unfrequent

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Another likewise unfrequent but most dangerous accident is the septic infection of the abscess—an occurrence referred to by Olshausen to the diffusion of intestinal gases through the walls of the tumor.

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

It was perhaps at some of these conferences that Mary imperceptibly imbibed, from her future mother-in-law, and her not unfrequent visitor, Nostradamus, a slight portion of that tendency to superstitious belief then so prevalent.

From Life of Mary Queen of Scots, Volume I (of 2) by Bell, Henry Glassford

Weak puns are not unfrequent; and the diction but rarely reaches that exquisite felicity of comic phrase in which Pickwick and its successors excel.

From Dickens English Men of Letters by Ward, Adolphus William, Sir

Such desperate encounters are, however, of rare occurrence, though collisions less sanguinary are not unfrequent.

From Forest Life and Forest Trees: comprising winter camp-life among the loggers, and wild-wood adventure. with Descriptions of lumbering operations on the various rivers of Maine and New Brunswick by Springer, John S.

St Paul indicates a real, and not unfrequent danger.

From The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians by Findlay, G. G.