"Sporadically" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... objects—elements or heavenly bodies—is occasionally taken into account too. Alongside of these opinions there appears also the view that the pagan gods are evil spirits (demons). It is already found in a few places in the Old Testament, and after that sporadically and quite incidentally in later Jewish writings; in one place it is combined with the Old Testament's account of the fallen angels. The demon-theory is not an instrument of Jewish apologetics proper, not even of Philo, though he has a complete ...
— Atheism in Pagan Antiquity • A. B. Drachmann
... state constitutions and municipal charters, which have suffered incessant changes, mostly unfortunate and ill-judged, except during the last few years, when a spirit of real wisdom and constructiveness has shown itself, though sporadically and as yet with some timidity. The reforms, such as they are, are largely in the line of palliatives; the deep-lying factors, those that control both success and failure, are seldom touched upon. The necessary courage—or perhaps temerity—is lacking. What is ...
— Towards the Great Peace • Ralph Adams Cram
... speaking of the spirit of the Reformation, says, "These ideas form the basis of the common school, which up to this time had been sporadically established only in isolated places." "Geschichte der ...
— History of Education • Levi Seeley
... had left him no stomach for the craft. Our two fellow-travellers, with the whole camp, had set out from Makn on February 6th, and marched up the great Wady el-Kharaj. Along the eastern flank of the Jebel el-Fahst, the "Iron Mountain," they found many outcrops of quartz, a rock which appears sporadically all the way to the northern soufrire. In two places it was green-stained, showing copper, while in another hydrated oxide and chromate of iron (hematite)[EN143] abounded. After a stage of four hours and twenty minutes they left the caravan, struck off ...
— The Land of Midian, Vol. 1 • Richard Burton
... to its portion in August 1979; Morocco moved to occupy that sector shortly thereafter and has since asserted administrative control; the Polisario's government in exile was seated as an OAU member in 1984; guerrilla activities continued sporadically, until a UN-monitored cease-fire was implemented 6 September 1991 Capital: none Administrative divisions: none (under de facto control of Morocco) Leaders: none Member ...
— The 1992 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... the volcanic vents arranged in lines, of which we have treated above, there are a large number, both active and extinct, which appear to be disposed in groups, or sporadically distributed, over various portions of the earth's surface. I say appear to be, because this sporadic distribution may really be resolvable (at least in some cases) into linear distribution for short distances. Thus the Neapolitan Group, which might at first sight seem ...
— Volcanoes: Past and Present • Edward Hull
... sporadically; now it was believed that as the concentrated wills of powerful minds are alleged to have moved inanimate objects, somewhat in the same fashion concerted effort on the part of the Boosters Club might result in ...
— The Fighting Shepherdess • Caroline Lockhart
... the common impression. He took his oldest son and went into exile. Conjectures as to his whereabouts have filled the newspapers sporadically ever since. He has been reported as appearing in the South Sea Islands, in India, in Australia, in various parts of this country. In truth he came directly to America and established himself as a farmer in western ...
— The Port of Missing Men • Meredith Nicholson |
