Seldom in A Sentence

    1

    The same people seldom show up twice.

    2

    He seldom offered an opinion, much less began a conversation.

    3

    Lisa had no trouble understanding why she seldom had company.

    4

    Her manuscripts seldom contain typographical errors when she hands them to Miss Sullivan to read.

    5

    I beg to differ, but I am seldom consulted when such decisions are made.

    6

    He retired to the country and was seldom present at the council.

    7

    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.

    8

    His hospitality was great, almost to a fault, and he seldom came home without bringing a guest.

    9

    That was Howie to a tee; totally dispassionate and prosaic, ready to join the gang and do someone else's bidding but seldom a decision maker.

    10

    But war is seldom the answer.

    11

    Martha Washington understood my signs, and I seldom had any difficulty in making her do just as I wished.

    12

    It was a weekly summer ritual for one or the other, but seldom both; they enjoyed stocking up on local-grown produce.

    13

    The winds are variable and seldom violent, except along the coast during the sub-tropical storms of late summer and early autumn.

    14

    Once in a while they did things together socially, usually to fulfill mandated coupling at necessary functions and seldom for the entertainment of either.

    15

    Seldom will one decide that war with a friend's nation is the only recourse.

    16

    In America it seldom attains the large size it often acquires in England, and it is there of less rapid growth than the prevailing form of the western plains; the name of "cotton-wood" is locally given to other species.

    17

    They seldom penetrate the living cells, though they do so in a few cases.

    18

    A larger soul I think hath seldom dwelt in a house of clay than his was.

    19

    This is seldom discussed but very real.

    20

    Usually I enjoy seeing the gentle flakes and they cause me little aggravation with their accumulation as I seldom travel more than a block or two when I secure provisions.

    21

    On the mainland, and more especially on the eastern slope, the temperature is cooler, the thermometer seldom rising above 93° in the shade, and falling at night below 70°.

    22

    The remission or abatement lasts generally throughout the morning; and about noon there is an exacerbation, seldom ushered in by chills, which continues till the early morning following, when it remits or abates as before.

    23

    While the pair was a definite annoyance to the Parkside police, the two were seldom a serious problem...

    24

    The study of the differentiation of protoplasm was at that time seldom undertaken, and no particular attention was paid either to fixing it, to enable staining methods to be accurately applied to it, or to studying the action of chemical reagents upon it.

    25

    Denisov evidently tried to expose Rostov to danger as seldom as possible, and after an action greeted his safe return with evident joy.

    26

    In India elephants seldom breed in captivity, though they do so more frequently in Burma and Siam; the domesticated stock is therefore replenished by fresh captures.

    27

    The most civilized of this people are seldom seen even by the Sakai.

    28

    Why did he have to wait until her figure started to fall apart before he complained about seldom seeing her in a dress?

    29

    The reproductive organs of Rhabdopleura have but seldom been observed.

    30

    Let's talk a moment about patriotism and nationalism, words frequently used but seldom clearly defined.

    31

    For a whole evening she will sit at the table writing whatever comes into her busy brain; and I seldom find any difficulty in reading what she has written.

    32

    He seldom laughed, but when he did he abandoned himself entirely to his laughter, and after such a laugh she always felt nearer to him.

    33

    A true mushroom is never large in size; its cap very seldom exceeds 4, at most 5 inches.

    34

    The only effect of this incident on Tikhon was that after being wounded he seldom brought in prisoners.

    35

    A family or group of families had the same hunting-ground, which was seldom changed, and descended through the males.

    36

    Both these oaks grow well in British plantations, where their bright autumn foliage, though seldom so decided in tint as in their native woods, gives them a certain picturesque value.

    37

    The nest of the siskin is very like that of the goldfinch, but seldom so neatly built; the eggs, except in their smaller size, much resemble those of the greenfinch.

    38

    The serfs, whose wrongs seldom attracted notice in an age indifferent to the claims of common humanity, found a friend in this severe monarch, and he protected even the despised and persecuted Jews.

    39

    But even their orders, like Napoleon's, were seldom carried out, and then but partially.

    40

    He had heard that the Rostovs were at Kostroma but the thought of Natasha seldom occurred to him.

    41

    Many large and fierce bears roam in the Valley of Voe, and when they can catch any of us they eat us up; but as they cannot see us, we seldom get caught.

    42

    When Pierre had gone and the members of the household met together, they began to express their opinions of him as people always do after a new acquaintance has left, but as seldom happens, no one said anything but what was good of him.

    43

    Throughout Japan, China, Siam, and the Malay countries, normal long-tailed cats are indeed seldom seen.

    44

    The reason that we do not observe this process in ordinary children is, because we seldom observe them at all, and because they are fed from so many sources that the memories are confused and mutually destructive.

    45

    And when he writes in eight parts for a double chorus the two groups are seldom identioal.

    46

    Moreover, while a Russian man, far away from home among Siberians, readily marries a native, the Russian woman seldom does the like.

    47

    Before astronomical telescopes were mounted parallactically, the measurement of position angles was seldom attempted.

    48

    No ancient writer ascribes them to him, and he seldom, if ever, executed works in marble.

    49

    Little is known about him, and he is seldom mentioned.

    50

    In 1781 Dohm pointed to the fact that a Jewish father could seldom hope to enjoy the happiness of living with his children.

    51

    As a legislative body the powers of the Council are co-ordinate with those of the Duma; in practice, however, it has seldom if ever initiated legislation.6 The Duma of the Empire or Imperial Duma (Gosudarstvennaya Duma), which forms the Lower House of the Russian parliament, consists (since the ukaz of the znd of June 1907) on the 27th of April 1906, while the name and princi p le of autocracy was jealously preserved, the word " unlimited " vanished.

    52

    On the coast snow is seldom seen, but it does fall occasionally.

    53

    Silk shirts are now seldom seen on men.

    54

    Jeff does kind things for people, sometimes to a fault, but he seldom talks about it.

    55

    The prize money seldom offsets the investment, unless a child wins repeatedly.

    56

    The mayor's appointments are many, and are seldom dependent on the consent of the - council.

    57

    The differences, however, are seldom pressed, and rarely become acute.

    58

    The valleys and coast belt, though practically free from malarial fever, are hot and humid, and fires in dwelling houses are seldom required even in the coolest months; the lower plateaus are cool and the air dry; the uplands are bracing and often very cold, with snow on the ground in winter.

    59

    These winds, which blow on an average twenty-five days in the year, seldom reach the coast and are generally followed by rain.

    60

    The individual beds, seldom more than a few feet in thickness and sometimes only a few inches, are interstratified with an immense thickness of quartzites.

    61

    Moreover, the splendid building is nearly always a unit; seldom, unless accidentally, a component part of a broad effect.

    62

    He left England to be governed by Hubert Walter, and his personal authority was seldom asserted except by demands for new subsidies.

    63

    Francis's personal intervention in this struggle was seldom happy.

    64

    Next follow chapters on the literary renaissance of the nation, its progress in art, mathematics, chemistry and natural science; the magnificent development of agriculture, modern industry, commerce and finance; and in particular its flourishing selfgovernment, " which will be exercised in the fullest freedom," and in which " the communal organization embodies in the highest degree the conception of self-government " (p. 234), and " the independent sphere of activity unlimited in its fundamental principle " (p. 235) in that " State control is exercised seldom and discreetly " (p. 236).

    65

    Nevertheless, the extremely severe penal edicts issued during the reign of Sigismund I., though seldom applied, seem to point to the fact that heresy was spreading widely throughout the country.

