Patrons arrive periodically at the end of the bar opposite the player and demand drinks.

Shanghai's main Post Office still employs a handful of elderly mail handlers to redirect letters that arrive periodically from overseas with pre-Communist-era addresses.

Modern-day kachinas, male dancers representing such deities, arrive periodically in the villages wearing masks and costumes to bring rain, or celebrate the harvest.

USUALLY I do little more than skim my Social Security statement - the four-page folded newsletter that arrives periodically with updates about my benefits.

If an authenticated message did not arrive periodically on schedule, it said right there that Roke was to advise His Majesty to embark upon the second alternative!

Family friends arrived periodically; Lynch estimated that upward of 100 cars passed through the gate.

A man with a skewer arrives periodically, bearing gifts like tiny but powerfully flavored chicken hearts, marinated pork loin and delicious short ribs.

He sells some of the hay one of his great-uncles stored in the barn, and small donations arrive periodically by mail.

Even when things go quietly and well, a new president periodically arrives who wants his own custodian of the nation's secrets.

Val Pak Direct Marketing Systems, one of the nation's largest distributors of coupons, whose familiar fat blue envelopes periodically arrive in mailboxes nationwide, has gone digital.