have occasion for
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"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
I have occasion for a guard: will you pledge me your honour to become an honest man, and I will make you my lieutenant?”
From Adventures in the Philippine Islands by La Gironière, Paul P. de
Dear Mr. Twineall, I am afraid you will have occasion for the dignity of all my ancestors to support you under this trial.
From Such Things Are A Play, in Five Acts by Inchbald, Mrs.
Need, nēd, n. want of something which one cannot do without: necessity: a state that requires relief: want of the means of living.—v.t. to have occasion for: to want.—ns.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
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
