Use rarely in a sentence
Sentences starting with rarely
- Rarely to Stephen; whose wholesome respect for his employer had in no wise abated. [9]
- Rarely had he seen a bad cause maintained with so much obstinacy. [10]
- Rarely has any one of the annual addresses been listened to with such profound attention and interest. [6]
- Rarely do we look vainly in the most beautiful sites on mountain or by river for a monastery! [10]
- Rarely in history has a nation depended more upon a single man, at times, than the English upon Gladstone, upon his will, his ability, and especially his character. [4]
- Rarely had a guest received a more joyous welcome. [10]
- Rarely had Natasha experienced so joyful a feeling as now, sitting in the carriage beside the countess and gazing at the slowly receding walls of forsaken, agitated Moscow. [2]
Sentences ending with rarely
- I have heaped the window-seats with soft furs, and one of these I prize most rarely. [11]
- It was all the more disconcerting to William Wetherell, because his employer laughed rarely. [9]
- You do your office rarely. [11]
- I myself never missed; my companion, rarely. [6]
- Father Pemberton visited his people but rarely. [6]
- Not till the close of the sixteenth century was the wagon used, and then rarely. [4]
- Should you become authors, express your opinions freely; defend them rarely. [3]
Short sentences using rarely
- He rarely spoke, unless questioned. [10]
- The dodge rarely fails. [5]
Sentences containing rarely two or more times
- But she seemed wilful too, and contradictory--at any rate to-day; for when Orion pointed out some move to her she rarely took his advice, but with set lips, pushed the piece according to her own, rarely wiser, judgment. [10]
- It even happens occasionally that the regrets become aggravated into reproaches, rarely from the side which receives the new accessions, less rarely from the one which is left. [6]
- Having only riches enough to be able to gratify reasonable desires, and yet make their gratifications always a novelty and a pleasure, the family occupied that just mean in life which is so rarely attained, and still more rarely enjoyed without discontent. [5]
More example sentences with the word rarely in them
- But as to yourself: Those who were born in high places rarely suit us, who have dragged ourselves up from below to a better position. [10]
- He rarely meddles with what is petty or ignoble. [6]
- The wise man will keep his ears ever open, but rarely lend it his active hand. [10]
- I think you will find that people who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be "consistent. [6]
- So, during this whole sad period I was rarely utterly wretched, often joyous and happy, though sometimes the victim to the keenest spiritual anguish. [10]
- The torture to which stronger men rarely succumbed seemed to threaten the life of the more delicate ex-schoolmaster. [10]
- Her lips, too, which she had but rarely and timidly opened for a question or an answer, were in constant motion; for how much she desired to know, how many questions she had to ask the silent husband who had endured such terrible suffering. [10]
- Pieces of board were nailed over the defective spots in the floor, and the lines where the walls met rarely showed a right angle. [10]
- Here, too, men were loading camels, which were rarely seen in Egypt, and had been introduced there only a short time before. [10]
- The farther he went, the more cloudy became the sky,--which here so rarely failed to show a sunny vault of blue at noonday,--the more fiercely howled the tempest. [10]
- Her thick, slightly waving hair framed the lovely oval of her face under the veil, and Alexander agreed with his sister when she expressed the wish that she might but once see this rarely beautiful creature. [10]
- Even Dickinson, who was rarely ruffled, seemed excited. [9]
- My sister's disposition was not naturally gregarious: circumstances favoured and fostered her tendency to seclusion; except to go to church, or take a walk on the hills, she rarely crossed the threshold of home. [14]
- His dinner hour was late, and he rarely worked at night. [6]
- Whatever he did was judiciously conceived and perfectly executed; it satisfied the head, but rarely touched the heart. [4]
- This was the visit to the cemetery, which she rarely made alone. [10]
- Yes, Xanthe felt very sorrowful, yet everything that surrounded her was so bright, and at her home laughter was rarely silent, while her own often rang out no less merrily than that of lively Chloris and dark-skinned Dorippe. [10]
- Even Ledscha glanced very rarely toward the tents. [10]
- The old fire very rarely kindled in her face now. [2]
- He himself read very little, for he was rarely indoors during the day. [10]
- Talent is a very common family-trait; genius belongs rather to individuals;--just as you find one giant or one dwarf in a family, but rarely a whole brood of either. [6]
- In all the vast territory, away up to the Utah line, over which he had wandered, he met human beings (excluding "Indians and others not taxed ") so rarely that he was in danger of being locoed. [4]
- When Pierre went up to them he noticed that Vera was being carried away by her self-satisfied talk, but that Prince Andrew seemed embarrassed, a thing that rarely happened with him. [2]
- Two hands more unlike had rarely met over a chess-board; one suggested a strong, dark plough-ox, the other a light, slender-limbed palfrey. [10]
- Accomplishments rarely do unless they are translated into visible position or into the currency of the realm. [4]
