His better-half notunfrequently pretends to be a soothsayer, and he is often a musician.
It not unfrequently happens to a musical composer that when a new idea occurs to him while he is extemporizing, it appears to him at the first moment more beautiful than he finds it to be on reconsideration.
If this were done, the arts and the manners would exhibit not unfrequently striking contrasts.
Not unfrequently the sleeper feels the pressure without seeing the figure.
In the Italian popular songs of the peasantry, for instance, we not unfrequently meet with the Minor Second, where to an ear accustomed to our Minor Scale it appears like a whimsical substitution for the Major Second.
It happens, however, not unfrequently that the European music is to some extent modified, by being interspersed with national tunes of the extra-European country into which it has been introduced, or by being performed in a peculiar manner.
In China, dramatic performances, enacted by itinerant players, take place not unfrequently in the Joss-houses, or houses of religious ceremonies.
Savages, unacquainted with any other dramatic performances, not unfrequently have dances representing courtship, and songs to which these dances are executed.
They not unfrequently suffer from rheumatic pains in their limbs, which they believe to be caused by some demon.
The Emaum-baarah is a sacred place, erected for the express purpose of commemorating Mahurrum; the founder not unfrequently intends this also as the mausoleum for himself and family.
These sk[)a]lls are always highly exciting, and it not unfrequentlyhappens that accidents arise, from the bears turning upon and attacking their pursuers.
As his ecclesiastical revenues were by no means considerable, he was not unfrequently obliged, for the indulgence of his tastes, to arts which were, at the best, undignified.
He had a small bachelor's box down at Barnes, and not unfrequently went abroad in the vacations.
The latter part of the day was to him a period of repose, a siesta of half-sleepy meditation, which not unfrequently passed into a deep-toned sleep in his arm-chair.
There are always some bullies among a lot of boys, but serious bullying was uncommon, and not unfrequently a hideous retribution befell a bully through some "big fellow" resolving to wreak on him what he inflicted on others.
The fag had access to his master's study, could retreat there to do his lessons in quiet, and not unfrequently was assisted in them by his master.
An authoritative disputant was notunfrequently put down, and presumption of every kind checked by the same query.
It is said that he indulged in wine so freely, as not unfrequently to be seen in the streets in a state of intoxication.
They riddled all divines, and not unfrequently made them sceptics,--disbelievers as bad as themselves.
This remembrance did not unfrequently present itself to the duke's mind.
It had therefore come to pass that Mr Gresham was not unfrequently called upon to discuss his money affairs with Dr Thorne, and occasionally to submit to lectures and advice which might perhaps as well have been omitted.
Not unfrequently backbiting is directed against good persons, with the result that those who have been unduly exalted through the flattery of their kindred, or the favor of others, are humbled by backbiting.
That astrologers not unfrequently forecast the truth by observing the stars may be explained in two ways.
But if they fought on the road home, in very small parties, serious mischief was not unfrequently the consequence.
Indeed, he not unfrequently found the popular voice rather formidable against the attainment of some of his wishes; and it would have been well if parliament had taken a lesson from former and better times in this particular.
But even in these, populous districts the same spirit is not unfrequently shown, with important results, in respect to the accumulation of great fortunes.
In the glory and usefulness of these discoveries woman not unfrequently shared.
Military expeditions were not unfrequently sent out to quell the insurrections to which the natives of the island were goaded by the injustice and the cruelty of the Spaniards.
Not unfrequently he became involved in duels, and he bore upon his body until death many scars received in these encounters.
The same species have been collected again and again, often described several times over under new names, and not unfrequently stated to be from places they never inhabited.
But the popular sentiment as expressed in constitutions and laws, is very different from that expressed by an excited populace, not unfrequently controlled by demagogues.
Following this event small parties went over the country warning the "Mormons" away wherever found, and not unfrequently using violence to the men when any of them were caught.
The clouds so formed sometimes cause amusement by their uncanny shapes, but not unfrequently they inspire alarm.
For this pulpit is one of the finest examples of the ornate, if somewhat bizarre art of the thirteenth century, and belongs to a type of work that is not unfrequently met with throughout Italy.
Even Mrs. Conan would notunfrequently address me, and speak of me too, as grannie, at first with a laugh, but soon as a matter of course.
The fact was, that since the death of the child he had so far taken to drink that he was not unfrequently the worse for it; which had been a rare occurrence before.
They also not unfrequently manifested a great leaning to the forms of earthly show as representative of the glories of that kingdom which the Lord says is within us.
But she had another habit, more alarming, and more troublesome as well: she would not unfrequently vanish, and have to be long sought, for in such case she never reappeared of herself.
The two characteristics of amicability and selfishness, not unfrequently combined, rendered it easy for her to deceive herself, or rather conspired to prevent her from undeceiving herself, as to the quality and worth of her religion.
On such occasions, however, I found it very dreary indeed, for few people called, and she would not unfrequently be absent the whole day.
She was a most amusing and sometimes almost bewitching little companion; but the delight in her would be not unfrequently quenched by some altogether unforeseen outbreak of heartless petulance or turbulent rebellion.
Formation of the Persian navy, consisting of the Phoenician, and not unfrequently of the Asiatic Greek fleets.
In a "friendship" of this sort both sides are on their guard, and never lay their armor aside; confidences are ingeniously indiscreet, and not unfrequently treacherous.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unfrequently" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: hardly; infrequently; little; rarely; scarcely; seldom; sparsely; uncommonly