    66

    Birds and mammals take the first place; the leading collections devote a good deal of attention to reptiles and batrachians; fishes and aquatic invertebrata are most often to be found only when there are special aquaria, whilst non-aquatic invertebrates are seldom to be seen and at most consist of a few moths and butterflies, spiders, scorpions and centipedes, molluscs and crustaceans.

    67

    Many animals of great zoological interest, from their nocturnal habits, or natural disposition, display themselves so seldom that their possession is valueless from the point of view of the public, whilst closely allied species are not distinguished except by trained observers.

    68

    On the plateaus the temperature passes from one extreme to the other, and rain seldom falls.

    69

    They are very seldom met with in graves.

    70

    After his time tribal assemblies are seldom mentioned, and though we hear occasionally, both in England and elsewhere, of a concourse of people being present when a king holds court on high days or religious festivals, there is no evidence that such concourses took part in the discussion of state affairs.

    71

    The name now is seldom used, the Grain coast being divided between the British colony of Sierra Leone and the republic of Liberia.

    72

    Isaac Barrow said that "his practical writings were never minded, and his controversial ones seldom confuted," and John Wilkins, bishop of Chester, asserted that "if he had lived in the primitive time he had been one of the fathers of the church."

    73

    The majority of minerals are found commonly in masses which can with difficulty be recognized as aggregates of crystalline grains, and occur comparatively seldom as distinct crystals; but the diamond is almost always found in single crystals, which show no signs of previous attachment to any matrix; the stones were, until the discovery of the South African mines, almost entirely derived from sands or gravels, but owing to the hardness of the mineral it is rarely, if ever, water-worn, and the crystals are often very perfect.

    74

    All these works are emphatically of "dark-age" character; very seldom do they suggest the true forms of countries, seas, rivers or mountains, but they embody some useful information as to early medieval conditions and history.

    75

    He seldom spoke in parliament after 1810, the most notable exception being in 1815, when he separated himself from the Whigs and supported the final struggle against Napoleon.

    76

    On the contrary, weapons are seldom found, at any rate in graves, the objects in which bear witness to a life of extraordinary luxury.

    77

    In temperate latitudes auroral arcs are seldom near the zenith, and there is reason to believe them at very great heights.

    78

    She exercised over him that influence which a stronger character always exercises over a weaker, whatever their respective positions; and unfortunately it was seldom a good influence, for Theodora (q.v.) seems to have been a woman who, with all her brilliant gifts of intelligence and manner, had no principles and no pity.

    79

    The less fortunate make shift to live outside as best they can, but are all day in the mosque, and are seldom deserted by Moslem charity.

    80

    It seldom exceeds 3 or 4 ft.

    81

    The wearing of whiskers while shaving the chin was a Mogul fashion of the 17th and 18th centuries and is now seldom seen except among Deccani Mahommedans.

    82

    The main roads centring in Seoul are seldom fit even for the passage of ox-carts, and the secondary roads are bad bridle-tracks, frequently degenerating into "rock ladders."

    83

    Their patriarch is styled of Antioch, but seldom comes west of Mardin.

    84

    There are no vindictive punishments, such as a solitary confinement, penal servitude for long terms of years, &c. Seldom, indeed, is a man imprisoned more than twelve months, the rule being that there is a general jail delivery at the New Year.

    85

    The same men were not seldom assaulted under the name of "theists"; the later distinction between "theist" and "deist," which stamped the latter word as excluding the belief in providence or in the immanence of God, was apparently formulated in the end of the 18th century by those rationalists who were aggrieved at being identified with the naturalists.

    86

    Now it is the abode of the jewellers and ivory-workers of Delhi, but the jewels are seldom valuable and the carving has lost much of its old delicacy.

    87

    His domestic life was most happy, though his wife was a confirmed invalid, seldom quitting her room.

    88

    Copper would thus have been but seldom used unalloyed; and the relatively synchronous appearance of bronze in Europe, and the scanty "finds" of copper implements, are explained.

    89

    It is seldom more than a few feet above the sealevel, while at places it is below it, and it has consequently to be defended by an extensive _ system of dykes or embankments resembling those of Holland.

    90

    Between them and the European settlers there were seldom any manifestations of acute hostility, though each race feared and distrusted the other.

    91

    This done he extends his enormous pinions 2 and sails majestically along, seldom deigning to flap his wings, the breeze doing the work for him.

    92

    Within the Chalk ring, and at the base of the steep escarpment, there is a low terrace of the Upper Greensand, seldom so much as a mile in width, but in most places crowded with villages scarcely more than a mile apart, and ranged like beads on a necklace.

    93

    His duties at the mint were discharged by John Conduitt, and he therefore seldom went from home.

    94

    For example, the form and structure of Stigmaria have long been well known; but it is seldom possible to determine whether a given Stigmaria belonged to Sigillaria, Lepidodendron or some other genus.

    95

    Few or no extinct types are to be found in these older strata - there is nothing among the plants equivalent to the unmistakably extinct Ammonites, Belemnites, and a hundred other groups, and we only meet with constant variations in the same genus or family, these variations having seldom any obvious relation to phylogeny.

    96

    The following table shows an average value for any date and for the Greenwich meridian for a number of years, from which the actual value will seldom deviate more than 20 seconds until after 1950.

    97

    Lisa had no trouble believing she seldom had company.

    98

    Clair was good baby, seldom fussed and according to Martha, was almost sleeping through the night.

    99

    While the pair was a definite annoyance to the Parkside police, the two were seldom a serious problem, principally because they were too stupid to get away with much, and their size—six­-feet-five and at least 500 pounds between them—made escaping detection difficult.

    100

    You seldom mention Jeff—only in reference to something else—never talk directly about him, or his death.

    101

    But it is seldom realized that the US and Britain have largely provoked the civil war now that is raging across central Iraq.

    102

    But it is important to remember that we seldom had any cases that were not entirely sincere.

    103

    It spread rapidly over the country, affecting all domesticated animals except horses, and although seldom attended by fatal results, caused everywhere great alarm and loss.

    104

    It is also possible to find in them many anticipations of the views of the economists of later times; but such statements were as a rule generated merely by the heat of controversy on some measure or event of practical importance, and when the controversy died down were seldom regarded or incorporated in a scientific system.

    105

    But carriage roads in the Ottoman dominions are seldom completely made, and hardly ever kept in repair.

    106

    The wide distribution of certain species is undoubtedly attributable to the agency of ships and trains; under natural conditions mosquitoes seldom travel far from their breeding grounds, although the powers of flight of some species are greater than has been supposed.

    107

    They seldom begin to repair the houses till the frost sets in, and never finish the outer coating till the cold becomes severe.

    108

    When they erect a new habitation they fell the wood early in summer, but seldom begin building till towards the end of August.

    109

    Lacking in military enterprise, secluded and pleasure-loving, he seldom emerged from his palace life at Palermo.

    110

    Hence a complaint that the population is overstated is seldom heard, and hence, also, popular charges of an undercount afford little evidence that the population was really larger than stated by the census.

    111

    Very seldom indeed is moisture excessive in the eastern half; there is even a deficiency in unfavourable years, and dry, warm winds do damage to crops.

    112

    Legislation is subject to disallowance by the crown, but that power is seldom exercised.

    113

    Seldom has any man united so many and such various gifts in his own person and carried them so easily - a playful wit, a vivid imagination, oratorical and literary eloquence and, above all, a profound knowledge of human nature both male and female, of every class and rank, from the king to the meanest citizen.

    114

    The marsh, drained by many channels, seldom rises over a dozen feet above sea-level.

