Opportunity

Examples

• Being the most polite of men, he seized the opportunity of assisting the Professor's anatomical amusements on the spot. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Her rich colour, her quick blood, her rapid breath, were all setting themselves against the opportunity of retracing their steps. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• 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.
• Quit them all, while there is time and opportunity! Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Mr. Chadband, at last seeing his opportunity, makes his accustomed signal and rises with a smoking head, which he dabs with his pocket-handkerchief. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Of course, with a door only on the latch behind me, I lost not my opportunity. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• They seemed to think the opportunity lost, if they failed to point the conversation at me, every now and then, and stick the point into me. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• The opportunity frequently occurred for me to defend General Buell against what I believed to be most unjust charges. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• He flattered himself that it was opportunity, not audacity, which had failed him. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Here was an opportunity for carrying out his new system with effect, if he chose to improve it. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• While a citizen of Missouri, my first opportunity for casting a vote at a Presidential election occurred. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• It was the worst course I could have taken, because it gave Pumblechook the opportunity he wanted. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• I have much regretted our having so little opportunity for conversation when we last met. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• That the man had spoken saucily to him when he had the opportunity, was nothing to Mr. Thornton. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Will Ladislaw was delightfully agreeable at dinner the next day, and gave no opportunity for Mr. Casaubon to show disapprobation. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Before leaving this period of his career, it is to be noted that it gave Edison many favorable opportunities. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• A little too much, indeed, to have the opportunities opened to me by Mr and Mrs Boffin, appropriated by a mere Secretary and Pa's lodger! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• My dears, though still young, I have had many opportunities of observing young men. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The opportunities for study which the Commissioners had must have made these empty spaces evident. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Surely Mrs. Fisher could no longer charge Miss Bart with neglecting her opportunities! Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• This was quite human, very clannish and Corsican, and it helps us to understand just how he valued his position and the opportunities before him. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• If you should think our views and opportunities at all likely to coincide, perhaps you will let him know my available position. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• I am afraid we present opportunities to people to do wrong, that never ought to be presented. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Well, you will have opportunities enough of endeavouring to recommend yourself, for we are a great deal together. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Equally momentous were the times in Europe, where the attempt to secure opportunities of expansion as well as larger liberty for the individual took quite different form. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• But they indicate the possibilities--greater to-day than ever before--of using active occupations as opportunities for scientific study. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• He wanted wider opportunities for the exploitation of Syria, north Africa, and so forth by Parisian financial groups. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• So I shall have time gradually to make her familiar with my hopes, as opportunities offer. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• It is impossible to say what violent measures he may take next, unless we make the most of our opportunities while we have them. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• On the contrary, men engaged in other professions find, as a rule, that they improve and advance with experience, and that age brings larger rewards and opportunities. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.

Editor: Ned