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  • Not infrequently is health itself destroyed by over-stimulating the mind.†   (source)
  • Lord Hoster had not spoken his brother's name since, from what Edmure told her in his infrequent letters.†   (source)
  • He always did, and losses were infrequent now.†   (source)
  • Those big blue eyes and the luminous, infrequent smiles reminded her of someone she couldn't name.†   (source)
  • You'd be surprised how infrequently I get something I truly want."†   (source)
  • The gentle Anne makes infrequent appearances, and she's not about to let herself be shoved out the door so soon after she's arrived.†   (source)
  • It seemed that he had only infrequently attended school, and those of the very poorest sort; out in the desolate places where his dad worked, often there were no schools for him to go to.†   (source)
  • This happens so infrequently that I don't know what to make of it.†   (source)
  • He could hear the thoughts of people and animals-and communicate with them in that manner if he chose to-but it was something he had done infrequently except with Saphira.†   (source)
  • The reason she had to bring him the bedpan so infrequently was not only because he was on a diet consisting entirely of liquids and gelatines (earlier, when he was in the cloud, she had fed him intravenously), but also because Novril had a tendency to cause constipation in patients taking it.†   (source)
  • Infrequently used plug points were clogged with grime.†   (source)
  • She hardly ever came out of it, though customer visits were infrequent.†   (source)
  • The reflection of the flames, still infrequent, glowed here and there in the sky.†   (source)
  • But the other street children made me unspeakably nervous, so I visited infrequently, only when I was in desperate need of help, or when I had something to share.†   (source)
  • He took them to the jetties where half the city also went after nightfall, he took them wherever he could, and sometimes even where he could not, and not infrequently he had to hurry into a dark entryway and do what he could, however he could do it, behind the gate.†   (source)
  • We also had staff on hand making sure those of us on the team had food to eat during our infrequent breaks.†   (source)
  • In my head, I went through the conversation again…… Renee and I ambled along the sidewalk, trying to stay in the range of the infrequent palm tree shadows.†   (source)
  • Not infrequently we find in Hinduism and Buddhism an emphasis on the fact that the deity is present in all things (pantheism) and that man can become one with God through religious insight.†   (source)
  • Growing up in the not infrequently perilous circumstances in which he had grown up, he was aware of the fragility of his body.†   (source)
  • Then the wife who had been so charming and ready to smile changed into a silent shadow that played infrequently along the walls.†   (source)
  • It arises only infrequently in places of nearly universal poverty like Haiti, where most people don't get treated at all.†   (source)
  • But not infrequently his business clients would drag in private problems that had a tendency to create unwelcome turmoil.†   (source)
  • The informer, Floyd Wells, might easily have invented his story; such tale-telling was not infrequently undertaken by prisoners who hoped to win favor or attract official notice.†   (source)
  • Lewis had forgotten there even was a television in that room, it was so infrequently used.†   (source)
  • On infrequent occasions Baba Hajji poked his face into the room, but he spent most of his time in prayer and Koran-reading.†   (source)
  • But as these meetings were extremely dangerous and thus infrequent, the High Organ would often take decisions that were then communicated to all the other members.†   (source)
  • These times were hers, however brief and infrequent.†   (source)
  • Perhaps Smith spoke so infrequently because he was listening so hard.†   (source)
  • Mortenson had called him before setting out for K2, to ask Reichardt for advice, and they'd talked infrequently, but warmly, ever since.†   (source)
  • They called infrequently and, eventually, stopped communicating altogether.†   (source)
  • Father knew nothing of the curse and saw me too infrequently to issue many commands.†   (source)
  • Obasan keeps his infrequent letters in her jewel box.†   (source)
  • Blanca's meetings with Pedro Tercero became infrequent, but for that very reason they were all the more intense.†   (source)
  • Cedric has seen pictures of that skinny young thing, a striking girl with a quick smile who, as he has discerned from his mother's infrequent recollections, searched for love and found mostly trouble.†   (source)
  • About how when he'd first moved back, living with his dad had been okay' occasionally, he had money problems and issues with creditors, but when he took out his stress on Nate it was infrequent.†   (source)
