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Sentences starting with often

Often Mr. Carvel would run across one which seemed to bring some incident to his mind; for he would drop it absently on his desk, his hand seeking his chin, and remain for half an hour lost in thought. [9]
Often Polly Ann would draw me to her and whisper: "We'll hold out, Davy. [9]
Often the warder would announce the senator and his wife, and their vigorous and healthy minds always hit on the very thing she needed. [10]
Often she drove with him; frequently Evelyn was with them. [4]
Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid. [5]
Often I shivered violently, and anon I was burning hot; my adventure had given me a chill and fever. [11]
Often they gave us a lift. [9]
Often does she unfold herself in all her fascinating loveliness, presenting the most captivating charms; yet we find man frequently treats such purity of purpose with indifference. [5]
Often he hadn't two sous to rub against each other. [11]
Often in the twilight she sat by him in this silent communion. [4]

Sentences ending with often

Tell that to your mother, little wagtail, and come again very often. [10]
I do not wonder that Walter Scott dwells so much on eating, or lets his heroes pull at the pewter mugs so often. [4]
He it was who had carried Fatima, the beloved, about his cage by that neck in which Harrik had laid his face so often. [11]
I do not want to hear a cry like that often. [11]
I did not value my life, as you know well, for it has been flung into the midst of dangers for Egypt's sake, how often! [11]
Jack was caught two or three times, and Dan and Moult as often. [5]
I've driedt idt too often. [8]
They come in to supper very often. [9]
I have had to offend her rather often. [9]
What a lucky thing it is for well-conducted persons that the maddening elective affinities don't come into play in full force very often! [6]

Short sentences using often

Matthew often goes with me. [9]
They often become wholly suppressed. [1]
People often has to. [5]
I am often this way. [5]
Often they rested the horses. [13]
He often done that. [5]
And how often that happened! [10]
You have often seen that. [5]
Not always, but pretty often. [5]
He had often praised it. [9]

Sentences containing often two or more times

It often pairs with the common kind, yet intermediate gradations have never been seen; nor is this surprising, for variations which appear suddenly, are often, as I have elsewhere shewn (42. [1]
That, indeed, was why her Carvillho Gonzales, who also had been dual in nature, said to himself so often, "I am a devil," and nearly as often, "I have the heart of an angel. [11]
The big fellow was often seen with the little fellow, but it was for the same reason that the bull is often seen with the gnat. [5]
Ring and Whitie wandered in the fore, often turning, often trotting back, open-mouthed and solemn-eyed and happy. [13]
Male sperm-whales are very jealous at this season; and in their battles "they often lock their jaws together, and turn on their sides and twist about"; so that their lower jaws often become distorted. [1]
Her judgments were usually well founded, and her prophecies had so often come to pass that Anne often believed in them for no other reason. [9]
It was almost the only house in New York where this happened often, and it did not happen very often there. [8]
The grounds surrounding the American palace are not often large, and not often beautiful, but in the Melbourne case the grounds are often ducally spacious, and the climate and the gardeners together make them as beautiful as a dream. [5]
Often they have suffered, and often died in tortures--but gladly. [9]
The tones often sounded as gentle as lullabies, often as resonant and impetuous as battle songs. [10]

