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Occurred to me that my country and its leaders, while always remaining subject to accountability, deserved forgiveness and understanding and renewed strength every bit as much as I did.

From New York Times • Dec. 23, 2011

It never Occurred to me to seek If you had come for ever, Or only for a week.

From Collected Poems In Two Volumes, Vol. II by Dobson, Austin

So, first the perfect separate forms were made, The portions of mankind; and after, so,90 Occurred the combination of the same.

From Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning by Reynolds, Myra

So when at night her favorite beau Beside his charmer sat below— That is, dans le cuisine— Occurred, as all the neighbors know, A semi-tragic scene.

From Poems Vol. IV by Howard, Hattie

An Account of Some of the Principal Slave Insurrections and Others which have Occurred or been attempted in the United States and Elsewhere during the Last Two Centuries.

From The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861 A History of the Education of the Colored People of the United States from the Beginning of Slavery to the Civil War by Woodson, Carter Godwin