Shewouldnot havehimreallysuspect suchacircumstance as her not being thought perfect byevery body.

-Austen,Jane
  Emma, ch.1.

Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy.

-Bell, (Arthur) Clive Howard
  Art, pt.2, ch.1.

In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud: Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody but unbowed.

-Henley,W(illiam) E(rnest)
  'Invictus', collected in In Hospital (1903).

I can foresee no circumstance in which I would allow my name to be put forward for the leadership of the Conservative Party.

-Heseltine, Michael Ray Dibdin Heseltine, Baron
  Said on numerous occasions in the autumn.

Dost thou look back on what hath been, As some divinely gifted man, Whose life in low estate began And on a simple village green; Who breaks his birth's invidious bar, And grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstance, And grapples with his evil star.

-Tennyson
  In Memoriam A.H.H., canto 64, l.1^8.