1 This was the state of matters, on the afternoon of, what I may be excused for calling, that eventful and important Friday.
2 I begged Mr. Micawber to fill us bumpers, and proposed the toast in due form: shaking hands with him across the table, and kissing Mrs. Micawber, to commemorate that eventful occasion.
3 It was a great augmentation of my uneasiness to be bereaved, at this eventful crisis, of the inestimable services of Miss Mills.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 41. DORA'S AUNTS 4 I rely implicitly on His power, and confide wholly in His goodness: I count the hours till that eventful one arrives which shall restore me to Him, reveal Him to me.
5 The eventful Thursday at length came.
6 It was a momentous and eventful day to all upon our plantation.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter I. 7 The night before the eventful day, word was sent to the slave quarters to the effect that something unusual was going to take place at the "big house" the next morning.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter I. 8 On the occasion of our first eventful meeting I thought to myself that I had at last met a girl who was not only beautiful but who had courage.
9 That night was an eventful one to Eustacia's brain, and one which she hardly ever forgot.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 2: 3 How a Little Sound Produced a Great Dream 10 Meanwhile, at the other end of the town there was in progress an event which was destined to augment still further the unpleasantness of our hero's position.
11 Yes, it will be a most interesting event to make his acquaintance.
12 This edifying spectacle was the final event of the Governor's ball.
13 Owing to its rarity, perhaps, any external event, however trivial, always made me feel as though some radical change in my life were at hand.
14 Tikhon knew that neither the son's arrival nor any other unusual event must be allowed to disturb the appointed order of the day.
15 The whole tenor of his thoughts instantaneously changed; the battle seemed the memory of a remote event long past.