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

Written nearly a hundred and thirty years after the supposed events which it narrates, this story is damned by its circumstantiality.

From Fine Books by Pollard, Alfred W. (Alfred William)

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

Notwithstanding the gravity and circumstantiality of these charges, Bessie Roy marvellously escaped the allotted doom, and was pronounced innocent.

From Witch Stories by Linton, E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn)

There is, however, a strange story, told with much circumstantiality, which gives an elaborate but incomprehensible account of a tragic underplot in connection with him.

From What was the Gunpowder Plot? The Traditional Story Tested by Original Evidence by Gerard, John