Oftener

Examples

• But at my age I can hardly get to the city, and therefore you should come oftener to the Piraeus. Plato. The Republic.
• At least once a week, and sometimes oftener, I rode over there, and passed the evening. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Few ways of life were hidden from Physician, and he was oftener in its darkest places than even Bishop. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• She dared not come oftener, for in the mighty guilt of her conscience she feared that her every move was watched. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• I wish it might happen oftener, said the visitor in his easy arrogant way. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Men have oftener suffered from, the mockery of a place too smiling for their reason than from the oppression of surroundings oversadly tinged. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• They are wanted in the farm much oftener than I can get them. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• It is more difficult to speak well than to compose well; that is, the rules and trick of composition are oftener an object of study. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• And oh, what a mercy it is that these women do not exercise their powers oftener! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Mr. Bennet missed his second daughter exceedingly; his affection for her drew him oftener from home than anything else could do. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• I saw my ward oftener than she saw me, he added, cheerily making light of it, and I always knew she was beloved, useful, and happy. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Yes, we happened to meet oftener, he returned. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• You have seen my sister oftener and oftener. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Many's the time I've pinched his little bottom for him, when he was a child in arMs. Ay, and he'd have been better if he'd had it pinched oftener. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Books were open before us, but we spoke oftener of love than philosophy, and kisses came more readily from our lips than words. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Sometimes he knew her and Father Mole, her director and companion; oftener he forgot her, as he had done wife, children, love, ambition, vanity. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Ah, Mr. Franklin, you wore my roses oftener than either you or she thought! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• She is fed sometimes, but oftener forgotten. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• She sometimes begged Justine to forgive her unkindness, but much oftener accused her of having caused the deaths of her brothers and sister. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Aunt Bulstrode, for example, came a little oftener into Lowick Gate to see Rosamond, now she was alone. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• If you are jealous of her, go oftener to Stone Court yourself and eclipse her. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• In my opinion, men in his condition are oftener killed by treatment than by the disease. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Sooner or later, I perceive the schoolmaster on the watch; sometimes accompanied by his hopeful pupil; oftener, pupil-less. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• A street in Constantinople is a picture which one ought to see once--not oftener. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• In the meantime Mr. Pocket grew grayer, and tried oftener to lift himself out of his perplexities by the hair. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• And oftener still, said I, she blesses the guardian who is a father to her! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I see him wearing deeper lines into my old friend's face, the nearer he draws to, and the oftener he looks at, the face of his daughter. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Why don't you come oftener? Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• The only wonder is, that people ain't killed oftener by them Mails. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• No, Frank, but it would be impossible to keep her from Mrs Boffin's house; and the MORE there was to eat and drink there, the oftener she would go. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.

Typist: Theodore