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Sentences starting with rare

Rare woods, rare marbles, splendid textures, the product of ancient handiwork and modern looms, added a certain dignity to the more airy creations of the artists. [4]

Sentences ending with rare

Sleeping also came to be rare. [5]
And in those times brides of sixteen were common as now they are rare. [11]
Maxims similar to the following one are by no means rare. [10]
The Report shows that the travelers moved in exceedingly small groups --twos, threes, fours, as a rule; a party with a dozen in it was rare. [5]
Travels form a species of literary production in which great classics are exceedingly rare. [4]
It is very rare. [5]
Such marvels are rare. [10]
These are pure pleasures, enjoyed because they are rare. [4]
In the Lamellibranchiata, or bivalve shells, hermaphroditism is not rare. [1]
His library was now lined with English sporting prints; but these, too, were old and mellow and rare. [9]

Short sentences using rare

It was rare then. [4]
What a rare soul! [4]
But such cases are rare. [5]
The tree was apparently rare. [5]
Fortunately, they're rare. [8]
Oh, it's rare! [5]
A rare honor. [10]

Sentences containing rare two or more times

In other ships the passengers are always ciphering about when they are going to arrive; out in these seas it is rare, very rare, to hear that subject broached. [5]
Gratitude is a rare thing--as rare as the flower of the century--aloe; but you have it, madame. [11]
The house was furnished, soon after it was completed, with many heavy articles made in London from a rare wood just then come into fashion, not so rare now, and commonly known as mahogany. [6]

