271 examples of circumstantials in sentences

will Mamma-up Mrs. Sinclair, and will undertake to court her guardian to let her pass a delightful week with herSir Edward Holden he may as well be, if your shallow pates will not be clogged with too many circumstantials.

Considering the minute and circumstantial accounts that have from time to time been related by the blacks concerning Leichhardt, one is not astonished at the legends told to McKinlay.

No matter how circumstantial might be a narration of the blacks, they invariably contradicted themselves the next time they were interrogated, and it was evident that no useful purpose would be served by following them on a foolish errand from place to place.

The circumstantial coincidences are too close to be the result of accident.

And there was some circumstantial evidence in favour of this view.

Both sides must avail themselves of circumstantial, rather than direct evidence.

He and I have been having some arguments about circumstantial evidence, too, and I know he'd like to work on this.

All the world knows that the very idea of a pet is something to be spoiled for the amusement of the pet-owner; and Isella was spoiled in the most particular and circumstantial manner.

Mr. Macaulay deals with history, evidently, as we think, in imitation of the novelistshis first object being always picturesque effecthis constant endeavour to give from all the repositories of gossip that have reached us a kind of circumstantial reality to his incidents, and a sort of dramatic life to his personages.

But if he continued a day or two, the length of time that he lived, together with the kind of instrument used, and the fact that the master had a pecuniary interest in his life, ("he is his money,") all, made out a strong case of circumstantial evidence, showing that the master did not design to kill; and required a corresponding decision and sentence.

From the foregoing facts, and the still stronger circumstantial evidence, we leave the reader to judge for himself as to the amount of cruelty attendant upon "the reign of terror," in Barbadoes.

She never had heard of the story till Luciana was gone; Ottilie, who had made one of the party present at the time, had to give her a circumstantial account of it.

" "In any case," replied Ottilie, "it would not be a bad plan, if in the next edition of the book of good manners, after the chapters which tell us how we ought to eat and drink in company, a good circumstantial chapter were inserted, telling how to behave among works of art and in museums.

The Noa-Noa came in after many days of suspense, during which rumors and reports of war grew into circumstantial statements of engagements at sea and battles on land.

Increase Mather tells a long and circumstantial story of The Demon at William Morse His House, time of visitation being 1679.

This evidence was purely circumstantial, but of a sort which left no reasonable doubt that the murder had been committed by the prisoner in the manner suggested.

But from what a certain witness (Mr. Taynton) swore to, it was clear that this piece of circumstantial evidence, which indeed was of the greatest importance since the Crown's case was that the murder had been committed with that bludgeon of a stick, completely broke down.

Lanier, Henry Wysham, Circumstantial (Collier's, October 15).

All the town, and the country too, by paragraph circumstantial, and puff direct, must have learned that every theatre in this Metropolis, and consequently, every stage in the country, is to have its version of the splendid French opera Robert le Diable.

But we will first quote the Athenaeum account, from its being the most brief as well as more circumstantial, and then add the variorum opinions.

But the contradictions circumstantial appear to (dis)advantage in the Literary Gazette, as will be seen among our quotations.

He was literal and circumstantial to a degree that made Brigham and the older men in authority sometimes writhe in public and chide him in private.

Antithesis is a placing of things in opposition, to heighten their effect by contrast; as, "I will talk of things heavenly, or things earthly; things moral, or things evangelical; things sacred, or things profane; things past, or things to come; things foreign, or things at home; things more essential, or things circumstantial; provided that all be done to our profit.

Then they brought forward, to corroborate these statements, a certain amount of circumstantial evidence,and among other things this letter.' 'The Caldigate envelope,' said Bagwax, eagerly.

Waiving this doubt, it is at any rate clear that the marvellous child on the throne of David was to break the yoke of the oppressive Assyrian; and none of the circumstantials are at all appropriate to the historical Jesus.

271 examples of  circumstantials  in sentences