More example sentences with the word often in them

You're a gossip; you're a damned, pertinacious, preposterous gossip, and I'll say it as often as you like. [11]
I have watched your battle against beauty in behalf of truth, and rejoiced, though I often saw you and your little band of young disciples shoot beyond the mark. [10]
As for his young pupil, she has often thought of being a teacher herself, so that she is of course very glad to acquire any accomplishment that may be useful to her in that capacity. [6]
When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the World, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it come off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away timid adventurers. [6]
Now and then you will have a young man on your benches like the late Waldo Burnett,--not very often, if you lecture half a century. [3]
Oh, I've showed you this often enough! [6]
Did you, after you saw me in the court of sacrifice, not think of me so often and so vividly that it astonished you? [10]
I'll write to you often and let you know how they are. [9]
It isn't often, you know, that one has the opportunity to marry a Celebrity. [9]
How often when you have tried to get a "rise" out of somebody opposite have you not had your neighbor cut in across you with some private depressing observation to your next neighbor! [4]
I've lived with you for over thirty years, and I haven't spoken my mind often, but I'm speaking it now. [11]
Just come whenever you can, and come as often as you can--the oftener the better. [5]
How often have you and I stood here at the anvil, the fire heating the iron, and our hammers falling constantly! [11]
Now and then, yes, very often, out of some paradise, no doubt, strays into New England conditions of reticence and self-denial such a sweet spirit, to diffuse a breath of heaven in its atmosphere, and to wither like a rose ungathered. [4]
Again, in the years of my struggle for livelihood which followed, I dreamed of her; I pictured her often in the midst of the darkness of the Revolution. [9]
During the four years of his residence the country was in a constant state of excitement and often of panic. [4]
Now, for some years it has been inadequate, frequently unintelligible, often grossly misleading, failing wholly to give the real spirit and meaning of the most important discussions; and it is as dry as chips besides. [4]
In his earlier years he had often complained to me of those "nervous feelings connected with the respiration" referred to by this very distinguished physician. [6]
For five hard years had I toiled and struggled, often turning night into day, and not for myself, but for him and his, ever upheld and sped forward by the sight of his high soul and great happiness. [10]
Love continued to yearn for him even after she had sundered the bond; but he often yielded to the longing for his higher home, of whose splendours he retained a memory, and soared upward. [10]
But he was writing to her often, he was talking to her freely about his perplexities, about leaving the office and trusting himself to the pursuit of literature in some way. [4]
Mr Brass, after writhing about, in a great many strange attitudes, and often twisting his face and eyes into an expression like that which is usually produced by eating gooseberries very early in the season, was by this time awake also. [12]
Iris does not write verse often, nowadays, but she sometimes draws. [6]
I don't often write anything that I laugh at myself, but I can hardly think of that thing without laughing). [5]
Very often a wounded animal, hearing a rustle, rushes straight at the hunter's gun, runs forward and back again, and hastens its own end. [2]
Stand where you would, or change your position as often as you pleased, you were always a centre from which radiated a dozen long archways and colonnades that lost themselves in distance and the sombre twilight of the place. [5]
Very often she would wander off by day, always without a companion, bringing home with her a nest, a flower, or even a more questionable trophy of her ramble, such as showed that there was no place where she was afraid to venture. [6]
How often they would see Pollux returning from the distant city whither he had probably fled-from Rome, or even from Athens--crowned with laurels and rich in treasure. [10]
And when I would rise from table silent and with drooping head, the Magister would full often beg leave to follow me to my chamber, and comfort me after his own guise. [10]
And often you would repeat over and over: 'I have not yet begun, to fight, I have not yet begun to fight! [9]
So, often, we would rather be hurt than hurt. [11]
The little group would often gather round him of a night and beg him to tell again that story of good Miss Nell who died. [12]
During flight, moths would often be able to escape from their enemies; nevertheless, as the hind-wings are then fully exposed to view, their bright colours must generally have been acquired at some little risk. [1]
