SELDOM in Classic Quotes

1  This he did with enthusiasm; most afternoons he was seldom home before dark.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 26

2  In Calpurnia's teaching, there was no sentimentality: I seldom pleased her and she seldom rewarded me.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 2

3  When it healed, and Jem's fears of never being able to play football were assuaged, he was seldom self-conscious about his injury.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 1

4  He distilled this for me to mean that Judge Taylor might look lazy and operate in his sleep, but he was seldom reversed, and that was the proof of the pudding.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 18

5  They did not go to church, Maycomb's principal recreation, but worshiped at home; Mrs. Radley seldom if ever crossed the street for a mid-morning coffee break with her neighbors, and certainly never joined a missionary circle.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 1

6  During a controversy of this character, Jeems Cunningham testified that his mother spelled it Cunningham on deeds and things, but she was really a Coningham, she was an uncertain speller, a seldom reader, and was given to looking far away sometimes when she sat on the front gallery in the evening.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 16

7  Our tacit treaty with Miss Maudie was that we could play on her lawn, eat her scuppernongs if we didn't jump on the arbor, and explore her vast back lot, terms so generous we seldom spoke to her, so careful were we to preserve the delicate balance of our relationship, but Jem and Dill drove me closer to her with their behavior.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 5