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Sentences starting with seldom

Seldom did Jane Withersteen enter her room without looking into her mirror. [13]
Seldom had I so keenly missed Herdegen's mirthful voice. [10]
Seldom had any one seen the Cure roused. [11]
Seldom with the later years had he asked her to sing, because he was so busy; and somehow his ear had not that keenness of sound once belonging to it. [11]
Seldom appears the golden bridge over which the baffled and tired pass into Valhalla. [4]
Seldom have men fought so long and accomplished so little in the way of blood-letting. [11]
Seldom had a day of Guida's life been so busy. [11]
Seldom do I cry over books; but here, my eyes rained as I read. [14]
Seldom was there an hour when boats were not tied to these steps. [11]

Sentences ending with seldom

He spoke but seldom. [9]
He writes tolerable often, and she answers tolerable seldom. [5]
Unfortunately, she ventured here far too seldom. [10]
He had a curious store of legend and chanson, and he had the Frenchman's power of applying them, though he did it seldom. [11]

Short sentences using seldom

He so seldom spoke. [9]
My Indians seldom spoke. [11]
Riders seldom used rifles. [13]
Such tokens seldom flourish long. [12]
But I seldom drew it. [5]
Cooper seldom saw anything correctly. [5]
We seldom talked. [5]
He seldom was. [4]
Pierre seldom drank. [11]

Sentences containing seldom two or more times

Previously he had talked a great deal, grew excited when he talked, and seldom listened; now he was seldom carried away in conversation and knew how to listen so that people readily told him their most intimate secrets. [2]
Uncle Jim seldom spoke to her, as he seldom spoke to anybody, but she had an inkling of the rancour in his heart, and many a time she put blame upon his shoulders to her husband, when some unavoidable friction came. [11]
Consequently we have no renowned men; in centuries we have seldom produced one--that is, seldom allowed one to produce himself. [5]

