • The date it was drawn coincides with a twoday visit which Mundt paid to Denmark in February.†   (source)
  • Our opinions may not exactly coincide but we can still discuss the matter peaceably.†   (source)
  • It exactly coincides with my own.†   (source)
  • Each second when the safe phase and the temporal phase coincided, the rack pulsed with a brilliant glow.†   (source)
  • At first he thought nothing of it; sometimes errands coincided with the end of the school day.   (source)
  • I am simply making it clear that if someone pushed Chase backward through the hole, the wounds to his head from the beam would have coincided with those actually found.   (source)
    coincided = corresponded (happen at the same time)
  • Whenever lack of food coincided with Ron's turn to wear the Horcrux, he became downright unpleasant.†   (source)
  • The industry's rapid growth coincided with the baby-boom expansion of that age group.†   (source)
  • Burton knew that death coincided with blood clotting.†   (source)
  • MEME'S LAST VACATIONS coincided with the period of mourning for Colonel Aureliano Buendia.†   (source)
  • If the trip coincided with his days of dipsomania the train could be delayed for hours.†   (source)
  • The cocaine was easy to come by, for the invention of crack coincided with a Colombian cocaine glut.†   (source)
  • It was selfish for me to talk about our births when they coincided with her death.†   (source)
  • It coincided with an even broader American crime wave that had been building for two decades.†   (source)
  • Could it be that his switch from the Church of England to the Methodists had coincided with the falling political star of the former in this country, and the rising one of the latter?†   (source)
  • The change coincided with the emergence of Black Pride, and it seemed that the Alphas had responded by expanding the range of skin tones deemed acceptable for debutantes.†   (source)
  • The fast food industry's expansion, however, coincided with a rising incidence of workplace violence in the United States.†   (source)
  • The birth of the fast food industry coincided with Eisenhower-era glorifications of technology, with optimistic slogans like "Better Living through Chemistry" and "Our Friend the Atom."†   (source)
  • Chance had it that it also coincided with carnival week, but no one could get the stubborn idea out of Colonel Aureliano Buendia's head that the coincidence had been foreseen by the government in order to heighten the cruelty of the mockery.†   (source)
  • Blomkvist's waning interest in the Wennerström affair coincided with Salander's disappearance from his life.†   (source)
  • Me and my polecat, my father said after one occasion when their drunks coincided, my father lapsing into his songsbaila or heartbreaking Rodgers and Hart or his own version of "My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean"— My whiskey comes over the ocean
    My brandy comes over the sea
    But my beer comes from F.X. Pereira
    So F.X. Pereira for me.
    F.X….†   (source)
  • Another wrote a long poem of an inferno, wherein each man suffered a torture which coincided in nature with those forces which had ruled his life.†   (source)
  • As Sophie herself implied, it would perhaps add gloss to her image if one could say that her realization of the hatred she bore toward her father not only coincided with but was motivated by her realization that he was an aspiring Jew-killer.†   (source)
  • Instead she stares at me for a long while, until our breathing coincides.†   (source)
  • The story is a long period of silence coinciding with Cain's inactivity.†   (source)
  • And the best security for fidelity is to make a man's interest coincide with his duty.†   (source)
  • Now he carefully timed his jamming pulses to coincide with those from the approaching torpedoes.†   (source)
  • This occurs within seconds, and coincides with total coagulation of the entire body vascular system.†   (source)
  • "To coincide with the opening of the trial," Sandberg said.†   (source)
  • In both cases, the public good coincides with the claims of individuals.†   (source)
  • December twenty-fifth, my friends, is the ancient pagan holiday of sol invictus-Unconquered Sun-coinciding with the winter solstice.†   (source)
  • He would devise an approach to the basket; dribbling at good speed, he would time his leap to coincide with a teammate's readiness to lift him higher—he would jump into a teammate's waiting arms, and the teammate would (occasionally) boost Owen above the basket's rim.†   (source)
  • If you know enough mechanics to think of them as a group, and your observations coincide with mine, I think you'll agree that mechanics tend to be rather modest and quiet.†   (source)
  • He was tired from carrying the girl, and he had hoped this would coincide with a boundary for the tyrannosaur paddock, but it was just another box in the middle of the woods.†   (source)
  • Clinton," he had said, when Henry ventured to inquire about a particularly ambiguous examination, "you may write until doomsday for all I care, but if your answers do not coincide with my answers they are wrong.†   (source)
  • Most Priory academics, myself included, anticipated the brotherhood's release would coincide precisely with the millennium.†   (source)
  • Normally, she would have been involved in these preparations, but they happened to coincide with her two-day writing bout and the beginnings of the front-of-house construction.†   (source)
  • "Originally," Langdon said, "Christianity honored the Jewish Sabbath of Saturday, but Constantine shifted it to coincide with the pagan's veneration day of the sun."†   (source)
  • Together with Eriksson and Malm, he had decided that Millennium would publish Svensson's book about sex trafficking, also to coincide with the trial.†   (source)
