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Example sentences for "these occasions"

  • After boiling my thermometer on these occasions, I generally made a little tea for the party; a refreshment to which they looked forward with child-like eagerness.

  • Spirits are drunk on these occasions; but the hill Khasia is not addicted to drunkenness, though some of the natives of the low valleys are very much so.

  • On these occasions, Wemmick took his books and papers into Mr. Jaggers's room, and one of the up-stairs clerks came down into the outer office.

  • And I grieve to add that peals of laughter greeted Mr. Wopsle on every one of these occasions.

  • We dined on these occasions in the kitchen, and adjourned, for the nuts and oranges and apples to the parlor; which was a change very like Joe's change from his working-clothes to his Sunday dress.

  • Molly was often puzzled by Cynthia's speeches to her mother; and this was one of these occasions.

  • Did you always get your money on these occasions?

  • Is there any obligation to spend the money you get on these occasions in the landlord's store?

  • On these occasions he always behaved to admiration.

  • Little offerings of friendship were continually passing, on these occasions, between the children.

  • On one of these occasions, Helen caught her grandmother's hand, saying "Hush!

  • Mrs. Lamont, upon one of these occasions, being anxious about him, happened to go into his room to enquire how he was before she went to bed.

  • The negroes practising obeah are acquainted with some very powerful vegetable poisons, which they use on these occasions, and by which they acquire much extensive credit.

  • On one of these occasions, when the gentleman appeared disposed to exercise his horsewhip, the widow ventured to inform him in a low voice and with tears in her eyes, that her son was of weak mind.

  • Madame de Chatillon persisted in her attempt, saying that relationship decided the question of precedence on these occasions, and that she was a nearer relative to the deceased than my mother.

  • On the eve, my mother had sent forty thousand livres' worth of precious stones to Mademoiselle de Lorges, and I six hundred Louis in a corbeille filled with all the knick-knacks that are given on these occasions.

  • On these occasions a lady of the Court, named by the Queen, or when there was none, by the Dauphiness, made a collection for the poor.

  • Slipslop; "I am sure you will do me the justice to say, I did all in my power to prevent it; but I saw your ladyship was angry; and it is not the business of us upper servants to hinterfear on these occasions.

  • Instead of taking, therefore, any unjustifiable or desperate means to rid ourselves of fear, we should resort to prayer only on these occasions; and we may be then certain of obtaining what is best for us.

  • The great wheeze on these occasions of dirty work at the crossroads is not to lose your head but to keep cool and try to find the ringleaders.

  • The essence of strategy on these occasions is to be as near the door as possible.

  • It is never any use trying to reason with Jeeves on these occasions.

  • On these occasions it is generally conceded that a moderate skinful is of the essence.

  • On one of these occasions an incident occurred which might have been attended by serious consequences.

  • On these occasions I lay upon the bed and endeavored to raise him and turn him with as much ease as possible.

  • On these occasions he never shook hands, even with his most intimate friends.

  • On these occasions, and when opening the sessions of Congress, the President wore a dress sword.

  • I always wondered on these occasions whether he ever thought of Mrs. Skimpole and the children, and in what point of view they presented themselves to his cosmopolitan mind.

  • On these occasions I frequently found Richard absent.

  • To strike at him on any of these occasions would be to fell and disable him, but the pursuer cannot resolve to do that, and so the grimly ridiculous pursuit continues.

  • These exclusive meetings occur frequently, and often last to a late hour; on these occasions, I believe, they generally dance.

  • I have seen much kind attention bestowed upon the health of slaves; but it is on these occasions impossible to forget, that did this attention fail, a valuable piece of property would be endangered.

  • I have been sometimes greatly amused upon these occasions by watching a little scene in which the bye-play had much more meaning than the words uttered.

  • On these occasions he loved best to sit on the window-sill outside the kitchen, and talk and chaff with Tammas and the men in the yard, feigning an uneasy bashfulness when reference made to Bessie Bolstock.

  • That's right, hide him ahint yer petticoats," sneered M'Adam on one of these occasions.

  • On the last of these occasions, after crossing the Stony Bottom, which divides the two farms, and toiling up the hill to the Grange, she had met M'Adam in the door.

  • The two, however, were not allowed to start upon their way until they had undergone a critical inspection by Maggie; for the girl liked her mankind to do honor to Kenmuir on these occasions.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    false opinion; going forth; hath pleased; him from; inner life; kindled against; not such; public penance; these animals; these are; these conditions; these countries; these great; these lines; these means; these mountains; these occasions; these people; these places; these points; these terms; these the; these things; these times; these two; triumphal arches