have occasion for

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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

And significantly he added, "Though I do not know that it will ever be of the least importance to me, yet one loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them."

From Thomas Jefferson The Apostle of Americanism by Chinard, Gilbert

It is not unlikely that in the fluctuation of things our country may have occasion for great military exertions.

From Patrick Henry by Tyler, Moses Coit

I imagine you must be somewhat fatigued by the journey; you will also have occasion for a chambermaid; you may order her you like best to attend you.

From Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume by

In America we have occasion for no such regrets.

From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, August, 1851 by Various