More example sentences with the word rare in them

My visits to your mother have been to me a comfort, a pleasure,--for she is a rare person. [9]
To read and write were still rare accomplishments in the country, and Dogberry expressed a common notion when he said reading and writing come by nature. [4]
And the cordiality with which he gave help whenever it was asked, and his eagerness to acknowledge merit in others, secured him the affection of all the literary class, which is popularly supposed to have a rare appreciation of the defects of fellow craftsmen. [4]
She was tall, with rich, yellow hair falling loosely about her head; she had a strong, finely cut chin and a broad brow, under which a pair of deep blue eyes shone-violet blue, rare and fine. [11]
He was born with rare faculties. [11]
It was rare with him, and he must have caught it from Mr. Lincoln. [9]
But a woman with a musical, appealing voice, in great danger, offered a rare opportunity to a knight. [10]
She immediately disappeared with a delicacy rare in an invalid, and was not seen for two weeks. [4]
My Egyptian mistress will be delighted, for she is very fond of flowers, and may I ask you to tell the king and the Achaemenidae, that under my care this rare plant has at last flowered? [10]
Like the astronomer who fixes his gaze and tries to imprint upon his memory some rare star in the firmament which a cloud is threatening to obscure, he now strove to obtain Ledscha's image. [10]
When he spoke, which was at rare intervals, his voice was without feeling, concise, insistent, unappealing. [11]
The fundamental principles which have dominated this rare creature's life and character to the present day are two ceaseless desires: first, to surpass every one, even in the most difficult achievements; and, secondly, to love and to be loved in return. [10]
True, Barbara came when she was in a particularly happy mood, because a letter from Wolf stated that he already felt perfectly at home in Quijada's castle at Villagarcia, and that Dona Magdalena de Ulloa was a lady of rare beauty and kindness of heart. [10]
On rare occasions, when in town, the financier dined out, limiting himself to a few houses. [9]
My holidays are when I get a rare specimen. [6]
Her rare visits were perfunctory, and gave little satisfaction to any of us; not that she was ungracious or unkindly, but simply because the things we valued in life were not the same. [4]
I thought it well enough to explain that this was a miracle of so rare a sort that it couldn't be done except when the atmospheric conditions were just right. [5]
The day after we reached Chamouny, Monseigneur the bishop arrived there on one of his rare pilgrimages into these wild valleys. [4]
Mr. Tooting, as we have seen, had a remarkable business head, and combined with it--as Austen Vane remarked--the rare instinct of the Norway rat which goes down to the sea in ships--when they are safe. [9]
How many trees we climbed, what steep cliffs we scaled, through what crevices we squeezed to add a rare egg to our collection; nay, we even risked our limbs and necks! [10]
We may, if we choose, call these actions instinctive; but such cases are much too rare for the development of any special instinct. [1]
When we spoke, we almost invariably addressed him, his rare words fell like bolts upon the consciousness. [9]
Slow as he was, however, the stout Scotsman had more than once proved himself a man of rare merit according to Hume's ideas. [11]
This rare sovereign was too good to feast the eyes of the rabble. [10]
Opposition or complaint was rare among the warriors, but the murmurs, curses, and threats grew all the louder among those who bore no weapons. [10]
Out at Tralee was evidently a rare orchid carefully shielded by the gardener. [11]
But if Hermon was cured, a rare wealth of the greatest happiness awaited him in the union with Daphne. [10]
At moments he was at once bewildered and inebriated by the rare delicacy of fabric of the woman whom he had somehow stumbled upon and possessed. [9]
It was in virtue of this that his rare genius acted on so many minds as a trumpet call to awaken them to the meaning and the privileges of this earthly existence with all its infinite promise. [6]
At rare intervals--but very rare--there were clouds in our skies, and then the setting sun would gild and flush and glorify this mighty expanse of scenery with a bewildering pomp of color that held the eye like a spell and moved the spirit like music. [5]
Justice is a very rare virtue in our community. [6]
It is not very rare there, for Graba saw during his visit from eight to ten living specimens. [1]
His forehead was unwrinkled--a rare thing in that prairie country where the dry air corrugates the skin; his light-brown hair curled loosely on the brow, graduating back to closer, crisper curls which in their thickness made a kind of furry cap. [11]
Holwell was an unselfish man, a man of the most generous impulses; he lived and died famous for these fine and rare qualities; yet when he found out what was happening to that unwatched sleeve, he took the precaution to suck that one dry first. [5]
The old gentleman's undoubting, unquestioning simplicity has a rare freshness about it in these matter-of-fact railroading and telegraphing days. [5]
Finding myself better towards evening, I went up to the hanging-gardens to see if everything was in order there, and also to look at the rare flower which was to blossom in the night. [10]
The worthies who took care of our grandfathers and great-grandfathers, like the Revolutionary heroes, fought (with disease) and bled (their patients) and died (in spite of their own remedies); but their names, once familiar, are heard only at rare intervals. [3]
Myrtle knew how to use her needle, and always had a dexterous way of shaping any article of dress or ornament,--a natural gift not very rare, but sometimes very needful, as it was now. [6]
Starling was sent to the wine-cellar to bring back a cobwebbed Madeira near a century old, brought out on rare occasions in the family. [9]
This applied also to the Democratic party, on the rare occasions when it seemed to have an opportunity of winning. [9]
It was full to overflowing--one side of it; and I did not miss (save vaguely, in rare moments of weariness) any other side that might have been developed. [9]
One is apt to overestimate beauty when it is rare, but to me this grove seemed very beautiful. [5]
The phrases peculiar to other occupations serve him on rare occasions by way of description, comparison, or illustration, generally when something in the scene suggests them, but legal phrases flow from his pen as part of his vocabulary and parcel of his thought. [5]
I am proud to know that I lose my reason as immediately in the presence of a rare jug with an illustrious mark on the bottom of it, as if I had just emptied that jug. [5]
Confusion was rare to him, and his senses, feeling the fog, embarrassed by a sudden air of mystery and a cloud of futurity, were creeping to a mind-path of understanding. [11]
These qualities, added to her peculiar style of beauty, which excited his admiration from its rare novelty, half Egyptian half Greek, (her mother having been a Greek), had not failed to make a deep impression on him. [10]
She ought not to have written at all; but the lapses of such a heroine are very rare, and very dear. [9]
I was near to forgetting the use of words, until at length, one rare morning when the sun poured in, the jolly doctor dressed my wounds with more despatch than common, and vouchsafed that I might talk awhile that day. [9]
It is rare to find any one who can read, even from the newspaper, well. [4]
Besides, I have to deal with one of those by no means rare cases, where poetry can approach nearer the truth than prudent, watchful prose. [10]
The jungle seemed to contain samples of every rare and curious tree and bush that we had ever seen or heard of. [5]
Startling events appeared to be too rare, in my career, to render a diary necessary. [5]
