occur to one
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Maybe a great name will occur to one of you if you stop consciously thinking about it.
From Slate • Dec. 8, 2019
We pictured the meek mild creatures where They dwelt in their strawy pen, Nor did it occur to one of us there To doubt they were kneeling then.
From Slate • Dec. 25, 2012
And, doubtless, floods of instances of canes that the world will not willingly let die will occur to one upon a moment's reflection.
From Walking-Stick Papers by Holliday, Robert Cortes
"How strange it is," he said, "that the simplest devices are the last that occur to one!"
From Roderick Hudson by James, Henry
There probably is no better course of reading than that which will naturally occur to one who makes an honest attempt to master our own noble literature.
From How to Form a Library, 2nd ed by Wheatley, Henry Benjamin
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