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Example sentences for "this occasion"

  • On this occasion, she was attired in a sky-blue silk dress, with deep black lace flounces, and bertha of the same.

  • On this occasion, Jennings had the men chained in pairs, while the women were allowed to go unfastened, but were closely watched.

  • Among the forty slaves that the trader had on this occasion, were some whose appearance indicated that they had seen some years and had gone through considerable service.

  • The parson in his drawing-room did not make a more imposing appearance than did his servant on this occasion.

  • But it was not, on this occasion, of the charms of the landscape or the pleasures of locomotion that they chiefly discoursed.

  • On this occasion, her audience was far from failing her, for they were all greatly interested.

  • Although when a successful war-party returns with so many trophies, there is usually much dancing and hilarity, there was almost nothing of the kind on this occasion.

  • I had a swift pony and a good gun, but on this occasion I preferred a bow and arrows.

  • Everything went smoothly with us, on this occasion, when we first entered the woods.

  • But on this occasion he had fallen at once into a dreamless sleep.

  • To what extent Hook is to blame for his tactics on this occasion is for the historian to decide.

  • On this occasion it was breaking its own record.

  • On this occasion, however, when the name came in to us, I sent a message to our brother society to the effect that we, too, intended to make a nomination and to send in a name.

  • There was also an amusing aftermath of this occasion, which Secretary Bryan himself confided to me several months later when I met him in Atlantic City.

  • Fortunately, my brother James was at home on this occasion, and as the evening grew old and the Indians, grouped together around the fire, became more and more irresponsible, he devised a plan for our safety.

  • But on this occasion I will lay you any wager you like there is madness in your housekeeper's family.

  • On this occasion Mr. Bygrave was at home, and she was admitted without the least difficulty.

  • Mrs. Lecount looked at her watch for the third time, without an attempt on this occasion to conceal the action from her companion's notice.

  • After a short time he again removed, on the 4th of September, without informing Mr. Loscombe, on this occasion, of his new place of abode.

  • But on this occasion, as soon as he saw her, Geordie's indignation melted.

  • Such, at least, he honestly supposed to be his state of mind until he found himself, as on this occasion, free to follow out his thought to its end.

  • And more is not related of them on this occasion.

  • But although she had replied to their errand differently from what they wished, they saw no chance, on this occasion, of taking her with them against her will; so they prepared to return.

  • On this occasion he found that Mr. Brand had come to pay his respects to the charming stranger; but after Acton's arrival the young theologian said nothing.

  • On my return to the field on this occasion, as the train approached Warrenton Junction, a heavy cloud of dust was seen to the east of the road as if made by a body of cavalry on a charge.

  • On this occasion, however, I promoted him on the spot, and forwarded a copy of my order to the War Department, asking that my act might be confirmed and Chamberlain's name sent to the Senate for confirmation without any delay.

  • Johnson that a pension was to be granted him, he replied in a fervour of gratitude, 'The English language does not afford me terms adequate to my feelings on this occasion.

  • I am willing to offer my services as secretary on this occasion.

  • On this occasion he mentioned a circumstance as characteristick of the Scotch.

  • Our camel drivers getting together to consult on this occasion, we suspected they had some ill design in hand, and got ready our weapons; they perceived our apprehensions, and set us at ease by letting us know the reason of their consultation.

  • I cannot help giving the reader on this occasion a relation of a fact which I was an eye-witness of.

  • Among great numbers whom we consulted on this occasion, we were informed by some that we might go through Melinda.

  • I could not help offering my conjecture on this occasion, and suggested it might perhaps be-- Put out the light, and then put out THY light.

  • The freedom of that city was voted him on this occasion.

  • Lord Hood found it impossible to make the attempt; but the thought was not lost upon Nelson, who acknowledged himself, on this occasion, indebted for it to his old and excellent commander.

  • The memorial which, as a matter of form, he was called upon to present on this occasion, exhibited an extraordinary catalogue of services performed during the war.

  • This was a desperate service--hand to hand with swords; and Nelson always considered that his personal courage was more conspicuous on this occasion than on any other during his whole life.

  • Even in other hands, adequate justice could not be performed, within the limits of this occasion.

  • He seems to have thought, on this occasion, that a man can no more abandon the proper duties of his profession, than he can abandon other duties.

  • On this occasion I expected nothing but arraignment and punishment.

  • My youth made me little more than an auditor on this occasion.

  • I suffered these thoughts to escape me, on this occasion, and observed that to make my application successful, or useful, it was necessary to pursue some end.

  • You cannot know, till you are what I am, what deep, what all-absorbing interest I have in the success of my tutorship on this occasion.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    regenerate ones; this animal; this art; this bill; this building; this campaign; this castle; this document; this form; this general; this important; this lake; this law; this man; this measure; this old; this plant; this practice; this room; this singular; this subject; this substance; this term; this treaty; this vessel; various churches