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Examples
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Circumstanced and situated as we are, I am not afraid of that.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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‘Circumstanced as you are now — that is, just at the present moment — you could hardly marry immediately.’
Doctor Thorne 2004
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Circumstanced as we are at present, there can be no doubt that such application will have the desired result.
Lady Anna 2004
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Circumstanced as Mr Kennedy had been, with no one nearer to him than a first cousin, with a property purchased with money saved by his father — a property to which no cousin could by inheritance have any claim — he could not have done better with it than to leave it to his widow in fault of any issue of his own.
Phineas Redux 2004
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Circumstanced as she was, what right had she to press for an early day?
He Knew He Was Right 2004
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Circumstanced as I was, my existence was little short of intolerable, for, besides the fearful suspicions which attached to my husband, I plainly perceived that if Lord Glenfallen were not relieved, and that speedily, insanity must supervene.
The Purcell Papers 2003
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Yet She is much better Circumstanced, than you are to be abroad, as her family is Smaller and younger.
Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 27 February 1783, "L'Ambition..." 1993
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As Things are Circumstanced, I will own, that had this Action been commenced by any Gentleman, at this Bar, I would have dispensed [with] this Complaint, but it was drawn by a petty fogging Deputy Sheriff against whom I know it is my Duty, and I think it is my
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Circumstanced as they are, however, they are likely to suffer hostile aggression for a long time.
Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory Volume II. (of 2) John M'lean
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Circumstanced as I am, I must keep myself wholly unconnected with those whose innocence cannot be so clear to me as my own.
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