  • Catastrophes happen infrequently.†   (source)
  • The decibel level of the conversation was suddenly reduced, and the general, aware that his presence inevitably brought stares, amiable waves and not infrequently mild applause, smiled benignly at no one in particular and yet at everyone as he guided his lady to the deserted table where a small folded card read Réservé.†   (source)
  • "I love everyone who manifests a regard or shows an attachment to my absent friend," she told Lovell, and however infrequently she heard from her absent friend, she kept writing to him at length with never a letup.†   (source)
  • By the end of the summer, Felicia is dancing infrequently and her pronouncements are few.†   (source)
  • We knew from the intelligence analysts that the room was most likely used to meet guests, but that seemed to be infrequent.†   (source)
  • Rosalind and I met infrequently and very discreetly.†   (source)
  • When he was in less pain, and awake more often, she told him what gossip she could from the court and apologized for coming to see him infrequently.†   (source)
  • 'Their sexual relations are so infrequent that she accuses him of not being a man.†   (source)
  • They had met before, on infrequent occasions, and she found it strange to see Dagny Taggart wearing an evening gown.†   (source)
  • They spoke as they dressed: formal suit and tie as infrequently as possible, work clothes or casual duds most of the time.†   (source)
  • And even they had been growing infrequent.†   (source)
  • I have been writing infrequently because, although we don't do much here, it takes up all the time we have.†   (source)
  • He listened to the faint push of his soft shoes through autumn leaves with satisfaction, and whistled a cold quiet whistle between his teeth, occasionally picking up a leaf as he passed, examining its skeletal pattern in the infrequent lamplights as he went on, smelling its rusty smell.†   (source)
  • Not infrequently, Standard finds that by doing so it can control costs, quality, and delivery speed far better, and thus can better serve the superstores.†   (source)
  • Buddy Glass, who, at thirty-six, was the program's oldest living ex-panelist, not infrequently referred to the walls of his parents' apartment as being a kind of visual hymn to commercial American childhood and early puberty.†   (source)
  • Rabid wolves sometimes walk blindly into speeding automobiles and trains; they have come stumbling in among entire teams of Huskies and have been torn to pieces as a result; and not infrequently they have wandered into village streets and have even entered tents or houses occupied by men.†   (source)
  • If it had been an outright junkyard, probably he could have stuck things out, made a career: the violence that had caused each wreck being infrequent enough, tar enough away from him, to be miraculous, as each death, up till the moment of our own, is miraculous.†   (source)
  • For me it was a paralyzingly awkward moment, one that appears now and then throughout life, though with merciful infrequency.†   (source)
  • I had gone down from New York to Baltimore, where she lived, for one of my infrequent visits and, afterwards, had written her with some banal advice to look for the silver lining, to count her blessings instead of burdening others with her miseries.†   (source)
  • Carmen wasn't my girl and she never waited for anybody — but she did address letters with "Dear Johnnie" on the infrequent occasions when she wrote to me.†   (source)
  • He rode the trains very infrequently, for there was a growing anger against tramps, based on the angry violence of the I.W.W. and aggravated by the fierce reprisals against them.†   (source)
  • They bumped the buoy at the start, and engaged in a luffing match on the second round which ended in a minor collision because neither party knew the rules, but in that club such incidents were not infrequent, and protests very few.†   (source)
  • Latent Espers turned up infrequently.†   (source)
  • Given the fact that 190 boarders shared five pay phones, I was amazed at how infrequently it rang.†   (source)
  • Rasheed had relented this time-as he infrequently did-and accompanied the four of them.†   (source)
  • The only thing his parents had during those times were letters, which were infrequent at best.†   (source)
  • Gradually, their visits became shorter and more infrequent.†   (source)
  • In the last hundred years, it had been used only infrequently.†   (source)
  • My naked feet touched the ground so infrequently now it felt more like flying than running.†   (source)
  • By early summer, Amanda had begun to smile again, infrequently at first, then a little more often.†   (source)
  • I talk to my sister infrequently on the phone, usually at odd hours, and I seldom visit.†   (source)
