La France notes, regarding these statistics, that their details show that men oftenest use pistols, and women oftenest try poison, in their attempts at suicide.
A gloomy damp ravine below a waterfall, the sides mere walls of rock and the bed choked with rank vegetation, is the place where its tracks are oftenest found.
The English were doubtless led to consider wampum a generic word, because they heard it oftenest used, wampum being much more abundant than suckáuhock.
It was oftenest worn about the neck in strings of the length of a rosary, the number of strings being determined by the means or social position of the wearer.
Man is called a Laughing Animal: but do not the apes also laugh, or attempt to do it; and is the manliest man the greatest and oftenest laugher?
Anecdotes, oftenest without date of place or time, fly loosely on separate slips, like Sibylline leaves.
Of Symbols, however, I remark farther, that they have both an extrinsic and intrinsic value; oftenest the former only.
Varieties of aptitude doubtless; but infinitely more of circumstance; and far oftenest it is the latter only that are looked to.
Women were not born to command, but they have enough inborn power to govern man who commands, and, as a rule, the best and happiest marriages are those where women have most authority, and where their advice is oftenest followed.
For my part, I think oftenest of one of those scenes in his many begging journeys to the North.
Her thought at such times may be condensed into the two words that oftenest did duty together in all her conversations: 'My Sept!
Whose Speech flew over Germany, like fire over dry flax; and still exists,--both Speeches now oftenest rolled into one by inaccurate editors.
I at first said nothing to him of my new psychical experiments, though these were made oftenest in his presence in the evening when we both sat at one writing table, near each other, busied with our individual literary work.
For--let the reader take earnest heed--it is not the conscious evil in men that has been oftenest the oppressor of their fellows; almost always the plea for it has been the general good.
If the stranger gives, he is oftenest encouraging a swindle, rarely performing a true charity.
Anticipation and fruition are oftenest at antipodes.
It seemed to me to be the general sentiment among Southern people of the more intelligent class, in response to this exhibition of Copperhead sympathy, was oftenest expressed in words similar to this: "Why don't they come over and help us now?
Adverbial clauses oftenest modify verbs, but they are also common as modifiers of adjectives and adverbs.
But that in him of which I think oftenest is the Homeric simplicity of his literary life.
Those individual flowers which had the largest glands or nectaries, and which excreted most nectar, would be oftenest visited by insects, and would be oftenest crossed; and so in the long-run would gain the upper hand.
In all parts of the world these stripes occur far oftenest in duns and mouse-duns; by the term dun a large range of colour is included, from one between brown and black to a close approach to cream-colour.
We have seen that in each country it is the species of the larger genera which oftenest present varieties or incipient species.
The war is, perhaps, severest between the males of polygamous animals, and these seem oftenestprovided with special weapons.
The Czar Peter, for example, used to be rather often in the Prussian Dominions, oftenest on business of his own: such a man is to be royally defrayed while with us; yet one would wish it done cheap.
Brother Samson readyoftenest with some question, some suggestion that his wisdom in it.
Brother Samson Subsacrista, one remarks, is ready oftenest with some question, some suggestion, that has wisdom in it.
Oftenest of all, Lanse and his canoe went up the Juana; the Jana came from the Monnlungs Swamp; as the spring deepened, and all the flowers came out, Lanse and his little box went floating up to the Monnlungs almost every day.
It is nature as affecting man, and man as transformed into a creature of feeling and passion by the mysterious conditions of his existence, which oftenest arouses the poetic fervor in her.
Oftenest from Indian lips came the history of wars and dances, of scalps taken and prisoners tortured.
Scar-faced Charley also enjoys the privilege of being outside; but he does not engage in sports, or idle talk, oftenest sitting alone in gloomy silence.
Oftenest it comes flying up from the hot lowlands at our feet; but at times it crawls up like a great white bear, lifting first one paw, then another, yet always securing its foothold even on the sheerest edge of the precipice.
On this account Peepsy had the liberty of the house and went oftenest abroad.
Later the tree, oftenest in white and stain, branches more freely, not twisting itself any longer into set shapes or obvious compartments.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "oftenest" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
