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  • adverb more often

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  • adverb more often or more frequently

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Examples

  • She used a term oftener heard in the purlieus of criminal courts.

    The Freebooters of the Wilderness 1903

  • How much oftener is one pricked by a rose than burned by a nettle!

    The Miracles of Antichrist: A Novel 1915

  • I think I heard his name oftener mentioned at home than any one's.

    Three Dramas Bj��rnstjerne Bj��rnson 1871

  • From the way they are built, but oftener from the way they are kept, and from no intelligent inspection whatever being exercised over them, they are almost invariably dens of foul air, and the "servants 'health" suffers in an "unaccountable" (?) way, even in the country.

    Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not 1860

  • If visible objects are thought necessary to suggest the mention of his name oftener that it would otherwise occur to the mind, they should be such as to improve the taste, as well as awaken the patriotism of the beholder.

    The Attaché; or, Sam Slick in England — Volume 01 Thomas Chandler Haliburton 1830

  • If visible objects are thought necessary to suggest the mention of his name oftener that it would otherwise occur to the mind, they should be such as to improve the taste, as well as awaken the patriotism of the beholder.

    The Attaché; or, Sam Slick in England — Complete Thomas Chandler Haliburton 1830

  • And in every part of the British Empire there are soldier lads who look upon this ex-sergeant-major of the Army Service Corps as their spiritual father, and there is no name oftener on their lips in South Africa than his.

    From Aldershot to Pretoria A Story of Christian Work among Our Troops in South Africa W. E. Sellers

  • He gave as his excuse for not calling oftener the enormous pressure of work which the crisis of the invasion of Pennsylvania had brought to his office.

    The Victim A romance of the Real Jefferson Davis Thomas Dixon 1905

  • I wish it were the fashion to call oftener on outbreaking sinners to pray in church.

    A Circuit Rider's Wife Corra Harris 1902

  • "It is said they wish you would call oftener, Monsieur Caird."

    The Golden Silence 1901

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