have occasion for

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I am glad you have secured an asylum, though I hope you will not have occasion for it.

From Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams by Adams, Abigail

But the reason why he brought them, was because he thought Vortimer was yet living, and that he should have occasion for them against him, in case of an assault.

From Old English Chronicles by Various

The King made an Offer to the new Monarch of any Assistance that he might have occasion for, to support him on the Throne.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume III Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von

Mr. Hamilton Schuyler," said Mark calmly, "that gentleman will have occasion for his watch.

From Mark Mason's Victory by Alger, Horatio

"Sensible people," he once said to his sister Jane, "will give a bucket or two of water to a dry pump, that they may afterwards get from it all they have occasion for."

From Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume I (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings by Bruce, Wiliam Cabell