1 But there was one curious circumstance.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonGet Context In CHAPTER STORY OF THE DOOR 2 In the formal drawing-room of Stone Lodge, standing on the hearthrug, warming himself before the fire, Mr. Bounderby delivered some observations to Mrs. Gradgrind on the circumstance of its being his birthday.
Hard Times By Charles DickensGet Context In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV 3 The simple circumstance of being left alone with her husband and Mr. Bounderby, was sufficient to stun this admirable lady again without collision between herself and any other fact.
Hard Times By Charles DickensGet Context In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV 4 It was a disheartening circumstance, but a melancholy fact, that even these readers persisted in wondering.
Hard Times By Charles DickensGet Context In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII 5 Another noticeable circumstance in Mrs. Sparsit was, that she was never hurried.
Hard Times By Charles DickensGet Context In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII 6 A circumstance which greatly tended to enhance the tyranny of the nobility, and the sufferings of the inferior classes, arose from the consequences of the Conquest by Duke William of Normandy.
7 This circumstance induced Gurth to believe both that the gang was strong in numbers, and that they kept regular guards around their place of rendezvous.
8 In one circumstance only even the entreaties of Rebecca were unable to secure sufficient attention to the accommodation of the wounded knight.
9 United with that fatal circumstance, the body of proof was too weighty for Rebecca's youth, though combined with the most exquisite beauty.
10 After all, he was her husband: Wragby was her home: circumstance had done it.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H LawrenceGet Context In Chapter 16 11 The circumstance was precisely as this lady has represented it.
12 That circumstance would by no means tempt me," he replied, "for I should be sorry to make the character ridiculous by bad acting.
13 She had read and read the scene again with many painful, many wondering emotions, and looked forward to their representation of it as a circumstance almost too interesting.
Mansfield Park By Jane AustenGet Context In CHAPTER XVIII 14 Maria joined them with the same intent, just then the stoutest of the three; for the very circumstance which had driven Julia away was to her the sweetest support.
Mansfield Park By Jane AustenGet Context In CHAPTER XIX 15 To Fanny herself it appeared a very simple and natural circumstance.
Mansfield Park By Jane AustenGet Context In CHAPTER XXII