But then, perhaps, would come a letter from some quiet body in some out-of-the-way place, which showed me that I had said something which another had often felt but never said, or told the secret of another's heart in unburdening my own. [6]
His intellectual side would always be stimulated by her, she would always "incite him to mental riot," as she had often said. [11]
They were her world, and her sole pleasure was to satisfy the compassionate impulse in her own breast by severe toil, by tender solicitude, by night watching, and by exertions often continued to actual suffering. [10]
How in the world does it happen that you, who so often have helped us with your father's coin, have come down to be the chief of a band of travelling musicians? [10]
I wrote 4000 words to-day and I touch 3000 and upwards pretty often, and don't fall below 1600 any working day. [5]
At first the words often rose to my lips. [10]
What we are wont to call wisdom is often naively innocent of impending change. [9]
I have often wondered, since, how they regarded me; how, in their little minds, they defined the relationship. [9]
And I've often wondered why, when I've seen the things you didn't give and the things you took away. [11]
Indeed, I often wondered why this very penalty was not imposed. [9]
I have often wondered why I recollect my grandfather so distinctly and my grandmother so dimly. [10]
And he often wondered whether they did not get tired standing on their feet all day long, hesitating to ask them; speculated on their lives--flung as most of them were on a heedless city, and left to shift for themselves. [9]
I have often wondered what prompted me to ask Miss Trevor again to go canoeing. [9]
I have often wondered what became of him. [4]
I have often wondered that people didn't see the stuff that was in me, and give me a chance. [11]
I have often wondered that Hogarth did not add one more picture to his four stages of Cruelty. [6]
I had often wondered in an indolent way whether the barbers did that, or whether it was the boss. [5]
I have often wondered how I should have felt on that five-hour journey back to the city if she had fallen into my arms! [9]
You have often wondered at my scars. [10]
Her brother often wondered as he looked at her. [2]
You've done a wonder, Joe: you've written a letter that can be sent in to Livy--that doesn't often happen, when either a friend or a stranger writes. [5]
The clear-eyed young woman of the future, always dear and often an anxiety, will this year be an object of enthusiasm. [4]
Yet he pledged Wolf, and, touching his glass to his, said: "I've often thought that this might happen if you should see how she has grown up. [10]
What if their wives are fond, after the decease of their husbands, to bestow themselves not so advisedly as their calling requireth; do not duchesses, countesses, and knights' wives offend in the like fully so often as they? [4]
He was often with us, in flying visits, and I can well remember that his coming and the expectation of it gave a kind of elation to the summer--that and Margaret's supreme and sunny happiness. [4]
All was well with the younger orphans; they were often taken to see Selene, and spoke with affection of their new parents. [10]
With these, and with the world at large, her manner might best be described as difficult; and I was often amused at the way in which she contrived to keep them at arm's length and make them uncomfortable. [9]
As the troubles with the mother country thickened, she took to a foot-wheel, and often in the crisp autumn evenings I would hear the bumping of it as I walked to the house, and turn the knob to come upon her spinning by the twilight. [9]
Her duties connected with the household linen and the poultry yard, its owner's pride, were so easily performed, that in her leisure hours she often voluntarily helped the housekeeper. [10]
He surrounded her with precautions, that Nature might have every opportunity of cunningly shifting the weights from the scale of death to the scale of life, as she will often do if not rudely disturbed or interfered with. [6]
As often happens with passionate people, he was mastered by anger but was still seeking an object on which to vent it. [2]
In our dealings with other nations, we yielded often to imperialistic ambitions and thus, to a certain extent, justified the cynicism of Europe. [9]
As often occurs with old men, it was only after some seconds that the impression produced by Prince Andrew's face linked itself up with Kutuzov's remembrance of his personality. [2]
I often think, with no little interest and some degree of anxiety, about her future. [6]
Therefore his relations with his brother-in-law, whose prudent caution he considered avarice, and whose earnest protests against his often unprecedented demands frequently roused his ire, became more and more unfriendly. [10]
He was tender with her, but he wished often that she could understand him without explanation on his part. [11]
She often argued with her father, and, if the truth were told, had had more than one victory over Judge Whipple. [9]
Our author wrote with great facility and rapidity when the inspiration was on him, and produced an astonishing amount of manuscript in a short period; but he often waited and fretted through barren weeks and months for the movement of his fitful genius. [4]
