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Example sentences for "ordinary occasions"

  • It is not proportioned to ordinary occasions or every-day business.

  • The Senator from Illinois said, Why not, as on ordinary occasions, now go home?

  • The attraction was great enough on ordinary occasions, but an overflow could always be secured by announcing an entertainment sine missione, which implied that the lives of the conquered were not to be spared.

  • A horse we had borrowed, perfectly kind and gentle on ordinary occasions, broke from secure fastenings and ran away three times before we succeeded in getting her into the water.

  • If, on ordinary occasions, words are too weak to convey the feelings of the soul, where shall I find language to portray the thoughts that agitated my mind as I entered Carthage?

  • It may be worn on ordinary occasions, but not at festivals or at auspicious periods.

  • Even on ordinary occasions a woman must never wash herself inside the house, but must always go to a stream, which rule does not apply to men.

  • On ordinary occasions it does not fly much, but keeps concealed among the heath, seldom choosing to rise unless its enemy comes very near.

  • On ordinary occasions it is not easy to decide on the position and distance of the bird while uttering its note; for the Corn Crake is a ventriloquist of no mean proficiency.

  • An officer clad in a new uniform on ordinary occasions, when other soldiers were only in their "fighting garments," looked as much out of place as the stranger did at the wedding feast "without the wedding garments.

  • Such a laugh as was set up, notwithstanding the grave countenance of the Colonel, was never heard on ordinary occasions.

  • On ordinary occasions, General McLaws was active and vigilant enough--his courage could not be doubted.

  • He knows that death is a master of all, and all must yield to its inexorable summons, and that summons is more likely to come in battle than on ordinary occasions.

  • He had to be dismissed even from his seat in the window, where he superintended, on ordinary occasions, everything that went on.

  • Bowen was the nurse, whom Geoff felt himself to have long outgrown, and Black was an old groom, whose company was dear to Geoff on ordinary occasions, but for whom he felt no particular inclination to-day.

  • The exceptional provision in the Constitution, under which the Vice-President has a casting vote on ordinary occasions, is taken from its place in another clause and applied to the Chief Justice.

  • My wife, with a feeble frame and a mind shrinking, on ordinary occasions, from such offices, with fastidious scrupulousness, was to be his only or principal nurse.

  • This, on ordinary occasions, was the preferable method, but now I ought to have adopted the easiest and swiftest means.

  • I was not, on ordinary occasions, destitute of equanimity; but perhaps the imagination of man is naturally abhorrent of death, until tutored into indifference by habit.

  • I know not what sort of place Salamanca was on ordinary occasions, but at that time it was remarkably stupid.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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