3172 examples of occur to in sentences

That he should have done all this merely to focus all eyes upon him, and particularly the eyes of a girl, did not occur to anyone.

But that never seems to occur to you.

Those were the days when if a man had a deer, a sheep, an antelope, or the bosse ribs of a buffalo cow on his pack or in his wagon, it did not occur to him to shoot at the game among which he rode.

As we had all seen the paper's hiding-place I found it a little difficult to be impressed by the elaborate efforts, unconscionably long drawn out, of the departed spirit to disclose the matter to Helen and Hugh; while the masterly inactivity of Stephen, who was trying to find his document by pure reason (mere looking for it would not occur to his Napoleonic brain), confirmed the opinion I had earlier formed of that solemn ass.

However, I may just add one or two little known Arabian proverbs, which occur to me as peculiarly appropriate: Do not tell a friend anything that you would conceal from an enemy.

" At this moment, verifying an old adage, which will perhaps occur to the reader, who should knock but Mr. Colman himself.

I could wish also that you, my soldiers, should not show your respect for them by lamentations and tears, as if they were dead; (for they still live and flourish in the fame of their achievements;) but that whenever the memory of those men shall occur to you, you would go into battle as though you saw them encouraging you and giving you the signal.

It did not occur to him, dazed as he was by the fumes of whiskey and the heady air, that the sight of a man in swift pursuit of her loneliness might frighten Sheila.

It did not occur to him, for instance, to count the sheep.

It was my hope that nothing would occur to make necessary on this occasion any allusion to the late national bank.

It must very readily occur to your minds that when women take such interest in the schools as mothers must needs take they must feel many a wish to control the election of the officers, superintendents, and managers of the schools.

Did it never occur to you to speak plainly to anybody?" "I wasn't going to give you away," I said, stolidly, though with no conscious parade of virtue.

It is an interesting thought, that will occur to a contemplative mind, that the world contained, from the time when it was a nebulous mass, all the materials of the future individuals of the animate and inanimate creation,that the elaborate creatures of the vegetable and animal kingdoms, as well as every mineral, were floating in amorphous masses through space.

" "Yes." "Did you notice anything different about me?" "How, different?" "Did it occur to you that I cared about you, for the first time?

Incidentally, such an arrangement would have enabled her to stalk a husband, a moneyed husband, which did not occur to her at all.

It did not, however, occur to them to search the parish-register of Lynn, in order that they might be able to twit a lady with having concealed her age.

We endeavored to obviate the objections that were made, in the best manner we could, and assigned reasons for our insisting on the importation, which there is no occasion to repeat, as they must occur to every gentleman in the house: a committee of the States was appointed in order to accommodate this matter, and after a great deal of difficulty, it was settled on the footing recited in the Constitution.

I mean, did it ever occur to you on such an occasion, that absolutely you were moving faster than the train?

He became aware that the church clock was striking one, and as it did not occur to him that his daily duties at Gomshott's might be miraculously dispensed with, he resumed undressing, in order to get to bed without further delay.

No, but you women have such strange ideas, that you think all is well so long as your married life runs smooth; but if some mischance occur to ruffle your love, all that was good and lovely erst you reckon as your foes.

But in a government or municipal office, or the establishment of a large company, no one in particular seems to be injured by the ineffective discharge of their functions; and hence it does not occur to them that they are receiving their wages without rendering the equivalent of them.

It did not occur to me to criticise the seductive illusion as ignoble, although I well knew that it was for the most part a beautiful lie.

[Sidenote:7] There are many things at this point, too, in the story that occur to excite my surprise.

What is the game?" He was vaguely distrustful of cards, for he had oft heard this pastime condemned as ungodly by those with whom he had held converse in his early youth, nevertheless it did not occur to him that there might be anything wrong in a game which was countenanced by Sir Marmaduke de Chavasse, whom he knew to be an avowed Puritan, and by the saintly lady who had been the friend of ex-Queen Henrietta Maria.

However, not to contend whether a logician might possibly put a case that would serve for an exception, I will appeal to any man of letters, whether at least nineteen in twenty of those perplexing words might not be changed into easy ones, such as naturally first occur to ordinary men, and probably did so at first to those very gentlemen who are so fond of the former.

3172 examples of  occur to  in sentences