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• She took the occasion to get up. (8)
• The occasion would never be foreseen. (4)
• Did you speak to them on that occasion? (8)
• The occasion, he said, was most pressing. (12)
• And she had no occasion to ask herself why. (10)
• What did she say to him on such an occasion? (12)
• On the first occasion his master was wistful. (10)
• There can be no occasion for your going so soon. (4)
• So it was with the great Mel upon this occasion. (10)
• I have had occasion to notice her quiet boasts here. (10)
• There is no occasion to put them so very close together. (4)
• Speak to Vernon, if a natural occasion should spring up. (10)
• This was occasion for another burst of laughter with him. (9)
• But, no; I am not more than partly selfish on this occasion. (10)
• It was a palpable display, repeated on every possible occasion. (4)
• On one occasion he had seen a Frenchman looking on at a match. (10)
• Their healths would on that occasion be drunk, it was implied. (10)
• March could not fail to take advantage of an occasion like this. (9)
• There seemed a general diffusion of cheerfulness on the occasion. (4)
• I opine we shall occasion a good deal of trouble to that old party. (8)
• They were the unparalyzed Ministers of the occasion, but helpless. (10)
• It occurred yesterday, and on no other occasion that I am aware of. (10)
• It was the first sign of intelligence I had occasion to remark in her. (2)
• The springs that moved Wilfrid upon the present occasion were simple. (10)
• Lady Dunstane thought it an occasion to praise him for his considerateness. (10)
• Robert talked to her exactly as he had talked to Dahlia, on the like occasion. (10)
• Robert talked to her exactly as he had talked to Dahlia, on the like occasion. (22)
• Christian accompanied her on the next occasion, and saw little, almost nothing. (12)
• It needed occasion only to bring him more actively into the current of affairs. (14)
• By heaven, Richie, you are, on this occasion, if your dad may tell you so, wrong. (10)
• On one occasion, old Jolyon being present, Soames recollected a little unpleasantness. (8)
• On this occasion she had not to wait for directness in his eyes; she had to parry it. (10)
• She was on the present occasion quite mistress of herself, though the stake was large. (10)
• Dr Middleton bowed to the litany, feeling that occasion called for humbleness from him. (10)
• He was her dear Wickham on every occasion; no one was to be put in competition with him. (4)
• Her father came down to dinner without a handkerchief, and had occasion to blow his nose. (8)
• Meet him when he is, as it were, anointed by his occasion, and he is no laughing matter. (10)
• On one occasion, Gainsford, the footman, had been seen with his eye on her; and while Mr. (10)
• On one occasion that fellow Sims had driven over the only vested interest of a working man. (8)
• He protested that she should receive from him no mark of affection whatever on the occasion. (4)
• Her aunt Bertram had recollected her on this occasion with an unusual degree of wakefulness. (4)
• He had met on one occasion the Esquarts, the Pettigrews, Mr. Percy Dacier, and a Miss Paynham. (10)
• As we have had frequent occasion to note, Lowell all his life was subject to fluctuation of moods. (14)
• The circumstance had offered an occasion for the new commander to hit him hard upon a matter of fact. (10)
• On this occasion it puffed steam; yet, after seeing the count embark, he commenced the parade in silence. (10)
• Her father did not let the occasion slip to speak insistingly as the world opined of Alvan and his baroness. (10)
• The occasion, Squire Gregory said, happened to him too often for him to distinguish it by the cut of his coat. (10)
• Upon which occasion Andrew had burst into a laugh, and said he could lay his hand on the writer of the letter. (10)
• It had happened to him on one occasion to be present when Mr. Stone was declaiming some pages of his manuscript. (8)
• She wrote even to Jane on the occasion, to express her delight, and repeat all her former professions of regard. (4)
• First, that you will allow me the free use of my understanding on the present occasion; and secondly, of my room. (4)
• I think nobody can justly accuse me of sparing myself upon any occasion, but really I cannot do everything at once. (4)
• The price if not the occasion proved irresistible, and the museum was packed from the floor to the topmost gallery. (9)
• On another occasion, driven by the desire for self-torment, she revealed to him the complete emptiness of her life. (12)
• How inadequately the police of many towns can meet the needs of the occasion is told in another chapter of this book. (21)
• At dinner the Work of the Propagation of the Faith was recommenced, and on this occasion still more distastefully to me. (2)
• From that time the topics started on every occasion were theirs; the rest of us ran at their heels, giving tongue or not. (10)
• Ay, but nature, if we are to tame these men, must be swathed and concealed, partly stifled, absolutely stifled upon occasion. (10)
• This band stage is also used for the minstrel and vaudeville performances which are given as frequently as the occasion demands. (21)
• Although he was a poor, hardworking young architect, he could talk hunters or motor cars or bridge whist, as the occasion demanded. (13)
• Concerts and operas were given only at court or in the palaces of noblemen; public halls for any kind of musical occasion were unknown. (3)
• They showed gratitude to an English colonist named Glen, who, on a previous occasion, had treated certain French prisoners with kindness. (19)
• There will not be the smallest occasion for your coming to town again; therefore stay quiet at Longbourn, and depend on my diligence and care. (4)
• No remonstrance could restrain Dr. Shrapnel from going out to watch the struggle, and she went with him as a matter of course on each occasion. (10)
• Habit made him, on this occasion, respond instantly; but the opening of the gates displayed the confusion of ideas within and the rageing tumult. (10)
• It is this fine literary sense, penetrating even to a supposititious occasion, which clings to the ode and makes it so far caviare to the general. (14)
• Beaton never felt so poignantly the disadvantage of having on any given occasion been wanting to his own interests through his self-love as in this. (9)
• General Pierson spoke offensively, as the urbane Austrian military permitted themselves to do upon occasion when addressing the conquered or civilians. (10)
• So far from being all satisfied and all enjoying, she found everybody requiring something they had not, and giving occasion of discontent to the others. (4)
• The least agreeable circumstance in the business was the surprise it must occasion to Elizabeth Bennet, whose friendship she valued beyond that of any other person. (4)
• Her ladyship is comforting herself meanwhile by strolling along the shrubbery with Reginald, calling forth all his tender feelings, I suppose, on this distressing occasion. (4)

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