He did not seem to have roused a single sensation in the breast of his companion, and it was seldom that the elegant possessor of three hundred thousand dollars failed to do so, wherever he went, or whatever he did.
"It is seldom that I have much health to boast of," replied the youth, in a feeble voice, and with a still feebler smile.
But the savage, during all this time, seldom turned to look at his followers, and never spoke.
Immediately conscious how unavailing any struggle against such an overwhelming force must prove, he submitted to his fate, encouraging his gentle companions by a few low and tender assurances, that the natives seldom failed to threaten more than they performed.
Seldom except in books do the dying utter memorable words, see visions, or depart with beatified countenances, and those who have sped many parting souls know that to most the end comes as naturally and simply as sleep.
They seldom come nearer to it than planting-time, harvest- time, cherry-time, spring-time, or fall-time.
She was a field hand, and a whipping is the penalty of not being in the field at sunrise, unless a slave has special permission from his or her master to the con- trary--a permission which they seldom get, and one that gives to him that gives it the proud name of being a kind master.
The elder and younger son of the house of Crawley were, like the gentleman and lady in the weather-box, never at home together--they hated each other cordially: indeed, Rawdon Crawley, the dragoon, had a great contempt for the establishment altogether, and
seldom came thither except when his aunt paid her annual visit.
'No scare-crow would accept this coat: Such boots as these you
seldom see.
Madame Pelet had her own society, her own circle of chosen visitors, whom, however, I
seldom saw, as she generally entertained them in what she called her "cabinet," a small den of a place adjoining the kitchen, and descending into it by one or two steps.
IT IS a just and not a new observation, that enemies to particular persons, and opponents to particular measures,
seldom confine their censures to such things only in either as are worthy of blame.
"Men
seldom bring any thing to be concealed into these deserts," returned the old man, as if willing, and yet a little ignorant how to apologize for the liberty he had been about to take, "and I had hoped no offence, in examining your comforts."
"
Seldom we find," says Solomon Don Dunce, "Half an idea in the profoundest sonnet.
The Polynesians
seldom use a hook and line, almost always employing large well-made nets, most ingeniously fabricated from the twisted fibres of a certain bark.
But as Villefort saw his father but
seldom, and then only when absolutely obliged, and as he never took any pains to please or gratify him when he was there, all the old man's happiness was centred in his granddaughter.
