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Sentences starting with circumstances

Circumstances force him to abandon his project, but he is not for one moment discouraged. [9]
Circumstances had carried the families apart socially since the death of her father and his brother, but they were on the most friendly terms, and the ties of blood were not in any way weakened. [4]
Circumstances do the planning for us all, no doubt, by help of our temperaments. [5]
Circumstances gave to his death a peculiar impressiveness. [5]
Circumstances might so fall out that the elephant could like the spider--supposing he can see it--but he could not love it. [5]
Circumstances were her excuse: he had had a hard day on the Exchange, and at such times he showed a marked disinclination for the discussion of household matters. [9]
Circumstances are so cruel, and if, Stanhope, you ever should regret when it is too late! [4]
Circumstances may change, but those people are never able to see that they have got to change too, to meet those circumstances. [5]
Circumstances alter cases. [5]

Sentences ending with circumstances

You would lose your own, in my circumstances. [5]
Even a jolly young Irishman of Plaster Cove, whose nature it is to sleep under whatever discouragement, is beaten by these circumstances. [4]
Besides, what can you do with a morbidness which has its origin in fateful circumstances? [11]
I think you would have done the same under the circumstances. [7]
I think he will find strength to visit her under the circumstances. [6]
No man alive will be faithful under those circumstances. [9]
During the years which immediately followed his departure from college, Warner led the somewhat desultory and apparently aimless life of many American graduates whose future depends upon their own exertions and whose choice of a career is mainly determined by circumstances. [4]
A year ago, when Italy saw utter ruin staring her in the face and her greenbacks hardly worth the paper they were printed on, her Parliament ventured upon a 'coup de main' that would have appalled the stoutest of her statesmen under less desperate circumstances. [5]
Natasha and Pierre were living in Petersburg at the time and had no clear idea of Nicholas' circumstances. [2]
A new-comer, however well mannered and well dressed, is not very welcome under these circumstances. [6]

Short sentences using circumstances

Under the circumstances yes. [9]
And then, circumstances helped. [9]
That depends upon circumstances. [4]
Thou knowest his circumstances. [10]
But circumstances had altogether changed. [7]
Circumstances. [9]

Sentences containing circumstances two or more times

The circumstances connected with the very common antipathy to cats were as remarkable in many points of view as the similar circumstances in the case of Maurice Kirkwood. [6]
But, Barry"--his voice changed, grew warmer, kinder--" circumstances are circumstances. [11]

