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Sentences starting with occasionally

Occasionally an Arab would throw back his head and cry: "Allahu Akbar! [11]
Occasionally he would wish to be in it all again, out in the wild woods and on the river and in the shanty, free and strong and friendly and a bit ferocious. [11]
Occasionally the northeast wind comes down with whirling, howling fury, as if it would scoop villages and orchards out of the little nook; and the rain, riding on the whirlwind, pours in drenching floods. [4]
Occasionally a horseman will dash among us. [5]
Occasionally the order was passed in a low voice down the line: "Close up--close up! [5]
Occasionally I hear very sweet strains of music,--whether of a wind or stringed instrument, or a human voice, strange as it may seem, I have often tried to find out, but through the partition I could not be quite sure. [6]
Occasionally the forest trees have been left, and the galleries built around them. [4]
Occasionally he tried to piece together the several stages of strange experience and to make a whole. [13]
Occasionally after that there came to my ears the muffed report of some hidden gun, and a ball like a powder-puff lay lightly on the plain, and vanished. [9]
Occasionally one of them skipped irreverently over the carpet and took up a position on the other side. [5]

Sentences ending with occasionally

He felt the weight of that resolute and affectionate scrutiny and glanced at her occasionally. [2]
They give you the impression that they just run over to the States occasionally. [4]
Possibly he wondered that Voban did not strike, and he himself took a delight in showing him his own wrongs occasionally. [11]
The reason is that Spain sends her heaviest ships of war and her loudest guns to astonish these Muslims, while America and other nations send only a little contemptible tub of a gunboat occasionally. [5]
I have had questions of a similar character asked me before, occasionally. [6]
Rays of sunlight pierce the clouds occasionally. [4]
This, perhaps, is owing to my contemplating it from a distance, and my imagination lending it tints occasionally. [4]
He or I, one will drop a line to the "Age" occasionally. [5]
Guides have queer notions occasionally. [6]
And he did not, even in these days, object to breaking something valuable occasionally. [9]

Short sentences using occasionally

Well, these things occasionally happen. [11]
The rector occasionally dined there. [9]
I like a change, occasionally. [5]

