The origin of this word, cognates of which occur in the Germanic languages, is unknown.
It is obvious that this is most likely to occur in the case of plurals which are used for a pair, or set, of things, and thus have a kind of collective sense.
Whence the perversion Portwine, examples of which occur in the London Directory.
But a real blending of two languages can only occur when a large section of the population is bilingual for centuries.
One phenomenon which seems to occur normally in language results from what we may call the simplicity of the olden times.
Simple-looking tranquil successes of this kind are the privilege of a master, and when they occur they proclaim the master with a voice which, though gentle, will find but few confessing to be deaf to it.
Sentences straight from his note book, lacking either in subject or predicate, occur here and there.
It did not occur to the chief justice that nothing but the most grievous tyranny could so soon have changed the people's hearts.
They can be detected a dozen miles off, and plenty of opportunities will occur for a mobile, cunning enemy like the Boers to lie in ambush and get a shot at the outsider.
Doesn't it sometimes occur to you that, when his own interests are concerned, the Boer is a tolerably wide-awake gentleman, and that he knows how to look after those interests of his almost as well as we can teach him?
It was equally dishonourable to break a lance traverse, or across the breast of an opponent, without striking him with the point; for as it could only occur from the horse swerving on one side, it showed unskilful riding.
Instances of this nature occur repeatedly in the history of the middle ages; and in the last days of chivalry the principle of the companionship of knights was very artfully applied by Henry VII.
This superstition was very prevalent, and numerous examples of it occur in old and recent writers, from Father Le Jeune to Captain Carver.
In this remarkable family of tribes occur the fullest developments of Indian character, and the most conspicuous examples of Indian intelligence.
To the westward plains occur at intervals apparently until the river debouches from the ravines of the high mountains of the Andes, about twelve miles from the encampment.
The algarroba and other bushes, though found in and near the borders of the travesia, do not occur south of its immediate vicinity.
The Northern Indians rode most recklessly, going at full speed down the most precipitous places, and, strange to say, although one or two accidents did occur resulting in broken limbs, they were not numerous.
Salt is a very necessary commodity with them, and when passing one of the numerous salinas that occur in the country the stores are replenished.
It may occur to the reader, that there was really no demand for so much rumor and speculation in regard to an incident, Which might well enough have been explained without going many steps beyond the limits of probability.
It resembled one of those unaccountable changes and interminglings of identity, which so often occur among the personages of a dream.
All seven stamps occuron glazed pipes of good quality.
No suspension holes occur on the small sections of the footring that survive on this example.
Other examples with this markoccur in groups A3 and A4, also on the Harwood property (surface find) close to the north bank of Aberdeen (Clay Bank) Creek.
Dated examples occur in the late 1730's, but are more common in the following decade.
These earthquakes generally occur three or four times a year, but they are seldom of material consequence, and are not dreaded as in Peru and Caraccas.
A thought-hatching easy chair may very likely be invented, by the help of which an author may sit down at his ease before his thought-printing piano, and play away ad libitum whatever may occur to him.
The historic invasion of the Russians did not occur till about forty years later.
Yes, but if I did not believe that within a short time something might occur to clear this mystery, I would break it in a minute.
You may say that a man so easily won is no great loss, or that such things may occur in other circles of society but not in yours.
It never would occur to me to hunt up three people at a country-house and ask them to play whist.
Surely you do not doubt that, should you do this, it would not occur to us to stuff the ballot-boxes, or to put up a ticket with any but honorable candidates for our hands.
The salinas occur at different elevations above the sea; they are often several leagues in diameter; they are generally very shallow, but there is a deep one in a quartz-rock formation near C.
The salt-lakes of Siberia appear (Pallas "Travels" English Translation volume 1 page 284) to occur in very similar depressions to those of Patagonia.
This fact at first appears to indicate that the matter could not have been washed in from above (Upfilled fissures are known to occurboth in volcanic and in ordinary sedimentary formations.
We know at least that at Coquimbo, where five escarpments occur in a height of 364 feet, the successive elevations, if they have been sudden, cannot have been very great.
Beds, such as there described, occur over the whole of this neighbourhood; but twenty miles further up the R.
The pebbles and fragments near the Strait of Magellan nearly all belong to rocks known to occur in Fuegia.
It is remarkable that most of the porphyritic pebbles differ from those varieties of porphyry which occur here abundantly in situ.
The four first of these species occur at St. Fe in Entre Rios, and the two first in the sandstone of the Rio Negro.
Gay found numerous large blocks of white granite, which does not occur in the neighbourhood.
It certainly did not occur to Clare that Louise could feel the slightest discomfort on account of Olivia Pring.
The names of Norreys Fynes, and other members of the family, resident at White-Hall, in this parish, occur frequently.
With the lack of quick wit, characteristic of the clod-hopper, it did not occur to him to mention this at the time.
One of them is that such marked differences occur among young men in the relation of systematic exposition to the grade of culture which they have attained.
Easiest of all is insertion between free-rising ideas, between those ideas that occur to the pupil spontaneously, when he has been led into a certain field of consciousness.
To whom would it ever occur to attack Himri, that tiny Circassian village with scarcely five hundred inhabitants, who have nothing in the world but their kine, their goats, and their pretty girls?
If such a phenomenon can occur in a country socially and individually permeated for centuries with the spirit of passivity, can one question the tremendous, revolutionizing effect on human character exerted by great social iniquities?
From one point of view the variations must be definite, that is, they can only occur within certain limits.
Miracles never happen to those who do not believe in them; as has been said, they never occur to a critic.
Things that were thought to be solely due to the action of the gods are found to occur without their being invoked, while invocation does not make the slightest difference to the production of given results.
He points out that while degeneration and stagnation both occur in nature, yet-- life has been on the whole progressive; but progress and retrogression have both been effected under the same law of Natural Selection.
And that is what we may assume will occur with the decay of religious belief.
Did it ever occur to you what a difference there is in the way in which people use their eyes?
Did it ever occur to you that what people call "lucky chances," though they seem to come suddenly, are in reality prepared for by a long unconscious process of making ready on the part of those who profit by them?