    115

    The Thanet beds resting on chalk form a narrow outcrop rising into cliffs at Pegwell Bay and Reculver, and consist (1) of a constant base bed of clayey greenish sand, seldom more than 5 ft.

    116

    On that day many attend the synagogues who are seldom or never seen in them at other times.

    117

    Cottonwoods flourish along the Little Missouri river, and in sheltered ravines grow stunted junipers and cedars, which seldom rise above the crest of some protecting bluff.

    118

    The full force of the monsoon is, however, broken by the western frontier hills; and while the rainfall at Mergui is over 180, and at Moulmein 240 in., that of Bangkok seldom exceeds 54, and Chiengmai records an average of about 42 in.

    119

    For while the self-contained basins of Tibet generally possess a salt lake in the middle, into which brooks and streams of greater or less magnitude gather, often from very considerable distances, these self-contained basins of the Astintagh are very small in area, and it is extremely seldom that their central parts receive any water at all, only in fact after copious rain.

    120

    The specific gravity of milk ordinarily ranges from i 029 to 1.033, very seldom reaching 1 035 or falling so low as 1.027.

    121

    Although known for centuries, they have seldom been mentioned by writers on playing-cards, and the rules have for the most part been handed down orally.

    122

    The variable first maxillae are seldom pediform, their function being concerned chiefly with nutrition, sensation and respiration.

    123

    The nest, in which four eggs are laid with their pointed ends meeting in its centre (as is usual among Limicoline birds), is seldom far from the water's edge, and the eggs, as well as the newly-hatched and down-covered young, closely resemble the surrounding pebbles.

    124

    For example, the country gone over is seldom level springy turf; it is up hill and down dale, across ridge and furrow, over ground studded with ant-hills (which, unlike mole-hills, are often very hard), over ploughed or boggy land.

    125

    It is seldom overridden.

    126

    Such extremely bright auroras seem very rare, however, even in the Arctic. There is a general tendency for both bands and rays to appear brightest at their lowest parts; arcs seldom appear as bright at their summits as nearer the horizon.

    127

    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.

    128

    In civil cases either party may demand a jury, a privilege which is seldom exercised; but in a civil case the verdict of the majority of jurors prevails.

    129

    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.

    130

    The northern part of the state is much more rugged, 1 As the waters of the stream have been diverted into mill races, the river very seldom makes this leap in its natural channel.

    131

    Novels he seldom read.

    132

    The idea of regeneration seldom occurs in the New Testament, and perhaps not at all in connexion with baptism; for in the conversation with Nicodemus, John ill.

    133

    But in the earlier years of their struggles with Christendom the vikings seldom suffered a complete disaster; they were often beaten but seldom annihilated.

    134

    The typical Papuan is distinctly tall, far exceeding the average Malay height, and is seldom shorter, often taller, than the European.

    135

    In their native haunts these monkeys go about in troops of considerable size, frequenting the summits of the tall forest-trees, from which they seldom, if ever, descend.

    136

    Zamoyski was undoubtedly most jealous of his dignity; his patriotism was seldom proof against private pique; and he was not always particular in his choice of means.

    137

    In striking contrast to Iowa, the Nebraska deposit is very thin, seldom thicker than I or 2 ft.

    138

    He overflows with anecdotes, seldom indeed gets beyond the anecdotal stage, yet from this all study of nature must begin; and he sees everywhere intelligence and beauty, love and sociality, where a later view of nature insists primarily on mere adaptation of interests or purely competitive struggles.

    139

    They are seldom green, although occasionally that colour is met with, as in some species of Cobaea, Hoya viridiflora, Gonolobus viridiflorus and Pentatropis spiralis.

    140

    The play of brilliant colours and of ever-changing contrasts of light and shade on those rugged mountain-sides and on the surface of the sea itself might have been expected to appeal to the most prosaic. The surface of the sea is generally smooth (seldom, however, absolutely inert as the pilgrims represented it), but is frequently raised by the north winds into waves, which, owing to the weight and density of the water, are often of great force.

    141

    Gneiss is seldom met with, but there are crystalline rocks, belonging chiefly to the pre-Cordillera of the eastern and to the Cordillera de la Costa on the western side.

    142

    The acceptance of this duty is the only foundation for a moral and just society The aristocratic idea has seldom been better stated.

    143

    Seldom can any band have turned adversity to such advantage.

    144

    The wigs and clothing were seldom if ever washed and became particularly musty after a while.

    145

    Occasionally, for some obscure reason, two open diapasons were included, while the second 8ft. chorus reed is seldom found.

    146

    Still they were fortunate enough to kill two of the large American ruminants, seldom met with in such elevated latitudes.

    147

    You will seldom find an investment worthy bottle of wine at your grocery store.

    148

    In his classification of birds Linnaeus for the most part followed Ray, and where he departed from his model he seldom improved upon it.

    149

    The dates given by other recent authorities seldom differ by more than three or four years.

    150

    This plateau belt is exceedingly rugged with sharp ridges alternating with narrow valleys which have steep sides but are seldom more than 150o ft.

    151

    Scheele's power as an experimental investigator has seldom if ever been surpassed, and his accuracy is most remarkable when his primitive apparatus, his want of assistance, his place of residence, and the undeveloped state of chemical and physical science in his time, are all taken into account.

    152

    And coins have long been recognized as one of the great sources of metrology -- valuable for their wide and detailed range of information, though most unsatisfactory on account of the constant temptation to diminish their weight, a weakness which seldom allows us to reckon them as of the full standard.

    153

    The earlier foot is continually to be traced in other megalithic remains, whereas the later very seldom occurs (25).

    154

    In coinage it is one of the commonest units in early times; from Phoenicia, round the coast to Macedonia, it is predominant (17); at a maximum of 230 (Ialysus), it is in Macedonia 224, but seldom exceeds 220 elsewhere, the earliest Lydian of the 7th century being 219, and the general average of coins 218.

    155

    Each of these alternate life phases may leave some profound modification, which is partially obscured but seldom wholly lost; thus the tracing of the evidences of former adaptations is of great importance in phylogenetic study.

    156

    This glade can seldom be reached until she candidate is in his forty-fifth year, which involves a probaLion of thirty-one years in the case of those who have entered on the novitiate at the earliest legal age.

    157

    Almost total losses are frequently experienced, but the profits of a favourable year are so great that losses seldom deter ranchers from trying again.

    158

    Tabiya or rammed concrete of red earth and stone is the almost universal building material, and the houses are consequently seldom more than two storeys in height.

    159

    They can have exercised their public rights but seldom, owing to their distance from Rome; but the consulships of C. Marius, a municeps of Arpinum (between 107 and 100 B.C.), and the strength of the support given to Tiberius Gracchus in the assembly by the voters from Italian towns (133 B.C.) show what an important influence the members of these municipia could occasionally exercise over Roman politics.

    160

    The unity and continuity of the district, expressed in the name Appalachian plateau, is seldom recognized in local usage.

    161

    Its relief is seldom more than 200 or 300 ft., and is commonly of small measure, but its continuity and its contrast with the associated lowlands worn on the underlying and overlying weak strata suffice to sake it a feature of importance.

    162

    The floods of the Mississippi usually occur in spring or aummer; Owing to the great size of the drainage basin, it seldom happens that the three upper tributaries are in flood at the same time; the coincident occurrence of floods in only two tributaries is of serious import in the lower river, which rises 30, 40, or occasionally 50 ft.

    163

    And secondly, whereas in earlier days the constitutions were seldom changed, they are now frequently recast or amended.