  • Barbara Wallraff says this may well matter to the future of English: "The more we need to use English to communicate with machines—or with people whose fluency is limited, or whose understanding of English does not coincide with ours—the more simplified the language will need to be."†   (source)
  • Among the Clutter kinfolk the Thanksgiving get-together was an annual, turnabout to-do, and this year Herb was the appointed host, so it had to be done, but coinciding, as it did, with the preparations for Beverly's wedding, Mrs. Clutter despaired of surviving either project.†   (source)
  • Burton later said, "I had been concerned that perhaps death and clotting did not coincide—or at least did not coincide exactly.†   (source)
  • It is fortunate when the government's interest in self-preservation coincides with a proper distribution of public burdens and tends to guard the least wealthy part of the community from oppression!†   (source)
  • I was the Secretary of the conference and undertook to be responsible for organizing the national stay-at-home which was subsequently called to coincide with the declaration of the Republic.†   (source)
  • You pick jour zero point anywhere you want, that way you can shuffle each person's time line sideways till they all coincide.†   (source)
  • Those dates did indeed coincide with Mundt's visits to Denmark and Finland: they were chosen by London for that very reason.†   (source)
  • Certainly the news reports and coverage, given largely by white interpreters outside the ghettos and widely and sincerely believed by horrified whites, had no credibility within the ghettos because they did not coincide with what black men were experiencing; and in the heat of emotions, few white men could penetrate the troubled areas, and the media had not yet hired many black reporters who could have given a more balanced view.†   (source)
  • We believe that British Intelligence has deliberately spun around Comrade Mundt a mesh of circumstantial evidence— the payment of money to foreign banks, its withdrawal to coincide with Mundt's presence in this or that country, the casual hearsay evidence from Peter Guillam, the secret meeting between Control and Riemeck at which matters were discussed that Leamas could not hear: these afl provided a spurious chain of evidence and Comrade Fiedler, on whose ambitions the British so…†   (source)
  • There was a woman, I never knew her name, never saw her again, but she wore a salmon-coloured gown hooped in crinoline form, a vague gesture to some past century but whether seventeenth, eighteenth, or nineteenth I could not tell, and every time she passed me it coincided with a sweeping bar of the waltz to which she dipped and swayed, smiling as she did so in my direction.†   (source)
  • If Gerald coincided, he would give her a lift in his dailyhansom, the same generally; in summer the cabby wore a red carnation.†   (source)
  • It was no accident, therefore, that the birth of the avant-garde coincided chronologically -- and geographically, too -- with the first bold development of scientific revolutionary thought in Europe.†   (source)
  • Einhorn was happy as the devil with his idea; when what he wanted coincided with a good deed, it made his emotions warm.†   (source)
  • In this I coincided with Inspector Miller, who was in charge of the case-a man altogether different from our friend Japp, conceited, ill-mannered and quite insufferable.†   (source)
  • For her admissions never exactly coincided with his doubts.†   (source)
  • By now, his morality coincided with his curiosity, probably always had.†   (source)
  • All laughed exultantly at discovering that the divine sense of humour coincided with their own.†   (source)
  • Briggs coincided as usual, and the "previous attachment" was then discussed in conjectures.†   (source)
  • The conclusion of Marius' classical studies coincided with M. Gillenormand's departure from society.†   (source)
  • Thought fitted thought; opinion met opinion: we coincided, in short, perfectly.†   (source)
  • This coincided with a black cloud which suddenly veiled the sun.†   (source)
  • So all these causes—myriads of causes—coincided to bring it about.†   (source)
  • called Mrs. Moore, from her patch of shade; they had not spoken yet, because his arrival had coincided with the torrent from the hill.†   (source)
  • Then he received news that his old aunt was dangerously ill at Marygreen, which intelligence almost coincided with a letter from his former employer at Christminster, who offered him permanent work of a good class if he would come back.†   (source)
  • By the light of the lantern I saw the butt twist slowly around till its sides coincided with the sides of the step.†   (source)
  • Nothing could have been more commonplace than this remark; but its utterance coincided for me with a moment of vision.†   (source)
  • Though its membership partly coincided with that of the Thanatopsis study club, the Jolly Seventeen as a separate entity guffawed at the Thanatopsis, and considered it middle-class and even "highbrow."†   (source)
  • For, assuming that Clyde persisted in denying that he had carried a camera, or that his own lawyer should be unaware of the existence of such evidence, then how damning in court, and out of a clear sky, to produce this camera, these photographs of Roberta made by him, and the proof that the very measurements of one side of the camera coincided with the size of the wounds upon her face!†   (source)
  • He had come to this place in a fit of desperation, the Brazil movement among the English agriculturists having by chance coincided with his desire to escape from his past existence.†   (source)
  • The severe temptation that had coincided with the arrival of his Egyptian Fatima had long since been overcome, was indeed the last of its sort to tax Paravant's system.†   (source)
