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This very familiar and oft repeated saying takes its origin from a circumstance which occurred many years ago in Carlisle.
Despite the oft disparaging remarks about wives, we are of course a lovely bunch.
This week of the opening of the baseball season is an appropriate time to recall an incident that has oft been mistold in the retelling.
I don't sleep very heavily and my creative moments oft come in the latest of hours, so naturally night is my time in the summer.
She questioned the Government's oft repeated announcements of winning the hearts and minds of people.
Finally, regardless of who ultimately holds the keys to scientific knowledge, what happens to nature, the oft purported object of science?
In this book review he discusses symbiosis in evolution, an oft neglected part of the whole evolutionary story.
The other oft trotted-out truism is that the yard supports far more people than just the shipbuilders.
There is another more serious allegation, oft repeated, that I'd like to lay to rest.
I don't suppose even the full concert version, let alone the vigil will be oft performed, which is a shame.
One shall be a Warrior, strong and oft silent, though charitable and kind underneath.
Those jokes will certainly be oft repeated during the course of the current federal election campaign.
As is oft said, we are indeed a fortunate lot to live in a city that has such good radio stations.
The insurrectionists that we have oft complained of late have grown more bold in their depredations, attacking ever nearer to our palace.
Using a palette knife, spread a thin layer oft tuile mix on a non-stick mat.
The textile industry, oft hailed as a saviour to poor countries with abundant cheap labour, hasn't boomed as expected.
This little ditty oft quoted by my granddad while shaving with his cut-throat razor came winging its way from out of my dim and distant past.
How oft when men are at the point of death have they been merry!
To use an an oft invoked comparison, at least I am not in a tree in Mozambique giving birth to a child as the swollen waters of the Limpopo River rage torrentially below.
The conforms of systemic racism have caused a precious grasping of your blackness that oft times seeks to destroy us.
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Examples from Classical Literature
I have oft known the acute and chronical diseases of afflicted ones relieved by prayer without any natural means.
Frithiof was oft at Baldur's meads a-night time, and every day between whiles would he go thither to be glad with Ingibiorg.
Yet might they not so waste away their bodies, but that they recovered from their sorrows, as still happeneth oft enow.
Wherby it appereth that some sort of youth will oft haue his swinge, although it be in a halter.
Many a time and oft he has let me go to St. Penfer when it was raining and blowing.
For one sufficeth unto generation, as hath been observed in semicastration, and oft times in carnous ruptures.
We have festooned it full oft with a big hook and hempen line.
One of the main ingredients of this spring cocktail is the oft unsung wallflower.
But the side of a quadrate proposed in a number is oft times sought.
Setting the story behind Malcolm, an unwarlike individual in a time of war, sees much of the world in this oft forgotten era.
Her mere beauty had oft been praised, and in terms that glowed like fire.
And many a time and oft it do be coming and us not thinking of it.
That little wood of hazel and tall pine And youngling fir, where oft we have loved to see The level beams of early morning shine Freshly from tree to tree.
As the months had dragged or flown along, retarded or spurred on as privation or adventure predominated, thoughts of his own home, while oft recurring, had become less vivid.
But when the goddesses had brought him up, a god oft hymned, then began he to wander continually through the woody coombes, thickly wreathed with ivy and laurel.
Oft have I heard of you, and how you lighten the purses of the fat priests and knights.
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