  • Jefferson was infrequently at Williamsburg, however.†   (source)
  • I spoke as infrequently as I could and met their eyes only when I had to.†   (source)
  • I thought of her infrequently.†   (source)
  • I knew a little from our infrequent stays with Baron Greyfallow, and thought I was quite genteel enough without having to memorize forms of address, table manners, and the elaborate snarled rankings of the peerage.†   (source)
  • From his genial cursing, his infrequent shaving, the relaxed way he talked around the cigarette in the corner of his mouth, it was almost as if he were playing a character: some cool guy from a fifties noir or maybe Ocean's Eleven, a lazy, sated gangster with not much to lose.†   (source)
  • They make Indian food infrequently—usually it's pasta or broiled fish or take-out from the Thai restaurant down the block.†   (source)
  • Her agent felt that her status warranted having bodyguards accompany her whenever she took her infrequent walks near the hotel.†   (source)
  • At the trading posts they would sell beautiful silver jewelry and soft leather garments and colorful textiles, and the elders among them seemed not infrequently to be possessed of a limitless patience that was matched by a limitless sorrow.†   (source)
  • It ran infrequently, and if we missed it we had to stand around for a while waiting for the next bus, but among its stops was a shopping plaza with a chilly, gleaming, understaffed supermarket where Boris stole steaks for us, butter, boxes of tea, cucumbers (a great delicacy for him), packages of bacon —even cough syrup once, when I had a cold — slipping them in the cutaway lining of his ugly gray raincoat (a man's coat, much too big for him, with drooping shoulders and a grim Eastern…†   (source)
  • She visits him infrequently; she and Gogol are never close to his neighborhood for any reason, and even the absolute privacy they would have had there is of no appeal.†   (source)
  • Nor had Tuck ever traveled to Louisiana, and though Dawson wrote regularly to Tuck, he infrequently received a response.†   (source)
  • Baths tended to be sporadic and infrequent events for Roran, but today was an important day, and he wanted to be fresh and clean for what was to come.†   (source)
  • The expression on his soft, round Oriental face, however, showed that such intrusions were not infrequent, only unnerving.†   (source)
  • He'd showered infrequently since he'd been suspended, and he sat on the porch, drinking straight from the bottle, watching people walk in and out of the Feldmans' house.†   (source)
  • And while the urgencies of the pantry grew greater, Fernanda's indignation also grew, until her eventual protests, her infrequent outbursts came forth in an uncontained, unchained torrent that begin one morning like the monotonous drone of a guitar and as the day advanced rose in pitch, richer and more splendid.†   (source)
  • That they'd been dating regularly for the past month or two amazed him, even if their relationship was limited mostly to infrequent meetings like this one.†   (source)
  • We've made love infrequently these last few years, and when we did, it lacked the spontaneity and excitement we'd enjoyed in the past.†   (source)
  • Indeed, it is through his infrequent gravitation to, and the internal conflicts within, such terrorist organizations that a clearer picture of "Carlos" is beginning to emerge.†   (source)
  • We had both heard numerous doctors explain the risks and the rewards; we knew how infrequently pediatric donors came about.†   (source)
  • The truth was, Keith didn't want full custody any more than she wanted him to have it, and over the years, they'd worked out an unspoken solution: Keith would have Ben as infrequently as possible, but enough to keep Gramps happy.†   (source)
  • Infrequent outings-to church, mostly, and one small family gathering at his grandmother's house-only ended up making him feel more obtuse, as people he'd sometimes known his whole life asked off-target, generally uninformed questions about his new life in Providence.†   (source)
  • He forced her to surrender Murtagh to a wet nurse and only allowed her to visit him at infrequent intervals.†   (source)
  • Their disagreements weren't constant, but they weren't infrequent, either; remarkably, no matter how quickly things flared up, they almost always ended equally fast.†   (source)
  • Because if she didn't have this thing to do, to plan and maneuver and look forward to, this far-too-infrequent Brian, and this is what she'd almost told him earlier, she would become lonely and shaky, driving along the decorated highway under the burning sky, and maybe a little indistinct.†   (source)
  • Though she'd dated infrequently over the years, she'd found that most suitors either pretended Ben didn't exist and said only a few words to him or went overboard in the way they talked to him, trying to prove how wonderful they were by being overly friendly with her son.†   (source)
