I think we ought to be more grateful for such occasions than we are; for this sort of readjustment is certainly useful.
Though Kaleedoni was united to Dominora long previous to the union of Verdanna, yet Kaleedoni occasions Bello no disquiet; for, geographically one, the two populations insensibly blend at the point of junction.
On otheroccasions during the three years he had spent in the free service of the monastery, Benedetto had obtained permission from Don Clemente to spend the night in prayer, out among the hills.
On proper occasions and in fit places there is music, dancing, and billiards, and you may play a game of bridge with your friends when you wish, even for threepence a hundred, in a private room.
History furnishes thousands of examples of men who have seized occasions to accomplish results deemed impossible by those less resolute.
I do not know how it is with others when speaking on an important question," said Henry Clay; "but on such occasions I seem to be unconscious of the external world.
But we can all of us make our lives sublime, by seizing common occasions and making them great.
The occasions for little speaking are increasing enormously.
Many such occasions are referred to in his diary,--as if he did not wish to forget them.
There are occasions when woman rises superior to man, and this was one of them.
On all occasions he was thoroughly real and sincere, and he would sometimes be as much abashed by a genuine compliment as a maiden of seventeen.
Welde, of Roxbury, tells us that she was "a woman very helpful in the time of childbirth and other occasions of bodily disease, and well furnished with means for those purposes.
The strength of the eastern empire caused the West to look to it for support and the western emperors upon several occasions were nominated, and at other times given the sanction of legitimacy, by those in the East.
These marks of honor gave him upon official occasions the precedence among the magistrates which his authority warranted.
Through the ports of Egypt on the Red Sea a brisk trade developed with India, from which distant land embassies on various occasionscame to Augustus.
She was, of course, an ardent admirer of his stories and verses, and upon one or two rare occasions had been made blissfully happy by being allowed to listen to one fresh from the typewriter.
Charlotte was very fond of her guardian and his son, who petted and made much of her on the occasions of her visits.
A covering for the head, worn on solemn occasions by church dignitaries.
Personal tithes payable according to custom, either at certain seasons as Christmas or Easter, or on certain occasions as marriages or christenings.
That member may well be forgiven for alluding on one of these occasions to the past, and stating, how, so far as the rate of interest was concerned, he had been fighting for the very thing which was likely to be brought about.
He had advised servants on numerous occasions to put their money into such banks in the belief that they had complete Government security for their money.
For it was one of those occasions when, as the elder Webster said, "Words have lost their power, rhetoric is vain, and all elaborate oratory contemptible.
Among the many occasions I had of seeing him thus overpowered, I shall mention one relative to his feelings of friendship.
Footnote 63: "The principal gondolier, il fante di poppa, was almost always in the confidence of his master, and employed on occasions that required judgment and address.
One of the first occasions in which our naval vessels played a part in foreign waters was of a rather romantic nature, though not particularly calculated to raise our country's flag in our own estimation or that of other nations.
On great occasions Victurnien would sit down, assume a melancholy, pensive expression, and submit with little coquetries of voice and gesture to be questioned.
At dinner my wife took the lead; for as she always insisted upon carving every thing herself, it being her mother's way, she gave us upon these occasions the history of every dish.
Brother Sam Wampler noticed the deep interest visible in the congregation, and, I suppose, contrasted it in his mind with that manifest on occasions when none but our home preachers are present.
The spiritual peace and composure of heart, however, usually manifest in the Brotherhood on all former occasions of this kind, is sadly interfered with now by the distracted state of our country.
There are, you see, inevitable occasions in life when inaction is a kind of action, and must count as action, and when not to be for is to be practically against; and in all such cases strict and consistent neutrality is an unattainable thing.
The only use of the thoughts it occasions while inside is to determine its direction to whichever of these organs shall, on the whole, under the circumstances actually present, act in the way most propitious to our welfare.
In fact, on more occasions than one this insight convinced them that Jesus had this clear knowledge of men given to Him that He might effectually deal with all men.
On ordinary occasions it is probable that the disciples would perform this humble office by turns, where there was no slave to discharge it for all.
There are many things in it which deserve the attention I mean to pay it, when the first hurry that the intelligence I communicate occasions is over.
These occasions will be watched for by one side, feared by the other, and the peace will never be secure; nor can any cordiality subsist between them.
I have upon many occasions recommended the road to peace in the most earnest way.
I take all occasions to place in view the regard shown by Congress to good French officers, as a proof that the slight these gentlemen complain of is particular to themselves, and probably the effect of their own misbehavior.
The blank commissions remaining, of those sent to us here, are all signed by Mr. Hancock, which occasions some difficulty.
On all the previous occasions in which her feelings had been strongly awakened on his account, she had succeeded in deceiving herself as to the motive, but now the truth was felt in that overwhelming form that no sensitive heart can distrust.
A good jointure to his mother was chargeable on the property, and this was an excuse on all occasions for the Squire's dilatory payment in other quarters.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "occasions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
