seldomness

Updated: May 6, 2025

There were other things which in them did more take my mind; to talk and jest together, to do kind offices by turns; to read together honied books; to play the fool or be earnest together; to dissent at times without discontent, as a man might with his own self; and even with the seldomness of these dissentings, to season our more frequent consentings; sometimes to teach, and sometimes learn; long for the absent with impatience; and welcome the coming with joy.

Bishop of Hippo Saint Augustine - The Confessions of St. Augustine

And the officers all, she declared, the captains, the frisky lieutenants, and the ensigns, all drank tafia. "When they can git it," interpolated Mrs. Beedie, with twinkling eyes. "They are deprived, I will say, by the slowness and seldomness of the express from over the mountains. But if they are a sober set, it is against their will, and that I do maintain," Mrs.

Mary Noailles Murfree - The Story of Old Fort Loudon