17423 examples of circumstance in sentences

This circumstance produced, of course, a great excitement within the palace, for Pothinus had been for many years the great ruling minister of state,the king, in fact, in all but in name.

In reflecting upon this circumstance, Ganymede conceived the design of secretly digging a canal, so as to turn the waters of the sea by means of it into these aqueducts.

The arrival of these re-enforcements greatly improved Caesar's condition, and the circumstance of their coming forced upon the mind of Ganymede a sense of the absolute necessity that he should gain possession of the harbor if he intended to keep Caesar in check.

A curious instance is afforded of the accidental manner in which intelligence in respect to the scenes and incidents of private life in those ancient days is sometimes obtained, in a circumstance which occurred at this time at Antony's court.

They come in a cab," she added, as if that circumstance made it a little harder to bear.

This circumstance alone might not have specially interested FitzGerald in the poet, but for the fact that the temperament of the two men was somewhat the same, and that both dwelt naturally on the depressing sides of human life.

Besides these stations, there were castella at the distance of every Roman mile (seven furlongs) along the Wall, from which circumstance they are known as "mile-castles."

From ἐπιγινώκω, comp. of ἐπί, upon, i.e., by means of some reminding or determining circumstance, and γινώσκω, I know, for γίγνωσκω, § 70, (root γνο, know,) contracted like γίνομαι, vii, 15; 2d aor., § 57; subj., § 44; 2d sing.

He keeps on,so I believe,through every possible way and circumstance of human living now, if only the life is grafted on his.

points of relation with himself; but that he loved her,that this deep, fine nature, in a man so far removed from her in outward circumstance, should have found its counterpart in one whom life had treated so coldly as herself,that Dudley Venner should stake his happiness on a breath of hers,poor Helen Darley's,it was all a surprise, a confusion, a kind of fear not wholly fearful.

As dynasties and thrones have been predictions of the royalty of the people, so old courts and old capitals, with all their pomp and circumstance, their parks and gardens, galleries and statues, are but dim prefigurings of the glories of architecture, the grandeur of the grounds, the splendor and richness of the museums and conservatories with which the people will finally crown their own self-respect and decorate their own majesty.

What followed was mere drifting circumstance,a quicker walking over the path,that was all.

This mistress was a professor of religion; her daughter who related the circumstance, was a fellow member of the Presbyterian church with the poor outraged slaveinstead of feeling indignation at this outrageous abuse of her brother in the church, she justified the deed, and said "he got just what he deserved."

The circumstance was mentioned to one of the former owner's relatives, who asked her if it were true.

This circumstance produced no excitement or inquiry.

The following circumstance occurred in Charleston, in 1828: A slaveholder, after flogging a little girl about thirteen years old, set her on a table with her feet fastened in a pair of stocks.

He also related the following circumstance in my presence.

The admission of slaves was a most grating circumstance to his mind, and he believed would be so to a great part of the people of America.

Another circumstance ought to be considered.

This was a circumstance peculiarly adverse to my patron's habits and inclinations.

M. de Moret, whose impetuosity always carried him into the heart of the mêlée, was the first to charge the royal cavalry, among whom he created a panic which threw them into the utmost disorder; and this circumstance was no sooner ascertained by Montmorency than, abdicating his duties as a general, he dashed forward at the head of a small party to second the efforts of his friend.

One circumstance, however, seemed to lend itself to his project, and this existed in the fact that the Queenmother had, during the preceding year, requested her son-in-law the King of England to furnish her with vessels for conveying her to a Spanish port; and this request, coupled with her departure from Brussels, led him to believe that she was becoming weary of the Low Countries.

When the prosecutor heard of the circumstance, he got up a petition to the secretary of state for a remission of the sentence, in which he stated that on the trial he himself had given the old man a good character, and not the other.

WHITNEY NEGOTIATES VII.JILTED VIII.A FRIEND IN NEED IX.THE LONG FAREWELL X."THROUGH LOVE FOR MY CHILDREN" XI."SO SENSITIVE" XII.ARTHUR FALLS AMONG LAWYERS XIII.BUT IS RESCUED XIV.SIMEON XV.EARLY ADVENTURES OF A 'PRENTICE XVI.A CAST-OFF SLIPPER XVII.POMP AND CIRCUMSTANCE XVIII.LOVE, THE BLUNDERER XIX.MADELENE XX.LORRY'S ROMANCE XXI.HIRAM'S SON XXII.VILLA

CHAPTER XVII POMP AND CIRCUMSTANCE

17423 examples of  circumstance  in sentences