  • This growing fondness for her memory coincided in point of time with her residence at Flintcomb-Ash, but it was before she had felt herself at liberty to trouble him with a word about her circumstances or her feelings.†   (source)
  • This had gone on for a month or two when there came a Saturday in September, on which a fair and a market coincided; and the pilgrims from Trantridge sought double delights at the inns on that account.†   (source)
  • Frau Chauchat's return (and her return had been very different from anything Hans Castorp had dreamed—but of that at the appropriate time) had coincided with a return of the season of Advent and the year's shortest days; the beginning of winter, astronomically speaking, had been imminent.†   (source)
  • He understood that "idle or sinful"—which was bad enough as an alternative—was no alternative at all, that the two coincided, and that to say something was spiritually and intellectually "hopeless" was merely the amoral way of saying it was "forbidden."†   (source)
  • I had hoped that our sentiments coincided in every particular, but I must so far differ from you as to think our two youngest daughters uncommonly foolish.†   (source)
  • The herd made an inclination in my direction, in which the solitary animal coincided, and this brought him within fifty yards of the spot where I stood.†   (source)
  • He might possibly have passed by without stopping at all, or at most for half a minute to glance in at the scene, had not his advent coincided with the discussion on corn and bread, in which event this history had never been enacted.†   (source)
  • Pavel Petrovitch had scarcely seen his brother since the latter had settled in the country; the marriage of Nikolai Petrovitch had coincided with the very first days of Pavel Petrovitch's acquaintance with the princess.†   (source)
  • As for Mrs. Tulliver, finding that Mrs. Stelling's views as to the airing of linen and the frequent recurrence of hunger in a growing boy entirely coincided with her own; moreover, that Mrs. Stelling, though so young a woman, and only anticipating her second confinement, had gone through very nearly the same experience as herself with regard to the behavior and fundamental character of the monthly nurse,—she expressed great contentment to her husband, when they drove away, at leaving…†   (source)
  • The others coincided.†   (source)
  • …moment later M. Morrel appeared and was saluted with an enthusiastic burst of applause from the crew of the Pharaon, who hailed the visit of the shipowner as a sure indication that the man whose wedding feast he thus delighted to honor would ere long be first in command of the ship; and as Dantes was universally beloved on board his vessel, the sailors put no restraint on their tumultuous joy at finding that the opinion and choice of their superiors so exactly coincided with their own.†   (source)
  • Miss Price, in rejoinder, congratulated herself upon not being possessed of the envious feeling of other people; whereupon Miss Squeers made some general remark touching the danger of associating with low persons; in which Miss Price entirely coincided: observing that it was very true indeed, and she had thought so a long time.†   (source)
  • He went accordingly; and it happened that the time of his arrival coincided with that of Mrs. Yeobright's pause on the hill near the house.†   (source)
  • The judges chosen were Mr. Oliver and an able lawyer: both coincided in my opinion: I carried my point.†   (source)
  • In both cases his personal activity, having no more force than the personal activity of any soldier, merely coincided with the laws that guided the event.†   (source)
  • Amid a long series of unexecuted orders of Napoleon's one series, for the campaign of 1812, was carried out—not because those orders differed in any way from the other, unexecuted orders but because they coincided with the course of events that led the French army into Russia; just as in stencil work this or that figure comes out not because the color was laid on from this side or in that way, but because it was laid on from all sides over the figure cut in the stencil.†   (source)
  • …by the grandeur of the preparations, and the expenditure on those preparations and the need of obtaining advantages to compensate for that expenditure, the intoxicating honors he received in Dresden, the diplomatic negotiations which, in the opinion of contemporaries, were carried on with a sincere desire to attain peace, but which only wounded the self-love of both sides, and millions of other causes that adapted themselves to the event that was happening or coincided with it.†   (source)
  • But how seldom two imaginations coincide!†   (source)
  • If they meant to be satisfied, then they would coincide.†   (source)
  • Winston's working week was sixty hours, Julia's was even longer, and their free days varied according to the pressure of work and did not often coincide.†   (source)
  • And in so far as the hero's act coincides with that for which his society itself is ready, he seems to ride on the great rhythm of the historical process.†   (source)
  • They would coincide perfectly, there would be a perfect focus, as when a stereoscope gets the twin images on the card into perfect alignment.†   (source)
  • It was in this house that his sudden death took place, the event coinciding with the resignation of the Minister whose portfolio he was to inherit.†   (source)
  • …those guarded and lugubrious and even formal occasions when she and the aunt went out to Sutpen's Hundred to spend the day and the aunt would order her to go and play with her nephew and niece exactly as the aunt might have ordered her to play a piece for company on the piano, she would not see him even at the dinner table because the aunt would have arranged the visit to coincide with his absence; and probably Miss Rosa would have tried to avoid meeting him even if he had been there.†   (source)
