incidents

Also found in: Thesaurus, Medical, Legal, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia.

incidents

Brief clashes or other military disturbances generally of a transitory nature and not involving protracted hostilities.

References in classic literature ?

Hence, the Plot is the imitation of the action: for by plot I here mean the arrangement of the incidents.

Yet the old time fairy tale, having served for generations, may now be classed as "historical" in the children's library; for the time has come for a series of newer "wonder tales" in which the stereotyped genie, dwarf and fairy are eliminated, together with all the horrible and blood-curdling incidents devised by their authors to point a fearsome moral to each tale.

View in context

It is probable that this and other superfluous incidents disappeared after the Alexandrian arrangement of the poems in the Cycle, either as the result of some later recension, or merely through disuse.

View in context

The rise of this reputation is one of the most romantic incidents in the history of art.

View in context

The growing friendship of the three families, the engagement of Harold Denver with Clara Walker, the engagement of Charles Westmacott with her sister, the dangerous fascination which the widow exercised over the Doctor, the preposterous behavior of the Walker girls and the unhappiness which they had caused their father, not one of these incidents escaped the notice of the two maiden ladies.

View in context

The separate incidents that compose the narrative are, to a very great extent, authentic, occurring, many of them, either under her own observation, or that of her personal friends.

View in context

So often have you asked me about my former existence--about my mother, about Pokrovski, about my sojourn with Anna Thedorovna, about my more recent misfortunes; so often have you expressed an earnest desire to read the manuscript in which (God knows why) I have recorded certain incidents of my life, that I feel no doubt but that the sending of it will give you sincere pleasure.

View in context

The mode of locomotion is, of course, purely imaginary, and the incidents and adventures fictitious.

View in context

As he lay in the early morning recalling the incidents of his great ad- venture, he noticed that they seemed curiously subdued and far away -- somewhat as if they had happened in another world, or in a time long gone by.

View in context

If it is not for the benefit of the public why should I not simply recall these incidents in my own mind without putting them on paper?

View in context

The period during which the governors sat in our chair was not very full of striking incidents.

View in context

Nor shall I recount further incidents of the life that is now to end--a life of wandering, always and everywhere haunted by an overmastering sense of crime in punishment of wrong and of terror in punishment of crime.