    164

    They are seldom persons of shining ability or high standing in their communities.

    165

    However, these bureaus are seldom well manned, because salaries and tenure of office are seldom such as to induce able men to offer themselves, while the places are often given as rewards for political service.

    166

    Outwards from the bay the level rises slowly to an average of about z 500 ft., but seldom reaches 2000 ft.

    167

    Rye is cultivated successfully, but is seldom used for human food.

    168

    The summits of the highest peaks are bare, but even on them snow seldom lies throughout the summer.

    169

    The writer's autograph, if it is preserved after it has been through the hands of the printer, has seldom more than an antiquarian value.

    170

    But this is in a historical work; whereas the argument from silence about historical facts in a philosophical work can seldom apply.

    171

    This bird, which ranges over the North Atlantic, is seldom seen on the European side below lat.

    172

    Hail-storms occur in the spring and summer, but are seldom destructive.

    173

    While possessing considerable gifts of mind and a latent fund of energy, he seldom acted or reflected until the favourable moment had passed.

    174

    The notices of Virgil's text, though seldom or never authoritative in face of the existing MSS., which go back to, or even beyond, the times of Servius, yet supply valuable information concerning the ancient recensions and textual criticism of Virgil.

    175

    Some bitters, although possessing tonic properties, may be regarded as beverages pure and simple, notwithstanding the fact that they are seldom consumed in an undiluted state; others again, are obviously medicinal preparations and should be treated as such.

    176

    Molluscs are usually of separate sexes, but sexual dimorphism is seldom highly developed.

    177

    In Europe this species has seldom bred in confinement, although an instance has recently been recorded.

    178

    Post-orbital processes of the frontals exist in squirrels, marmots and hares; but in all other genera they are rudimentary or altogether absent; and the zygoma seldom sends upwards a corresponding process, so that the orbit is more or less completely continuous with the temporal fossa.

    179

    The child was brought up under a rigid system of nursing, physical, moral and intellectual; kept without toys, not seldom whipped, watched day and night, but trained from infancy in music, drawing, reading aloud and observation of natural objects.

    180

    In many cases the apparent cause may be of a nobler character, but historians have seldom been content to accept the allegations of those who have claimed to carry on war from disinterested motives.

    181

    The mamo (Drepanis pacifica) has large golden feathers on its back; it is now very rare, and is seldom found except on Mauna Loa, Hawaii, about 4000 ft.

    182

    The natives seldom cultivate more than half an acre apiece, and the Portuguese settlers usually only 25 or 30 acres at most.

    183

    But he seldom used the word ecclesia, church, which became the universal designation of his society.

    184

    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.

    185

    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.

    186

    Naval warfare is seldom mentioned.

    187

    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.

    188

    It was seldom that an episcopal election took place without a division in the chapter, in which resided the electoral right.

    189

    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.

    190

    It has often been taken and sacked by the Turks, but has seldom been occupied by them for long.

    191

    He took a narrow and monastic view of current politics; he was seldom in touch with the leading statesmen of his day.

    192

    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.

    193

    Apothecia seldom round, usually elongatedellipsoidal, no capillitium.

    194

    Flower Garden, &c. - Sow in the beginning of this month all halfhardy annuals required for early flowering; also mignonette in pots, thinning the plants at an early stage; the different species of primula; and the seeds of such plants as, if sown in spring, seldom come up the same season, but if sown in September and October, vegetate readily the succeeding spring.

    195

    The ranges seldom exceed the height of 3000 or 4000 ft.; but the ridges in the south, towards Tirol, frequently attain an elevation of 9000 or 10,000 ft.

    196

    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.

    197

    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.

    198

    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.

    199

    Caracal.-A small lynx from India, the fur very poor, seldom imported.

    200

    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.

    201

    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.

    202

    A great part of Ashanti is covered with primeval and almost impenetrable forest.1 Many of the trees, chiefly silk-cotton and hardwood, attain splendid proportions, the bombax reaching a height of over 200 ft., but the monotony is oppressive, and is seldom relieved by the sight of flowers, birds or beasts.

    203

    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.

    204

    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.

    205

    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.

    206

    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.

    207

    Isochasms. - Aurora is seldom observed in low latitudes.

    208

    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.

    209

    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.

    210

    Horses are comparatively few, and are seldom seen outside the large towns, the camel and donkey being the principal beasts of burden.

    211

    Men, who can afford to keep a horse, mule or ass are very seldom seen to walk.

    212

    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.

    213

    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.

    214

    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.

    215

    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.

    216

    As Egyptian roots seldom exceeded three letters, there was no need for triliteral phonograms to spell them.

    217

    Determinatives.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.

    218

    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.

    219

    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.

    220

    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.

    221

    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.

    222

    The students of theology generally begin their course in early youth, but not seldom in riper years.

    223

    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.

    224

    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.

    225

    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.

    226

    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.

    227

    As early as 1730-1740, 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.

    228

    The widespread use of Latin was, however, seldom or never antagonistic to the preservation of national sentiment.

    229

    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.

    230

    Offices and titles are seldom hereditary in our sense of the term, as descending from father to son.

    231

    In 1908, in some counties, the care of paupers was still let by contract to the lowest bidder or the superintendent was paid between $1.00 and $1.80 - seldom more than $1.50 - a week for each patient, and he paid a small (or no) rent on the county farm.

    232

    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.

    233

    The fruit of his long years of illness was a slender volume of lyrics, Gedichte (Stuttgart and Tubingen, 1851), good in form, but seldom inspired, and showing occasionally the influence of a morbid sensuality.

    234

    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.

    235

    Papal legates to Germany seldom failed to visit the university and by their magnificence bore witness to the majesty of the Roman church.

    236

    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.

    237

    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.

    238

    They are seldom good scholars, but those under French rule take all the advantage they can of the schools instituted by the government.

    239

    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.

    240

    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.

    241

    In Kabul the snow lies for two or three months; the people seldom leave their houses, and sleep close to stoves.

    242

    At Kandahar snow seldom falls on the plains or lower hills; when it does, it melts at once.

    243

    Hindu women seldom wear shoes.

    244

    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.

    245

    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.

    246

    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.

    247

    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.

    248

    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.

    249

    But even the normal proposition in the syllogistic form tertii adjacentis, with subject, predicate and copula, is seldom a complete expression of the judgment.

    250

    The vapourpressure equations are seldom known with sufficient accuracy, and the ionization data are incomplete.

    251

    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.

    252

    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.

    253

    This is strictly correct, but, with the exception of the first and last, these titles are seldom to be found in documents.

    254

    Jesus seldom employed the last term, and St Paul's use of it is not altogether clear.

    255

    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.

    256

    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.

    257

    The relation to be preserved towards the mother states was seldom or never definitely arranged.

    258

    England was probably seldom quite free from plague, but the next great outbreak is recorded in 1472 and following years.

    259

    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.

    260

    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.

    261

    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.

    262

    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.

    263

    Merchants seldom have to concern themselves with the subject.

    264

    Although not actually repealed, the penal laws were seldom put in force, and mass was openly celebrated in London and elsewhere.

    265

    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.

    266

    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.

    267

    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.

    268

    Here we have the origin of the Catholic rule of fasting, seldom understood by those who observe it.

    269

    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.

    270

    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.

    271

    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.

    272

    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.

    273

    He seldom or never attacks human beings unless in self-defence, and loss of life from this cause is scarcely ever reported.

    274

    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.

    275

    The elevation of the central lowlands seldom exceeds 300 ft., but a few isolated heights of Silurian rock appear, such as Kinnekulle, rising 988 ft.

