Then he took her home, and bade her good-by for a time, and told her, in an exaggeratedly formal way, which she understood and smiled at, that he and she must meet each other much oftener in the future.

You must understand and forgive me for not writing oftener and for not giving you definite address.

Had thy mistress surmised its mystic virtues, she would have thought oftener than twice ere exchanging it for thy diamond.

This process should be repeated as often as the patient feels that the flannel next to his skin is getting coldthe oftener the better.

[Sidenote: The Ride Home] I had such lots of partners I don't know what any one else did; I was enjoying myself so, and I hope you won't be annoyed with me, as I am afraid I danced oftener than three times with Lord Valmond.

When the Coal Carts come, I shall send oftener; and may come in one of them my self.

I have leave to reside in Boston for the future, and shall be under no necessity of attending the camp, nor be obliged to visit Philadelphia oftener than once a year.

And now we sailed southerly, living sparingly on our provisions, and went no oftener on shore than we were obliged for fresh water.

The lectures are delivered no oftener than once a week; for the idea is not that the lectures convey the actual instructiongreat part of which is better obtained from books, but the office of the lecture is to throw into prominence the salient points of the study, and rouse the hearers to read, for themselves.

Glad pet horses don't die oftener.

This is not, however, his ordinary dress; he is said to change his mode of dressing oftener than his wife, and sometimes to wear the Persian costume, sometimes to envelop himself in cashmere shawls, as his fancy may be.

I dare say they drink your health oftener than you imagine.

Perhaps, the fondest friendship would enrage oftener than comfort, were the tongue on such occasions faithfully to represent the sentiments of the heart; and I think the strictest moralists allow forms of address to be used without much regard to their literal acceptation, when either respect or tenderness requires them, because they are universally known to denote not the degree but the species of our sentiments.

I did not enter the house oftener than I could help, for always in those rooms I felt a troubled presence, a homesick thing that pushed two frail white hands against an intangible but sufficing curtain that held it from those it sickened for.

I know that declarations of this sort, in young men of three and twenty, like those of maidens of nineteen, excite a smile oftener than they produce belief; but I do not say this without reflection, and, I may add, without feeling.

Meanwhile, as New Zion moved and hummed and whizzed, and as "The Dawn" went on dawning week by week,you couldn't expect the dawn oftener than once a week in Coalchester,the love of Jenny and Theophil grew more and more perfect.

He said God made a new earth every day and he rather fancied a new heaven oftener.

After this I will feed it oftener.

Of the spirit of these manuals we may form some idea from the golden oratorical rule, oftener quoted than followed by posterity, "to think of the matter and leave the words to follow from it.

She frequented the church oftener than mother, sang more hymns, attended all the anniversary celebrations, but she had no dreams, no enthusiasm.

In whatever respect a man differs from others, he must be considered by them as either worse or better: by being better, it is well known that a man gains admiration oftener than love, since all approbation of his practice must necessarily condemn him that gives it; and though a man often pleases by inferiority, there are few who desire to give such pleasure.

This, of course, is not a point for detailed and rigorous proof, but represents an impression that gathers strength the oftener we read and re-read Mother Juliana's "showings.

" "New York, Aug. 12, 1776 "Polly is still here with me, and we are both very well, but disappointed in not hearing oftener from our friends at Boston.

He had to cook, to live on snow-shoes nowadays, for the heavy Colonel had illustrated oftener than the Boy, that going without meant breaking in, floundering, and, finally, having to call for your pardner to haul you out.

You know the oftener I do that, the better.