They confound belief with evidence, often trusting the first because it is expressed with energy, and slighting the latter because it is calm and unimpassioned. [3]
Paris is brilliant with cafes: all the world frequents them to sip coffee (and too often absinthe), read the papers, and gossip over the news; take them away, as all travelers know, and Paris would not know itself. [4]
I have often wished you would come and tell me more about Cairo and the Pyramids, as you once promised me you would. [5]
Dion had often wished to set sail with his wife for a great city in Syria or Greece, but fresh and mighty obstacles had deterred him. [10]
Barbara had often wished to see the Netherlands, which the Emperor Charles also remembered with special affection, but no one had ever thus transported her to the midst of these flourishing provinces and this blithesome people. [10]
I had often wished to see it in its winter power,--so we walked on. [14]
We have often wished for a daughter and now we have found one; a pretty creature she is too. [10]
The nuggets of wisdom that are dug out of the Oriental and remote literatures would often prove to be only commonplace if stripped of their quaint setting. [4]
The scorching desert wind which, during the Spring months, so often blows through the valley of the Nile, had risen, and though the bright blue sky which had been visible by night and day was still cloudless, it was veiled by a whitish mist. [10]
She was a willing servant to Stephanus because as often as she went to him, she could hear his son's name from his lips, and he rejoiced at her coming because she always gave him the opportunity of talking of Hermas. [10]
And my dead wife owes me a grudge, and is as thankless as she was is her lifetime; for when she appears to me in a dream she does not give me a good word, and often torments me. [10]
Among the guests whom I met in the grounds was a gentleman of the medical profession, whose name I had often heard, and whom I was very glad to see and talk with. [6]
The young fellow whom I have so often mentioned was a little free in his remarks, but very good-natured.--Sorry to have you go,--he said.--School-ma'am made a mistake not to wait for me. [6]
So, during this whole sad period I was rarely utterly wretched, often joyous and happy, though sometimes the victim to the keenest spiritual anguish. [10]
Our Venetian, Busino, who went to Oxford in the coach with the ambassador in 1617, was six days in going one hundred and fifty miles, as the coach often stuck in the mud, and once broke down. [4]
Imhotep, the physician, who often visits at the king's palace, saw her too, and told me her name is Zoe, and that she is lady-in-waiting to Queen Cleopatra. [10]
If this landlord, who in the past had seen him so often and so closely, did not recognise him, surely no one else would. [11]
One of these--he who had spoken of his brother--was her little favourite and friend, and often sat by her side in the church, or climbed with her to the tower-top. [12]
And he, Felion, who had been lord and master of the valley, worked with them, but did not seek for riches, and more often drew away into the hills to find some newer place unspoiled by man. [11]
So of those who deal with the palpable and often unmistakable facts of external nature; only in a less degree. [6]
The first man who came to Purple Valley prospecting had often stopped his work and looked at The Stone in a half-fear that it would spring upon him unawares. [11]
The wailing widow, who called on him to return with "the silent speech of tears," was that queen of the idolater's devils whose shameful worship her father had often spoke of with horror. [10]
Was it a whim, or the excited imagination of youth, or that prompting which the young often have to make the world better? [11]
Here is one which--well, now, how often we do slam right into the truth without ever suspecting it: The men employed by the Gas Company go around and speculate the meter. [5]
Eight nimble hands, which were often aided by Iras's skilful fingers, toiled busily, and soon the latter could hold up the mirror before Cleopatra, exclaiming from the very depths of her heart, "Like the foam-born Aphrodite and the golden Hathor! [10]
When you rode, which wasn't often lately, the sage was full of sneakin' men. [13]
The means by which she had intended to destroy him had been transformed into a benefit, and while in the desert he had perceived how often man finally blesses, as the highest gain, what he at first regarded as the most cruel affliction. [10]
The pure brow, which seemed to him too high for a woman's face, wore an indignant frown; and though her mouth was beautiful in form, its outlines were often marred by a passionate tremor that lent the exquisitely chiselled features a harsh, nay, bitter expression. [10]
The decisive hour which often unites earnest men more firmly than many previous years had come to both. [10]

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