Oft has 1 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | A woman's mind and winter wind change oft. | |
| 2. | Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt. | |
| 3. | Lord, have mercy on my son: for he is epileptic, and suffereth grievously; for oft-times he falleth into the fire, and off-times into the water. | |
| 4. | Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is wing’d Cupid painted blind: nor hath Love’s mind of any judgement taste; wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste: and therefore is Love said to be a child, because in choice he is so oft beguiled. | |
| 5. | A noble man by woman's gentle word may oft be led. | |
| 6. | Neither a borrower nor a lender be; / For loan oft loses both itself and friend, / And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. | |
| 7. | Then she gave him some dry figs and bread from her scrip, and whilst he was partaking of this fare she oft-time snatched a morsel from his mouth and ate it, as though she had been a nestling taking food from its mother's beak. | |
| 8. | "Ah, mother mine!" he chides her, as she flies, / "art thou, then, also cruel? Wherefore cheat / thy son so oft with images and lies? / Why may I not clasp hands, and talk without disguise?" | |
| 9. | "Himself, a foe, oft lauded Troy's renown, / and claimed the Teucrian sires as kinsmen of his own." | |
| 10. | "Thou know'st, who oft hast sorrowed with my pain, / how, tost by Juno's rancour, o'er the main / thy brother wanders." |