"Infrequency" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... actual gold they get its equivalent, and the only money question unsettled is whether the Mexican silver dollar is worth in American money fifty cents or less. One of the sources of anxieties and disappointment and depression of the American soldiers in Manila has been the irregularity and infrequency with which they get letters. If one got a letter or newspaper from home of a date not more than six weeks old he had reason to be congratulated. The transports trusted with the mails were slow, and communications through the old lines ...
— The Story of the Philippines and Our New Possessions, • Murat Halstead
... carried to it. And I take this to be the reason why many are so eager in pursuing public ordinances, following communions, and conferences with God's people, ready to pray in public rather than alone. If ye would follow them into their secret chamber, how much indifferency is there! How great infrequency, how little fervency! Well, says the Lord, did ye pray to me when ye prayed among others? No, ye prayed either to yourselves, or the company, or both. Did ye seek me in a communion? No, saith the Lord, ye sought not me, ...
— The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning • Hugh Binning
... walking) per minute. It was full and regular. There was no organic heart trouble. In the absence of any other symptom whatsoever pointing to irritation of the pneumogastric or spinal accessory, I was justified in excluding this as the possible cause of the cardiac infrequency. On the other hand, the pathogenetic manifestations appeared all to point to "asthenia of the sympathetic"—at any rate the portion of this whence the cardiac nerves take their origin, and I formed my diagnosis accordingly. In the beginning, the treatment consisted of bilateral ...
— The Electric Bath • George M. Schweig
... manager, made their centre at his house when performing in London. That this was a London company with an established theatrical home in the most important theatre in London, between the years 1582 and 1589, is established by the facts that James Burbage was its manager, and the infrequency of mention of it in the provincial records. It is probable that at this early period it was not a full company of actors, but that Lord Hunsdon's licence covered Burbage and his theatrical ...
— Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 • Arthur Acheson
... alluded to the excessive timidity of the cattle here, perhaps arising from the infrequency of strangers in these regions. As we now walked up the narrow lane separating the farm from the road, we met three separate droves of cows returning to their stalls. It was curious to note the suspiciousness of the gentle creatures, also their quickness of observation. Had we been a couple ...
— The Roof of France • Matilda Betham-Edwards |
