How often I have heard it said that Cleopatra understood how to chain him here!
How often I have heard my uncle say that Antony and Cleopatra were fired with the most ardent love for each other!
How often a garbled account has been given, and yet the whole was so terribly simple!
How often in those days she used magic art to assure herself of his future!
How often I let you share the radiant visions which my soul revealed to me!
How often in the cross-roads dogs that pant To get apart strain eagerly asunder With utmost might?
He knows how quickly he recognised me again, how often he had described me and my leaving him at the school, and how he told him of a garret he recollected: which is the one I have spoken of, and in his father's house to this day.
How often have I inquired for you, and been told that I should hear before long!
How often have I told you,' said Ralph, 'and how oftenam I to tell you, that you run no risk?
How often have we called our judge our enemy, because he has given sentence against us!
How often had my own hand shrunk with unconquerable repugnance from that contact!
Three highly-polished steps (how often have I slipped on them!
From afar, and beyond the cold years of my boyhood, that family table came before me like a mirage of warm homelife; how oftenhad it become a sort of nostalgia to me when I sat between my mother and M.
How often haue I tempted Suffolkes tongue (The agent of thy foule inconstancie) To sit and watch me as Ascanius did, When he to madding Dido would vnfold His Fathers Acts, commenc'd in burning Troy.
How often he had met you Sword to Sword: That of all things vpon the Earth, he hated Your person most: That he would pawne his fortunes To hopelesse restitution, so he might Be call'd your Vanquisher Corio.
How often, in his youth, had he trodden the same spot!
Oh, how often would he say, 'Where are those good Romans?
How often in thy progress hitherward, in doubt, in danger, might this bosom have been thy resting-place, and this voice have whispered comfort to thy soul?
How often we see a man working with his mouth while writing, when he should be only using his hands; or, working uselessly with his left hand, when what he has to do only needs the right!
How often we hear it said, "It did seem hard when I went to bed tired last night that I should have been kept awake by a noise like that--and now this morning, I am more tired than when I went to bed.
How often have my tears Invaded your soft ears, And dropp'd their silent chimes A thousand thousand times?
Oh, laddie, laddie, how often did I hold my hands over my heart for fear it would burst for pride in you!
How often did I check back my tears for very joy of loving you!
How often did I find myself sick with the agony of fear that you should go away from me forever!
Then Peter asked Him, Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me and I forgive him?
How often do the involuntary motions of the countenance discover our inward thoughts, and betray our most private secrets to the bystanders.
How often do we fail to credit the same to the kind intercession of friends with the Father of us all.
How often is it the case that the sky of the future becomes overcast.
Oh, how often have I sighed for room enough to spread myself!
How often may we make mistakes because the witnesses--in their excitement--have forgotten the most important things!
How often do I live in a dream and sleep during the day, worse than if I slept, for I feel always the same; and instead of finding refreshment in this stupor, as in sleep, I vex and torment myself so that I cannot gain strength.
Farther on in the same letter he says:-- How often do I take the night for the day, and the day for the night!
How often do I tell my piano all that I should like to impart to you!
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "how often" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