More example sentences with the word occasionally in them

I will remain your ally in this matter; for, as Cambyses' dying father appointed me the counsellor of his son in word and deed, I venture occasionally a bold word to arrest his excesses. [10]
There were literary young ladies, who had read everything of Dickens and Thackeray, and something at least of Sir Walter, and occasionally, perhaps, a French novel, which they had better have let alone. [6]
It has never yet granted me any great, complete success, and if I was occasionally permitted to pluck a flower, my hands were pricked by thorns and nettles! [10]
If our Government would rebuke some of our shoddy contractors occasionally, it might work much good. [5]
He, the Celebrity, would gladly sail the Maria over to Bear Island provided another man could be found to relieve him occasionally at the wheel, and the like. [9]
I have to work on it occasionally, which I don't like a particle I don't like to work at too many things at once. [5]
Johnny Hedges went with him occasionally, and Henry Schneider, the bill clerk, and I listened eagerly to their experiences, afterwards confiding them to Tom.... [9]
The older men, who thought it undignified to amuse themselves with such nonsense, continued to lie at the opposite side of the fire, but one would occasionally raise himself on an elbow and glance at Morel with a smile. [2]
With the warm weather he was able to be about again, and occasionally to mend a harness, but Doctor Rowell shook his head when Jethro stopped his buggy in the road one day to inquire about Ephraim. [9]
The practical faculty was powerful in Bacon; but not, like his wit, so powerful as occasionally to usurp the place of his reason and to tyrannize over the whole man. [5]
Miss Cynthia Badlam was in the habit of occasionally visiting the Widow Hopkins. [6]
Yet their talk was ever of simple subjects, of everyday life about them, now and then of politics, occasionally of the events of the world filtered to them through vast tracts of country. [11]
Occasionally, and it was always just after they had been happiest together, they suddenly had a feeling of estrangement and hostility, which occurred most frequently during Countess Mary's pregnancies, and this was such a time. [2]
Behind the fountain was a sort of cupboard--suggestive of the Arabian Nights, which Janet had never read--from which, occasionally, the fat proprietor emerged bearing Turkish coffee or long Turkish pipes. [9]
How they lived was a matter of conjecture, though the mother gathered herbs and berries and bartered them at the village store, and Murad occasionally took a hand in some neighbor's hay-field, or got a job of chopping wood in the winter. [4]
I've never got used to automobiles," he remarked to Hodder, "and I formerly went to church in the street-cars, but the distances have grown so great--and I have occasionally been annoyed in them. [9]
Occasionally, one of us would remove his pipe from his mouth and say, "Superb! [5]
It occasionally reached us in great waves of disagreeableness. [4]
Occasionally, intruding faintly upon the countryside peace, she was aware of a distant humming sound that grew louder and louder until there shot roaring past her an automobile filled with noisy folk, leaving behind it a suffocating cloud of dust. [9]
We stirred him up occasionally, but he only unclosed an eye and slowly closed it again, abating no jot of his stately piety of demeanor or his tremendous seriousness. [5]
Various monstrosities come under this head; and some, as a cleft palate, are known to be occasionally inherited. [1]
There is one trick of verse which Emerson occasionally, not very often, indulges in. [6]
I will try to write for the paper occasionally, but I fear my letters will be very uninteresting, for this incessant night-work dulls one's ideas amazingly. [5]
And, with reference to the period at which the power of reproduction is gained, it is a remarkable fact that various birds occasionally breed whilst retaining their immature plumage. [1]
He attached himself to the Morning Call, and wrote occasionally for one or two literary papers--the Golden Era and the Californian---prospering well enough during the better part of the year. [5]
It was easy to talk about these things; in fact, Jack talked a great deal about them in the clubs, and occasionally with a knot of men after dinner in a knowing, pessimistic sort of way. [4]
I was about to say, when diverted from my subject, that occasionally one finds sage-bushes five or six feet high, and with a spread of branch and foliage in proportion, but two or two and a half feet is the usual height. [5]
Other animals, belonging to quite distinct classes, are either habitually or occasionally capable of breeding before they have fully acquired their adult characters. [1]
And it was to him an enigma--when occasionally he allowed his thoughts to dwell upon such trivial matters--why Honora was not equally congenial with the wives. [9]
She had ceased to cry out: she was as one grown numb under torture; occasionally a convulsive shudder shook her. [9]
And I had to confess, when occasionally I saw Margaret during that winter, that she did not need us. [4]
I incline to think it probable that your nerves will fail you occasionally for a while; but once you get them firmly guarded now that trouble is over forever. [7]
They were kind, they were delightful, they were interested in him--he occasionally thought--as a somewhat anachronistic phenomenon. [9]
