occasioned

XVI. 8; yet the quantity of tears secreted at once is more than the puncta lacrymalia can readily absorb; which shews _that the motions occasioned by associations are frequently more energetic than the original motions, by which they were occasioned_.

Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766

The start of the second term occasioned shuffling in the White House.

TEAR DOWN THIS WALL ROMESH RATNESAR 2009

” The singularity of the expression occasioned a loud laugh; but this gentleman, so far from being disconcerted, repeated the same words with a resolute tone of voice, and the laugh ceased.

Letter VIII-On the Parliament Voltaire 1909

The pain occasioned by the angry elements, and the cold iron of the shafts of frost which buffetted me, and entered my aching flesh, were a relief to me; blunting my mental suffering.

III.3 1826

The tender sprig is not likely to prosper under the influence of the tree which attracts its nurture; applies that nurture to itself, where the calls occasioned by decay are the most powerful -- An old woman and a sprightly nurse, are characters as opposite as the antipodes.

An History of Birmingham (1783) William Hutton 1769

The singularity of the expression occasioned a loud laugh; but this gentleman, so far from being disconcerted, repeated the same words with a resolute tone of voice, and the laugh ceased.

Letters on England 1694-1778 Voltaire 1736

This name occasioned such excitement that the gentleman ran down three flights of broad mahogany stairs, and with that impulsive generosity common to the west, insisted that the Zendts join them for refreshment.

Centennial Michener, James 1974

"Mr. Hobson's call occasioned considerable comment at luncheon, did it not?"

That Mainwaring Affair

And when the child-voice is so used that no strain of the laryngeal structure is occasioned, that is, when the vocal ligaments are exercised in a normal manner, it cannot but happen that the muscles controlling the vocal bands will increase in strength, and that the bands themselves, composed as they are of numberless elastic fibres, will improve in general tone and elasticity.

The Child-Voice in Singing treated from a physiological and a practical standpoint and especially adapted to schools and boy choirs Francis E. Howard

Mostly formal calls occasioned by the happy return of

Master Olof : a Drama in Five Acts August Strindberg 1880