The gauntlet, to which Mrs. Micawber referred upon a former occasion, being thrown down in the form of an advertisement, was taken up by my friend Heep, and led to a mutual recognition.
As I mentioned on a former occasion, she is a very superior woman, but has lost the use of her limbs.
I may have mentioned to you on a former occasion that I was in expectation of such an event.
He had said on a former occasion, that in their transportation there was a greater portion of misery condensed within a smaller space, than had ever existed in the known world.
With respect to the miseries of the Middle Passage, he had said so much on a former occasion, that he would spare the feelings of the committee as much as he could.
Mr. Burke had said on a former occasion, "that in adopting measure we must prepare to pay the price of our virtue.
Having seized in battle a royal foe that did some good to the conqueror on a former occasion, that king who does not, actuated by malice, pay him honours, is said to fall away from Kshatriya duties.
Bhishma said, 'In this connection I shall recite to thee the words that Kesava, asked by Ugrasena, said unto him on a former occasion.
A committee of this House, upon a former occasion, did make such an examination, and he would refer to their report before he sat down.
On a former occasion I have spoken of the cathedral of Seville, but only in a brief and cursory manner.
He was not the individual whose anger I had incurred on a former occasion, and who had thought proper to imprison me, but another person, I believe a Catalan, whose name I have also forgotten.
That is all very well so far as it goes, but satisfies no man, and makes a good many angry, as I told you on a former occasion.
She was a nurse for more than twelve months; she weaned her child, and shortly after was again surprised by an eruption of the menses, which as on a former occasion proved to be a sign of pregnancy.
Rambouillet had surprised us on a former occasion.
I said, considering that, after all, he was no more in fault than I had been on a former occasion.
Forget, the king's secretary, and the person to whom I had on a former occasion presented a petition.
I have mentioned, on a former occasion, the armour of the crusader which hangs up in the Hall.
As his eye ranged about the old building to take a farewell look, he observed the strange light in the tower, which he had noticed on a former occasion.
Upon the whole, I fear the general ate himself into as much disgrace, at this memorable dinner, as I have seen him sleep himself into on a former occasion.
This article is nowhere explained, but was said on a former occasion to be made of very low or impure gold.
Upon a former occasion, the author had stated that there were four principal caciques in Hispaniola, each of whom commanded over seventy or eighty inferior chiefs, so that there may have been 300 caciques originally.
On a former occasion, the chaplain of the expedition was named Bartholome de Olmedo, but this other clergyman appears likewise to have attended the expedition.
Being invited to eat, he took the meat as he had done on a former occasion, tasting a little of every thing, and giving the rest to his more immediate attendants.
In a very short time they found it convenient, as on a former occasion, when seeking the life of the same man, to go out to see after their horses.
No Eveline was there; but he remembered having seen the door to the small room open on a former occasion, and supposing her to be within, went and rapped on the door, at first gently.
I told him that in the cottage which I pointed out he would find the original of the portrait he had seen me painting on a former occasion,--the Cornish cousin, whose beauty he professed to hold so cheaply.
At length the prisoner stood nearly in the same spot where his unfortunate nephew had lingered on a former occasion.
The whole scene was in striking contrast with the almost utter absence of all preparation or concern that had preceded the interment of Murphy, on a former occasion.
Experience on a former occasion teaches us not to be too sanguine in such hopes.
Many considerations, besides those suggested on a former occasion, seem to place it beyond doubt that the first and most natural attachment of the people will be to the governments of their respective States.
The true distinction between these forms was also adverted to on a former occasion.
It was remarked, on a former occasion, that the want of this pretext had saved the liberties of one nation in Europe.
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