It is true, there were some soft and merciful passages occasionally, but the tramp-tramp of the tourists only allowed one to get fitful glimpses of them, so to speak. [5]
Therefore he disliked them; yet he could not help occasionally entering their tent, for the leaders of the mutiny held their counsels there. [10]
If two of them would but put in a duet occasionally and blend the voices; but no, they don't do that. [5]
She talked to them as they went, giving occasionally a deep purring sound like their own. [11]
Characters occasionally make their re-appearance in him, which we have reason to believe were possessed by his early progenitors. [1]
It varies with the years, and occasionally the balance is favorable, as in 1879, when the expenditure was L 63,400,000 and the revenue was L 64,400,000. [4]
In Lucerne, too, the wood carvings of other sorts, which had been so pleasant to look upon when one saw them occasionally at home, soon began to fatigue us. [5]
In Framley, where the whole truth never came, David and Hope occasionally take from a secret drawer the Order of the Mejidfeh to look at it, and, as David says, to "learn the lesson of Egypt once again. [11]
We remain up the whole night through occasionally, and by this means enjoy the rare sensation of seeing the sun rise. [5]
The peddlers and the shopkeepers take such pieces occasionally, and sell them, sometimes for five or ten cents, to young collectors. [6]
It possesses essentially the same character to the north, although the shore is occasionally higher and bolder, as at the picturesque promontory of Magnolia, and Cape Ann exhibits more of the hotel and popular life. [4]
The squeak-squeaking of the saddles grew very distinct; occasionally somebody sighed, or started to hum a tune and gave it up; now and then a horse sneezed. [5]
I would find the road occasionally and then lose it again in a minute or so. [5]
Occasionally Gaston visited the menagerie, but generally after the performance, when Victorine had a half-hour's or an hour's romp with her animals. [11]
Wolf thought of the loud voice which had reached him a short time before from the midst of the Ratisbon party, but he said nothing, and the baron henceforward contented himself with occasionally uttering a few words. [10]
I fell into the habit of dropping in on Nancy at least twice a week on my way from the office, and I met her occasionally at other houses. [9]
He remained at the door a half hour, and occasionally gave an order to the men who were erecting the kahilis [Ranks of long-handled mops made of gaudy feathers--sacred to royalty. [5]
Money gave you the choice of engaging in an occupation in which you could take an interest and a pride, and enabled you occasionally to go on a spree, if you ever went on a spree, George. [9]
Hence it comes that, in the scraps of paper covered with her pencil writing which I have seen, there will occasionally be a sentence scored out, but seldom, if ever, a word or an expression. [14]
I don't wonder that the bears fall to, occasionally, and scratch the bark off the great pines and maples, tearing it angrily away. [4]
It is true that some of these supermen were occasionally swept away by disease, which in ancient days would have been regarded as a retributive scourge, but was in fact nothing but the logical working of the laws of hygiene, the result of overwork. [9]
The thought, however, that she might fundamentally resemble her sister Lise, despite a fancied superiority, did occasionally shake her and bring about a revulsion against Ditmar. [9]
He knew also that she came to Pontiac, occasionally, but only in the evening; and once of a moonlight night he had seen her standing before the window of the Avocat's house. [11]
We know, however, that many strange and strongly-marked peculiarities of structure occasionally appear in our domesticated productions, and if their unknown causes were to act more uniformly, they would probably become common to all the individuals of the species. [1]
Occasionally it appeared that her reflections were amusing. [9]
Had the hope that he should see her occasionally influenced him at all in his obedience to Father Monies? [4]
It is certain that distinct species of birds occasionally pair in a state of nature and produce hybrids. [1]
Dr. Hodge remarks that "the frequency and importance of this singular circumstance (that the disease is occasionally more prevalent with one practitioner than another) has been exceedingly overrated. [3]
Apart of his testimony has been occasionally copied into other works, but his expressions are so clear, his experience is given with such manly distinctness and disinterested honesty, that it may be quoted as a model which might have been often followed with advantage. [3]
Occasionally, too, he suggested some new method or fresh formula by which she might verify her results. [10]
He has not sufficient command of his temper, is quick, irritable, sometimes punctilious, occasionally indiscreet in his discourse, and tainted with Royalist and Bourbon prejudices. [6]
Occasionally, and with startling suddenness, other automobiles shot like dark phantoms out of the whiteness, and like phantoms disappeared. [9]
Occasionally we saw stark-naked men of superb build, bathing, and making no attempt at concealment. [5]
Occasionally, an original spurt in rhyme adds variety to an otherwise monotonous performance. [6]
Her keen eyes sparkled under her plainly parted hair and the green de-laine moulded itself in those unmistakable lines of natural symmetry in which Nature indulges a small shopkeeper's daughter occasionally as well as a wholesale dealer's young ladies. [6]
