seldom met with
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But no matter whom you ask in this city’s tight-knit community of Polish Catholics, the name of Marek Bozek is seldom met with a shrug.
From New York Times • Aug. 14, 2010
Indifferent acting and direction shattered what started out to be a simple, sincere narrative of the type so seldom met with in the movies.
From Time Magazine Archive
His pictures combine correctness of drawing with boldness, if not refinement, of colouring—which is seldom met with in the works of our best painters.
From English Painters with a chapter on American painters by Koehler, S. R.
And in this connection I might say that national peculiarities in dress are seldom met with in the ordinary course of continental travel.
From An American Girl Abroad by Trafton, Adeline
The fuliginous condition of the tongue, gums, cheeks, and lips which characterizes that state is seldom met with in epidemic meningitis.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