- Perhaps it is true in these days that the old-fashioned torture known as remorse is rarely experienced except under the name of detection. [4]
- She rarely went to visit the Dubois couple. [10]
- She rarely came to us, and when she did for a short time her thoughts were far away, for she was nursing her father. [10]
- He understood how to unite work and pleasure; I, on the contrary, learned little on the wooden benches, for I rarely occupied them, and the dust of books certainly didn't spoil my lungs. [10]
- Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else,--very rarely to those who say to themselves, "Go to, now, let us be a celebrated individual! [6]
- Whereupon I went to bed in such good cheer and so sure of myself as I have rarely felt before or since that night. [10]
- I was getting to be near fifty years old, and it happened to me, as it not rarely does to people at about that time of life, that my hair began to fall out. [6]
- There was a time when a breach of the Seventh Commandment was punished in Tonga with death, and it was therefore rarely committed. [11]
- Male birds sometimes, though rarely, possess special weapons for fighting with each other. [1]
- I had printed those same lines, years ago, in "The Contributors' Club," to which I have rarely sent any of my prose or verse. [6]
- Though Barbara at this time rarely left her own fireside, her husband might often have wished that she would return to the conduct of the previous winter, for he perceived the torturing anxiety which was consuming her. [10]
- And I take this opportunity to set down the fact that I have rarely met a more remarkable man. [9]
- She rarely brought them to our notice; a certain chaste reserve, even later in life, prevented her showing her deepest grief to others. [10]
- I never find them out until they are stereotyped, and then I think they rarely escape me. [6]
- No one of them is very uncommon; but all together are rarely combined in a single individual, and this is probably the reason why such men as Henry Clay are so rare in the world. [7]
- Very few of the worthy burghers--who went to bed betimes and rose so early that they rarely had leisure to enjoy the moonlight long--passed here at this hour. [10]
- Nobody drove through the streets and footsteps were rarely heard. [2]
- Two diaries of the same events rarely agree. [4]
- The houses along the road were not for the most part neatly kept; the garden fences were poorly built of laths or long slats, and very rarely of trim aspect. [6]
- Needless to say, the practice did not immediately begin to pour in, but the little office rarely lacked a visitor, and sometimes had as many as five or six. [9]
- Further indulgence in the plant results in death, but rarely does an animal recover from even one eating of the insane weed. [4]
- Her cough is the most troublesome at night, but it is rarely violent. [14]
- When Eva assented, the lady remarked that members of this brotherhood had rarely come to her castle; but Biberli said that they were quiet, devout men who, content with the alms they begged, preached, and performed other religious duties. [10]
- Fran Maria Ortlieb, the invalid mistress of the house, rarely needed her services. [10]
- How rarely is the good man permitted to enjoy the blessing of mass. [10]
- Melissa rarely interrupted the garrulous old woman; but, while she listened, pleasant pictures of the future rose before her fancy. [10]
- Arsinoe was always the first to offer her hand for a reconciliation, but Selene would rarely have a kinder answer ready to her affectionate advances than, "Let be," or "Oh yes, I know! [10]
- The fashion of the day is rarely the judgment of posterity. [4]
- The judgment of the community will generally be guided by some rude experience of what is best in the long run for all the members; but this judgment will not rarely err from ignorance and weak powers of reasoning. [1]
- Indeed, rarely did the captain return from one of his long journeys without something for me and a handsome present for my mother. [9]
- The Head of the Apollinean Institute delivered himself of these judicious sentiments in that peculiar acid, penetrating tone, thickened with a nasal twang, which not rarely becomes hereditary after three or four generations raised upon east winds, salt fish, and large, white-bellied, pickled cucumbers. [6]
- A writer in the "New York Medical and Physical Journal" for October, 1829, in speaking of the occurrence of puerperal fever, confined to one man's practice, remarks, "We have known cases of this kind occur, though rarely, in New York. [3]
- Your office demands that you should be both brave and circumspect; these characteristics are rarely united; but there are scriveners by hundreds in the temples. [10]
- Now everybody knows that the evil eye is not rarely met with in Italy. [6]
- She said that such a nature as that young man's was rarely and truly noble, and nearly perfect; and that with nobility of birth added it was entirely perfect. [5]
- And then came such a hand-shaking and grunting as a man rarely sees in a lifetime. [9]
- About that other stone misfortune, cruelly reminding us of the "Boston Massacre," we will not discourse; it is not imposing, and is rarely spoken of. [6]
- I have not spoken to him above thrice in my life, for he is a Dissenter, and has rarely come in my way. [14]
- All unconsciously she sought a relationship rarely to be found in banks and business offices; would yield herself to none other. [9]
- Many of the soft-billed birds are songsters; and a discussion in a former chapter should not be forgotten, in which it was shewn that the best songsters are rarely ornamented with bright tints. [1]
