CK 1 He seldom went there. CK 1 Tom seldom gets angry. CK 1 Tom seldom wears a hat. CK 1 My father seldom smokes. CK 1 Tom seldom eats at home. CK 1 Tom seldom eats seafood. CK 1 Barking dogs seldom bite.
CK 1 Tom seldom drinks coffee. CK 1 Tom seldom eats red meat. CK 1 We seldom have snow here. CK 1 Tom seldom speaks to Mary. CK 1 Tom seldom wins arguments. CK 1 I seldom eat dairy products. CK 1 I seldom watch documentaries. CK 1 Tom seldom breaks his promise. But he seldom used the word ecclesia, church, which became the universal designation of his society.
They are seldom found in graves, however, whether owing to the custom of heriots or to the fact that, on account of their relatively high value, they were frequently handed on from generation to generation as heirlooms.
Greaves are not often mentioned. Impressive in matter rather than in manner of delivery, and seldom rising to the level of eloquence in the sense in which that quality was understood in a House which had listened to Bright and Gladstone, his speeches were logical and convincing, and their attractive literary form delighted a wider audience than that which listens to the mere politician.
Swords, helmets and coats of mail, he says, were seldom to be seen; in general they were armed only with huge shields, unwieldy spears and darts. Naval warfare is seldom mentioned. The needle is peculiarly poised, with its point of suspension a little below its centre of gravity, and is exceedingly sensitive; it is seldom more than an inch in length, and is less than a line in thickness.
It was seldom that an episcopal election took place without a division in the chapter, in which resided the electoral right. They lost, for example, their jurisdiction, which they were seldom able to exercise in their own names, but in almost every case as commissaries delegated by the apostolic authority.
When several words are connected in a sentence they seldom require more than one case element, and that comes last. The ambitions which Henry cherished, if extravagant, were never sordid; his patriotism, though seldom attested by practical measures, was thoroughly sincere. Artificial membranes are seldom or never perfectly semi-permeable - some leakage of solute nearly always occurs, but the imperfections of actual membranes need no more prevent our use of the ideal conception than the faults of real engines invalidate the theory of ideal thermodynamics founded on the conception of a perfect, reversible, frictionless, heat engine.
It has often been taken and sacked by the Turks, but has seldom been occupied by them for long. He took a narrow and monastic view of current politics; he was seldom in touch with the leading statesmen of his day.
Westerland, one of the most frequented sea-bathing places of Germany, lies on the west side of the island, separated from the sea, which is seldom perfectly calm, by a chain of sand dunes, across which board walks lead to the beach.
Apothecia seldom round, usually elongatedellipsoidal, no capillitium. The ranges seldom exceed the height of or ft. Lava streams are seldom emitted from these volcanoes, the material erupted consisting chiefly of ash and scoriae, which are spread over a very wide extent of country.
The tiger frequently makes his presence felt, but is seldom seen; he prefers to prowl in what the Malays call tiger weather, that is, dark, starless, misty nights. In structure the jays are not readily differentiated from the pies; but in habit they are much more arboreal, delighting in thick coverts, seldom appearing in the open, and seeking their food on or under trees. The European, Arabian and East Indian kinds are seldom used for rugs, the skins are chiefly dressed as leather for books and furniture, and the kids for boots and gloves, and the finer wool and hair are woven into various materials.
Russian dressing is seldom reliable; not only is there an unpleasant odour, but in damp weather the pelts often become clammy, which is due to the saline matter in the dressing mixture. A great part of Ashanti is covered with primeval and almost impenetrable forest.
Secession is a right claimed or exercised by weaker states of a union whose rights are threatened by the stronger states, which seldom acknowledge such a principle. He thus visited in succession Colmar, Nuremberg, Appenzell, Zurich, Pfaffers, Augsburg, Villach, Meran, Middelheim and other places, seldom staying a twelvemonth in any of them.
By the end of the 1st century the Chauci and Chatti seem to have become by far the most powerful tribes in western Germany, though the former are seldom mentioned after this time. The result was that in numerous parishes the police were occupied in searching for the priest who was living there among the people; although his habitation was known to hundreds of people, the police seldom succeeded in arresting him.
That later generations might not so easily distinguish the " abrogated " from the " abrogating " did not occur to Mahomet, whose vision, naturally enough, seldom extended to the future of his religious community.
Though rain seldom falls, exhalations from the river, especially when the flood has begun to subside, render the districts near the Nile damp during September, October and November, and in winter early morning fogs are not uncommon. In England garlic is seldom used except as a seasoning, but in the southern countries of Europe it is a common ingredient in dishes, and is largely consumed by the agricultural population.
