Occasional

Examples

• I was informed he wrote several small occasional works, but only one of them was printed, which I remember to have seen several years since. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• As Sarkoja talked with Zad he cast occasional glances in my direction, while she seemed to be urging him very strongly to some action. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• This is sad, but his occasional references to himself grieve me still more. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The canal extends nearly due south to Suez on the Red Sea, a distance of about 100 miles, through barren wastes of sand and an occasional lake. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The country about was generally heavily timbered, but with occasional clearings. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• But this need is occasional and temporary. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Here and there they were broken with streaks and patches of dusky red, green, and occasional areas of white quartz. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• If I do come back, said he, forcing a languid smile, mind let me find you married, and rich enough to lend me an occasional hundred pounds or two. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• None save my partner with his family and an occasional friend of Arthur's. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Its price, therefore, besides compensating all occasional losses, must afford something like the profit of insurance. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Besides the fortifications on Mission Ridge, there was a line at the base of the hill, with occasional spurs of rifle-pits half-way up the front. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Nor was the occasional society of Mr. Pott himself wanting to complete their felicity. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• In an unguarded moment, I chanced to say that, of the two errors; I considered falsehood worse than an occasional lapse in church-attendance. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• We mustn’t forget, he answered, that the steady income of a regular trade is safer to rely on than occasional success in other lines. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The firing from far away and above had almost died out and now there was only an occasional shot. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Only the Earl himself kept up a sly occasional acquaintance with her, when out of the jurisdiction of his ladies. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Inspector Gregory was full of his case, and poured out a stream of remarks, while Holmes threw in an occasional question or interjection. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Every man endeavours to supply, by his own industry, his own occasional wants, as they occur. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• She lost her colour, and the old and intent expression was a constant, not an occasional, thing; otherwise, she remained very pretty and comely. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Such a merchant would have no occasion to keep any part of his stock by him unemployed, and in ready money, for answering occasional demands. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The Roman citizen got his political facts from rumour and the occasional orator. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Other children in grief or pain cry aloud, without shame or restraint; but this being wept: the tiniest occasional sniff testified to her emotion. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• A struggle was evidently in his face; a struggle with that occasional look which had a tendency in it to dark doubt and dread. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• We are as yet profoundly ignorant of the many occasional means of transport. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Clandestine and occasional vice is beyond all measurement. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• We rowed along the shore, the barman holding the line in his hand and giving it occasional jerks forward. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• She went to the side-board, opened a drawer, and took out a duster, which she kept there for any occasional purpose. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• The only incident he had strongly winced under had been an occasional encounter with Caleb Garth, who, however, had raised his hat with mild gravity. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The occasional lamps gleamed on the expanse of muddy road and shining pavement. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• At last he saw it, the thing the little monkeys so feared--the man-brute of which the Claytons had caught occasional fleeting glimpses. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.

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