- But in doing so she had become a personage who could scarcely be overlooked, and she rarely failed to be present on the very occasions which brought together the most aristocratic Spanish society in Brussels. [10]
- In battle, in slaughter, when his wounds burned, in plundering, at the gaming-table, everywhere he called upon the Holy Virgin, and also, but very rarely, on the "word," fame. [10]
- Very rarely did she recall the day when the funeral-pile had cooled, and the ashes of the two mothers, both so early summoned to the realm of shadows, were collected, placed in the vases, and added to the other urns. [10]
- This is, and shall be, the purpose of my life, a purpose to which I will remain all the more faithful, because it is one of those to which a woman rarely dares devote her life. [10]
- Moor had rarely seen her so pale. [10]
- I have rarely seen a more inviting room. [9]
- I have rarely seen a man put out of countenance so easily as was Mr. Dix that morning when he met his Lordship's fixed gaze from the arm-chair. [9]
- Man scans with scrupulous care the character and pedigree of his horses, cattle, and dogs before he matches them; but when he comes to his own marriage he rarely, or never, takes any such care. [1]
- The convalescent could scarcely expect anything more than beneficial advice from Herophilus; for this tireless investigator rarely rendered assistance to the sick in the city, because the lion's share of his time and strength were devoted to difficult researches. [10]
- Frau Rosalinde rarely saw the twin sons of her daughter Isabella, who took the veil after her husband's death to pray for his sorely imperilled soul. [10]
- Besides, she rarely saw him now, as he was studying in Lowen. [10]
- Still, there she sat; restless but without moving; wholly under the dominion of evil thoughts, among which a good one rarely and timidly intruded, with her eyes fixed on Rufinus' dwelling. [10]
- Always first in Richtberg, he was rarely so here, most seldom of all in school, for his father had forbidden the doctor to teach him Latin, so in that study he was last of all. [10]
- Unafraid, his heart rent with pity, he walked unharmed amid such tumult as I have rarely seen. [9]
- I have very rarely, however, found such a coincidence in ideas or expression as would be enough to justify an accusation of unconscious plagiarism,--conscious plagiarism is not my particular failing. [6]
- Another curious mark rarely wanting in the subjects of mental strabismus is an irregular and often sprawling and deformed handwriting. [6]
- It is too rarely that we see it, and as it dies out and gives place to the odiously convenient pump, with the last patent on its cast-iron uninterestingness, does it not seem as if the farmyard aspect had lost half its attraction? [6]
- Such a being rarely strayed to Memphis,--and might not this radiant and beautiful creature be "the other" after all, and not Paula? [10]
- The pyramid is rarely seen, perhaps because it takes up so much room; and when built on a small scale seems insignificant as we think of it, dwarfed by the vast structures of antiquity. [6]
- But I have rarely seen him more strongly enlisted in behalf of the tendency opposed to beauty. [10]
- Even Jack Brinsmade rarely risked his dignity and reputation at an intellectual tilt. [9]
- Agne, whom he rarely recognized for a moment, would talk soothingly to him, and even try to say a few words about the Saviour and the life to come; but he always interrupted her with blasphemous exclamations, and cursed and abused her. [10]
- I have as rarely met an unbiassed and sensible man who really believed in the bumps. [6]
- These evening entertainments rarely lacked music; but she had learned to retire into the background, and when there were talented artists among her guests she gave them the precedence. [10]
- A single individual rarely hired one; either a family took possession of it, or you got in and waited patiently till enough persons had collected for the driver to think it worth while to take his whip and say, "Well, get up! [10]
- The clergy, however, rarely hear any sermons except what they preach themselves. [6]
- These topics were rarely discussed at the tavern or among the members of the corps. [10]
- His eye had rarely beamed as brightly as in this hour. [10]
- This permission could rarely be obtained; for the magistrate usually decided that there were already as many bakers as the town needed. [4]
- Unfortunately this can rarely be done: for the larger genera generally include closely- allied forms, which can be distinguished only with much difficulty, whilst the smaller genera within the same family include forms that are perfectly distinct; yet all must be ranked equally as species. [1]
- Amid the fabulous radiance of the festal array, when all who surround her admire, worship, and strew flowers in her path, one might believe that the old sunny days had returned; but when we are alone, how rarely I see her smile! [10]
- The relation of puerperal fever with other continued fevers would seem to be remote and rarely obvious. [3]
- Specially was it provided with one of those half-doors now so rarely met with, which are to whole doors as spencers worn by old folk are to coats. [6]
- If the former proposed to be down or sit, eat or drink, sleep or talk, the latter instantly carried the suggestion into execution, rarely neglecting to establish, by wise words, for what reason the act in question should be performed precisely at that time. [10]
- Either she is possessed and her brain is crazed, or she is of a rarely heroic pattern. [10]
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