It turned out to be one of those rich and rare fall days which is just a June day toned down to a degree where it is heaven to be out of doors. [5]
Less care, I thought, had been given in the collection to "sets" of "standards" than to those that are rare, or for some reason, either from distinguished ownership or autograph notes, have a peculiar value. [4]
Sometimes Augusta Maturin thought of Janet as a wildflower--one of the rare, shy ones, hiding under its leaves; sprung up in Hampton, of all places, crushed by a heedless foot, yet miraculously not destroyed, and already pushing forth new and eager tendrils. [9]
In vain, during those long months of exile had she tried to reconstruct him thus the vision in its entirety would not come: rare, fleeting, partial, and tantalizing glimpses she had been vouchsafed, it is true. [9]
But of course this was at rare intervals. [5]
The luxury of this room, with its shining mahogany tables, its tapestried walls, its rare fireplace and massive overmantel brought from Italy, its exquisite stained-glass windows, was only part of a play they were acting; it was not their real life. [11]
The name of this rare woman was Bernhardine Kron. [10]
A transgression of this ancient custom was very rare, and even though Wolff's heart was fired with love for Els Ortlieb, his father, Herr Vorchtel thought, should have refused his consent to the betrothal, especially as he had already treated Ursel as his future daughter. [10]
Did M. Aubert think it was only a rare touch of humour which had turned De la Foret into a preacher, and set his fate upon a sermon to be preached before the Court? [11]
No one of them is very uncommon; but all together are rarely combined in a single individual, and this is probably the reason why such men as Henry Clay are so rare in the world. [7]
We remain up the whole night through occasionally, and by this means enjoy the rare sensation of seeing the sun rise. [5]
As they crossed the viridarium he asked his young host what was the name of some rare flower, and counselled him to take care that shade-giving trees were planted in abundance on his various estates. [10]
The history of the sea teaches that among starving, shipwrecked men selfishness is rare, and a wonder-compelling magnanimity the rule. [5]
He had done the rare thing: he had trusted absolutely that class of woman who is called a "rag" in that far country, and a "drab" in ours. [11]
For she had the rare courage that never shrinks from the truth. [9]
Once I crossed the plains and deserts and mountains of the West in a stagecoach, from the Missouri line to California, and since then all my pleasure trips must be measured to that rare holiday frolic. [5]
She had told the Pernharts what were the fears which had brought her into the town, so the chamber was presently cleared, and the master called away Mistress Giovanna after that my aunt had expressed her admiration of her rare charms. [10]
But awe has the outward look of respect, and old Berry who had his own form of vanity, saw that he had had a rare effect on the fellow, who evidently knew all about fiddles. [11]
There was all the news to tell, the harmless gossip of daily life, which Edith had a rare faculty of making dramatically entertaining, with her insight and her feeling for comedy. [4]
Ruth's home, by the intervention of Philip, was in a family--one of the rare exceptions in life or in fiction--that had never known better days. [5]
During her imprisonment the image of this rare couple had been constantly before her. [10]
The doorkeeper of the House looked into his face, and, with that rare knowledge of mankind which doorkeepers possess, let him in. [9]
In one of the great temples of Baalbec a keystone has slipped, but how rare is that occurrence! [6]
His near-failures were the error of a rare trust to the spontaneity in which other speakers confide, or are believed to confide, when they are on their feet. [5]
Gaston's eyes followed the crippled figure, which yet had a rare dignity. [11]
It certainly enhanced the beauty of a face now only too frequently pallid and colourless, when rouge did not lend its aid; but Barine understood Archibius's ardent admiration for this rare woman, when Cleopatra, with a faint smile, requested her to approach. [10]
The face and the bearing that indicate a surly spirit and a bad heart seemed to me to be so rare among Indians--so nearly non-existent, in fact--that I sometimes wondered if Thuggee wasn't a dream, and not a reality. [5]
I was thinking that you were born to play a part in many dramas, that you have the fatal beauty which is rare in all ages. [9]
Mr. Galton adds that such animals are rare and valuable; and if many were born they would soon be eliminated, as lions are always on the look-out for the individuals which wander from the herd. [1]
I won't deny that sometimes, on rare occasions, when I have been in company with gentlemen who preferred listening, I have been guilty of the same kind of usurpation which my friend openly justified. [6]
Do not suppose that I undervalue these dealers in old and rare volumes. [6]
During the months that followed, they had met, at rare intervals, exchanged casual greetings, and passed on. [9]
The artistically worked Syrian drinking vessels on the sideboard, tables, and consoles were of many forms; beautiful vases full of flowers stood everywhere; rare perfumes rose from alabaster cups, and the foot sank in the thick pile of the carpets which covered the floor. [10]
That household was symptomatic--if they liked--of the new order of things; and it was rare indeed when both members of it were at home to entertain them. [9]
The good old swivel saw here a rare opportunity: his niece, whom he so much loved, would absorb knowledge from this man, and it would not cost him a cent. [5]
Toward midnight, when supper was announced, the crowd thronged to the supper room where a long table was decked out with what seemed a rare repast, but which consisted of things better calculated to feast the eye than the appetite. [5]
And Janet was suddenly impelled to commit an act rare in their intercourse. [9]
Oranges, pine-apples, bananas, strawberries, lemons, limes, mangoes, guavas, melons, and a rare and curious luxury called the chirimoya, which is deliciousness itself. [5]
He was a strange young man, with the rare marked look that would compel even a poor memory to pick him out again. [9]
I tell you straight and fair, that was the prettiest picture I ever saw; and I've seen some rare fine things in my travels. [11]
And fetch a stoup of that rare wine That hailed my father's fame; And bear some white bread from the shrine Built to my mother's name. [11]
Gould & Curry stock paid heavy dividends--a rare thing, and an experience confined to the dozen or fifteen claims located on the "main lead," the "Comstock. [5]
Here rare some specimens which I lately bought at an auction sale of the effects of a bankrupt bric-a-brac hunter: Generalstaatsverordnetenversammlungen. [5]
He did not speak, for his was a rare intuition; and gradually her hand ceased to tremble, and the uncontrollable sobs that shook her became less frequent. [9]
It grieved the soul of the economical manager and lover of rare works of art to have this ancient and also very valuable family heirloom broken to pieces. [10]
Opportunity for this sort of fruitful experience being rare outside the metropolis, students of good and evil had made the pilgrimage to this midnight occasion from less-favored cities. [4]
That dinner set, somehow, was always an augury of festival--when, on the rare occasions Aunt Mary entertained, the little dining room was transformed by it and the Leffingwell silver into a glorified and altogether unrecognizable state, in which any miracle seemed possible. [9]
She was like some rare flower of the field, alert, gentle, strong, intrepid, with buoyant face, brown hair, blue eyes and cream-like skin. [11]

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