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In line 27 'Thee therefore &c.' is a thought not unfrequent with the panegyrists of James.

From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume I (of 2) by Crashaw, Richard

Weak puns are not unfrequent; and the diction but rarely reaches that exquisite felicity of comic phrase in which Pickwick and its successors excel.

From Dickens English Men of Letters by Ward, Adolphus William, Sir

The instances are not unfrequent in which persons have attained a high place both in politics and literature.

From Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland by Stanton, Henry B.

Such desperate encounters are, however, of rare occurrence, though collisions less sanguinary are not unfrequent.

From Forest Life and Forest Trees: comprising winter camp-life among the loggers, and wild-wood adventure. with Descriptions of lumbering operations on the various rivers of Maine and New Brunswick by Springer, John S.

St Paul indicates a real, and not unfrequent danger.

From The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians by Findlay, G. G.