We have had something to say occasionally of the art of conversation, which is in danger of being lost in the confused babel of the reception and the chatter of the dinner-party--the art of listening and the art of talking both being lost. [4]
Occasionally we grew so tired and breathless with fighting them that we had to desist,--and immediately the donkey would come down to a deliberate walk. [5]
We built a small, rude cabin in the side of the crevice and roofed it with canvas, leaving a corner open to serve as a chimney, through which the cattle used to tumble occasionally, at night, and mash our furniture and interrupt our sleep. [5]
In the morning Slade practised on him with his revolver, nipping the flesh here and there, and occasionally clipping off a finger, while Jules begged him to kill him outright and put him out of his misery. [5]
But with domesticated sheep the presence or absence of horns is not a firmly fixed character; for a certain proportion of the merino ewes bear small horns, and some of the rams are hornless; and in most breeds hornless ewes are occasionally produced. [1]
No, there was sharpness occasionally between them, tiffs and disagreements. [4]
Occasionally movable painted scenes were introduced. [4]
The old countess sat with a blissful yet sad smile and with tears in her eyes, occasionally shaking her head. [2]
Occasionally it was safest to dismount and lead them up slippery ascents; but this was also dangerous, for it was difficult to keep them from treading on our heels, in their frantic flounderings, in the steep, wet, narrow, brier-grown path. [4]
Thus stripped, he roamed about Normandy in a forlorn condition, occasionally entertained by honorable persons who had heard of his misfortunes, and seeking always means of continuing his travels, wandering from port to port on the chance of embarking on a man-of-war. [4]
Occasionally his name rippled from one end of the crowded veranda to the other, and she experienced a curious and uncomfortable sensation when she heard it in the mouths of these strangers. [9]
His wounds are repaired by the same process of healing; and the stumps left after the amputation of his limbs, especially during an early embryonic period, occasionally possess some power of regeneration, as in the lowest animals. [1]
This view is rendered all the more probable, as it is known that fine, short, and pale-coloured hairs on the limbs and other parts of the body, occasionally become developed into "thickset, long, and rather coarse dark hairs," when abnormally nourished near old-standing inflamed surfaces. [1]
There was heavy rain most of the day on the hills, and occasionally a shower swept across our path. [4]
The entertainment was quite free, with a "collection" occasionally during the performance. [4]
It is occasionally quite absent, or again is largely developed. [1]
Some remedies of questionable though not odious character appear occasionally to have been employed by the early practitioners, but they were such as still had the support of the medical profession. [3]
Rich information about Pythagoras is to be found in the works of the very learned scholar Roeth, who is however occasionally much too bold in his conjectures. [10]
Local customs were pronounced and crude in outline; language was often highly coloured, and action was occasionally accentuated by a pistol shot. [11]
It was a principle of her well-ordered life never to get into a passion, never to let herself go, never to reveal herself by intemperate speech, never to any one, except occasionally to her husband when his cold sarcasm became intolerable. [4]
He had a pole ten feet long, with a crook in the end of it, and occasionally a goose would branch out from the flock and make a lively break around the corner, with wings half lifted and neck stretched to its utmost. [5]
But literature, however pleasant and occasionally profitable as an avocation, was not to be thought of as a vocation. [4]
Occasionally one other person breakfasted with him, even Savary dit Detricand, whom however he met less frequently than many people of the town, though they lived in the same house. [11]
This suture occasionally persists more or less distinctly in man after maturity; and more frequently in ancient than in recent crania, especially, as Canestrini has observed, in those exhumed from the Drift, and belonging to the brachycephalic type. [1]
What a robust people, what a nation of thinkers we might be, if we would only lay ourselves on the shelf occasionally and renew our edges! [5]
Confidence in his own powers and the final triumph of his conviction had deserted him only occasionally, and for a few brief hours. [10]
Occasionally dressers ran out to fetch water, or to point out those who were to be brought in next. [2]
Occasionally she leaned out of the carriage window and looked back and then forward at the long train of wounded in front of them. [2]
Occasionally we amused ourselves by writing for the magazines and papers of the day. [6]
The bow is ornamented with a steel comb with a battle-ax attachment which threatens to cut passing boats in two occasionally, but never does. [5]
Occasionally a trapper or a sportsman wandered through them, but just here where Ingolby was none ever loitered. [11]
Occasionally a novel or a play was the subject of their talk, and then they took a delight in drawing her out, in appealing to a spontaneous judgment unhampered by pedagogically implanted preconceptions. [9]

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