  • Though they were infrequent, I savored them desperately, hoping that our relationship was somehow back on track.†   (source)
  • He still smiled from time to time, his smiles sweeter for their infrequency, but he no longer grinned.†   (source)
  • He not infrequently groups all people together as being hypocritical, hostile, and deserving of whatever he is able to do to them.†   (source)
  • Then I remembered a couple of turtleneck shirts that she wore infrequently, complaining that they were too tight around her neck.†   (source)
  • He was appropriately scientific and disciplined when conversing with De Roos, or with the specialists who appeared with the regular infrequency of trolley cars in the rain.†   (source)
  • Past them the tunnel was bare and desolate, the smooth walls broken only by a single flameless lantern every twenty yards and at infrequent intervals by a closed gate or door.†   (source)
  • After punishing me for using my fist, Mother issued one of her infrequent commands: never to tell anyone about my curse.†   (source)
  • The wind blowing against the current [of the Gulf Stream], not directly, but in various angles, produced a tumbling sea, vast mountains, sometimes dashing against each other …. and not infrequently breaking on the ship, threatened to bury us all at once in the deep.†   (source)
  • Normally the prey of an ever-unfulfilled randiness—as the reader by now must be aware—I became, during these mercifully infrequent seizures of morning-after engorgement, a godforsaken organism in absolute thrall to the genital urge, capable of defiling a five-year-old of either sex, ready for coition with almost any vertebrate having a pulse and warm blood.†   (source)
  • Only short blocks away traffic flowed turbulently on Flatbush Avenue, a place intensely urban, cacophonous, cluttered, swarming with jangled souls and nerves; but here the arboreal green and the pollen-hazy light, the infrequent trucks and cars, the casual pace of the few strollers at the park's border all created the effect of an outlying area in a modest Southern city—Richmond perhaps, or Chattanooga or Columbia.†   (source)
  • '7 Not infrequently, the supernatural helper is masculine in form.†   (source)
  • He hung to life by a decayed filament, a corpse lit by infrequent flares of consciousness.†   (source)
  • It came infrequently, almost inaudibly, with a faint fluttering respiration.†   (source)
  • Chances to see Ashley alone were all too infrequent these days.†   (source)
  • The families of the men who had been in the ill-starred Klan foray did call first, but called with obvious infrequency thereafter.†   (source)
  • Now that they had a secure hiding-place, almost a home, it did not even seem a hardship that they could only meet infrequently and for a couple of hours at a time.†   (source)
  • She had tried to seduce the good priest who heard her infrequent confessions because she felt sorry for him.†   (source)
  • His furtive, infrequent urges drew him to the young, slim, full-bosomed, brainless girls—the giggling little waitresses, the lisping manicurists, the less efficient stenographers, the kind who wore pink or orchid dresses and little hats on the back of their heads with gobs of blond curls in front.†   (source)
  • His voice was deliberate, infrequent, ponderous; the voice of a man who demanded that he be listened to not so much with attention but in silence.†   (source)
  • Beneath the film of apathy, the events of yesterday ruffled the surface only rarely, like the tardy infrequent wreckage of a ship long sunken.†   (source)
  • Though it was only a few hundred miles north of Santa Fé, communication with that region was so infrequent that news travelled to Santa Fé from Europe more quickly than from Pike's Peak.†   (source)
  • I imagine these infrequent meetings satisfied my father, Personally, I hadn't the least antipathy to him, only a little sadness of heart.†   (source)
  • The big infrequent drops of rain lanced down and splashed on the road, and as the truck moved along, the drops became smaller and closer.†   (source)
  • Hence during the war and while he was absent from home, his wife had no garden save what she could make herself or with the infrequent aid of neighbors.†   (source)
  • OFTEN IN ACTUAL LIFE, and not infrequently in the myths and popular tales, we encounter the dull case of the call unanswered; for it is always possible to turn the ear to other interests.†   (source)
  • On those infrequent occasions when his mother bought herself a dress, she sometimes frankly preferred to stand rather than sit down and wrinkle it.†   (source)