Horses are comparatively few, and are seldom seen outside the large towns, the camel and donkey being the principal beasts of burden. Men, who can afford to keep a horse, mule or ass are very seldom seen to walk.
The recruits who draw unlucky numbers at 19 years of age are seldom called up till they are 23, when they are summoned by name and escorted by a policeman to Cairo. The Sudanese captain can seldom read or write, and is therefore in the hands of the Egyptian-born company quartermastersergeant as regards pay and clothing accounts. Yet even the buried portions of limestone buildings have seldom been permitted to survive on the cultivated land; the Nubian sandstone of Upper Egypt was of comparatively little value, and, generally speaking, buildings in that material have fallen into decay rather than been destroyed by quarrying.
They are more or less touched by artificiality, but so far as we are able to appreciate them at present they very seldom attain to any degree of literary beauty. As Egyptian roots seldom exceeded three letters, there was no need for triliteral phonograms to spell them.
Most signs can on occasion be used as determinatives, but those that are very commonly employed as phonograms or as secondary word-signs are seldom employed as determinatives; and when they are so used they are often somewhat differentiated.
Listen, replied the pasha; buy the biggest and heaviest kurbash you can find; hang it up in the centre of the mudiri elf, well within your reach, and you will very seldom require to use it.
At Frederick's court ladies were seldom seen, a circumstance that gave occasion to much scandal for which there seems to have been no foundation. They suffered, not only from the regular taxes, which were seldom remitted even after bad seasons, but also from monopolies; and Procopius goes so far as to allege that the emperor made a practice of further recruiting his treasury by confiscating on slight or fictitious pretexts the property of persons who had displeased Theodora or himself.
In Oriental systems of taxation high imposts on salt are seldom lacking and are often carried out in a very oppressive way, one result of this being that the article is apt to reach the consumer in a very impure state largely mixed with earth.
The students of theology generally begin their course in early youth, but not seldom in riper years. The Azhar students not seldom enter government offices and even hold important administrative posts, but they never lose the stamp of their education - the narrow, unteachable spirit, incapable of progress, always lost in external details, and never able to grasp principles and get behind forms to the substance of a matter.
They are seldom found in large numbers at any great distance from the sea, and usually congregate in the principal towns and commercial centres, such as Adrianople, Constantza, Varna and Philippopolis; there are also detached colonies at Melnik, Stanimaka, Kavakly, Niegush and elsewhere.
Their continuity, however, is interrupted by numerous valleys separating them into detached flat-topped hills, which are comparatively seldom marked by precipices of naked rock.
The truth of this matter is obscure; our early historians of this age, Protestants like Knox and Pitscottie, with Buchanan and the Catholic Lesley, are seldom to be trusted without documentary corroboration. As early as , the great English public schools and universities began to attract the Scottish youths of the wealthier classes, and now good Scots is seldom heard in conversation and is not always written in popular Scottish novels.
The widespread use of Latin was, however, seldom or never antagonistic to the preservation of national sentiment. Their efforts in this direction are seldom unsuccessful; and it appears to be a fact that stags which are hunted season after season come to understand that they are in no grave danger. Offices and titles are seldom hereditary in our sense of the term, as descending from father to son.
With the exception of local disturbances of old standing at Muscat, and at Bushire where they were fomented by German gold , the Arab and Persian population of both shores maintained a friendly attitude to Great Britain throughout the war, although British gunboats were seldom , if ever, seen at that time in waters which in peace they had regularly patrolled. The fruit of his long years of illness was a slender volume of lyrics, Gedichte Stuttgart and Tubingen, , good in form, but seldom inspired, and showing occasionally the influence of a morbid sensuality.
It can seldom be obtained in large portions, and has the disadvantage of being apt to warp; its great hardness, however, renders it valuable for the manufacture of various articles, such as the cogs of mill-wheels, flails and mallets, and handles of hammers. Papal legates to Germany seldom failed to visit the university and by their magnificence bore witness to the majesty of the Roman church. Luther had a high opinion of her intelligence; she took rank among those consulted on all important occasions; in one letter to her, seldom quoted, he gives the fairest statement he ever made about the views of Zwingli on the Sacrament of the Supper.
The pure Arab origin of the Bedouins is recognized in common conversation in the country, the word " Arab " being almost restricted to denote these wanderers, and seldom applied to the dwellers in towns and villages. They are seldom good scholars, but those under French rule take all the advantage they can of the schools instituted by the government.
When Arabic is mentioned as the language of Morocco it is seldom realized how small a proportion of its inhabitants use it as their mother tongue. From Bamian it passes over the central mountain chain to Kabul either by the well-known passes of Irak marking the water-divide of the Koh-i-Baba and of Unai marking the summit of the Sanglakh, a branch of the Hindu Kush , or else, turning eastwards, it crosses into the Ghorband valley by the Shibar, a pass which is considerably lower than the Irak and is very seldom snowbound.