More example sentences with the word circumstances in them

Under these circumstances you will readily see why I should not speak in detail of the course I shall deem it best to pursue. [7]
I therefore beg you to make allowance for the circumstances in which I have been by surprise brought before you. [7]
I can tell you that circumstances have occurred which will determine Hadrian to punish any insolent person who may choose to neglect the respect due to me and to my daughters. [10]
It is because you have married a divorced woman under circumstances that have shocked us. [9]
I will tell you all the circumstances at once. [10]
The woman may yield to overwhelming circumstances, she may even by her own consent be false to herself, but the love lives, however hidden and smothered, so long as the vital force is capable of responding to a true emotion. [4]
As I said yesterday, under similar circumstances at another gathering, you must not draw the inference that I have any intention of deserting any platform with which I have a legitimate connection because I do not stand on yours. [7]
But what, Ruth wrote, could a woman do, tied up by custom, and cast into particular circumstances out of which it was almost impossible to extricate herself? [5]
In these circumstances would policy allow her to consider us? [5]
Under the circumstances would not both Philip and Evelyn have been justified in disregarding the prohibition that forbade their meeting or even writing to each other? [4]
I hope you won't mind my saying so, under the circumstances, but I've always rather liked you, admired you, even back in the Cambridge days. [9]
It is little wonder that under circumstances like these he fell down and brake his neck. [5]
They are born with a fear of not being busy; and if they are intelligent and in circumstances of leisure, they have such a sense of their responsibility that they hasten to allot all their time into portions, and leave no hour unprovided for. [4]
Every varying circumstances will require frequent modifications as to the amount needed and the sources of supply. [7]
But Judge Douglas will have it that all hands must take this extraordinary decision, made under these extraordinary circumstances, and give their vote in Congress in accordance with it, yield to it, and obey it in every possible sense. [7]
Much as the Widow was pleased with the costume belonging to her condition, she did not disguise from herself that under certain circumstances she might be willing to change her name again. [6]
Pauline and she, who lived in different worlds, and yet were tied to each other by circumstances they could not control, would each work out her own destiny after her own nature, since John Alloway had come a-wooing. [11]
There were circumstances which made it necessary for me to stay through the hour hours to the end, and I stayed; but the recollection of that long, dragging, relentless season of suffering is indestructible. [5]
Strange circumstances occurred which connected themselves with him in an ominous and unaccountable way. [6]
The quickness with which a woman can pull herself together under such circumstances is testimony to her superior fibre. [4]
May I ask whether you only feel his personality repugnant to you, or whether actual circumstances have given rise to your aversion--nay, if I have judged rightly, to a very bitterly hostile feeling against him? [10]
We pass by what would be of inestimable value to us, and pack our memories with the most trivial odds and ends that never by any chance; under any circumstances whatsoever, could be of the slightest use to any one. [5]
We cannot grasp what connection such circumstances have with the actual fact of slaughter and violence: why because the Duke was wronged, thousands of men from the other side of Europe killed and ruined the people of Smolensk and Moscow and were killed by them. [2]
To these considerations were to be joined other circumstances which we need not here mention, of a nature to add greatly to their force, and which would go far of themselves to determine his action. [6]
All the circumstances were perfect--and the anticipations, too, for we should soon be enjoying, for the first time, that wonderful spectacle, an Alpine sunrise--the object of our journey. [5]
Those around me were gradually finding out the circumstances which brought on the deadly attack to which I was subject. [6]
They looked as well as they could under all the circumstances of a new country and the hardships of an early settlement. [4]
Here all were welcome, even the light-fingered gentlemen who enjoyed the privilege of police protection; and who sometimes, through fortuitous circumstances, were hauled before the very magistrates with whom they had rubbed elbows on the polished rail. [9]
But how shall we ascertain what these principles are, so as to apply them to new circumstances and new creations, holding on to the essentials and disregarding contemporary tastes; prejudices, and appearances? [4]
To this end we are placed under the stress of circumstances. [5]
He knew the ways of every domestic animal, and such sounds were only uttered by a little pig that felt comfortably fat, and lived under favorable circumstances. [10]
He made his way to a far quarter of the Palace, thoughtfully weighing the circumstances, and was met by Mizraim. [11]
Would she--Andree-have given way like that in the same circumstances? [11]
I considered George Washington, and what action he would have taken under similar circumstances. [5]
And this much was to be said for him, that after he had entered a battle he never hesitated, never under any circumstances reconsidered the probable effect of his course. [9]
The general supposition was that he had committed suicide, and, this appearing to be favoured by all the circumstances of his death, the verdict was to that effect. [12]
Indeed, Jean Jacques was not so old that she would have found it difficult to take a well-defined and warm interest in him, were circumstances propitious. [11]
My sister's disposition was not naturally gregarious: circumstances favoured and fostered her tendency to seclusion; except to go to church, or take a walk on the hills, she rarely crossed the threshold of home. [14]
But what I was going to comment upon is an extract from a newspaper in De Kalb County; and it strikes me as being rather singular, I confess, under the circumstances. [7]
His business morality was gauged by what other people do in similar circumstances. [4]
Already his mind was engaged in scrutiny of the circumstances in which he was set. [11]
I say it was conceived in violence, because the destruction of the Missouri Compromise, under the circumstances, was nothing less than violence. [7]
His own act was abominable in his eyes, and yet he would have done it again to-morrow, if it had again been required of him under similar circumstances. [10]
A man less warm-hearted and more selfish, in his circumstances, would have settled down to a life of more ease and less responsibility. [4]
It's not easy walking three abreast, but under these circumstances it must be done, sir; there's no help for it. [12]
When such a vessel appeared there was sure to arise great dispute about it, and from time to time expeditions were organized to ascend the river and discover the place and circumstances of its origin. [4]
It is all very well to imagine what you would do under such circumstances. [4]
Manners thanked him very tactfully for restoring me to them, as she was pleased to put it, to which John Paul modestly replied that he had done no more than another would under the same circumstances. [9]
