unfrequent
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The Golden Eagle breeds only in the Highlands, but it is not an unfrequent visitor to the Lowlands of Scotland in the cold season.
From British Birds in their Haunts by Rev. C. A. Johns
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 Henry Glassford Bell
Passages of this kind are not unfrequent in Stoical writings.
From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) by William Edward Hartpole Lecky
The scene that ensued was of a character not unfrequent in low London districts, but none the less worthy of record.
From The Little Gleaner, Vol. X. A Monthly Magazine for the Young by Various
A variety of urinary calculus—the uric acid—formed by concretions of this substance in the kidneys is a not unfrequent occurrence in connexion with gout; hence the well-known association of this disease and gravel.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" by Various