  • …had from day to day no clear idea where the day's food, shelter, lodging was to come from, although he was reasonably sure it would be given: he ate wherever he happened to hang his hat, either at Gant's or at his mother's; occasionally, although infrequently, he slept with Luke in the sloping, alcoved, gabled back room, rude with calcimine, with the high drafty steps that slanted to the kitchen porch, with the odor of old stacked books in packing-cases, with the sweet orchard scents.†   (source)
  • Goethe presents the masculine guide in Faust as Mephistopheles—and not infrequently the dangerous aspect of the "mercurial" figure is stressed; for he is the lurer of the innocent soul into realms of trial.†   (source)
  • It is a quiet road, appearing and vanishing quietly, the pale dust marked only by narrow and infrequent wheels and by the hooves of horses and mules and now and then by the print of human feet.†   (source)
  • He had untiring energy for the dancing and parties she loved and an unending supply of coarse stories with which he regaled her on their infrequent evenings alone when the table was cleared and brandy and coffee before them.†   (source)
  • Even while he was still a child she would take him with her when with all the intense and mysterious caution of a playing child she would creep to the attic and add to the hoard meagre and infrequent and terrific nickels and dimes (fruit of what small chicanery and deceptions with none anywhere under the sun to say her nay he did not know), putting into the can beneath his round grave eyes coins whose value he did not even recognise.†   (source)
  • Not infrequently deeds that belong to the earlier stages of the cycle are assigned to the human hero, or one of the earlier heroes may be humanized and carried on into a later day; but such contaminations and variations do not alter the general formula.†   (source)
  • When Scarlett infrequently stopped to think about the matter she knew that none of her new associates could be called ladies by Ellen's strict standards.†   (source)
  • He leaned down across the counter until his mouth was near her ear and hissed, in a very creditable imitation of the stage villains who appeared infrequently at the Athenaeum Hall: "Fear not, fair lady!†   (source)
  • 63 Sighs, short and infrequent, were exhaled, 64 And each man fixed his eyes before his feet.†   (source)
  • With their greater infrequency the sounds increased in strength and sharpness.†   (source)
  • Demonstrations of this nature were infrequent with Glenn.†   (source)
  • It was gravel on rock bottom, tortuous, but open, with infrequent and shallow downward steps.†   (source)
  • Only infrequent battles with other tribes marred the serenity of their lives.†   (source)
  • The men rode and ran by turn, and the dogs were kept on the jump, with but infrequent stoppages.†   (source)
  • They were insignificant; still, in a district where laurels were infrequent, they might shine.†   (source)
  • She scarcely existed; her letters had become dull and infrequent; she had no wants and no curiosity.†   (source)
  • Your visits there are always infrequent.†   (source)
  • It was fortunate for his work during the winter that those moments of ecstasy came infrequently.†   (source)
  • A few times she had seen her a the piano in the parlor, and not infrequently had heard her play.†   (source)
  • The baying of the hound, though infrequent, inspirited her.†   (source)
  • Miss Stackpole gave one of her infrequent laughs.†   (source)
  • The sobs became more and more infrequent, and at last ceased.†   (source)
  • A similar experience is not infrequent in private life.†   (source)
  • Tasso's is no infrequent case in modern biography.†   (source)
  • The fatigue of a great grief not infrequently produces this effect on the mind.†   (source)
  • Rosemary listened, caught sharply by the rich clipped voice in infrequent speech: "The poor man," Nicole exclaimed.†   (source)
  • Edith Wayne, occasionally—and Madeline reflected that the occasions were infrequent—admired a man sincerely.†   (source)
  • Dale never refused a service, and that was why his infrequent visits to Pine were wont to be prolonged beyond his own pleasure.†   (source)
  • When I was on earth, and made those proposals to ladies which, though universally condemned, have made me so interesting a hero of legend, I was not infrequently met in some such way as this.†   (source)
  • Very infrequent tipsy men, swollen with the value of their opinions, engaged their companions in earnest and confidential conversation.†   (source)
  • Such groups as this were not infrequent, and Hegglund as well as Higby, who had been there on several occasions, described it as dandy.†   (source)
  • The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Chapter 1 Mr. Sherlock Holmes Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night, was seated at the breakfast table.†   (source)
  • By slower degrees his friendship for Jane Withersteen and his contrition drifted from the active preoccupation of his present thought to a place in memory, with more and more infrequent recalls.†   (source)
