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Seldom   /sˈɛldəm/   Listen
adverb
Seldom  adv.  (usually, compar. more seldom; superl. most seldom; but sometimes also, seldomer, seldomest)  Rarely; not often; not frequently. "Wisdom and youth are seldom joined in one."



adjective
Seldom  adj.  Rare; infrequent. (Archaic.) "A suppressed and seldom anger."






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"Seldom" Quotes from Famous Books



... with him, and the young lord said that he would stay behind as a companion. They be up in the Colonel's chamber, drinking vastly. But mind your life, sir, if you would halt them on the road. They be men of great spirit. This inn seldom sees such drinkers." ...
— The O'Ruddy - A Romance • Stephen Crane

... impression Vetch had made on her, she saw his image even while she thought the name of John Benham. Then, with an effort of will, she put the Governor and all that he had said out of her mind. After all, how little would she ever see of him now—how seldom would their paths cross in the future! A strange and interesting man, a man who had, in one instant of mental sympathy, stirred something within her heart that no one, not even Kent Page, had ever awakened ...
— One Man in His Time • Ellen Glasgow

... brought him the wool, carried away the cloth, and paid him his hire. Daniel Defoe, who made a tour of Britain in 1794-6, left a picture of rural England in this period, often called the golden age of labor. The land, he says, "was divided into small inclosures from two acres to six or seven each, seldom more; every three or four pieces of land had an house belonging to them,...hardly an house standing out of a speaking distance from another.... We could see at every house a tenter, and on almost every tenter a piece of cloth or kersie or shalloon.... ...
— The Armies of Labor - Volume 40 in The Chronicles Of America Series • Samuel P. Orth

... points and beauty, who saluted as the owners of such steeds approached. Leaving the stable, they passed through an archway into the famous gardens, which were said to be the most beautiful in all the East. Beautiful they were indeed, planted with trees, shrubs, and flowers such as are seldom seen, while between fern-clad rocks flowed rills which fell over deep cliffs in waterfalls of foam. In places the shade of cedars lay so dense that the brightness of day was changed to twilight, but in others the ground was open and carpeted ...
— The Brethren • H. Rider Haggard

... It was seldom that Dolly lost her restraint. She would, indeed, when she came near the stable, somewhat hasten her stride; and when we came on our drives to the turning point and at last headed about for home, Dolly would know it and show her knowledge by ...
— There's Pippins And Cheese To Come • Charles S. Brooks


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