We never saw scarcity in the house of our relative, but we have seen the nettle broth in it very frequently, and the blood-pudding oftener than once; for both dishes were especial favourites with the Highlanders.
And hence the necessity to which we have oftener than once referred, that men should keep themselves in wholesome connection with the master minds of the past.
But our appetite for books was keen and but ill supplied at the time, and so we read all of the work that would read,--some of it oftener than once.
The Pygmies were so small, and there were so many sandy deserts and such high mountains between them and the rest of mankind, that nobody could get a peep at them oftener than once in a hundred years.
She would have been in disgrace oftenerand more seriously on the subject, but that Madame was a little afraid of her, and was, I think, not a little fond of her.
Our fads and the boys' fads are sometimes the same, but oftener distinct.
I kissed and fondled her dark cheeks as gladly as if they had been fair and ruddy, and oftener than I touched my mother's, which were like the petals of a china rose.
He seemed superior to the mere vulgar aim of making himself agreeable--an aim which has much oftener its source in vanity than in benevolence.
O thou who art able to write a Book, which once in the two centuries or oftener there is a man gifted to do, envy not him whom they name City-builder, and inexpressibly pity him whom they name Conqueror or City-burner!
I have sometimes heard of an Iliad in a nutshell; but it has been my fortune to have much oftener seen a nutshell in an Iliad.
When I take up a work that I have read before (the oftenerthe better), I know what I have to expect.
I've Often Laughed I've often laughed and oftener still have wept, A sighing always through my laughter crept, Tears were not far away.
I've spoken much and oftener held by tongue, For still the most was neither said nor sung.
Duke Charles hath oftener been the subject of my revelations than any man living except my King.
I have always thought that the man who will be nothing but a man of wit oftener disobliges than entertains the company.
When used to relieve pain in the stomach, or as a warm application in cases of inflammation of the chest, they should be covered with some impermeable material, and will then not require to be changed oftener than every six hours.
These attacks of vomiting seldom occur oftener than two or three times a day, but they may return for several days together, the child's head probably growing heavier, and its headache more severe.
Afterwards, and until six months old, the child does not need to be fed oftener than every three hours during the twelve waking hours, and every four hours during the sleeping time.
Sometimes, though by no means constantly, the eruption is preceded for twenty-four or thirty-six hours by slight feverishness; but oftener the appearance of the rash is the first indication of anything being the matter.
No truth is better known; but, truth to say, No truth is oftener thrown away.
The farmer's patient care and toil Are oftener wanting than the soil.
So it came about that Canute went over to take his alcohol with Ole oftener than he took it alone.
I remember him as a tall, brown boy with an intelligent face, always lounging among a lot of us little fellows, laughing at us oftener than with us, but such a soft, satisfied laugh that we felt rather flattered when we provoked it.
No one came oftener or showed more sympathy and kindness than Zoe, Mrs. Edward Travilla.
And the oftenerany or all of you visit us here at Viamede, the better.
It contained page after page of lucky numbers and fancy "rows," and was oftener in her hand than any other book.
Sometimes he took heart in the work, but oftener he suffered great discouragement of feeling.
When I find a chap, he'll have to know a powerful lot more about life than that chap--and shave himself oftener also.
Sometimes the word fits the idea; oftenerhe uses one foreign to his meaning.
And of consistency he might have said that it is oftener a mule than a jewel.
I grant you," said I, "that Dickens appeals oftenerto our susceptible sympathies; but he is unreal in comparison with Thackeray.
The champagny strains of Offenbach are heard in every town of Spain oftener than the ballads of the country.
The queen has disappeared from them except in caricature, and the chivalrous face of Castelar and the heavy Bourbon mouth of Don Carlos are oftener seen than any others.
But oftener he rushes in, not caring for the spear, and with one toss of his sharp horns tumbles horse and rider in one heap against the barrier and upon the sand.
It may be said that this mode fails oftener than any other.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "oftener" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
