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Example sentences for "that occasion"

  • His success was instantaneous, though there was less enthusiasm expressed by far on that occasion than on his last appearance, five years later.

  • Nilsson, on that occasion as on this, was associated M.

  • Now what part of him will thee take on that occasion?

  • The nephew with the outline of a countenance, speaking for the first and last time on that occasion, propounded 'Oysters.

  • I have a particularly vivid recollection of the singer who played Elizabeth on that occasion.

  • I was also glad to hear that my old acquaintance Halevy, during the controversy occasioned by my music, had taken my part in a kindly way, and I have already described my visit to him and our conversation on that occasion.

  • I had to pay the Grand Duke another visit on the following morning, but on that occasion I saw him without his chamberlain, whose absence certainly had a favourable effect on the Prince's remarks about his friend.

  • Just as she had done on that occasion also, she now immediately gave me to understand that she did not come to me out of need, and that if I treated her badly she knew quite well where to go.

  • Curiously enough, our dialectic on that occasion seemed to have made as strong an impression upon others as upon myself.

  • On that occasion it was not long before we discovered that they were Colonel and Mrs. Hay and their daughter Helen.

  • The activity and resources of Major Lee have been on that occasion displayed in such a way as entitles him to my eternal esteem and gratitude.

  • My health is now in the best condition, and I would not remember I ever was sick, were it not for the marks of friendship you gave me on that occasion.

  • You cannot have any idea of the horrors which were to be heard in that occasion.

  • But I want to acquaint your excellency of a little event of last evening, which, though not very considerable in itself, will certainly please you, on account of the bravery and alacrity a small party of ours shewed on that occasion.

  • Recalling their interview at the hotel in London, Mr. Rayburn now understood John Zant's object (on that occasion) in assuming the character of a helpless man in need of a sensible suggestion.

  • On that occasion I should be able to make my own reply.

  • Peg, shaking her head, 'but you frightened me that day.

  • Why, I never heard such a thing in my life!

  • There was not a little tact and knowledge of the young lord's disposition in this mode of treating him.

  • I should have done so, if I had belonged to it, but I do not,' said Nicholas.

  • Essex said, on that occasion, with more truth than elegance, "Stone dead hath no fellow.

  • One of the bishops, on that occasion, declared that the common people entertained the strongest prejudices against his order, and that a clergyman had no chance of fair play before a lay tribunal.

  • We own that the credulity which the nation showed on that occasion seems to us, though censurable indeed, yet not wholly inexcusable.

  • On that occasion a most rummy and extraordinary thing happened.

  • He wondered how long the late Lord Leonard had been permitted to talk on that occasion before he, too, had had to retire through these same windows.

  • Then he remembered that once in the misty past he had seen Lord Belpher spanked for stealing jam, he himself having acted on that occasion as prosecuting attorney; and the memory nerved him.

  • Well," said Lady Caroline, "at any rate poor father acted with great good sense on that occasion.

  • When I think of the temptation I resisted on that occasion, like Clive when he was charged with peculation, "I marvel at my own forbearance!

  • I remember on that occasion in the Hartford church the collection was being taken up.

  • On that occasion I not only went free at his hands, but carried off something more than that.

  • I feel bound to express my regret for what passed on that occasion, and to assure you that it proceeded from a misapprehension of your purpose in calling on me.

  • Moncrief had left no perceptible trace on her; indeed she looked younger now than on that occasion, because she had been at the trouble of putting on an artificial complexion.

  • No endearments passed between them even on that occasion.

  • Charles Gavard says that Chopin drew up the programme of his funeral, and asked that on that occasion Mozart's Requiem should be performed.

  • He said, on that occasion, that the quicker middle movements which Chopin frequently introduces into his nocturnes are often weaker than his first conceptions, meaning the first portions of the nocturnes.

  • But, then, how could Chopin have composed on that occasion a Prelude included in a work the manuscript of which he sent away on the lath?


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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