And while searching the wide basin of the San Joaquin, and trying to account for the absence of Sequoia where every condition seemed favorable for its growth, it occured to me that this remarkable gap in the Sequoia belt is located exactly in the basin of the vast ancient mer de glace of the San Joaquin and King's River basins, which poured its frozen floods to the plain, fed by the snows that fell on more than fifty miles of the summit.

Nothing remarkable occured to us on our journey until we arrived safe home.

The right ones don't occur to you and the others seem absurd.

"This happy event, needless to say, never did occur, though the police made every effort to trace the man who had decoyed Schwarz into the cab.

An officer, though he had passed his life in the field, was able to determine all legal controversies which could occur within the district committed to his charge; and his decisions were the most likely to meet with a prompt and ready obedience, from men who respected his person, and were accustomed to act under his command.

Instances occur of fifty per cent paid for money

It is worthy of notice that within the tropics the singing season of different species of birds does not occur at the same time.

But revolts there had occured frequently before.

It did not occur to me, I believe, to wonder what occasion George Washington could find to concern himself about my dying or my living.

Nothing occured to mar this prospect till about eight o'clock in the evening, when the boat was off Silver Creek, about eight miles from the shore, and thirty-three miles from the city, when a slight explosion was heard, and immediately, almost instantaneously, the whole vessel was enveloped in flames.

These were reflections too natural not to occur to them both, and whenever they did, could not fail of embittering those sweets the certainty of a mutual affection had otherwise afforded.

The storm was also accompanied with thunder and lightning, which seems to have damaged the enemy, and filled them with terror, while no casualty occured in the Roman ranks.

Such themes are not too common, but they do occur.

Other instances will no doubt occur to the reader; yet he will probably be surprised to find that it is not very easy to recall them.

Some amusing circumstances have occured from the knowledge of form thus acquired.

The apprentices are inclined to purchase their discharge, particularly when misunderstandings occur with their masters.

When a death occured, a rough box would be made of heavy slabs and the dead Negro buried the same day on the plantation burying lot with a brief ceremony, if any.

An eye-witness has just related to me the following, which lately occured in New Harmony: A snake about two feet long, was seen to enter the hole inhabited by a crawfish, from which he soon retreated, followed by the rightful tenant, who stopped in defensive attitude at the mouth of his habitation, raising his claws in defiance.

For five years after this I cannot say any extraordinary thing occured to me.

In 1782 in a battle known as Estill's defeat, which occured on the grounds where Mt. Sterling now stands in Montgomery County, Col. Estill and twenty-five men attacked a party of Wyandotte Indians by whom the slave was taken prisoner.

This occured by striking a file against a flint rock which threw off sparks that fell into a wad of dry cotton used for the purpose.

When this chemical process occured there was a regular sized candle to be used for lighting.

The other incident occured in Virginia.

When George was told that he was grown as formerly related, he saved his money and when the great earth quake in Charleston occured he went down there to see what it had done to the place.

Many know his story and marvel at his ability to relate incidents that must have occured when he was quite small.