81 Metaphors for occasions

The occasion is far too grave for that.

The occasion was a proposal to increase the privileges of the Jews.

This was the first person put to death in England for his religious belief, and the occasion was the origin of the epitaph, "Well done, good and faithful servant.

Another occasion on which these fire-festivals are held is Easter Eve, the Saturday before Easter Sunday.

But if the occasion is a large semi-public affaira political gathering, for examplewhere strict etiquet does not require that all remain thru the entire program, there will always be those who will leave early, thus missing the best part of the entertainment.

The immediate occasion is probably some matter of internal politics, such as growing discontent and democratic sentiment among the people.

The immediate occasion of the Jewish uprising, which was ultimately to end in national independence and in the rule of a line of native princes, was as unpremeditated as the throwing out of the window at the council chamber at Prague those deputies who supported the Emperor of Germany in his persecution of the Protestants, which led to the Thirty Years' War and the establishment of religious liberty in Germany.

The occasion of one of these starts of growth is always some novelty that astounds the mind, and provokes it to dare to change.

Occasion is his Cupid, and he hath but one receipt of making love.

The occasion of this war was no doubt a surprise.

The occasion was, the production of The Great Unknown, by AUGUSTIN DALY's Company of Comedians.

The occasion is the recent marriage of my niece, who with her husband has just returned from their bridal excursion, and they will be soon on their way to their residence in Baltimore.

The occasion, she determined, should be a talked of one in Coombe.

The occasion was the entry into Turin of Carlo Emanuele and his bride, Catharine of Austria, the marriage having taken place at Saragossa some time previously.

The more excellent the work is in its kind, the more insidious and virulent the falsity, if the whole occasion of it be a pretence.

The occasion was a semi-monthly meeting of the Ladies' Home Study and Culture Club, at which Miss Caroline was to be present.

No occasion having arisen for making use of any part of it in the present year, the balance of $18,560 unexpended at the end of the last year remains now in the Treasury. TH. JEFFERSON.

He died in Ohio more than forty years ago, and it is said that the immediate occasion of his demise was an overdose of hilarity.

The occasion of her visit was a presidential inauguration.

It was Elinor Brentwood who was his intercessor; and the occasion was the last day of the third week of the extra sessiona Saturday afternoon and a legislative recess when Kent had borrowed Ormsby's auto-car, and had driven Elinor and Penelope out to Pentland Place to look at a house he was thinking of buying.

The occasion of writing it was the receipt of a gift from them, and to express the joy it gave him as a token of their affection.

Somehow or other she always contrived to make him feel uncomfortable, and the present occasion was no exception.

The immediate occasion of the hostilities, which in time involved so many states, was the opportunity offered by the conflict between Corinth and Corcyra of increasing the sea-power of Athens.

And now it was sad for her chat at such a time of peculiar emotion, when the heart is ready to turn of itself toward its unseen origin, feeling after the fountain of its love, the very occasion of the tide Godward should be an influence destructive of the same.

The awful and unsuspected results I beheld on my first visit of patronage to Barbran's cellar, the occasion being the formal opening.

81 Metaphors for  occasions