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But no matter whom you ask in this city’s tight-knit community of Polish Catholics, the name of Marek Bozek is seldom met with a shrug.

From New York Times ● Aug. 14, 2010

Indifferent acting and direction shattered what started out to be a simple, sincere narrative of the type so seldom met with in the movies.

From Time Magazine Archive

I must say that such noble affability, and active regard, as were shown by the gentlemen of Nuremberg to their men of learning, I have seldom met with elsewhere.

From Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. I. by Gustav Freytag

Of repartee she has little, and dislikes it in others; yet I have seldom met with a truer taste for inoffensive wit.

From Coelebs In Search of a Wife by Hannah More

"We have seldom met with a more useful book."—Notes and Queries.

From Mother Meg or, The Story of Dickie's Attic by Catharine Shaw


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