  • And at infrequent times he perceived the comedy of life; relaxed for a gorgeous hour from the intensity wearing to his admirers.†   (source)
  • It was very dark indeed in the wood, for the lightning was now becoming infrequent, and the hail, which was pouring down in a torrent, fell in columns through the gaps in the heavy foliage.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER XIV AT PORT STOWE Ten o'clock the next morning found Mr. Marvel, unshaven, dirty, and travel-stained, sitting with the books beside him and his hands deep in his pockets, looking very weary, nervous, and uncomfortable, and inflating his cheeks at infrequent intervals, on the bench outside a little inn on the outskirts of Port Stowe.†   (source)
  • …a few cornflowers that had fallen lazily behind, and decorated the ground here and there with their flowers like the border of a tapestry, in which may be seen at intervals hints of the rustic theme which appears triumphant in the panel itself; infrequent still, spaced apart as the scattered houses which warn us that we are approaching a village, they betokened to me the vast expanse of waving corn beneath the fleecy clouds, and the sight of a single poppy hoisting upon its slender…†   (source)
  • During the winter months there was no stage between Starkfield and Bettsbridge, and the trains which stopped at Corbury Flats were slow and infrequent.†   (source)
  • He moved on, aimlessly, and in a little while the houses thinned, and the passers-by were infrequent.†   (source)
  • When he spoke very calmly he understood almost everything, but that was very infrequent, mostly the words gushed from his mouth and he seemed to be enjoying himself so much his head shook.†   (source)
  • It would come infrequently-when something else did not interface when the pleasant side was not too apparent, when Drouet was not there.†   (source)
  • Outside the car window was a glaze of darkness stippled with the gold of infrequent mysterious lights.†   (source)
  • Mrs. George Dorset, regardless of the mild efforts of a traveller with a carpet-bag, who was doing his best to make room for her by getting out of the train, stood in the middle of the aisle, diffusing about her that general sense of exasperation which a pretty woman on her travels not infrequently creates.†   (source)
  • As noted, mutual sympathy was at work here, the kind of family affection and affinity of personality that not infrequently leaps a generation.†   (source)
  • With them, since, at the heart of all their entertainments, dinners, musical evenings, games, suppers in fancy dress, excursions to the country, theatre parties, even the infrequent 'big evenings' when they entertained 'bores,' there were the presence of Odette, the sight of Odette, conversation with Odette, an inestimable boon which the Verdurins, by inviting him to their house, bestowed on Swann, he was happier in the little 'nucleus' than anywhere else, and tried to find some…†   (source)
  • And, lastly, how could Lily, accustomed to choose between a pressure of engagements, guess that she had mortally offended Miss Stepney by causing her to be excluded from one of Mrs. Peniston's infrequent dinner-parties?†   (source)
  • Wrong-Wheel Jones, who had been recovering from one of his infrequent intemperate spells, had also been left behind.†   (source)
  • Skittering through a garage alley they came out on the mass of Zenith General Hospital, a block long, five stories of bleak windows with infrequent dim blotches of light.†   (source)
  • Babies and Carley had never become closely acquainted in those infrequent meetings that were usually the result of chance.†   (source)
  • …progressed to a total loss of voice for hours, and given his sore throat, which returned whenever he neglected to keep his throat moistened with medications that increased salivary flow, there seemed sufficient reason to take that ingenious instrument from the cupboard—not to mention the fact that although Joachim swallowed the wrong way with normal infrequency, he did so only because of the special care he took when eating, so that he was almost always slow to finish his meal.†   (source)
  • Nicole stood in a shop with a love bird on her shoulder, and had one of her infrequent outbursts of speech.†   (source)
  • With quick hands, and one-tenth of his brain, he made blood counts, did urinalyses and Wassermanns and infrequent necropsies, and all the while he was dead, in a whitetiled coffin.†   (source)
  • The earth in the carrot beards was fragrant and sweet in the darkness, and Rosemary was so high up in the load that she could hardly see the others in the long shadow between infrequent street lamps.†   (source)
