It was said of her, that of all foreign princesses married into the Swedish royal house, she was perhaps the one best suited to be Queen consort of Sweden, and for the first ten years in Sweden, she almost was: from 1897 until 1907, Queen Sophia seldom showed herself at public occasions and Crown Princess Victoria spent most of her time abroad, so Princess Ingeborg thereby filled the position of first lady at the Swedish court.

Since Howard seldom openly showed his emotions, Larry cracked to Curly, " Your brother's nuts.

## The Grandeur and Decline of Islam: 1058 – 1258 “ Moslems seem to have been better gentlemen than their Christian peers ; they kept their word more frequently, showed more mercy to the defeated, and were seldom guilty of the brutality as marked the Christian capture of Jerusalem in 1099 .” ( p. 341 )

He also had extraordinary powers of writing and seldom made a second draft of anything he wrote and his manuscripts showed but few corrections before going to the publisher.

During the reign of her son, she seldom showed herself at court except on Sundays and at court presentations, and preferred to stay at her estate.

Her job brought her into daily contact with many different men from all walks of life, but she seldom showed more than fleeting interest in any of them.

After 1941, he continued to publish works on the economics of information, political philosophy, the theory of law, and psychology, but seldom on macroeconomics.

Deckard seldom works in and does not consider himself to be either a peace officer or a full-time bounty hunter, the entire Northern California area is the territory of the district's senior bounty hunter Dave Holden, but accepts the left-over cases that Holden either does not want or have time to pursue.

Patriotic cantatas celebrating anniversaries of events in the Revolution or extolling state leaders were frequently commissioned in the Soviet Union between 1930 and the middle of the century, though these occasional works were seldom among their composers ' best.

Living without running water, in damp, unheated " studios ", seldom free of rats, many sold their works for a few francs just to buy food.

In the Hippias Major, Plato claims that Phidias seldom, if ever, have executed works in marble though many of the sculptures of his times were executed in marble.

Nielsen wrote a considerable number of choral works but most of them were composed for special occasions and were seldom repeated.

He seldom revised his earlier works.

It was this singing, he told Fenby, that first gave him the urge to express himself in music ; thus, writes Fenby, many of Delius's early works are " redolent of Negro hymnology and folk-song ", a sound " not heard before in the orchestra, and seldom since ".

He seldom performed any of these himself and they have generally fallen into neglect since his death, although his works have received the occasional commercial recording.

The result of his work for the weekly was the book Buszpopolsku (" The Bush in Polish Edition "; 1962 ), a collection of his articles from the " Polish wilderness " that he went into to relate " the perspectives of forgotten, invisible, marginal people and so to record a living history of those seldom deemed worthy to enter the annals of official history " ( in the words of Diana Kuprel, the literary scholar and translator of Kapuściński's works ).

Her typical plot is structured simply ( many works have only one scene ) and the timeframe is seldom of any extended duration.

This strategy seldom works because there are typically third parties that are prepared to perform the service if parts are still available.

Maiorescu was seldom reproached for not having spent enough time on writing literary works but his work as a literary critic profoundly marks one of the most lusty epochs in the history of Romanian literature: the perioad of the great classics.

The numerous works he wrote in defence of its distinctive doctrines and practice were generally clear and vigorous, if seldom convincing.

Although in his time he was an often performed American nationalist composer, his works are seldom played – instead he is known as the teacher of Aaron Copland and George Gershwin.

Because Phyfe's furniture was seldom signed, yet widely imitated, it is sometimes difficult to determine with accuracy which works he actually made.

These works are not considered of high quality and are seldom if ever performed today.

Unlike his protégés Mozart and Beethoven, van Swieten is seldom portrayed in works of modern popular culture.

But it is seldom that such works have much originality or literary value.

His debut album, a collection of the works of Ferruccio Busoni, including the seldom performed Fantasia Contrappuntistica, was released in 1983.

CCAP is devoted to reviving seldom seen works and presenting them to student audiences, to create a new audience for theatre.

Colon is married, though his wife works during the day ; since he works at night, the two seldom see each other and instead communicate by leaving notes.

The artistic output of David Jones is well represented, but seldom on display owing to the fragile nature of his works on paper.

Funny how seldom they did: used to it, probably.

And it did not do execution, because he seldom loaded it, and never let it off.

Not being under any obligation to lecture, Jacob seldom did so, but together with his brother worked at their great dictionary.

Bell had married Hubbard's daughter Mabel in 1879 while Hubbard was president of the Edison Speaking Phonograph Co., and his organization, which had purchased the Edison patent, was financially troubled because people did not want to buy a machine which seldom worked well and proved difficult for the average person to operate.

After the war, Russell and Whitehead seldom interacted, and Whitehead did not contribute to the 1925 second edition of Principia Mathematica.

He seldom came out of it again, but did when challenged to single combat by the Elven king Fingolfin and earlier to investigate the first appearance of Men.

Comanches recognized each other as Nʉmʉnʉ and seldom fought against each other ; however, this did not mean that the Kwaarʉ Nʉʉ pursued the same policy against the Spanish and Indian settlements in New Mexico as did the Kʉhtsʉtʉhka.

Asimov did once say that these encapsulated cities represented the kind of place in which he'd like to live ( in real life, Asimov was an agoraphobic individual who spent virtually all his time writing inside his New York City apartment ; he seldom travelled and when he did, only by train and never by airplane ).

Astonishingly, considering the work that Rivers did in his relatively short lifetime, Seligman wrote in 1922 that " for many years he seldom worked for more than four hours a day ".

The succeeding centuries, especially the fourteenth, all contributed to its adornment, and seldom did a Venetian vessel return from the Orient without bringing a column, capitals, or friezes, taken from some ancient building, to add to the fabric of the basilica.

" His reserved nature is also said to have resulted from Morgoth's curse ; thus during Túrin's sojourn in Doriath "... it seemed that fortune was unfriendly to him, so that often what he designed went awry, and what he desired he did not gain ; neither did he win friendship easily, for he was not merry, and laughed seldom.

The average Egyptian family seldom had chairs, and if they did, it was usually only the master of the household who sat on a chair.

During this time, they seldom made a serious challenge for a major trophy – although they did reach the 1960 FA Cup final when managed by Scot Dally Duncan.

Although he very seldom addressed the House, and, when he did so, only in the briefest manner, he " gradually acquired a reputation as its chief if not its only financial authority ".

The form is seldom used in modern or historical bows, but was occasionally used by groups such as the Mohave who did not have easy access to good quality bow wood.

Official crossings did exist, but permissions to leave temporarily or permanently were seldom granted.

The phrase was used by politicians and bureaucrats, but it had no official status ; the press and general public seldom used it, and did so with a derogative connotation.

Most of his novels are independent stand-alone stories ; he seldom used series heroes, and when he did there was little point in maintaining their order as there was not any continuity from book to book.

He seldom met with journalists, and when he did, he gave almost nothing away.

Absentee landlords seldom did much to maintain the buildings.

She did not like public speaking, seldom spoke at public receptions, and abhorred physical contact with the public and the " press of the flesh " that came so easily to her father ; in short, campaigning did not suit her.