circumstantiality
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And Mrs. Anderson forthwith proceeded to detail the particulars of the quarrel and subsequent encounter, with a minuteness and circumstantiality which, we fear, the reader would think rather tedious were we here to repeat.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume III by Various
His story has none of the circumstantiality of an actual occurrence; his statements are as indefinite as the agents were shadowy.
From The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition by Alexander Pope
"There is about that a picturesque air of circumstantiality, combined with a fanciful inaccuracy, equalled only by things one reads or hears with reference to my right hon. friend, and revered leader."
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, November 11, 1893 by Various
For it is only as language that the picture or the statue avails anything, and this circumstantiality of expression is tolerable only so long as it is the only expression.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864 by Various
We instinctively answer, that it is, in fact, inconceivable; and, even apart from any such refinements as those noticed, the circumstantiality of the stories is quite sufficient to catch an unworthy critic.
From Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) by Sir Leslie Stephen
But from these narrower questions, directed to circumstantialities local and transitory, we wish to draw the reader's attention upon certain other questions larger and more philosophic.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845 by Various
Of course, persons acquainted with the subject have heard the story before, though not with all the circumstantialities now given.
From Notes and Queries, Number 82, May 24, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by George Bell
