circumstantiality

Example Sentences

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I had learnt every circumstance from Wingrove himself, and was able to set them forth with all the circumstantiality of truth itself.

From The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness by Reid, Mayne

It is related with great circumstantiality and with surprising sangfroid by Burchard, the Pope's Master of the Ceremonies.

From Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots by Symonds, John Addington

He relates with great circumstantiality that “after the Military Commission had tried and sentenced the parties” he “prepared the form of the petition to the President.”

From The Judicial Murder of Mary E. Surratt by DeWitt, David Miller

This myth comes to us from Germany—at all events, Mr. R. A. Proctor traced it there with much circumstantiality.

From Storyology Essays in Folk-Lore, Sea-Lore, and Plant-Lore by Taylor, Benjamin

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