At this point, she seized the occasion to make her own observation.

I'll take the occasion which he gives to bring / Him to his death.

on this occasion, I'm going to decline your offer, but next time I might agree.

I had no occasion to feel offended, however.

it were too vile to say, and scarce to be beleeved, what we endured: but the occasion was our owne, for want of providence, industrie and government ….

I could think of two separate occasions when she had deliberately lied to me.

a momentous occasion in the history of South Africa

In the last two decades, North Korea has on various occasions conducted highly provocative missile and nuclear tests and promised to turn Seoul into a sea of fire.

Having people round for dinner was always quite an occasion at our house.

it is seen that the mental changes are occasioned by a change of polarity

[…] although overcrowding on the trains running via London Bridge has occasioned considerable discomfort to regular travellers, it was noticed that the alternative route was not extensively patronised, and that the trains were seldom more than half-filled.

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