unfrequent
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The instances are not unfrequent in which persons have attained a high place both in politics and literature.
From Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland by Stanton, Henry B.
Another likewise unfrequent but most dangerous accident is the septic infection of the abscess—an occurrence referred to by Olshausen to the diffusion of intestinal gases through the walls of the tumor.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
He was her luxury, her delight, the outlet of her not unfrequent tempers, and one of the three sources of a very limited income.
From Istar of Babylon A Phantasy by Potter, Margaret Horton
It is not unfrequent, again, to hear the preceding fallacy stated in a somewhat different form.
From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) by Lecky, William Edward Hartpole
It was perhaps at some of these conferences that Mary imperceptibly imbibed, from her future mother-in-law, and her not unfrequent visitor, Nostradamus, a slight portion of that tendency to superstitious belief then so prevalent.
From Life of Mary Queen of Scots, Volume I (of 2) by Bell, Henry Glassford
