Adventitious distinctions had disappeared for the instant. The pair had become simply man and man, and the sleek priest-master quailing before the outraged manhood of the convict-penitent, picked up his Bible and backed out. "That man Dawes is very insolent," said the insulted chaplain to Burgess. "He was brutal to me to-day--quite brutal."
"Was he?" said Burgess. "Had too long a spell, I expect. I'll send him back to work to-morrow."
"It would be well," said Meekin, "if he had some employment."英文原著 · 《For the Term of His Natural Life》
Nor, perhaps, would it, seeing that women are ever kind and in no way by nature averse from marriage, had it not become known that Duke Deodonato himself intended to choose a wife from the ladies of his own dominions, and to choose her (according to the advice of Dr. Fusbius, who, in truth, saw little whither his counsel would in the end carry the Duke) without regard to such adventitious matters as rank or wealth, and purely for her beauty, talent, and virtue.英文原著 · 《Frivolous Cupid》
And the word seems also to have been employed to signify the loose women who, in early times, made Covent Garden and its neighbourhood their special haunt. See Cotgrave's WITS INTERPRETER, 1662, p. But here "naked Besse," means only a woman who, in contradistinction to a lady of rank, has no adventitious qualities to recommend her.英文原著 · 《Lucasta》
How easy a thing is it for a man to put off from him all turbulent adventitious imaginations, and presently to be in perfect rest and tranquillity!英文原著 · 《The Meditations》