It is the heritage of all, yet manifested only at rare intervals in favored individuals.
They had long since discovered that war is never romantic and seldom exciting, but a monotonous round of tiresome duties, enlivened at rare intervals by dangerous episodes.
It was still dark, although a star reflected in the water at rare intervals.
Only at rare intervals did he give way to his imagination—an imagination, by the way, which was bright and suggestive, even if inclined to bring out disagreeable points—and let out prophecies of evil.
From that time poor Mother Bunch only heard of her sister at rare intervals.
The few openings, cut at rare intervals in the walls of the staircase, could hardly admit more than some faint rays of glimmering light.
Louder sounds the death-knell, the air trembles beneath the strokes of so many bells, and, at rare intervals, the funeral chant rises faintly to the summit of the hill.
At rare intervals, they heard, at a very great distance, the rattle and rumble of a coach, returning home late; then all was again silent.
I remember these things at midnight, at rare intervals.
To some extent, and at rare intervals, even I am a yogi.
I find it impossible to write or read except at rare intervals, but am, generally speaking, tougher than formerly.
They pass each other at rare intervals on the thoroughfares of life and know each other by a secret sign, and smile to each other and go on their way comforted and in better hope.
Curiously enough, after the fatal visitation religion becomes entirely subordinate in his correspondence, and only at rare intervals does he allude to his peculiar experience.
At rare intervals a Kansas sparrow would visit the thicket on the vacant lot near my house, but, my!
The wayfarer who traverses the sterile campos is astonished to discover, on the tortuous and stunted trees that grow there at rare intervals, some flowers of a singular loveliness.
As far as New Braunfels, the Prairies are occasionally relieved by clumps of fine old trees; but below that point the traveller only encounters, and that at rare intervals, a few scarce coppices and scanty thickets.
The magazines all have middling verse; only at rare intervals do they have something more.
Wordsworth, who was a really great poet, was great only at rare intervals.
At rare intervals an abbe, whose measured tread adds to the gloomy silence of these sealed houses, passes by and glides like a shadow through some half-opened doorway.
Perhaps the young woman loved him all the more for seeing him at rare intervals, perhaps he had disregarded her entreaties, feeling an irresistible desire for a life of adventure.
Soldevilla, his favorite pupil, found himself a target for the master's questions when he appeared at rare intervals in the studio.
At rare intervals, priests from Ravenna come to sing some special mass at these cold altars; pious folk make vows to pray upon their mouldy steps and kiss the relics which are shown on great occasions.
I am obliged to do without his presence, and it is only at rare intervals that he finds open to him a house which I had taught him to consider his home.
She sends the young lady who is a friend of mine to find out if he needs anything, but she receives him only at rare intervals.
My orchestra is the finest in the world," the Prince would proudly say when his guests complimented him after one of the concerts his musicians gave atrare intervals on land.
You must realize that for a hundred and fifty years the latter kept their agreements faithfully, and that during all this time the subsidies that had been promised them from Madrid were sent only at rare intervals.
The house-tops were crowded with veiled faces; but upon so slight an acquaintance we found difficulty in putting in even a wink, except at rare intervals.
It has no obvious picturesqueness, this interminable desert of thorn and sand and rank grass, varied at rare intervals by a raw kopje or a clump of timber.
The dust of the track was thick with the spoor of wild cats, wolves, the blue wildebeest, and at rare intervals of wild ostrich.
Between these two beginnings we all but lose trace of it in wilds of sand and swamp, the dense forests, the lakes and the wild mountains of Equatorial Africa, penetrated at rare intervalsby native paths and old hunters' tracks.
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