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Occurrence   /əkˈərəns/   Listen
Occurrence

noun
1.
An event that happens.  Synonyms: happening, natural event, occurrent.
2.
An instance of something occurring.  "The occurrence (or presence) of life on other planets"



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"Occurrence" Quotes from Famous Books



... Was this so uncommon an occurrence as to cause Juliet to drop her book and press ...
— Hubert's Wife - A Story for You • Minnie Mary Lee
... You do not know the king, and I do. (Aside) I must get back my letter. (Aloud) There is one recent circumstance whose occurrence seems favorable to your master; news comes to the king that the Armada has been lost; wait for him on his way through to chapel and ...
— The Resources of Quinola • Honore de Balzac
... dollars was exacted from the poor farmer for performing the marriage service. The collection of taxes was enforced by suits at law, with enormous expense; and executions, levies, and distresses were of every-day occurrence. All sums exceeding forty shillings were sued for and executions obtained in the courts, the original debt being saddled with extortionate bills of cost. Sheriffs demanded more than was due, under threats of sheriff's ...
— Life & Times of Col. Daniel Boone • Cecil B. Harley
... how disgraceful that, at such a terrible moment, his first thought should have been of the few more francs his trembling hand was striving to tear from a people by whom he had already been made the richest man in Europe, and which the occurrence of this dreadful event might ...
— Edmond Dantes • Edmund Flagg
... Faulstich, to a very youthful scullery maid, sitting just without the altar rails at the end of the long row. Opposite were not only Winter, Bates the steward, Powell, Andrews, and the other men-servants, but Chaplin, heading a detachment from the house stables, and—unexampled occurrence!—Gnudi the Italian chef, with his air of gentle and philosophic melancholy and his anarchic sentiments in theology and politics, liable,—these last—when enlarged on, to cause much fluttering in the dove-cote of the housekeeper's room.—"To hear Signer Gnudi talk sometimes made your blood run ...
— The History of Sir Richard Calmady - A Romance • Lucas Malet


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