Citations:circumstantial


 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * I will talk of things heavenly, or things earthly; things moral, or things evangelical; things sacred, or things profane; things past, or things to come; things foreign, or things at home; things more essential, or things circumstantial; provided that all be done to our profit.


 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * "That evidence," he observed, "was hardly required in so glaring a case, but I am glad of it, and, indeed, none of our judges like to condemn a criminal upon circumstantial evidence, be it ever so decisive."