have occasion for
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Q. Did you ever have occasion, for any practical purposes, to locate where Hampton Roads began?
From Trial of the Officers and Crew of the Privateer Savannah, on the Charge of Piracy, in the United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York by Warburton, A. F.
Thus you will spare yourself, and spare the family, the inconvenience of applying to them whenever you have occasion for pen, ink, paper, &c.
From The Ladies' Guide to True Politeness and Perfect Manners or, Miss Leslie's Behaviour Book by Leslie, Eliza
For this my cousin is the Queen's chamber-ward, and shall there lie when I am here, if so be I have occasion for a messenger at night.'
From The Fifth Queen Crowned by Ford, Ford Madox
Sensible people 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 Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 by Various
If he should ever have occasion for a plan of the lands of his estate, he may have them correctly surveyed without studying geometry.
From Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume by