    276

    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.

    277

    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.

    278

    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.

    279

    It fastens in front by a flap, having two small buttons or knots at the left shoulder, and seldom comes below the hips.

    280

    Pocket-handkerchiefs are seldom used, save by the rich or the Tehernis.

    281

    The kingdom, which is seldom mentioned, survived till Ardashir I.

    282

    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.

    283

    Acer campestre, the common maple, is common in hedgerows, but less often seen as a tree, when it is seldom more than 20 ft.

    284

    Seldom was Voltaire wider of the mark than when he called Telemaque a Greek poem in French prose.

    285

    They may be propagated by seed (though owing to the rare occurrence of fruit, this method is seldom applicable), by division and by cuttings.

    286

    A glance at the accompanying map will show that there is a labyrinth of avenues and chasms seldom visited and never fully explored.

    287

    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.

    288

    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.) the borrowing of money; (iii.) the passing of the accounts of, and the discharge of the county treasurer; (iv.) shire halls, county halls, assize courts, the judges' lodgings, lock-up houses, court houses, justices' rooms, police stations and county buildings, works and property; (v.) the licensing under any general act of houses and other places for music or for dancing, and the granting of licences under the Racecourses Licensing Act 1879; (vi.) the provision, enlargement, maintenance and management and visitation of, and other dealing with, asylums for pauper lunatics; (vii.) the establishment and maintenance of, and the contribution to, reformatory and industrial schools; (viii.) bridges and roads repairable with bridges, and any powers vested by the Highways and Locomotives Amendment Act 1878 in the county authority.

    289

    The most attached of them were seldom long away from him.

    290

    Murders and executions are frequent, yet cruelty is not a marked feature of their character; and in war they seldom kill their prisoners.

    291

    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., he writes with pathos and dignity.

    292

    In 1734 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.

    293

    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.

    294

    The change from London to Dublin can seldom be an agreeable one.

    295

    After the Directions he writes little beyond occasional verses, not seldom indecent and commonly trivial.

    296

    Very seldom was he during that time mentioned with respect by any writer of great literary eminence.

    297

    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.

    298

    Snow seldom falls in the coast region, but it lies on the higher mountains for three or four months in the year, and for as many days on the Karroo.

    299

    He was constituted one of the British plenipotentiaries at the Conference; but his duties at Westminster seldom allowed him to go to Paris, though he ultimately affixed his signature to the Treaty of Versailles.

    300

    In open places that height is seldom more than about one and a half times the square root of the " fetch " or greatest distance in nautical miles from which the wave has travelled to the point in question; but in narrow reaches or lakes it is relatively higher.

    301

    In using these machines there is seldom any question of determining the weight to any great nicety, and rapid action is generally of high importance.

    302

    He returned again and again to their production, seldom labouring on sonnets and lyrics of the Victorian mould.

    303

    Moreover, he retained in practice, if not in theory, his power to nominate to the vacant offices; chapters and monasteries seldom dared to resist the pressure which the sovereign could bring to bear upon them in.

    304

    The nation, however much it might murmur, would never have been willing to rebel against a sovereign whose only fault was that he occasionally pressed his prerogative too far, Edwards rule was seldom or never oppressive, the seizure of the merchants wool in 1297 was the only one of his acts which caused really fierce and widespread indignation.

    305

    It is seldom in the worlds history that a hollow legal device such as this has had such long enduring and deplorable results.

    306

    Fourteen times the squadrons of King Philip came back to the charge; but mowed down by the arrow-shower, they seldom could get to handstrokes with the English knights, and at last rode off the field in disorder.

    307

    The genus comprises a few species of shrubs or trees, seldom reaching a large size, distributed through the North Temperate zone, and in the New World passing along the Andes southwards to Chile.

    308

    He had no forensic eloquence; but the cold obstinacy with which he pressed his charges was more convincing than any rhetoric, and he seldom failed to secure a conviction.

    309

    He seldom or never entered a place of worship, and declared that he could not listen to a sermon, a circumstance perhaps due to the extremely strict religious discipline under which he was brought up. Nevertheless there is reason to believe that he VIII.

    310

    He was revered by his subjects as a species of divinity, and seldom left the enclosure surrounding the royal palace.

    311

    The uneducated mass of mankind, he complains, either " seldom reason at all," or " put passion in the place of reason," or " for want of large, sound, round-about sense " they direct their minds only to one part of the evidence, "converse with one sort of men, read but one sort of books, and will not come in the hearing of but one sort of notions, and so carve out to themselves a little Goshen in the intellectual world, where light shines, and, as they conclude, day blesses them; but the rest of the vast expansion they give up to night and darkness, and avoid coming near it."

    312

    The most notable Jacobins have seldom left memoirs, but the works of Robespierre and St Just enable us to form a clearer conception of the authors.

    313

    This species occurs on the British coasts (very seldom straying inland) all the year round; but there is some reason to think that those we have in winter are natives of more northern latitudes, while our homebred birds leave us.

    314

    When they were united they were a formidable power, but, like other half-organized communities, they seldom combined for long together, and consequently they influenced but little the fortunes of the Greeks.

    315

    It is seldom possible for them to remain more than three or four days in one spot.

    316

    Iceland lies contiguous to that part of the north Atlantic in which the shifting areas of low pressure prevail, so that storms are frequent and the barometer is seldom firm.

    317

    The walrus is now seldom seen, although in prehistoric times it was common.

    318

    Construction and repairs are, in theory, carried out by compulsory labour; but this right is seldom enforced.

    319

    It seldom freezes for more than one month, and the harbours are rarely ice-bound.

    320

    Individuals are seldom as bad as corporations, and the very men who made the laws against priests practically shielded them.

    321

    Here the seasons are mild and equable, the winters are short (snow seldom falling), and the summers last for five months.

    322

    Slavery had a patriarchal and family character, and was seldom exercised in a cruel or oppressive way.

    323

    But all over the savage world, especially in Africa, spirit worship has sprung up and choked the All-Father, who, however, in most savage regions, abides as a name, receiving no sacrifice, and, save among the Masai, seldom being addressed in prayer.

    324

    Unfortunately Egyptologists have rarely a wide knowledge of the myths of the lower races, while anthropologists are seldom or never Egyptologists.

    325

    His communications to the Academie des Inscriptions being coldly received and seldom accorded the honour of print, he inserted them in a vast compilation in 24 volumes, which he called Le Philologue, containing a mass of ill-digested notes on Greek grammar, geography, archaeology, and various authors.

    326

    Except in extraordinary circumstances, the war ministers have seldom called for more than forty to sixty thousand men annually, and of this contingent all who can afford to do so buy themselves off from service at home by payment of 60, and if drafted for colonial service by payment of 80.

    327

    We were seldom able to copy our own compositions, and have employed an amanuensis for the last six years.

    328

    Latin art seldom became barbarous, and in its best products it comes quite up to the level of Greek technical execution.

    329

    Unlike the picture painted by PR critics, coalitions are seldom directed by the whims of tiny parties blackmailing large parties.

    330

    The touches are seldom light, or delicate; the brush is heavy, the color loaded; the picture appears a gross caricature.

    331

    And while his invention, Portland cement, is seldom celebrated in the same breath as steam power or the.. .

    332

    Sea fish are seldom returned alive to the water as most are considered edible.

    333

    While Film Journal International observed that ' seldom have grouches, misfits and, yes, nerds seemed so endearing ' .

    334

    Amnesty International reports that LGBT Jamaicans seldom get justice, with the police often colluding with the perpetrators and ignoring homophobic hate crimes.

