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Seld  adv.  Rarely; seldom. (Obs.)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Seld" Quotes from Famous Books



... morning dewy rose Spread fairly to the sun's arise, But when his beams he doth disclose That which then flourish'd quickly dies; It is a seld-fed dying hope, A promised bliss, a salveless sore, An aimless mark, and erring scope. My daily note shall be therefore,— Heigh ho, chil love ...
— Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age • Various

... many excellent books as the Mountain Men. The books are not nearly so numerous as those connected with range life, but when one considers the writings of Stanley Vestal, Sabin, Ruxton, Fer gusson, Chittenden, Favour, Garrard, Inman, Irving, Reid, and White in this Seld, one doubts whether any other form of American life at all has been so well covered in ballad, fiction, ...
— Guide to Life and Literature of the Southwest • J. Frank Dobie

... entreaties find success, As seld' I have the chance, I would desire My famous cousin to our ...
— The History of Troilus and Cressida • William Shakespeare [Craig edition]

... been already signified to Ferdinand, that his brother was to resign the imperial crown in his favor, and the symbols of sovereignty were accordingly transmitted to him by the hands of William of Orange. A deputation, moreover, of which that nobleman, Vice-Chancellor Seld, and Dr. Wolfgang Haller were the chiefs, was despatched to signify to the electors of the Empire the step which had been thus resolved upon. A delay of more than two years, however, intervened, occasioned partly by the deaths of three ...
— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley

... be proud: "It hath ben often seen in Englond that three or four thefes, for povertie hath sett upon seven or eight true men and robbyd them al." The thieves of France are incapable of such admirable boldness. On this account "it is right seld that French men be hangyd for robberye," says Fortescue, who had never, judging by the way he talks, passed by Montfaucon, nor come across poor Villon; "thay have no hertys to do so terryble an acte. There be therfor mo men hangyd in Englonde in a ...
— A Literary History of the English People - From the Origins to the Renaissance • Jean Jules Jusserand

... all points, was nicely accurate. The obligation to be properly "obsolete" in vocabulary was one that rested heavily on the consciences of most of these Spenserian imitators. "The Squire of Dames," for instance, by the wealthy Jew, Moses Mendez, fairly bristles with seld-seen costly words, like benty, frannion, etc., which it would have puzzled ...
— A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century • Henry A. Beers



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