In Kabul the snow lies for two or three months; the people seldom leave their houses, and sleep close to stoves. At Kandahar snow seldom falls on the plains or lower hills; when it does, it melts at once. The twohumped Bactrian camel is commonly used in the Oxus regions, but is seldom seen near the Indian frontier. Hindu women seldom wear shoes. In common with the other Mascarene islands, it was the home of the dodo Didus ineptus ; there were also A phanapteryx, a species of rail, and a shortwinged heron Ardea megacephala , which probably seldom flew.
The coefficient of heating of a calorimeter when it is below the temperature of its surroundings is seldom , if ever, the same as the coefficient of cooling at the higher temperature, since the convection currents, which do most of the heating or cooling, are rarely symmetrical in the two cases, and moreover, the duration of the two stages is seldom the same.
The period thus spent in the provinces will never exceed three months; in London, with the frequent sitting at Clerkenwell and of the Central Criminal Court, it is seldom more than one month. But such transfers of human chattels occur seldom , and there is nothing during the English feudal period corresponding to the brisk trade in men characteristic of the ancient world.
Lord Gambier was a man of earnest, almost morbid, religious principle, and of undoubted courage; but the administration of the admiralty has seldom given rise to such flagrant scandals as during the time when he was a member of it; and through the whole war the self-esteem of the navy suffered no such wound as during Lord Gambier's command in the Bay of Biscay.
This distinction is, moreover, vital to the whole logic of inference, because we always think all the judgments of which our inference consists, but seldom state all the propositions by which it is expressed. But even the normal proposition in the syllogistic form tertii adjacentis, with subject, predicate and copula, is seldom a complete expression of the judgment.
The vapourpressure equations are seldom known with sufficient accuracy, and the ionization data are incomplete. The red, or brownish-red, colour of the long and coarse hair at once distinguishes the orang-utan from the African apes; a further point of distinction being the excessive length of the arms, which are of such proportions that the animal when in the upright posture which it seldom voluntarily assumes can rest on its bent knuckles.
It is worthy of note that the dykes and sheets of felsite are seldom pierced by the basalt dykes and are probably about the most recent of the intrusive rocks.
This is strictly correct, but, with the exception of the first and last, these titles are seldom to be found in documents. Jesus seldom employed the last term, and St Paul's use of it is not altogether clear. Primitive man seldom connects sacrifice with notions of propitiation, indeed only in highly ethicized religions is the consciousness of sin or of guilt pre-eminent. So unpurposed does cult grow up that it combines many elements of diverse origin, and is seldom precisely and wholly in accordance with the creed.
The relation to be preserved towards the mother states was seldom or never definitely arranged. England was probably seldom quite free from plague, but the next great outbreak is recorded in and following years. The floors, mostly of mud covered with dung, are fouled with spittle, vomit, and urine, and, being seldom or never cleaned out, foster a gradual accumulation of poison, to which infected rats and the concealment of illness contribute.
Sliding Contact circular : Grooved Wheels. The development of epic poetry properly so called out of the oral songs or ballads of a country is a process which in the nature of things can seldom be observed. Measures like these gained for him during his lifetime the title of "Guardian of Mankind," and caused him to be held up as a model to Indian princes of later times, who in the matter of religious toleration have only too seldom followed his example.
Thus, though the generally higher proportion of females in the community may seldom be enough to depress more than slightly the death-rate as a whole, it has a substantial effect upon it at the ages where women are in more marked numerical predominance, as in later life, and in places where the number of domestic servants is unusually great.
Merchants seldom have to concern themselves with the subject. Although not actually repealed, the penal laws were seldom put in force, and mass was openly celebrated in London and elsewhere. In view of the fact that fresh grape juice contains innumerable bacteria and moulds, in addition to the yeast cells which bring about the alcoholic fermentation, and that the means which are adopted by the brewer and the distiller for checking the action of these undesirable organisms cannot be employed by the wine-maker, it is no doubt remarkable that the natural wine yeast so seldom fails to assert a preponderating action, particularly as the number of yeast cells at the beginning of fermentation is relatively small.
The climate is essentially of a moderate character; the winters are rarely very cold, and the summers are seldom of the intensely hot and dry nature which is characteristic of most southerly wine countries. As he was not gifted with the qualifications of the orator, he seldom appeared at the tribune; but in the various committees he defended all forms of popular liberties, and at the same time delivered, in a series of powerful pamphlets, under the pseudonym of "Timon," the most formidable blows against tyranny and all political and administrative abuses.
