But by and by a great occasion arisesa revival which sweeps the country, a reunion of two long-divided parties, an Ecumenical Council, a Chinese persecutionand suddenly there arises before the mind's eye a glimpse of that Church which girdles the world, whose emissaries are in every country, whose voices speak in every tongue.

I should have thought disappointment at the loss would have been the prevailing sentiment on that great occasion, as you so justly term it.

It was a great occasion in the cave of the late Fangs.

" CHAPTER XV KISSING DAY All week Jessie and her foster-mother Matapi-Koma had been busy cooking and baking for the great occasion.

He thought, I suppose, that I could not cover him with my wings, without pecking at him with my bill; though I never used to be pecking at him, without very great occasion: and, God knows, he might have my very heart, if he would but endeavour to oblige me, by studying his own good; for that is all I desire of him.

"But he is always great, when some great occasion is presented to him.

" "It is a great occasion," Kendrick declared.

Moreover, it is said that he was lazy and fond of leisure, and that it was only when he was roused by powerful passions or a great occasion that his extraordinary powers bore all before him in an irresistible torrent, as did the eloquence of Mirabeau in the National Convention.

His descendants to this day never celebrate a great occasion without a huge feed and corporation dinners, thus establishing their legitimate descent from Teutonic stock.

Our annual Race Meet is the one great occasion of the year when all the dwellers in the district meet.

Finally January was gone, and February, that sawed-off month, was dawdling along its way toward that great occasion which gives it its chief excuse for being on the calendarWashington's Birthday.

In this time I found much employment, and very suitable also to the time; for I found great occasion for many things which I had no way to furnish myself with, but by hard labour and constant application: particularly, I tried many ways to make myself a basket: but all the twigs I could get for the purpose proved so brittle, that they would do nothing.

In language he is generally careless, but whenever a great occasion occurs, he rises to meet it, and writes with dignity, correctness, and power.

The birthday gifts which on the great occasion he was to offer to her seemed, as Charlotte had arranged them, far too insignificant.

All in the subdued light, the golden light that crowd sat, silent, remorseful, stirred by a sense of having risen to a great occasion; thousands of human beings, the middle class, the rich, the poor; Americans, Germans, Italians, Jews.

The great occasion had come.

It was barely half-an-hour's run to Burchester Park which was thrown open to the public for the great occasion.

" Many men can choose the right and best on a great occasion, but not many can, with such ready and serene decision, lay aside even life, when it is right and best.

"The great occasion of setting aside this particular day.

The pastoral character of the poetry has to be carried out, and so we read of how Roget on a great occasion played a match at football, "having scarce twenty Satyrs on his side," against some of "the best tried Ruffians in the land."

"Oh, Woggles," I cried, "this is a great occasion.

Louis XI., in spite of his sound sense and correct appreciation, generally, of the political interests of France and of his crown, allowed himself on this great occasion to be swayed by secondary considerations and personal questions.

Voice of song, thy sweet enchantment On this great occasion lend me, That through thy soft influence Rank and riches I may merit.

On this great occasion you may be sure none had neglected to appear in the fullest of full dress, with highly comical results.

No high-born beauty ever more repeatedly or anxiously consulted her wax-lit psyché on every faultless point of hair, face, neck, feet, and figure, before descending to the carriage for her first ball, than did our young Bretonne again and again recur to the mirror, which occupied the pier between the two windows of the salle à manger, before sallying forth on the great occasion of her confirmation.