....The merest outline of the subject is terrifying!
We did meet, as you saw, the other day, by the merest chance.
I was standing on the dock, when, by the merest accident, I fell in talk with him.
Only by the merest fractional margin did Brion evade the attack for the second time.
Blandly himself found the HISPANIOLA, and by the most admirable management got her for the merest trifle.
But just then, by the merest accident, she gave the knot a kind of twist, which produced a wonderful result.
In one place I suddenly found myself near the model of a tin-mine, and then by the merest accident I discovered, in an air-tight case, two dynamite cartridges!
Only the day before, he had, by the merest accident, seen the advertisement for John Jago cut out of a newspaper and pasted into a book of "curiosities" kept by a friend.