"The evidenceentirely circumstantial so far, luckilyis dead against Ivor.

Your report would have been minutely circumstantial enough to have found favor with Samuel Johnson, LL.D., who for so long a time refused to believe in the Portuguese convulsion.

[Footnote 15: A naïvely circumstantial story characteristically told.

"We were talking of crime, and I said no man should be hanged on purely circumstantial evidence.

Yet so far was this great master from presumptuous confidence in his abilities, that, in his examinations of the sick, he was remarkably circumstantial and particular.

"The whole of my conclusions in this case are based on what is virtually circumstantial evidence.