    335

    The timber has a rich red heartwood similar in color to mahogany and is seldom stained.

    336

    But a cuirass and helmet seem heavy to an infantryman, perhaps seldom training with, or handling, arms.

    337

    On the way back we hoisted a jib, tho I've seldom seen a stiller evening.

    338

    However, as adipose tissue contains about 7,000 kilo calories per kilo calories per kilogram, physical activity alone is seldom sufficient to lose much weight.

    339

    If he commits larceny at all, as he seldom does, it is always grand larceny, never petty.

    340

    Tensions are high as the different races, religions and cultures seldom mix, breeding mistrust and fear of anything that is different.

    341

    To drink or graze they are obliged to straddle the fore-legs apart; but they seldom feed on grass and are capable of going long without water.

    342

    The reproductive organs of Rhabdopleura have but seldom been ob served.

    343

    A true mushroom is never large in size; its cap very seldom exceeds 4, at most 5 in.

    344

    The spandril of doors is sometimes ornamented in the Decorated period, but seldom forms part of the composition of the doorway itself, being generally over the label.

    345

    Many of the most prominent Englishmen of the day were his pupils and owed much of what they were to his precept and example, his penetrative sympathy, his insistent criticism, and his unwearying friendship. Seldom have ideal aims been so steadily pursued with so clear a recognition of practical limitations.

    346

    Nearly allied is the Australian family Dasyuridae, characterized by the presence of only four pairs of upper incisors, the generally small and rudimentary condition of the first hind toe, which can but seldom be opposed to the rest, and the absence of prehensile power in the tail; the pouch being either present or absent, and the fore feet always five-toed.

    347

    In these troughs the depth is seldom much less than 3000 fathoms, and this is exceeded in a series of patches to which Murray has given the name of " Deeps."

    348

    A close caste was created which very seldom and very reluctantly admitted new members to its body.

    349

    All the citizens did not assemble; on the contrary ordinary business seldom drew out more than a hundred voters, and often a mere handful.

    350

    It is true that its only conceivable moral is flatly the opposite of that " redemption by love " which Wagner strenuously preaches in a passage at the end which remained unset because he considered it already expressed by the music. Indeed, though Wagner's later treatment of love is perhaps the main source of his present popularity it seldom rises to his loftiest regions except where it is thwarted.

    351

    Not seldom it is difficult to distinguish between the true spiral garment and a dress with parallel horizontal stripes, and, i?iiii iiu?i u?i?!N???iiii?

    352

    Since on an average 70% by measurement of the normal defecated cane juice has to be evaporated in order to reduce it to syrup ready for final concentration and crystallization in the vacuum pan, and since to attain the same end as much as 90 to 95% of the volume of mixed juices has to be evaporated when maceration or imbibition is employed, it is clear that some more economical mode of evaporation is necessary in large estates than the open-fire batteries still common in Barbados and some of the West Indian islands, and in small haciendas in Central America and Brazil, but seldom seen elsewhere.

    353

    In TOkyO, KiOto, Yokohama and Kobern all of which places decorating ateliers (etsuke-dokoro), similar to those of TokyO, have been established in modern timesthe artists use chiefly pigments, seldom venturing to employ vitrifiable enamels.

    354

    At a distance the plumage of the adult appears to be white and black in about equal proportions, the latter predominating above; but on closer examination nearly all the seeming black is found to be a bottle-green gleaming with purple and copper; the tail-coverts, both above and below, are of a bright bay colour, seldom visible in flight.

    355

    Robert Smith (Harmonics, 2nd ed., 1 759, p. 95) states that Sauveur " inferred that octaves and other simple concords, whose vibrations coincide very often, are agreeable and pleasant because their beats are too quick to be distinguished, be the pitch of the sounds ever so low; and on the contrary, that the more complex consonances whose vibrations coincide seldom are disagreeable because we can distinguish their slow beats; which displease the ear, says he, by reason of the inequality of the sound.

    356

    A judgment of the Supreme Court is only a judgment on the particular case before it, and does not prevent a similar question being raised again in another lawsuit, though of course this seldom happens, because it may be assumed that the court will adhere to its former opinion.

    357

    To Johnson, however, whose passions were strong, whose eyesight was too weak to distinguish rouge from natural bloom, and who had seldom or never been in the same room with a woman of real fashion, his, Tetty, as he called her, was the most beautiful, graceful and accomplished of her sex.

    358

    St Luke appears to have taken it over in sections for the most part without much modification; but in St Matthew's Gospel its incidents seldom find an independent place; the sayings to which they gave rise are often detached from their context and grouped with sayings of a similar character so as to form considerable discourses, or else they are linked n to sayings which were uttered on other occasions recorded y St Mark.

    359

    In these degenerate days their supernatural powers consist chiefly in conjuring, sooth-saying, and feats of jugglery, by which they seldom fail in imposing upon a credulous public. (3) Sannyasis, devotees who" renounce "earthly concerns, an order not confined either to the Brahmanical caste or to the Saiva persuasion.

    360

    He is less inaccurate in fact than Michelet, but he is also much less absorbed by a single idea at a time, and the result is that he seldom attains to the vivid representation of which Michelet was a master.

    361

    Moreover, the English states, which had seldom turned their swords against each other in the 5th or the 6th centuries, were engaged during the 7thand the 8th in those endless struggles for supremacy which seem so purposeless, because the hegemony which a king of energy and genius won for his kingdom always disappeared with his death.

    362

    Seldom had a good cause such an unworthy figurehead as that callous and apathetic prince.

    363

    This mollified Jim a little, and after some thought the green maiden decided to give the cab-horse a room in the palace, such a big building having many rooms that were seldom in use.

    364

    Very seldom is that, "I should go to war to force others to my will."

    365

    Doubtless the work of the past few months does seem like a triumphal march to him; but then people seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.

    366

    Just thought I would mention that as everyone is quick to complain these day 's, but seldom do people pass on positive comments.

    367

    In all the time he has been here, he 's seldom let rip at the players.

    368

    Byatt seldom meets an adjective or adverb she does n't like, and the result is often risible rather than revelatory.

    369

    If the strong-willed man fails frequently, what of the man who makes up his mind seldom or half-heartedly?

    370

    They bring rhetorical and rhythmic subtleties seldom heard or even attempted by other players.

    371

    His tackling was precise and he was seldom beaten in any tussle for the ball.

    372

    Because the check ligament attachment of the volar plate to the proximal phalanx is strong and pliable, rupture seldom occurs here.

    373

    The luxury of a second ink or a tinted paper was seldom available, particularly during wartime austerity.

    374

    Because personalized gifts are often more expensive than non-personalized ones, and personalized items can seldom be returned, it's a good idea to ensure that the gift will be appreciated.

    375

    Feral kittens have likely spent a good deal of time without any human touch, and a true feral will seldom make a full family member or pet.

    376

    It's tempting to try and salvage a nice, long zipper from an old cushion, but zippers seldom survive reuse for long.

    377

    Hotel furniture is cleaned regularly, repaired promptly and much of it is seldom used.

    378

    Their fat content, in fact, is very close to that of another food we seldom think of as a berry, the olive.

    379

    Although tendon, a popular dish in Japan, is simply a fried piece of shrimp or fried prawn served over a bowl of hot steamed rice, seldom is tempura shrimp eaten without vegetables to accompany it.

    380

    Lamb and veal are seldom found, and pork is more popular than beef.

    381

    They know that scrapbookers seldom resist the urge to print their treasured creations.

    382

    Coral is one of the most beautiful ocean features and is seldom used in cakes.

