| 1. | Cavendish, I much fear there is no coincidence there. - from The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie |
| 2. | "Well, there is at least a curious coincidence of dates. - from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 3. | He didn't call it a particularly curious coincidence most coincidences were curious. - from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens |
| 4. | But the coincidence is probably accidental. - from The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete by Leonardo Da Vinci |
| 5. | Now that's really a coincidence second time. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 6. | The coincidence struck me as too awful and inexplicable to be communicated or discussed. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 7. | Don't you think that is a very strange coincidence Diana is going to lend me a book to read. - from Anne Of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery |
| 8. | Neither did he call it a curious coincidence that true patriotism was _his_ only motive too. - from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens |
| 9. | "What a wonderful coincidence Just during the service. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |
| 10. | "And people say that coincidences don't happen" Tuppence tackled her Peche Melba happily. - from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie |
| 11. | I need hardly tell you that in families of high position strange coincidences are not supposed to occur. - from The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde |
| 12. | "I've often noticed that once coincidences start happening they go on happening in the most extraordinary way. - from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie |
| 13. | But the coincidences in the numbers which follow are in favour of the explanation. - from The Republic by Plato |
| 14. | the plan may at first sight seem to be modelled on the lines of Mr Craik's painstaking condensation but the coincidences are either inevitable or involuntary. - from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer |