"Oft" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... welfare, warn you, although you may think them, in your blindness, very fine fellows, or even perfect heroes. I wish that I, Peter—your friend, if you will so let me call myself—had thus followed the oft-repeated warnings of my kind father, and kept clear ...
— Peter the Whaler • W.H.G. Kingston
... as the dayes vp early rise, In com's the Peall, whose smaller sise, In his more store, and oft supplies, ...
— The Survey of Cornwall • Richard Carew
... Sir Gawain could refrain no longer, but drew forth his sword and with one blow shore oft Ganius' head; then with Sir Bors, he turned his horse and rode over waters and through woods, back to the ambush, where Sir Lionel and Sir Bedivere were waiting. The Romans followed fast behind them till the knights turned and stood, and then Sir Bors smote the foremost of them through the body ...
— The Legends Of King Arthur And His Knights • James Knowles
... I'm engeeged upon is a very different one," he resumed, talking another swallow of the oft-replenished draught. "It's a thraitise of moine which I ixplict to upsit the thaories of the miserable Saxon schaymers that desthort the pleen facts of antiquetee to shoot their own narrow an' disthortid comprayhinsions. An' I till ye what—whin ...
— The Lady of the Ice - A Novel • James De Mille
... so—he is not born so base As you esteem, but of a noble race. His father is the good Bomelio, That sleepeth here oppress'd with woe, Whom Phalaris thy father, on a false report, In wrath and anger banished his court: But this is he, to whom thou wishest oft good, And this his son, born of a noble blood. Think it no scorn to thee or thine hereafter To have his son ...
— A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. VI • Robert Dodsley
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