All 6 Uses of
coincidence
in
Nicholas Nickleby
- …embraced occasions of taking him aside, and telling him with great feeling, how very friendly they took it that he should have treated that Lenville so properly, who was a most unbearable fellow, and on whom they had all, by a remarkable coincidence, at one time or other contemplated the infliction of condign punishment, which they had only been restrained from administering by considerations of mercy; indeed, to judge from the invariable termination of all these stories, there…†
Chpt 29
- Mr Kenwigs turned pale, but he recovered, and said, THAT was an odd coincidence also.†
Chpt 36 *
- '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.†
Chpt 43
- '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.†
Chpt 43
- Why, I don't believe now,' added Tim, taking off his spectacles, and smiling as with gentle pride, 'that there's such a place in all the world for coincidences as London is!'†
Chpt 43
- All I was going to say was, that I hold myself under an obligation to the coincidence, that's all.'†
Chpt 43
Definition:
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(coincidence) a situation where two things happened at the same time or in the same way by chance even though it was unlikely
(for example, if two students in the same class met by accident while visiting another country)