Sentence Examples

1. Vivaldo and his companion did the same and Don Quixote bade farewell to his hosts and to the travellers, who pressed him to come with them to Seville, as being such a convenient place for finding adventures, for they presented themselves in every street and round every corner oftener than anywhere else.
2. He well knew that the authority of an Indian chief was so little conventional, that it was oftener maintained by physical superiority than by any moral supremacy he might possess.
3. Yet we should oftener look over the tafferel of our craft, like curious passengers, and not make the voyage like stupid sailors picking oakum.
4. Most think that they are above being supported by the town but it oftener happens that they are not above supporting themselves by dishonest means, which should be more disreputable.
5. No wonder, then, that he did not oftener stay to play on the common.
6. His roving eyes began to moisten, and before the hymn was ended scalding tears rolled out of fountains that had long seemed dry, and followed each other down those cheeks, that had oftener felt the storms of heaven than any testimonials of weakness.
7. There are also already within the ice narrow oblong perpendicular bubbles about half an inch long, sharp cones with the apex upward or oftener, if the ice is quite fresh, minute spherical bubbles one directly above another, like a string of beads.
8. The whole neighborhood abounds with local tales, haunted spots, and twilight superstitions stars shoot and meteors glare oftener across the valley than in any other part of the country, and the nightmare, with her whole ninefold, seems to make it the favorite scene of her gambols.
9. As for Clothing, to come at once to the practical part of the question, perhaps we are led oftener by the love of novelty, and a regard for the opinions of men, in procuring it, than by a true utility.