    383

    Conducting an intervention is seldom easy.

    384

    After the 1980s, Willie Aames was seldom seen on television or in movies.

    385

    Some parents are willing to pay more for slacks that will be seldom worn, such as white pants, because they'll probably last quite a while.

    386

    While adult toggle coats seldom have a zipper underneath the toggle closures, it's a good idea to choose a toddler's toggle coat with a zipper to keep out snow and wind regardless of how hard your child is playing.

    387

    Parents may like the look of a boys' pea coat as a dressy coat, but toddlers seldom have more than one winter jacket.

    388

    There is no debating the fact that Alaska has gorgeous scenery, but seldom do people think first of this destination as the ideal place to have a wedding.

    389

    However, the Shih Tzu is seldom a nuisance barker nor is it excessively hyper.

    390

    Lung problems seldom get better without medical intervention, and we can't even be sure that is all that's going on.

    391

    An English Bulldog who has been rescued for adoption is seldom free of personality quirks and anxieties.

    392

    A. incana has also several varieties seldom of more value than the wild tree.

    393

    B. Xalapensis and B. trimera are seldom seen, but well worth a place in coast gardens.

    394

    Several kinds have been tried successfully, such as B. yuccoides, B. bracteata, and B. tonelii, but all are similar in effect, though seldom seen except in the shore-gardens of the south and west.

    395

    The beauty of its habit is seldom seen in gardens, owing to being too much crowded, but seen wild its habit is most graceful, and it might be well to secure the same beauty of habit by planting in groups upon exposed knolls.

    396

    Californian Laurel (Umbellularia Californica) - A handsome evergreen tree, seldom planted, though hardy in our southern gardens and suited to walls where too tender for the open.

    397

    The twohumped Bactrian camel is commonly used in the Oxus regions, but is seldom seen near the Indian frontier.

    398

    The rose-colored flowers are also much larger, handsomer, and taller, though scarcely more than 1 inch above the flat mass of leaves, so that the whole plant is seldom more than 3 inches high.

    399

    Plants more unlike are seldom found so nearly related.

    400

    It is very pretty, but being somewhat shy to flower, is seldom seen in cultivation.

    401

    The hardy perennials are not important, and seldom succeed.

    402

    Although these tiny Filmy Ferns are hardy and beautiful, yet the conditions for their successful culture occur so seldom that in a general sense they cannot be used with effect in the open air.

    403

    They require light, well-drained soil and a warm position, and should seldom be watered.

    404

    Foxglove (Digitalis Purpurea) - Wild Foxgloves seldom differ in color, but cultivated ones assume a variety of colors, including white, cream, rose, red, deep red, and other shades.

    405

    Though borne freely upon little plants only 2 feet high, they seldom reach perfection in this country.

    406

    The greenish flowers are insignificant, and the fruits, like clusters of small Ivy berries, are seldom seen in this country, but the fleshy leaves are so unlike any others that these are among the most distinct of evergreens.

    407

    The glossy leaves are always attractive and seldom attacked by insects, and, when safe from frost, the shoots will cover a wall where even Ivy fails.

    408

    C. aurea is a perennial, 6 to 12 inches high, with small orange blossoms, but seldom more than one to each slender stem.

    409

    Much used indoors; is seldom good in the open garden, partly because it does badly in heavy and poor soils.

    410

    Hyacinths in the open air seldom require artificial watering, the natural moisture of the soil and the strength of the manure mixed with it being sufficient.

    411

    It seldom exists from year to year in the open air.

    412

    The plant seldom exceeds 3 or 4 feet in height, though the branches trail widely, and it is hardier than many New Zealand shrubs, growing in exposed places and without protection in the north of England.

    413

    These plants are very seldom well grown.

    414

    Along the south coast it makes a beautiful wall-covering, reaching a height of 20 feet or more, but its inconspicuous purple flowers are seldom borne in the open air.

    415

    Our Native Maple (A. campestre) is also a pretty tree, seldom planted in gardens.

    416

    In hard winters even strong plants may be injured or cut to the ground, but the roots seldom perish, and by selection hardier forms are now available than those first introduced.

    417

    There are several varieties-a drooping kind, which is one of the best of all pendulous trees, and a variegated-leaved kind, which is not satisfactory, as the variegation is seldom good.

    418

    In seaside gardens it often comes into flower with the new year, and is seldom later than the first week of March anywhere, blooming thenceforward into early summer.

    419

    There is a beautiful flowering variety of the Crab Apple called the Paradise Apple, having large handsome flowers, but it is seldom planted for effect, although in common use as a stock for grafting.

    420

    The last is not very ornamental, as the variegation is seldom distinct.

    421

    Lyalli is hardy without a wall, but seldom flowers so well in the open.

    422

    Gardeners in the larger places rather neglect it, and seldom plant it in groups and colonies, as they might well do on dry banks.

    423

    Of this species there are two or three forms in cultivation, and though somewhat tender, if given some root protection, they are seldom killed.

    424

    With their passion for the miniature, the Japs increase it in this way for their temple gardens, and these trees seldom approach the fine proportions of those growing untended on the mountain slopes of Nippon.

    425

    Zelkowa Tree (Zelkowa) - Handsome summer-leafing trees, hardy, distinct in appearance, and yielding valuable timber, yet seldom planted.

    426

    If your plant really is Jasminum mesnyi, you have something exciting there, because Jasminum mesnyi seldom seeds.

    427

    Extra Sound Reduction - If you love silence but seldom get to experience it, try a ceiling with extra sound reduction.

    428

    Often, there's no need for special plus sizes, since even 'regular' ped socks can be forgiving in fit for the feet in a way that's seldom seen for hosiery or stockings.

    429

    While the community's or building's rules are seldom deal-breakers, it's important to establish which rules you can accept and those that will hinder your lifestyle before you even start looking.

    430

    The brands available are seldom priced at less than $30, and most are $100 or more.

    431

    Once metal frames are bent, they are seldom returned to their original form.

    432

    Remember, you should seldom use a walkthrough unless you are absolutely stuck because isn't more fun to beat the game on your own than with the help of a book or text?

    433

    This was one of the last games released for the system, boasting 32-bit graphics, the likes of which were seldom seen in those days.

    434

    Best of all, they're typically quite inexpensive, seldom costing more than $20.

    435

    Storytelling at this age is seldom an intentional effort to deceive.

    436

    These categories overlap, with sexual and physical abuse often occurring together; physical abuse or neglect seldom occur without emotional abuse.

    437

    Although laboratory studies are seldom performed, the physician may order further blood tests or cultures of the lesions in order to confirm the diagnosis and rule out other causes.

    438

    Tinea capitis seldom occurs after puberty.

    439

    Those with achondroplasia seldom reach 5 feet (1.5 m) in height.

    440

    Parallel play-Toddlers play side by side but seldom try to interact with each other, playing separately with a similar toy.

    441

    In some rare cases, symptoms may take longer than this, but have very seldom been shown to take longer than two weeks to develop.

    442

    Because celiac disease is diagnosed more quickly than in the past, corticosteroids are seldom required.

    443

    Some people are continually susceptible to warts, while others are more resistant to HPV and seldom get them.

    444

    The results of these tests take so long to obtain that they are seldom used; delaying treatment is the main cause of death in patients with RMSF.

    445

    Once a child discovers masturbation, he or she seldom stops doing it completely, according to the advisory.

    446

    Children under the age of two years old seldom have mumps; adults rarely have this disease.

    447

    For practicing ballroom dancing, gowns are seldom worn.

