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  • Oftener than is the case with other races, is she in the humor for self-devotion and sacrifice.

    Les Miserables 2008

  • Oftener than twice or thrice while breakfast is in progress, Mr Twemlow gives a little sudden turn towards Mrs Lammle, and then says to her,

    Our Mutual Friend 2004

  • Oftener still false oaths are really taken, and truth and right trampled under foot, though all witnesses of the oath know it well!

    Religion 2004

  • Oftener than not, you have to do both on the same day extra day = extra pay, not what the promoter wants.

    Music, scheduling and international travel... Jessica 2004

  • Oftener than not, you have to do both on the same day extra day = extra pay, not what the promoter wants.

    Archive 2004-03-01 Jessica 2004

  • Oftener and ever oftener, it came stealing over her; darker and ever darker, like the shadow of advancing Death.

    Our Mutual Friend 2004

  • Oftener, however, we turned at Fifty-ninth Street, walking both ways.

    Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

  • Oftener, however, its credibility rested on the faith of some lonely eye-witness, who beheld the wonder through the coloured, magnifying, and distorted medium of his imagination, and shaped it more distinctly in his after-thought.

    The Scarlet Letter 2002

  • Oftener than once her coming had interrupted the droll story with which Robert was entertaining some amused group of married women.

    The Awakening 2000

  • Oftener than not, the pack of us would then go out -- for a picnic, a horseback ride, a show, a visit with friends who had children too, whatever -- though in the past couple of years Val was apt to take off with her own bunch.

    Operation Luna Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1999

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