This selfish brute, regardless of the fact that we pay a minimum three shillings a dozen for oysters in London, is happily Circumvented by an exceedingly simple device.
"Faces and Places"
Henry William Lucy
Some voice within me, which would not be stilled or brook contradiction, cried aloud that I might have won her love, that she might have been mine, that only some devilish tangle of circumstances had Circumvented the fate which originally had meant that we two should be all in all to one another.
"The House by the Lock"
C. N. Williamson
She thought Ida was making grammatical errors in her excessive efforts to give the conversation dignity, and from the bored nervous way in which Sassoon was listening, she divined his fury at being thus Circumvented.
"The Salamander"
Owen Johnson