More example sentences with the word seldom in them

He had not yet learned that good society is seldom literal. [9]
Thus three long years had passed, during which Sappho had seldom seen her grandmother, for, as the mother of Parmys, she was by the king's command, forbidden to leave the harem, unless permitted and accompanied either by Kassandane or the eunuchs. [10]
I haven't any wish but that Gaston Belward shall see Delia very seldom indeed. [11]
Many of them, who seldom make a sign, come here from habit; they have nowhere else to go. [4]
I scarcely know where to take you; for I never know where to go myself, and seldom do go where I intend when I set forth. [4]
I think that when you are down on its level it seldom inflames you with an ecstasy which you could not get out of a sand-flat. [5]
Their efforts, however, were seldom so successful as to-day, when every one knew that a disturbance of the peace would be punished by exclusion from the banquet. [10]
Among those who were rich in spirit her brother Philip was certainly one of the richest, and whither had an acute understanding and restless brain led him that they so seldom gave his feelings time to make themselves heard? [10]
Seems to me we had a man from there eight or nine hundred years ago--but people from that system very seldom enter by this gate. [5]
They had to watch over his health, of which, whatever was its state, he seldom complained. [14]
An incomparable speech was that, an impromptu speech, and--an impromptu speech is a seldom thing, and he did it so well. [5]
In all our wanderings we seldom managed to strike a piece of road at its time for being shady. [5]
When they were wandering about, she seldom thought of this, but now she could not help considering what would become of them if he fell sick, or her own strength were to fail her. [12]
Medallion's cheerful nervous vitality seldom failed to inspire whom he chose to inspire with Something of his own life and cheerfulness. [11]
A weak man, unless he be a good hunter, and well-beloved, is seldom permitted to keep a wife that a stronger man thinks worth his notice. [1]
The interviewer seldom tries to tell one how a thing was said; he merely puts in the naked remark and stops there. [5]
Writing was his trade; the returns from it seldom excited him. [5]
Young Harvey seldom took liberties; but he looked down from the box. [9]
We painted away together with all our might, piling up stock, piling up stock, but very seldom getting rid of any of it. [5]
He often came to town, indeed, but seldom tarried long; and it had never been my fortune to see him. [9]
I seldom venture to think about our landed wealth, for "hope deferred maketh the heart sick. [5]
When he sought to seize her hand, as he not seldom did, she hit him sharply on the fingers, and scolded him. [10]
Nations thus tempted to interfere are not always able to resist the counsels of seeming expediency and ungenerous ambition, although measures adopted under such influences seldom fail to be unfortunate and injurious to those adopting them. [7]
Denisov evidently tried to expose Rostov to danger as seldom as possible, and after an action greeted his safe return with evident joy. [2]
During all that time she had seldom been out of his sight, never out of his influence and tutelage. [11]
It has fifteen thousand people, is a thriving and energetic place, and is paved like the rest of the west and south--where a well-paved street and a good sidewalk are things so seldom seen, that one doubts them when he does see them. [5]
Ismail had discovered this, and Dicky had been made a kind of confidential secretary who seldom wrote a line. [11]
Spare your thigh; this kind light only on the box, and seldom there, in fact, if my experience may be trusted. [5]
They are so thick on the map that one would hardly expect to find room between them for a canoe; yet we seldom glimpse one. [5]
For a man there is always present the chance of winning a vast fortune and the power that it brings; but it can seldom come to a woman except through marriage. [11]
Richard seldom joined them, though their efforts to induce him to do so were many. [11]
Not seldom in the winter time a poor man, here and there in the parish, would find dumped down outside his door in the early morning a half-cord of wood or a bag of flour. [11]
She has spoken the truth, the ungilded truth--how seldom I hear it! [5]
His contributions to the text seldom improved it, but barring that detail he was a good reader; I can say that much for him. [5]
At such times, the schoolmaster would bring in books, and read to her aloud; and seldom an evening passed, but the bachelor came in, and took his turn of reading. [12]
The suggestion of the mask always made Venters remember; now that it was gone he seldom thought of her past. [13]
They seldom obeyed the King; they never obeyed him when it didn't suit them to do it. [5]
Twice a year the Cure made it a point to visit Jo in the interests of his soul, though the visits came to little, for Jo never went to confession, and seldom to mass. [11]
His companion, on the contrary, a man perhaps twenty years younger, of a slender and delicate build, was seldom still. [10]
He is not the clerk, he is not the landlord; he ranks above the clerk, and represents the landlord, who is seldom seen. [5]
Hence it comes that, in the scraps of paper covered with her pencil writing which I have seen, there will occasionally be a sentence scored out, but seldom, if ever, a word or an expression. [14]
He had heard that the Rostovs were at Kostroma but the thought of Natasha seldom occurred to him. [2]
So it was that she seldom went to church at all; but it was not because of this that her ideas of right and wrong were quite individual and not conventional, as the tale of the matrimonial deserter will show. [11]
It was seldom that she had shown emotion in the past two years, and it was the more ample when it did break forth. [11]
It was seldom that he showed any heat in his replies. [9]
We have seen that he seldom transgresses the laws against crimes of violence. [5]
I have observed that Frenchmen abroad seldom wholly give up the idea of going back to France some time or other. [5]
We have shown that a farm could not get along without them, and yet their rights are seldom recognized. [4]
To speak the strict truth, however, our party seldom offend in that way, though we have men in the ship who never lose an opportunity to do it. [5]
Even in single States, under such circumstances, defeat seldom overtakes them. [7]
