unfrequent
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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
The weather was wondrous cold for June, but endurable nevertheless, albeit clouds hid the sun and showers were not unfrequent.
From The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan by Stables, Gordon
In Ray's time it was not unfrequent on the eastern maritime coasts.
From British Birds in their Haunts by Johns, Rev. C. A.
In line 27 'Thee therefore &c.' is a thought not unfrequent with the panegyrists of James.
From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume I (of 2) by Crashaw, Richard
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