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She never stayed in one place very long, had no shortage of marital strife and family tensions and battled an oft-recurring sadness.

"An Extravagant Hunger," about M.F.K. Fisher 2011

These oft-recurring partnerships are vital to the livelihoods of the playwrights, the directors and the performers, and not just artistically.

Stage Presence to Depend On Laura Hedli 2011

She never stayed in one place very long, had no shortage of marital strife and family tensions and battled an oft-recurring sadness.

"An Extravagant Hunger," about M.F.K. Fisher 2011

I suffered this belief to get such absolute possession of my mind, that I had resumed my blotted papers, and was busy in meditation on the oft-recurring rhymes of the Spenserian stanza, when I heard a low and cautious tap at the door of my apartment.

Rob Roy 2005

Two of the beachcombing class resumed an oft-recurring discussion on the seaworthiness of their respective dinghies.

The Confessions of a Beachcomber 2003

Deconstructing the little phrase allows almost too many references: to the famous artist himself, and to the moon, one of the band's favorite and oft-recurring symbols, in songs from "Terrapin Station" to "Standing on the Moon". shattered

The Annotated "Picasso Moon" John Perry Barlow 1989

To be sure, an insistent and oft-recurring desire may introduce a good deal of unity and harmony into life, even where long views are not taken and there is little intelligence.

A Handbook of Ethical Theory George Stuart Fullerton

Alone after these oft-recurring visits, Paul sobs bitterly.

Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898 Carson Jay Lee

The Roumanian songs are frequently very long, and a typical, oft-recurring refrain is: --

Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan Clement A. Miles

The frequent and oft-recurring changes in the Spanish ministry have been employed as reasons for delay.

State of the Union Address (1790-2001) United States. Presidents.