unoften

Example Sentences

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My heart needed no tutor for its recognitions, and cried its own "Bravos!" the more resoundingly because unoften summoned from silence.

From Autobiography of a Yogi by Yogananda, Paramahansa

I fear Burns indulged in most of the vices against which Cowper inveighs; and not unoften he glorified them in verse.

From The Bridling of Pegasus Prose Papers on Poetry by Austin, Alfred

No doubt Romola not unoften smells overmuch of the lamp, and in all probability will not permanently occupy the position assigned to it with characteristic over-confidence by contemporaneous enthusiasm.

From The Bridling of Pegasus Prose Papers on Poetry by Austin, Alfred