oft-asked

Updated: May 27, 2025

Is this sense of smell, then, the keynote to the halo of mystery that has for all times surrounded the cat that has led to its bitter persecution that has made it the hero of fairy lore, the pet of old maids? I believe it is I believe that in this psychic faculty of smell lies, in degree, the solution to the oft-asked riddle why is the cat uncanny?

Elliott O'Donnell - Animal Ghosts: Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter

In reply to the oft-asked question: "Do educated Indians go back to the blanket?" it should be said, first, that return to Indian dress in isolated communities where this is still the common dress of the people is not necessarily retrogression. It may be only a wise conformity to custom. Investigation has shown, however, that very few graduates of any school ever do reassume Indian dress or ways.

Charles Alexander Eastman - The Indian To-day : The Past and Future of the First American