Occasions

Examples

• An undue love of Self leads to the most monstrous crimes and occasions the greatest misfortunes both in States and Families. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• On such occasions an interesting opportunity is offered to study Edison in his intense and constructive moods. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• As the idea of citizenship failed and faded before the new occasions, there remained no inner, that is to say no real, unity in the system at all. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Perhaps the skeleton in the cupboard comes out to be talked to, on such domestic occasions? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• His employment may, upon most occasions, be as constant as he pleases. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• I could not see how human beings could enjoy the sufferings of beasts, and often of men, as they seemed to do on these occasions. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Almost all states, however, ancient as well as modern, when reduced to this necessity, have, upon some occasions, played this very juggling trick. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• On one of those occasions I saw a figure on the broad gravel walk under my window. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The want of them, on some occasions, may even be a proof of weakness and imbecillity. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• These occasions are very enjoyable to a poor man; but they occur rarely. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• A tax of this kind, when it is proportioned to the trade of the dealer, is finally paid by the consumer, and occasions no oppression to the dealer. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• She was displeased; I thought unreasonably so: I thought her, on a thousand occasions, unnecessarily scrupulous and cautious: I thought her even cold. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Yes, ultimately, said Mrs. Garth, who having a special dislike to fine words on ugly occasions, could not now repress an epigram. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• While soap is, generally speaking, the best cleansing agent, there are occasions when other substances can be used to better advantage. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Drawbacks were given upon two different occasions. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

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