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Example sentences for "certain occasion"

  • While in Logan, on a certain occasion, I accompanied Brothers M.

  • On a certain occasion, solicited by the thirsty god of fire, O son of Kunti, the thousand-armed monarch of great prowess gave alms unto that deity.

  • Of rigid vows and possessed of Vedic lore, the king of the Kaikeyas, O monarch, while living in the woods, was forcibly seized on a certain occasion by a Rakshasa.

  • On a certain occasion he questioned the great sage Vrihaspati of much wisdom.

  • Pope is said, on a certain occasion, to have hinted as much to Congreve, whom he really reverenced for his ability, and to have incurred his partial enmity thereby.

  • It was asked in Jerrold's club, on a certain occasion, what was the best definition of dogmatism.

  • An individual connected with the lyceum of a neighboring city called upon Agassiz to induce him to lecture on a certain occasion, but was courteously informed by the scientist that he could not comply with the request.

  • As an example, he was at a loss for something new to sing on a certain occasion.

  • On a certain occasion we were in the company of four planters, and among other topics this subject was much spoken of.

  • Again, God gave him clothing on a certain occasion, the Lord himself being the tailor--clothing to cover the nakedness of Adam and of Eve his wife; and this clothing was made from the skins of beasts.

  • We read that, on a certain occasion, the sister of Moses, Miriam, and certain others in the great congregation of Israel, got very jealous.

  • It so happened that on a certain occasion he was asked by two booksellers to write a volume of letters on different subjects which might serve as models to uneducated persons--a sort of Every Man His Own Letter Writer, or the like.

  • II On a certain occasion, when I learnt that the Lovells were in the neighbourhood, I sought them out.

  • On a certain occasion a very eminent man, much used to society, and much used to the brilliant literary clubs of London, was quite cowed and silenced before Rossetti.

  • These pictures were not permanently placed there, but, as it chanced, they were there (for retouching) on a certain occasion when I was visiting at Kelmscott.

  • He was on a certain occasion, on his way to deliver a lecture in the town of Reading, Vt.

  • Spinning it Out= As a verbose preacher was addressing the congregation on a certain occasion, one by one of his officials dropped out of the church into the vestry.

  • Ralph Erskine, one of the fathers of the secession from the Kirk of Scotland, on a certain occasion paid a visit to his venerable brother, Ebenezer, at Abernethy.

  • Now the woman who had charge of the well, on a certain occasion forgot to close the door, so that the spell was free to work evil.

  • On a certain occasion, when the saint asked him how he had lived to such a great age, the old hero related the following story.

  • On a certain occasion, this king held a meeting of his chief people, on the broad, green plain before his palace of Berva.

  • On a certain occasion, a game of hurley was played by the Dedannans against the Fena, on the plain beside the Lake of Lein of the Crooked Teeth.

  • On a certain occasion he was riding along a turnpike road, in the county of Durham, when he was met by a wag, who, mistaking his man, thought the rider a good subject for sport.

  • On a certain occasion a physician of the kulam was summoned to treat a swelling.

  • I noted on a certain occasion that, on passing before a leafy tree called balite, the mountaineer who accompanied me lowered his voice and was very much frightened.

  • X Upon a certain occasion, the particulars of which have already been recorded, Ling had judged himself to have passed into the form of a spirit on beholding the ethereal form of Mian bending over him.

  • On his plantation the British encamped on a certain occasion; and the American authorities sent two galleys up the Stono river, on which the mansion stood, to dislodge them.

  • While British ships were lying at anchor in these waters on a certain occasion, a party of marines in pursuit of his Excellency, presented themselves at the door.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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