Jesus had seldom spoken literally, and the truths he sought to impress upon the world had of necessity been clothed in figures and symbols,--for spiritual truths might be conveyed in no other way. [9]
But she seldom speaks, she is so quiet--as if she knew that she must keep a secret. [11]
Besides, it is so seldom I have occasion to kill a bear, that the celebration of the exploit may be excused. [4]
In India the snakes kill 17,000 people a year; they hardly ever fall short of it; they as seldom exceed it. [5]
Tarboe had imagination, skill and decision, he seldom lost his temper; he kept a strong hand upon himself. [11]
It was long since the populace had seen Cambyses, for in accordance with Median customs the king seldom appeared in public. [10]
How seldom he shows his hand! [5]
And yet she showed no wear, no weariness, and but seldom let fly her temper. [5]
Since I was seven years old I have seldom take, a dose of medicine, and have still seldomer needed one. [5]
This life was serious enough to him, and seldom satisfactory. [5]
Besides, it is seldom, in their minds, a finality; marriage is always a possibility. [4]
However, these things seldom work out according to the law of Nature, and so I chewed the cud of dissatisfaction and kept the thing from my cousin as long as I could. [11]
The Oude bands seldom went out of their own country, but they did a thriving business within its borders. [5]
Yet it was seldom that; there was always wisdom under it, and purpose, and these things gave it dynamic force and enduring life. [5]
It is very seldom that one has two in the parlour. [5]
It is most seldom that a person feels so mixed like that; and it is not to be recommended, either. [5]
It was very seldom that a man or woman bought the cordials for ordinary consumption, and when that was done, it would almost make a parish talk! [11]
His ideas were seldom practical, his nature was yielding and fickle. [5]
These poor creatures seldom obtain any great sum by thieving and cheating. [10]
I suppose you seldom meet in society now, the people you used to be familiar with twelve or fifteen years ago? [5]
Mrs. Mavick, who seldom lost her head, was thoroughly frightened and upset, and it was a rare occasion that could upset the equanimity of the late widow, Mrs. Carmen Henderson. [4]
It is very seldom in America that a marriage is made on a commercial basis; our marriages, from the beginning, have been made for love; and where love is there is no room for the corruptor. [5]
It is very seldom in a day that I am seventy-two years old. [5]
The Prince was seldom gentle with me--sometimes almost brutal, yet he would scarcely let me out of his sight. [11]
The countess had seldom been so angry with anyone as she was with Sonya. [2]
But he could seldom be turned from a purpose once formed; so we shut off the electric current from the fences, took an escort along, climbed over the enclosing ramparts of dead knights, and moved out upon the field. [5]
I have seldom seen so thrifty a field. [4]
One might have said there was a shade of contempt in his familiar and not seldom slightly humorous remarks upon society and its aims and aspirations, about which he spoke plainly and vigorously. [4]
He was a royal personage, seldom seen, who went abroad in the midst of a glittering guard. [9]
Not under a roof, but under the sky; it seldom or never rains there in the summer time. [5]
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]
There were disagreeable results, several times, and so we very seldom ask or grant the privilege, nowadays, and we never even think of such a thing unless the case is extremely urgent. [5]
The family seldom require this of me, but they know I am not working today. [5]
They were always repeating his most celebrated falsehoods, and always trying to "draw him out" before strangers; but they seldom succeeded. [5]
And with some reason he thinks so; for not seldom he takes up a foreign idea and tires of it before it is current elsewhere. [4]
The Admiral seldom read newspapers; and when he did he never believed anything they said. [5]
The inevitable, relentless rain of that region had set in again, the rain in which our own soldiers will have to fight, and the skies were of a darkness seldom known in America. [9]
Kit rising and putting his hand to his hat, the old gentleman intimated to the pony that he wished to stop, to which proposal the pony (who seldom objected to that part of his duty) graciously acceded. [12]
We have all pretty good health, latterly, and have seldom had to call the doctor. [5]
He is the person who comes in without knocking, drops in in the most natural way, as his wife does also, and not seldom in time to take the after-dinner cup of tea before the fire. [4]
Al'mah sang as perhaps she had seldom sung. [11]
I had always perceived, that rare and strongly-marked deviations of structure, deserving to be called monstrosities, could seldom be preserved through natural selection, and that the preservation of even highly-beneficial variations would depend to a certain extent on chance. [1]
Tom counted the pages of the sermon; after church he always knew how many pages there had been, but he seldom knew anything else about the discourse. [5]
But even their orders, like Napoleon's, were seldom carried out, and then but partially. [2]
I keep three or four books on the stocks all the time, but I seldom add a satisfactory chapter to one of them at home. [5]
Whenever any debasing or evil influence approached him he would trample upon it with all the fierceness of a true Ueberhell; but such conflicts seldom occurred, for his nature was so exalted that it carried him unconscious through the depravity and pollution of this world. [10]
He was embarked on a career which must for ever keep him in the wilds; for very seldom indeed does a missionary of the North ever return to the crowded cities or take a permanent part in civilised life. [11]
The faces of old men brightened when they saw her, and one or two ancient figures who, for years, had been seldom seen at social functions now came when they knew she was to be present. [11]
This young man, of whom I spoke to you last summer, is so noble-minded and full of that real youthfulness which one seldom finds nowadays among our old men of twenty and, particularly, he is so frank and has so much heart. [2]
During a matter of twenty years I was seldom at a banquet where Willie Winter was not also present, and where he did not read a charming poem written for the occasion. [5]

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