Citations:accidentally


 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * "Felix had accidentally been present at the trial; his horror and indignation were uncontrollable when he heard the decision of the court.


 * 1851 — Herman Melville. Moby Dick.
 * Some centuries ago, when the Sperm whale was almost wholly unknown in his own proper individuality, and when his oil was only accidentally obtained from the stranded fish; in those days spermaceti, it would seem, was popularly supposed to be derived from a creature identical with the one then known in England as the Greenland or Right Whale.
 * As the line passed round and round the loggerhead; so also, just before reaching that point, it blisteringly passed through and through both of Stubb's hands, from which the hand-cloths, or squares of quilted canvas sometimes worn at these times, had accidentally dropped.
 * And this reminds me that certain Englishmen, who long ago were accidentally left in Greenland by a whaling vessel — that these men actually lived for several months on the mouldy scraps of whales which had been left ashore after trying out the blubber.