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They are deprived, I will say, by the slowness and seldomness of the express from over the mountains.

From The Story of Old Fort Loudon by Murfree, Mary Noailles

The longing of love, as well as its seldomness, have had but one painter--F. Jakobi: we do not need a second.

From Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. by Jean Paul