circumstantiality

Example Sentences

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Told as it is with Defoe's inimitable circumstantiality, she was so far from understanding it as to rather more than half believe it.

From Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 by Various

The circumstantiality of the account was equally horrible and amusing.

From Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe by Willis, N. Parker

He gives the whole affair with daring circumstantiality.

From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 451 Volume 18, New Series, August 21, 1852 by Chambers, William

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 Pope, Alexander

"Oh, sugar!" cried Bar Seven, in disgust; but somehow the circumstantiality of the narrative seemed to carry conviction with the others, and he found himself alone.

From Bat Wing Bowles by Coolidge, Dane