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Example sentences for "one occasion"

  • In fact, on one occasion, I intimated the propriety of a canine crusade to Mehevi; but the benevolent king would not consent to it.

  • Toby on one occasion when I eulogized the tribe.

  • On one occasion I was so inconsiderate as to yawn while a number of them were hovering around me.

  • On one occasion he said, "Throughout every part of my career I have felt pinched and hampered by my own ignorance.

  • So thorough is his knowledge of smith-work that he is said to have been pressed on one occasion to accept the foremanship of a large workshop, by a manufacturer to whom his rank was unknown.

  • Seamen invariably attribute the discoloration of the water to spawn; but I found this to be the case only on one occasion.

  • On one occasion, when in a boat, we were so entangled by these shallows that we could hardly find our way.

  • On one occasion, ascending from Berlin, it fell in Western Russia, on another in Bosnia.

  • On one occasion, starting from Chalais-Meudon, it took a direct course to the N.

  • It is recorded that on one occasion a man of mature years made an ascent, accompanied by his son, and, after reaching some height, the youth remarked on how young his father was looking.

  • On one occasion he said: "If you want to make a decent living you must put all other thoughts out of your mind and think of nothing but your business.

  • On one occasion my mother found Reb Sender's daughter at the house of prayer.

  • I can only describe my reception," he wrote to a friend on one occasion, "by telling you that I really thought she was going to embrace me.

  • On one occasion, in 1847, he had actually been upon the point of threatening to break off diplomatic relations with France without consulting either the Cabinet or the Prime Minister.

  • On one occasion, however, his devotion to Gothic had placed him in an unpleasant situation.

  • On one occasion, indeed--but only on one--he had seemed to grow slightly restive.

  • It is quite certain I did not break my sword, for I had none to break; but I bent a musket pretty badly on one occasion.

  • On one occasion, his exact language is, "Except in cases where the power is restrained by the Constitution of the United States, the law of the State is supreme over the subject of slavery within its jurisdiction.

  • On one occasion we visited the north part of the island, as well as Ngamia and other islands.

  • On one occasion a man told his wife to build an oven and that he was going to cook her.

  • On one occasion a little child of about two years old yelled with fright when I passed near it.

  • On one occasion we saw hippopotami, which our men said came to the surface because we had domestic fowls on board, supposing them to have an antipathy to that bird.

  • The power of inventing did not, however, interfere with his readiness to learn, and the facility with which he acquired whatever knowledge came in his way had, on one occasion, inconvenient results.

  • On one occasion Mr. Carlyle made a singular remark.

  • On one occasion he took his brother, the doctor, with him to dine there.

  • In this he was so successful that on one occasion no less than two thousand head of cattle - the Peruvian sheep - were swept away from the Indian plantations and brought safely to Cuzco.

  • Some he eluded, others he defeated; and, on one occasion, cut off a party of thirty troopers, to a man.

  • He called to his adversary's recollection the friendly relations that had once subsisted between them; and reminded him of one occasion in particular, in which he had spared his life, when convicted of a conspiracy against himself.

  • He is said to have thought very highly of Andrea's powers, saying on one occasion to Raphael, ``There is a little fellow in Florence who will bring sweat to your brow if ever he is engaged in great works.

  • On one occasion Athens is known to have sent three.

  • On one occasion he trapped a number of his enemies, the Berber chiefs of the Ronda, into visiting him, and got rid of them by smothering them in the hot room of a bath.

  • On one occasion, one of these came on board, and soon induced some of the passengers to proceed to the upper promenade-deck for gambling.

  • Sometimes there is a run of several consecutive winnings; but on one occasion, on board one of the Cunard steamers, a banker at the game turned up in his own favour I think no less than eighteen times.

  • Among other things, it is said of him that while employed in the General Postoffice, on one occasion he had to copy a letter to Major H.

  • After the customary hand-shaking on one occasion in the White House at Washington several gentlemen came forward and asked the President for his autograph.

  • The horse was lazy, but on one occasion he rushed across the field so that I, with my long legs, could scarcely keep pace with him.

  • A story related by the duchess shows in what manner this lady's duty was carried out, and what unexpected results attended it on one occasion.

  • Nay, even her majesty was tempted on one occasion to go a-fairing, as we gather from a letter addressed to Sir Robert Paston, contained in Ives's select papers.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    bear witness; descent upon; one and; one and the same; one another; one cup sweet milk; one form; one great; one hundred and fifty; one hundred thousand men; one knew; one knows; one may; one must; one occasion; one ounce; one place; one pound; one thousand five hundred; one volume; one whom; one word; recent number; sexual perversion; social ethics; twenty four