circumstantiality

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The very circumstantiality with which David Ogden's experiences are narrated is evidence of their genuineness.

From Old Trails on the Niagara Frontier by Severance, Frank H.

Papers from New York and Philadelphia assert most positively, and with circumstantiality, that Hooker recrossed the Rappahannock since the battle, and is driving Lee toward Richmond, with which his communications have been interrupted.

From A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by Jones, John Beauchamp

And Mrs. Anderson forthwith proceeded to detail the particulars of the quarrel and subsequent encounter, with a minuteness and circumstantiality which, we fear, the reader would think rather tedious were we here to repeat.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume III by Various

"There is about that a picturesque air of circumstantiality, combined with a fanciful inaccuracy, equalled only by things one reads or hears with reference to my right hon. friend, and revered leader."

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, November 11, 1893 by Various

His story has none of the circumstantiality of an actual occurrence; his statements are as indefinite as the agents were shadowy.

From The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition by Pope, Alexander