Here we have the origin of the Catholic rule of fasting, seldom understood by those who observe it. Letters exist written by Colbert to the judges requiring them to sentence to the oar as many criminals as possible, including all those who had been condemned to death; and the convict once chained to the bench, the expiration of his sentence was seldom allowed to bring him release.
The military adventurers, who have often risen to high or even supreme rank in Peru, have not seldom been of mixed race, and fear or favour has often availed to procure them an alliance with the oldest and purest-blooded families. The domestic birds have comparatively seldom become feral, doubtless, as C. Darwin points out, from the reduction of their powers of flight in many cases. The number of bales for a batch seldom exceeds twelve, indeed it is generally about six, and of these there may be three, four or even more varieties or marks.
He seldom or never attacks human beings unless in self-defence, and loss of life from this cause is scarcely ever reported. Yet, precisely because he met the world so seldom in easy dialogue, he was unnecessarily dogmatic in controversy; and many a bottle of wine went to pay for lost wagers. The elevation of the central lowlands seldom exceeds ft. Legend, poetry, drama and politics have from time to time been much occupied with the personality of Arnold of Brescia, and not seldom have distorted it, through the desire to see in him a hero of Italian independence and a modern democrat.
The leaves are rather short, curved, and often twisted; the male catkins, in dense cylindrical whorls, fill the air of the forest with their sulphur-like pollen in May or June, and fecundate the purple female flowers, which, at first sessile and erect, then become recurved on a lengthening stalk; the ovate cones, about the length of the leaves, do not reach maturity until the autumn of the following year, and the seeds are seldom scattered until the third spring; the cone-scales terminate in a pyramidal FIG.
The tree has been naturalized in many warm countries, even in China; in England it seldom attains any large size, as the deficient summer heat prevents the wood from maturing; but trees occur occasionally in plantations 20 or 30 ft. It fastens in front by a flap, having two small buttons or knots at the left shoulder, and seldom comes below the hips. Pocket-handkerchiefs are seldom used, save by the rich or the Tehernis. The kingdom, which is seldom mentioned, survived till Ardashir I.
The plan at one time resorted to of dividing or excising a portion of the affected nerve is now seldom employed, but the operation of nerve-stretching in some forms of neuralgia, notably sciatica, is sometimes successful. Acer campestre, the common maple, is common in hedgerows, but less often seen as a tree, when it is seldom more than 20 ft.
The fungus, which is chiefly within the leaves and stems, seldom emerges through the firm upper surface of the leaf; it commonly appears as a white bloom or mildew on the circumference of the diseasepatches on the under surface. Seldom was Voltaire wider of the mark than when he called Telemaque a Greek poem in French prose.
They may be propagated by seed though owing to the rare occurrence of fruit, this method is seldom applicable , by division and by cuttings. A glance at the accompanying map will show that there is a labyrinth of avenues and chasms seldom visited and never fully explored. In fact, the geological axis seldom coincides with the line of highest elevation, nor must it be confused with the main lines of water-divide of the Himalaya. The hundred rate is seldom made, though in some counties it may be made for purposes of main roads and bridges chargeable to the hundred as distinguished from the county at large; ii.
Novels he seldom read. The most attached of them were seldom long away from him. The great Yashts are not of very frequent occurrence in the manuscripts: some of them, indeed, are already met with but seldom , and MSS.
Murders and executions are frequent, yet cruelty is not a marked feature of their character; and in war they seldom kill their prisoners. His style is clear, absolutely unadorned, and somewhat lacking in force; he appeals constantly to the intellect rather than to the emotions, and is seldom picturesque, though in describing a few famous scenes, such as the execution of Charles I.
In he made himself master of Naples and Sicily by arms. Charles had, however, no military tastes, seldom wore uniform, and could with difficulty be persuaded to witness a review. The peasants settled under the sway of nobles and churches could very seldom produce a clean bill in regard to their money relations with the landlords. The change from London to Dublin can seldom be an agreeable one.
After the Directions he writes little beyond occasional verses, not seldom indecent and commonly trivial. Very seldom was he during that time mentioned with respect by any writer of great literary eminence.
Sarpi told Dohna that he greatly disliked saying mass, and celebrated it as seldom as possible, but that he was compelled to do so, as he would otherwise seem to admit the validity of the papal prohibition, and thus betray the cause of Venice. Send us feedback. See more words from the same century. Accessed 12 Nov. More Definitions for seldom. Nglish: Translation of seldom for Spanish Speakers.
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Log in Sign Up. Save Word. Essential Meaning of seldom. We seldom go to the movies. See More Examples This type of turtle seldom grows over four inches in length. We seldom agree. I have seldom had to wait so long. Full Definition of seldom Entry 1 of 2. Definition of seldom Entry 2 of 2.
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