unfrequent
Example Sentences
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He might have been somewhat slow of speech, but he was not slow to act whenever it came to a scuffle with poachers, and this last was not an unfrequent occurrence.
From From Squire to Squatter A Tale of the Old Land and the New by Gordon Stables
It is most common in Spain, Southern France, and Italy, but is not unfrequent in many other parts of France, in Belgium, and the south of Germany, and Hungary.
From British Birds in their Haunts by Rev. C. A. Johns
They could worship together, they could eat together, and marriages between Spaniards and the daughters of the native landowners were not unfrequent.
From The Inhabitants of the Philippines by Frederic H. Sawyer
Although, when circumstances favor it, some portion of Saturday is devoted to hauling up camp wood, yet the practice of devoting a few hours of the concluding part of the Sabbath is not unfrequent.
From Forest Life and Forest Trees: comprising winter camp-life among the loggers, and wild-wood adventure. with Descriptions of lumbering operations on the various rivers of Maine and New Brunswick by John S. Springer
Weak puns are not unfrequent; and the diction but rarely reaches that exquisite felicity of comic phrase in which Pickwick and its successors excel.
From Dickens English Men of Letters by Sir Adolphus William Ward