  • It was not only Odette's indifference, however, that he must take pains to circumvent; it was also, not infrequently, his own; feeling that, since Odette had had every facility for seeing him, she seemed no longer to have very much to say to him when they did meet, he was afraid lest the manner—at once trivial, monotonous, and seemingly unalterable—which she now adopted when they were together should ultimately destroy in him that romantic hope, that a day might come when she would…†   (source)
  • But he had not taken kindly to farming or sheep-raising or monotonous home toil, and for twelve years he had lived in the forest, with only infrequent visits to Pine and Show Down and Snowdrop.†   (source)
  • Though she and her hostess had not met since the latter's tentative discussion of her future, Lily knew that the acuteness which enabled Mrs. Fisher to lay a safe and pleasant course through a world of antagonistic forces was not infrequently exercised for the benefit of her friends.†   (source)
  • There was a suspicion in Elk Mills—now, in 1897, a dowdy red-brick village, smelling of apples—that this brown-leather adjustable seat which Doc Vickerson used for minor operations, for the infrequent pulling of teeth and for highly frequent naps, had begun life as a barber's chair.†   (source)
  • Next day she was rather quiet, seeming upon the verge of one of the dispirited spells she got infrequently.†   (source)
  • He blurted that they must be going— Leora really had to be back— The trolleys ran infrequently after midnight and they walked to the hospital through hollow and sounding streets.†   (source)
  • He beamed on his loving students and cried: "Gentlemen, the trouble with too many doctors, even those splendid old pioneer war-horses who through mud and storm, through winter's chill blast and August's untempered heat, go bringing cheer and surcease from pain to the world's humblest, yet even these old Nestors not so infrequently settle down in a rut and never shake themselves loose.†   (source)
  • Its reputation was that of a haunted house; derived probably from the infrequent glimpses of poor old Amrah, sometimes on the roof, sometimes in a latticed window.†   (source)
  • With her indeed he not infrequently fell into discussion upon physics, the theory of agriculture, and especially philosophy; philosophy was Agafea Mihalovna's favorite subject.†   (source)
  • In that sense we are certainly all not infrequently like madmen, but with the slight difference that the deranged are somewhat madder, for we must draw a line.†   (source)
  • Thus trained in the exercise not only of free will, but despotic authority, Rowena was, by her previous education, disposed both to resist and to resent any attempt to control her affections, or dispose of her hand contrary to her inclinations, and to assert her independence in a case in which even those females who have been trained up to obedience and subjection, are not infrequently apt to dispute the authority of guardians and parents.†   (source)
  • When the drawing-room door opened and Dorothea entered, there was a sort of contrast not infrequent in country life when the habits of the different ranks were less blent than now.†   (source)
  • …descending among the various brethren of his own color, assembled on the same errand, he would edify and delight them with the most ludicrous burlesques and imitations, all delivered with the most imperturbable earnestness and solemnity; and though the auditors immediately about him were generally of his own color, it not infrequently happened that they were fringed pretty deeply with those of a fairer complexion, who listened, laughing and winking, to Sam's great self-congratulation.†   (source)
  • These conversations led me somewhat later to the knowledge of similar cases, and to the discovery that they are not of very infrequent occurrence.†   (source)
  • Here, indeed, in the sable simplicity that generally characterised the Puritanic modes of dress, there might be an infrequent call for the finer productions of her handiwork.†   (source)
  • It was one of those not infrequent days of an English June which are as wet and boisterous as November.†   (source)
  • Perhaps, too, her grey, thoughtful eyes revealed an arch gaiety sometimes; but this was infrequent; the sort of wisdom which looked from their pupils did not readily keep company with these lighter moods.†   (source)
  • This was made evident, one day, when a political procession, with hundreds of flaunting banners, and drums, fifes, clarions, and cymbals, reverberating between the rows of buildings, marched all through town, and trailed its length of trampling footsteps, and most infrequent uproar, past the ordinarily quiet House of the Seven Gables.†   (source)
  • She was now literally trembling and panting at this her temerity in such an errant undertaking; her breath came and went quickly, and her eyes shone with an infrequent light.†   (source)
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