Example Sentences

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He has been deceived, and I have been completely hemmed in by the moves of the miscreator circumstance, the cablegram of his physician to them and to myself to-night.

From A Romance of Toronto A Novel by Savigny, Annie Gregg

But I do really believe in individual perfectibility, and that "circumstance, that unspiritual god and miscreator," is our great enemy.

From Guide to the Kindergarten and Intermediate Class and Moral Culture of Infancy. by Mann, Mary E.

By what "Circumstance, the miscreator" my plans were defeated, the reader will discover in the course of these volumes.

From Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 1 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir