circumstantiality
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We instinctively answer, that it is, in fact, inconceivable; and, even apart from any such refinements as those noticed, the circumstantiality of the stories is quite sufficient to catch an unworthy critic.
From Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) by Sir Leslie Stephen
Then with the painstaking circumstantiality of two old schoolmates luxuriating in memories, we talked over the tobacco-tag craze which swept through our school one winter.
From Aladdin & Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic by Herbert Quick
For they both had, not without reason, a great terror of the rector's circumstantiality.
From Seed-time and Harvest A Novel by Fritz Reuter
Then followed a description of the process, narrated with horrible circumstantiality.
From Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War by George Alfred Townsend
He gives the whole affair with daring circumstantiality.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 451 Volume 18, New Series, August 21, 1852 by William Chambers
But from these narrower questions, directed to circumstantialities local and transitory, we wish to draw the reader's attention upon certain other questions larger and more philosophic.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845 by Various
Of course, persons acquainted with the subject have heard the story before, though not with all the circumstantialities now given.
From Notes and Queries, Number 82, May 24, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by George Bell
