It was decided that Mrs. Grant should visit my parents at first for a few months, and then remain with her own family at their St. Louis home until an opportunity offered of sending for her.
On the 7th of July, General Lee wrote to the president of the Virginia Convention that an opportunity offered for a coöperative movement.
Several of the muleteers had been pressed into the service against their wills, and of course would have made their escape whenever an opportunity offered.
Here, also, the sick and wounded were brought, where they could enjoy more comfort than in the sugar-house, till an opportunity offered of sending them down to the shipping.
I had one brief interview with him, but no opportunity offered of entering into the details of my unenviable position on board the John.
An opportunity offered of testing her sailing qualities a few days after I had the honor to constitute her whole crew.
I found that Smith was not a favorite with the crew, being a lazy fellow, who would act the part of an "old soldier" when an opportunity offered.
They were received cordially, and set at work as opportunity offered.
He concluded to try it, and for two weeks spoke a few words as opportunity offered.
And, in using this kind of foolishness, would keep up appearances until an opportunity offered for an escape.
To escape this fate, they were constrained to "secrete themselves for one month," until an opportunity offered them to secure a passage on a boat coming to Philadelphia.
His wife and a grown-up son he was obliged to leave, as no opportunity offered to bring them away with him.
Having sold my horse in New Orleans with the intention of stealing another after I started, I walked four days, and no opportunity offered for me to get a horse.
Face to face as he was with an enemy in superior strength, the retention with his field force of every available unit was essential to the British commander's plan of striking at his opponents whenever an opportunity offered.
Then followed from time to time a series of gallant but spasmodic efforts by successive detachments, who attempted to storm as opportunity offered.
Men misled one another with false information, occasionally came to blows, and drank deeply when time and opportunity offered.
It was the end of October, and he proposed to journey along the coast, from farm to farm, as far as Christiansand, gathering the Brethren together as opportunity offered.
What has been done by Western States in India and China would doubtless be done in Japan also if opportunity offered.
The application produced no practical response, but Shiragi, who for some time had been able to defy the other two principalities, now saw and seized an opportunity offered by the debauchery and misrule of the King of Kudara.
But when an opportunity offered to perpetrate the deed as the sovereign lay sleeping with her knees as pillow, her heart melted, and her tears, falling on the Emperor's face, disturbed his slumber.
History and theology he had studied as opportunity offered, and without being widely read in them he was much at home with them, and his powerful memory made the most of what he did read.
In the course of the work at Dolcoath we made various expeditions as opportunity offered.
Late at night, the festival broke up, with an agreement to meet at frequent intervals, as opportunity offered.
As soon as an opportunity offered, the Captain told me what the General had said; so I resolved to see how he would act when he found out who I was.
DEAR SIR: I avail myself of an opportunity offered by one of the vessels belonging to the Hudson Bay Company to forward you a few lines.
Mr. Gary had been but a short time in Oregon when an opportunity offered of sending a communication to the Board of Missions by a small party who were about to return to the United States.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "opportunity offered" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