Yet in this very repugnance to all his circumstances Pierre found a kind of tantalizing satisfaction. [2]
He received them very kindly, and at once showed an interest in Nell; asking her name, and age, her birthplace, the circumstances which had led her there, and so forth. [12]
She knew the value, amid new circumstances, of a person long known and trusted. [10]
The confinement told upon their bodies and their spirits; still, they were superior men, and they made the best that was to be made of the circumstances. [5]
He can't add up three or four new circumstances together and perceive what they mean; it is beyond him. [5]
To have piled up a correspondence of that size in the time, and under the circumstances already noted, quality considered, may be counted a record in the history of travel letters. [5]
They timed them under various circumstances and they found the current five miles an hour and no more. [7]
Aunt Mary, helpful under the most trying circumstances, was putting her articles in a bag, the initials on which she did not recognize--H. L. S.--Honora Leffingwell Spence; while old Catherine, tearful and inefficient, knelt before her, fumbling at her shoes. [9]
Her brother Sampson under such circumstances would certainly have evinced some confusion or anxiety, but she--all composure--pulled out the tin box, and calmly took a pinch of snuff. [12]
The buildings, begun under straitened circumstances, were more than simple. [2]
At this point, under most circumstances, I would close the doors and draw the veil of privacy before the chamber where the birth which we call death, out of life into the unknown world, is working its mystery. [6]
Yet I think, under existing circumstances, nothing could become you better. [10]
In the circumstances, two hours was a good while for us to have to wait, but when the illumination did at last come, we felt repaid. [5]
After the last two days spent in solitude and unusual circumstances, Pierre was in a state bordering on insanity. [2]
The fact is truth is your truest friend, no matter what the circumstances are. [7]
He was homesick, too, as a young husband and father with an affectionate nature like his ought to have been under these circumstances. [6]
I do begin to see circumstances. [4]
Whatever we had to say must, in the circumstances, however serious, be kept superficially unimportant. [11]
This program subject to modifications according to circumstances. [5]
After her visit to Manchester, she had to return to a re-opening of the painful circumstances of the previous winter, as the time drew near for Mr. Nicholl's departure from Haworth. [14]
He went away, to Maine, but as soon as he began to think it all over he wanted to come and tell me that he loved me in spite of it, but he felt he couldn't, under the circumstances, that he had to wait until--now. [9]
I was now to learn what circumstances I should find in my new relations, and in what way they would prove teachers to me. [10]
The writer happens to know of two diaries which record, on the testimony of eye-witnesses, the circumstances of the last hours of Garfield, and they differ utterly in essential particulars. [4]
It is time to inquire what basis this great reputation had in enduring qualities, what portion of it was due to local and favoring circumstances, and to make an impartial study of the author's literary rank and achievement. [4]
One is appealed to in behalf of some person in needy circumstances who wishes to make a living by the pen. [6]
The water welled to his eyes, yet at the same time the grisly humour of the situation and circumstances so undermined his gravity that it was all he could do to keep some sign of his inward mirth from showing outside. [5]
But to yield to Hardin under present circumstances seems to me as nothing else than yielding to one who would gladly sacrifice me altogether. [7]
In the circumstances, to go north toward hotter weather was not advisable. [5]
It is gratifying to find evidence of human weakness in the following heart-to-heart letter to his publisher, especially in view of the relating circumstances. [5]
They meant simply to declare the right, so that the enforcement of it might follow as fast as circumstances should permit. [7]
They meant simply to declare the right, so that enforcement of it might follow as fast as circumstances should permit. [7]
He also began to build the famous Tower of Babel, but circumstances over which he had no control put it out of his power to finish it. [5]
This man appeared to be in very good circumstances, for he always wore patent-leather boots, and a large diamond ring on his finger; but with his vivacious, even passionate temperament, he trampled in the dust the things I had always revered. [10]
I brought it to a close, as well as I could, and published it; but the time and circumstances in which it was produced rendered me always unable to look upon it with satisfaction. [4]
Yes, at all times and in all circumstances they could express as by print every shade of the wide range of her moods. [5]
At the same time, the Scotch affection, the Scotch sympathy with a true and romantic passion, and, above all, the Scotch shrewdness, could be trusted to do what was best under the circumstances. [4]
At the same time, he devoted himself zealously to the duties of his department, and did the country arduous service under circumstances of extreme difficulty. [7]
Although at another time Mr Swiveller might have looked upon this as a doubtful compliment, he felt it, under the then-existing circumstances, a great relief to be assured that he was not wrongfully suspected. [12]
In the mean time circumstances were promising to bring into Myrtle's neighborhood several of her old friends and admirers. [6]
He chose the time and the circumstances under which the Emancipation should be proclaimed and when it should take effect. [7]
Austen Vane he thought the world of, and dwelt upon this subject a little longer than Victoria, under the circumstances, would have wished. [9]
The Hawkins family, though allied to the best blood of the South, were at the time in humble circumstances. [5]
Not even in those advantageous circumstances can increase be added to perfection. [5]
I tell you this, if you do not already know it: The new circumstances have changed the face of matters. [5]
At any time this work called for a clearness of mind that precluded anxiety and worry; but under the present circumstances it required all her vigor and obstinate tenacity to pin her attention upon her task. [13]
I merely mention this to prove to you that I am not unmindful, in spite of the circumstances of my own life, of the unfortunates whose mental equipment is not equal to my own. [9]
It was at this time, and under these circumstances, that I framed an aphorism which has already become celebrated. [5]
I have reached this city of Washington under circumstances considerably differing from those under which any other man has ever reached it. [7]
I wanted to think that out; and moreover I wanted to think out some way to reform this evil and persuade the people to let the foolish fashion die out; but thinking was out of the question in the circumstances. [5]
Or did she think that circumstances and not her own choice were responsible for her state of feeling? [4]
How could I think or feel in any other way, in the circumstances? [5]
And on both these occasions the circumstances of the killing were so aggravated, and the murders so seemingly heartless and treacherous, that if Baldwin had not been insane he would have been hanged without the shadow of a doubt. [5]

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