For trewely I holde it greet deyntee A kinges sone in armes wel to do, 165 And been of good condiciouns ther-to; For greet power and moral vertu here Is selde y-seye in o persone y-fere.
Ac it is but selde y-seien, As by holy seintes bokes, 9230 That God rewarded double reste To any riche wye.
No, certis: 6800 For seldein greet thing shal he spede In this world, that god wol drede.
Right so farith Love, that selde in oon Holdith his anker; for right anoon 3780 Whan they in ese wene best to live, They been with tempest al fordrive.
Now he hurteth, and now he cureth, 3785 For selde in oo poynt Love endureth.
For whanne I schal myn yhen close, Anon min herte he wole oppose And holde his Scole in such a wise, Til it be day that I arise, That selde it is whan that I slepe.
And god wot that is malgre myn; For this I wot riht wel a fin, 60 Mi grace comth so selde aboute, That is the Slowthe of which I doute Mor than of al the remenant Which is to love appourtenant.
For-thi wise witted men, 6410 And wel y-lettrede clerkes, As thei seyen hemself, Selde doon therafter.
I se ensamples myself, And so may manye othere, That servauntz that serven lordes Selde fallen in arerage, 6560 And tho that kepen the lordes catel, Clerkes and reves.
I am ocupied eche day, Haly-day and oother, With ydel tales at the ale, And outher while at chirche; Goddes peyne and his passion Ful selde thenke I on it.
For, al-though that selde is ther any feith that fortunous thinges wolen dwellen, yit natheles the laste day of a mannes lyf is a manere 60 deeth to Fortune, and also to thilke that hath dwelt.
But the causes y-hid, that is to seyn, in hevene, troublen the brestes of men; the moevable poeple is astoned of alle thinges that comen selde and sodeinly in our age.
Yif the forme of this worlde is so selde stable, and yif it turneth by so many entrechaunginges, wolt thou thanne trusten in the 15 tomblinge fortunes of men?
Taketh heed to that on · as wel as to that other; Selde ye see ony eyr · helpen his brother.
Thus seith the king that knoweth your wikkednesse; And Iesus filius Syrak, as I gesse, 2250 Ne speketh of yow butselde reverence.
Selde Klattaner, the mother of the bride, pale as death, her eyes dilated with most awful fright, convulsively grasping a candle in her hand.
One of the last to stay in the room above with Selde was, strange to say, Leb Narr, of Prague.
Strange as this explanation may seem, there were many who believed it at this very moment, and, most of all, Selde Klattaner herself.
And he passeth selde out, but when all the swarm shall go out.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "selde" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
