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  • He had his faults, o 'course, and _would_ take back moves' casion'ly, er inch up on you ef you didn't watch him, mebby.

    The Wit and Humor of America, Volume I. (of X.) Various 1887

  • Mr. deth deliberz de definial poetriez fer de casion!

    ..blah..blah..I know…I know.. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

  • Innocent illness or buying time to delay the announcment until after the casion decision?

    Tut tut... such hypocrisy! 2007

  • Mr. Weller immediately took the hint; and presenting himself in the parlour, explained his business to Mrs. Bardell thus — ‘Wery sorry to ‘casion any personal inconwenience, ma’am, as the housebreaker said to the old lady when he put her on the fire; but as me and my governor ‘s only jest come to town, and is jest going away agin, it can’t be helped, you see.’

    The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club 2007

  • Her woman being near us, if there had been oc-casion for assistance, I insensibly led that way.

    Sir Charles Grandison 2006

  • Let Camilla congratulate her lady, and all of us, on this happy oc — casion.

    Sir Charles Grandison 2006

  • Of what violences, nmrders, depredations, have not the epic poets been the oc-casion, by propagating false honour, false glory, and false religion?

    Sir Charles Grandison 2006

  • SRC members had instead disrupted academics, occupied and vandalised management offices, and prevented him from casion.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • They were only boys, it was true, but boys who had on one oc-casion come off ahead of the Big Coffin Hunters.

    Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997

  • DEAR ME - 301 casion demanded it, able to hold an audience spellbound by readings from the Bible with no props apart from the hypnotic calm of his personality, his eye flicking like the ignition fight on a car, an indication that the engine was still running and would spring into action at any moment.

    An Autobiography Peter, Ustinov 1977

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