seldom met with

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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

Wood says that he has seldom met with cases in which it was absent.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

Hard coin is seldom met with these days.”

From Peggy Owen Patriot A Story for Girls by Madison, Lucy Foster

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 Freytag, Gustav