This word was to include the 'accidence' of language with the fewest possible words; algebra with the least possible arithmetic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman] Reference

The accidence, with which the course began, was studied in Lily's.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Facts About Shakespeare] Reference

Examples in syntax, accidence and style, for criticism and correction.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Handbook for Latin Clubs] Reference

Spartan discipline proving itself incomparably superior to Greek accidence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions] Reference

The ancient grammarians 'work on syntax was far inferior to that on accidence.    From Wordnik.com.  [STUDY OF LANGUAGE] Reference

Or is the “statistic” to use your own term a matter of historical accidence?.    From Wordnik.com.  [On reading narrowly] Reference

I don't think it's an accidence that labs at poorer institutions seem to be over-represented on the Web.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-09-01] Reference

Instead of aspiring to the mastery of accidence and syntax, he aimed rather at securing immunity from the rod.    From Wordnik.com.  [Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies] Reference

If the cause of suffering is accidence then the suffering itself is accidental: it could as readily have been bliss.    From Wordnik.com.  [Refutation in verse] Reference

I pray you, ask him some questions in his accidence.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Merry Wives of Windsor The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.]] Reference

At Deventer Erasmus began with elementary accidence.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Age of Erasmus Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and London] Reference

"Get thee to thine accidence," said Dr Thorpe to Robin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robin Tremayne A Story of the Marian Persecution] Reference

Hence he cannot have virtue in essence but in accidence.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Following of Christ.] Reference

The nouns in Iroquois are varied, but with accidence differing from the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Iroquois Book of Rites] Reference

I should catch myself learning the Latin accidence, or playing at marbles.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Caxtons — Complete] Reference

The changes of accidence are less frequent than those of syntax, yet such occur.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] Introduction and Publisher's Advertising] Reference

As the career management team is fond of saying, no one gets into Ivey by accidence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Progressive Bloggers] Reference

The prudence which the Capitaine ought to use, in the accidence that chaunse in faightinge, 138.    From Wordnik.com.  [Machiavelli, Volume I] Reference

The cub had a scary accidence when his mother suddently stopped producing milk 48 hours after his birth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest Articles] Reference

I have not declined my pronouns since I left my accidence at the High School of Tours -- not till to-day.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Dog] Reference

Theoretical, being confined to certain grammatical rules of accidence and syntax and practically excluding vocabulary.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ulysses] Reference

She had worked even at the Latin accidence, fondly hoping that she might be capable of instructing him in that language.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vanity Fair] Reference

'Varsity athletes generally succeed in life, Spartan discipline proving itself incomparably superior to Greek accidence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oscar Wilde His Life and Confessions]

Ambrose to bide on here, so he would leave his portion for me to deal with, and teach little Will his primer and accidence.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Armourer's Prentices] Reference

Sir Hugh, my husband says my son profits nothing in the world at his book; I pray you ask him some questions in his accidence.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Merry Wives of Windsor] Reference

"The Dean with his Dutch friend and his sermons, and his new grammar and accidence, is sowing heretics as thick as groundsel.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Armourer's Prentices] Reference

Poor boy, the check to his studies disappointed him, and he spent every leisure moment over his Latin accidence or in reading.    From Wordnik.com.  [Under the Storm] Reference

Sir Hugh, my husband says my son profits nothing in the world at his book: I pray you, ask him some questions in his accidence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Act IV. Scene I. The Merry Wives of Windsor] Reference

Sir Hugh, my husband says my son profits nothing in the world at his book; I pray you ask him some questions in his accidence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recollections of a Southern matron,] Reference

"Miss Pashuns," she said, "I 'most had a accidence.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Woman Rice Planter] Reference

Dickie, whom I have painfully made to travel through the accidence.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kenilworth] Reference

Since the accidence of birth occasions one the colour of one's skin, "inequality.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Today] Reference

For want of accidence and Latin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hudibras] Reference

Don't tell me it was 'a accidence. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, May, 1878, No. 7. Scribner's Illustrated] Reference

"You have the accidence!" he exclaimed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Armourer's Prentices] Reference

Then one day, I had a great accidence -- oh!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crowded Out! and Other Sketches] Reference

Much of syntax and "accidence moving" our Fellow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sagittulae, Random Verses] Reference