"Under the circumstances" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... head, "that clue is of no importance. Under the circumstances the chief would be much more likely to head away from his objective than ...
— Fire-Tongue • Sax Rohmer
... I'm afraid you're right. The International can't amount to much under the circumstances. But it had to be, Hans, it had to be. My health is very poor, and I'm about done for, so far as fighting is concerned. I simply can't keep on fighting Bakunin and his crowd, Hans, and if I drop the fight the International ...
— The Marx He Knew • John Spargo
... brought a crowd about the house, just as Grant approached and made the startling announcement that he had shot at a man the night before, and was ready for such investigation as would be proper under the circumstances. He stated that he had been aroused by a filing, grating sound at his bedroom window, which was on the ground floor, and that he sprang from his bed, threw open the front door, and fired upon a figure that retreated rapidly and was ...
— Idle Hour Stories • Eugenia Dunlap Potts
... first painfully in Perugino, rapidly destroyed the veracity of composition in all art. By posture-making I mean, in general, that action of figures which results from the painter's considering, in the first place, not how, under the circumstances, they would actually have walked, or stood, or looked, but how they may most gracefully and harmoniously walk or stand. In the hands of a great man, posture, like everything else, becomes noble, even when over-studied, as with Michael Angelo, who was, perhaps, more than any other, the cause ...
— The Stones of Venice, Volume III (of 3) • John Ruskin
... And under the circumstances, did not Marion show an exquisite delicacy of feeling by belittling, as it were, her kindness in ...
— Eve and David • Honore de Balzac
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