  • My only crime was being a man and living in the world of men, and you don't have to do special penance for that The crime and the penance, in that case, coincide perfectly.†   (source)
  • I confess that the observations I made in America by no means coincide with these opinions.†   (source)
  • I fancy the first stage of your derangement coincides with your leaving the university.†   (source)
  • It was the delightful sensation of being held by him and guided here and there that so appealed to her—the wonderful rhythm of his body coinciding with hers.†   (source)
  • He was waiting only for the opening of the law-suit of which he had spoken to May, so that its date might coincide with that of his visit; but on the following Tuesday he learned from Mr. Letterblair that the case might be postponed for several weeks.†   (source)
  • And as for the degradation of man, its history coincides exactly with the rise of the bourgeois spirit.†   (source)
  • Now, however, she was disposed to coincide with Mrs. Fisher's view, that it didn't matter who gave the party, as long as things were well done; and doing things well (under competent direction) was Mrs. Wellington Bry's strong point.†   (source)
  • In the ill-judged execution of the well-judged plan of things the call seldom produces the comer, the man to love rarely coincides with the hour for loving.†   (source)
  • —This hypothesis, Stephen repeated, is the other way out: that, though the same object may not seem beautiful to all people, all people who admire a beautiful object find in it certain relations which satisfy and coincide with the stages themselves of all esthetic apprehension.†   (source)
  • Once or twice he spoke sharply to Philip; he thought the young man was getting a bit above himself, because Philip's ideas did not always coincide with his own.†   (source)
  • Aft, and on either side, was a small state-room; the one room temporarily a jail and the other a dead—house, and a yet smaller compartment leaving a space between, expanding forward into a goodly oblong of length coinciding with the ship's beam.†   (source)
  • His plans were suddenly brought to a head by his knowledge that Sir Charles was about to leave the Hall on the advice of Dr. Mortimer, with whose opinion he himself pretended to coincide.†   (source)
  • This surprising event, coinciding too completely with her meeting with Dorset to be regarded as contingent upon it, had yet immediately struck Lily with a vague sense of foreboding.†   (source)
  • As the different changes and chances that bring us into the company of certain other people in this life do not coincide with the periods in which we are in love with those people, but, overlapping them, may occur before love has begun, and may be repeated after love is ended, the earliest appearances, in our life, of a creature who is destined to afford us pleasure later on, assume retrospectively in our eyes a certain value as an indication, a warning, a presage.†   (source)
  • When such a day coincides with the inner mood there is intoxication in its breath; and Selden, hastening along the street through the squalor of its morning confidences, felt himself thrilling with a youthful sense of adventure.†   (source)
  • Durbeyfield was what was locally called a slack-twisted fellow; he had good strength to work at times; but the times could not be relied on to coincide with the hours of requirement; and, having been unaccustomed to the regular toil of the day-labourer, he was not particularly persistent when they did so coincide.†   (source)
  • Can it be your Manchester eyes have failed to notice the existence of a social theory that promises the victory of man over economics, a social theory whose principles and goals coincide exactly with those of the Christian City of God?†   (source)
  • They coincide.†   (source)
  • Fanny supposed she must have been mistaken, and meant to think differently in future; but with all that submission to Edmund could do, and all the help of the coinciding looks and hints which she occasionally noticed in some of the others, and which seemed to say that Julia was Mr. Crawford's choice, she knew not always what to think.†   (source)
  • A deed done is irrevocable, and its result coinciding in time with the actions of millions of other men assumes an historic significance.†   (source)
  • The deranged needles would mark contradictory directions as we approached the southern magnetic pole, which doesn't coincide with the South Pole proper.†   (source)
  • In a word, I believe,—and my legal advisers coincide in the belief, which, moreover, is authorized, to a certain extent, by the family traditions,—that my grandfather was in possession of some deed, or other document, essential to this claim, but which has since disappeared.†   (source)
  • I suffered her to enjoy it a while; then I expostulated: deriding and ridiculing all Mr. Heathcliff's assertions about his son, as if I were certain she would coincide.†   (source)
  • "O ay!" replied the guests, in the hearty tones natural when the words demanded by politeness coincide with those of deepest feeling.†   (source)
  • You will scream at me (that is, if you condescend to do so) that no one is touching my free will, that all they are concerned with is that my will should of itself, of its own free will, coincide with my own normal interests, with the laws of nature and arithmetic.†   (source)
  • When I asked him if he could do without money, he showed the convenience of money in such a way as to suggest and coincide with the most philosophical accounts of the origin of this institution, and the very derivation of the word pecunia.†   (source)
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