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His narrative is dry, uncircumstantial, and unimportant: he mentions the deaths of princes and revolutions of government, with the same phlegm and brevity as he would speak of the appointment of churchwardens.

From Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard the Third by Walpole, Horace

It is impossible to assign to them any clear and definite chronology; and they are, with a few exceptions, utterly uncircumstantial.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18 Historical Sketch of the Progress of Discovery, Navigation, and Commerce, from the Earliest Records to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century, By William Stevenson by Stevenson, William