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Example sentences for "seldome"

Lexicographically close words:
selber; selbst; seld; selde; seldom; seldomer; sele; select; selected; selectest
  1. Forsooth, as use makes perfectnes, so seldome seene is soone forgotten.

  2. Truly I haue him: but I would not be the partie that should desire you to touch him, for his byting is immortall: those that doe dye of it, doe seldome or neuer recouer Cleo.

  3. Shew me one skarre, character'd on thy Skinne, Mens flesh preseru'd so whole, doe seldome winne Qu.

  4. Ill newes byrlady, seldome comes the better: I feare, I feare, 'twill proue a giddy world.

  5. If my obseruation (which very seldome lies By the hearts still rhetoricke, disclosed with eyes) Deceiue me not now, Nauar is infected Prin.

  6. And shall haue your will, because our King: Yet hastie Marriage seldome proueth well King.

  7. If once a woman pass the bounds of Shamefac’dness, she will seldome stop till she hath arrived to the heighth of Impudence.

  8. At night I haunted the Hen-roosts taking them off so quietly from what they stood on, that their keckling noise seldome alarum’d the rest; if I could not conveniently carry them off, I made their Eggs compound for their heads.

  9. View oft his Tomb-stone, since we seldome find, A servant faithful, and his Master kind.

  10. Island for it is wel knowen that vultures come very seldome together with the Ise of the sea, vnto vs, as beares also (but they seldomer then vultures) and a certaine kind of crowes called by the Islanders Isakrakur.

  11. But for the most part the steames of waters bee vnpleasant, because the earth doeth seldome times smel well.

  12. Which kind of fountaines, albeit they bee very seldome found with vs, yet I will make mention of some like vnto them, produced by nature in other countries, lest any man should think it somwhat strange.

  13. If at any time they do sweare, for that seldome they are wont to doe, they sweare by the Sunne: many of them are taught good letters, wherfore they may so much the sooner be brought vnto Christianitie.

  14. And although it stand in 28 degrees which is as hote in January, as it is in England at Midsommer, yet is the top of the said hil Winter and Sommer seldome without snow.

  15. So also in vniversall mappes they are seldome drawne, to avoide confusion of many lines together, but they are many times marked out on the limbe or edge of the mappe.

  16. Sometimes you may weare him on your shoulder, now and then vnder your arme: but seldome or neuer let him 65 couer you: for 'tis not the fashion.

  17. But all these remarked that the Devill kept no very unseasonable houres: it seldome knock't after 12 at night, or before 6 in the morning.

  18. But let Dame Partelot speake her pleasure, I would aduise all husbandes to lyue honestly with their honest wiues, and doe praie to God to plant mo sutch wiues to store the barren worlde that neuer or seldome bryngeth forth such increase.

  19. But that Metamorphosis is seldome seene amongs humane sort, and therfore I aduise the gentle kind, to matche themselues in equall lotte, and not to trust Sir Custome's curtesie in choyse of feere.

  20. For sooner is that torment auoyded at the first assault and pinch, than when it is suffred long to flame and raigne in that yelding portion of man, the heart, which once fed with the bayt of loue, is seldome or neuer loosed.

  21. Such is the heate of hate in mindes that are mighty; who seldome hold it any breach of Iustice, to bee reuenged of him who offereth dishonor.

  22. Hereupon his desire turned to rage, and the one no lesse vaine then the other: but both together casting him from a high degree of fauour, which seldome stoppeth the race vntill it come to a headlong downefall.

  23. Certainely this magnanimous example hath seldome bin equalled, neuer excelled by those, who are admired for the principall worthies of the world.

  24. Other great offenders he punished commonly by exile or imprisonment, seldome by death.

  25. And seldome hath any vsurpation happened, but vpon pretence of insufficiencie in gouernment.

  26. And so, as they scattered and ranged after prey (as greedy men are seldome circumspect) they were suddenly set vpon by Almaricke Earle of Mountfort, appointed by the French K.

  27. How well the Church, Gods Court of faculties Deales, in some times, and seldome joyning these!

  28. He was never a King's Scholar, and I have heard Sir Richard Knight (who was his school-fellow) say that he seldome sawe him in the schoole.

  29. In those dayes boyes were seldome taught to read that were not to be of some learned profession.

  30. He thought much and with excellent method and stedinesse, which made him seldome make a false step.

  31. So we held on our course for the coast of Spaine with a faire winde and a large which before we seldome had.

  32. The one a man of long seruice, and good desert among the Dutch: the other of so many good parts of a worthy gentleman, as the like are seldome seene to concurre in any.

  33. He carries his eares upright, nor seldome ever lets them fall till they be cropt off, and after that, as in despight, will never weare them more.

  34. The common sort of men seldome speak Insignificantly, and are therefore, by those other Egregious persons counted Idiots.

  35. A Frenchman seldome hears our Saviour called by the name of Parole, but by the name of Verbe often; yet Verbe and Parole differ no more, but that one is Latin, the other French.

  36. To sing, to revell, and other daliaunce: Who that will truely upon his lord attende, Unto suche sportes he seldome may entende.

  37. As for these pleasours of thinges vanable Whiche in the fieldes appeareth delectable, But seldome season mayest thou obtayne respite.

  38. M341) They liue long, and are seldome sicke, and if they chance to fall sicke at any time, they heale themselues with fire without any phisitian, and they say that they die for very age.

  39. Hee came and made this speech following: Right high, right mightie, and excellent Lord, those things which seldome happen doe cause admiration.

  40. Pride he disdaines, when he findes it swelling in himselfe; but easily forgiveth it in another: Nor can any mans error in life, make him sinne in censure, since seldome the folly we condemne is so culpable as the severity of our judgement.

  41. He is vertuous, for love begot in sin is a mishapen monster, and seldome out-lives his birth.

  42. Stay here a while (ye Gentlemen) ye I say, that pursue the secrete stelths of loue, neuer put any great trust in fortune, which seldome kepeth hir promise with you.

  43. Many hystoryes haue I red, and Chronicles of our time, and yet I haue found few or none comparable vnto thys Gentleman, the like of whom be so rare and seldome as white Crowes, or Swannes of colour blacke.

  44. Hystory is the more rare and worthy of notyng, for respect of the People and Countrey, where seldome or neuer Curtesie haunteth or findeth harborough, and where Nature doth bryng forth greater store of monsters, than thinges worthy of praise.

  45. And Vertue is so seldome founde, as it is almost impossible to imitate that perfection.

  46. His friendship is counterfeit, seldome to trust.

  47. I had letters to deliver at Constantinople, and went on.

  48. At that time Oswell with his companion Murray allied themselves with Livingstone to discover a reported lake of the unknown interior, together with Mrs. Livingstone and their infantine family.

  49. For four hours the buffalo watched that tree, walking round and lying down under it.

  50. The man, dropping his musket, climbed a tree just in time.


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