    448

    Adding more variables to an already volatile situation seldom solves anything.

    449

    If you are a stay-at-home mom or seldom need a coat, you may be able to make due with one of his coats or sweaters.

    450

    In fact, she is seldom seen at red carpet events with her husband.

    451

    Seldom is there a swimwear trend that can be shared equally by men and women, but board shorts are one of those rare items that cross the gender divide.

    452

    Although the proto-type is seldom seen in swimsuit stores today, modifications of this design are reaching peak popularity.

    453

    Although you seldom own up to a mistake, you have enough sense to lie low until the storm blows over.

    454

    Virgo's idealistic and often naive nature will seldom be disappointed by stalwart Capricorn.

    455

    While times of three hours or more are seldom seen in American movies (lengths like that are often reserved for Academy Award shoe-ins only), almost all of the films run at least that long.

    456

    While many Americans demand realism from their films (and seldom get it, although they think they do), Bombay audiences want their movies to be as far removed from life as possible.

    457

    This is a great way to save money if you seldom read magazines from cover to cover.

    458

    If everyone in the home already has a cell phone and you seldom receive calls at home, consider canceling your home phone.

    459

    Your land line, if everyone in the home already has a cell phone and you seldom receive calls at home.

    460

    Unfortunately, personal finance is seldom this simple.

    461

    Although simple and for the most part, seldom thought of, travel clock radios occupy an important place in travel culture.

    462

    If you read the product literature of the manufacturers, they always talk about the strengths of their products, but they seldom mention any weaknesses.

    463

    Beware, however, of diets that require a lot of calculations -- while these diets may be excellent nutritionally, they are seldom sustainable simply because the calculations make them too complex and inflexible.

    464

    However, even at the highest intensity, protein seldom makes up more than ten percent of the overall energy burned.

    465

    While this is an understandable concern, building muscle strength very seldom results in the huge muscles that you see on bodybuilders.

    466

    Very seldom is there a garage sale that doesn't feature some type of sporting equipment - whether it is a treadmill or a few dumbbells.

    467

    This type of plan may suit you best if you seldom get sick and have savings set aside to afford to cost of the high deductible.

    468

    Generally, major medical health insurance plans works best for healthy adults who seldom visit a doctor and take few prescriptions.

    469

    One seldom considered aspect of a medical release form is that it can also be used to refuse medical treatment.

    470

    In a legal sense, however, incidents are seldom viewed as purely accidental.

    471

    If you and your family are in good health and seldom visit the doctor, ask about an option for higher deductibles, higher co-pays, or limited prescription coverage.

    472

    Her character is peppy and friendly in a way seldom seen in reality.

    473

    The special occasion piece, however seldom used, should still be bought with the purpose of wearing in total comfort, and on a whim if necessary.

    474

    Midler has seldom stopped any one aspect of her career to focus on another, and a typical Bette Midler show involves acting skits as well as musical performances.

    475

    Unlike some of her contemporaries, like Miley Cyrus, Selena Gomez pics seldom make their way onto the Hollywood gossip blogs and celebrity magazines.

    476

    Copies of the cassette seldom go for less than $20 on eBay, and vinyl versions of the soundtrack sell for much more than that.

    477

    For instance, you'll notice that people who put on an outrageous act make it into the casting special to entertain the audience, but they seldom land in the final cast.

    478

    Whenever families end up on talk shows and in the tabloids because of these concerns, it seldom turns out well.

    479

    Syfy's reality TV show Face Off takes viewers into a world seldom explored - that of the artists behind special effects make-up in film and television productions.

    480

    His personality makes sense when you consider he was designed to be used in emergencies; emergency room doctors seldom have time for chit-chat.

    481

    I am seldom at a loss for words and that was one of those times.

    482

    Full Dress uniforms are seldom worn today.

    483

    Horace Walpole, who gives an unfavourable picture of his private character, acknowledges that Stone possessed "abilities seldom to be matched"; and he had the distinction of being mentioned by David Hume as one of the only two men of mark who had perceived merit in that author's History of England on its first appearance.

    484

    It is practically impossible to work with the sensitive film in contact with the reseau-film, not only because dust particles and contact would injure the silver film, but also because the plate-glass used for the photographic plates is seldom a perfect plane.

    485

    During the latter Sassanids it is seldom mentioned, and when the Arabs came to Khorasan (641-642) it was of so little importance that, as Tabari relates, it did not even have a garrison.

    486

    In these troughs the depth is seldom much less than 3000 fathoms, and this is exceeded in a series of patches to which Murray has given the name of "Deeps."

    487

    The grappling of the cable and raising it to the surface from a depth of 2000 fathoms seldom occupy less than twenty-four hours, and since any extra strain due to the pitching of the vessel must be avoided, it is clear that the state of the sea and weather is the predominating factor in the time necessary for effecting the long series of operations which, in the most favourable circumstances, are required for a repair.

    488

    In the same way, whilst in the plains and hills round Naples snow is rarely seen, and never remains long, and the thermometer seldom descends to the freezing-point, 20 m.

    489

    In Sicily the so-called Modica race is of note; and in Sardinia there is a distinct stock which seldom exceeds the weight of 700 lb.

    490

    Indian Vedic henotheism (otherwise called kathenotheism); 3 Semitic monolatry, so important as the probable starting-point of religious development in Israel; the Greek use of " Zeus " almost as we say " God " - even the attempt to arrange deities in a monarchical pantheon, all show the tendency, though it so seldom attains a real victory.

    491

    Cellulose, the material of which vegetable cell-walls are almost universally composed, at any rate in their early condition, is known to occur, though only seldom, among animal organisms. Such forms as Volvox and the group of the Myxomycetes have been continually referred to both kingdoms, and their true systematic position is still a subject of controversy.

    492

    The wings, which are not capable of being folded, are usually transparent, but occasionally pigmented and adorned with coloured spots, blotches or bands; the wing-membrane, though sometimes clothed with minute hairs, seldom bears scales; the wing-veins, which are of great importance in the classification of Diptera, are usually few in number and chiefly longitudinal, there being a marked paucity of cross-veins.

    493

    The vegetation is rich and beautiful, but the scenery tame, the land seldom rising above 60 ft.; Eua (Tasman's Middelburg), 9 m.

    494

    This history, as we now have it, is extracted from various sources of unequal value, which are fitted together in a way which offers considerable difficulties to the critic. In the history of David's early adventures, for example, the narrative is not seldom disordered, and sometimes seems to repeat itself with puzzling variations of detail, which have led critics to the unanimous conclusion that the First Book of Samuel is drawn from at least two sources.

    495

    As artisans they have seldom signalized themselves, save as armourers and clothweavers.

    496

    The logical and historical methods can, however, seldom be combined without confusion; and it is perhaps fortunate that Bentham devoted his long life to showing how much may be done by pursuing the former method exclusively.

    497

    Often as it has been heard before and since in the course of history, seldom has it had a more illustrious champion than Robert the Bruce.

    498

    The elongated cylindrical cones grow chiefly at the ends of the upper branches; they are purplish at first, but become afterwards green, and eventually light brown; their scales are slightly toothed at the extremity; they ripen in the autumn, but seldom discharge their seeds until the following spring.

    499

    The trees usually grow very close together, the slender trunks rising to a great height bare of branches; but they do not attain the size of the Norway spruce, being seldom taller than 60 or 70 ft., with a diameter of 12 or 2 ft.

    500

    Its basis is the classification of Cuvier, the modifications of which by Des Murs will seldom commend themselves to systematists whose opinion is generally deemed worth having.