I have counted up six sparrows fluttering about or chirping in the trees; but a sparrow, like every other small bird, is in France a rara avis.
In this connection I may just observe that somehow or other there are in most places hotels which are only patronized by the English, and a foreigner is a rara avis.
In fact, he was a fully equipped sportsman, a somewhat rara avis in those parts.
And now and then you meet with a rara avis who is accomplished and agreeable, a man of the world without licentiousness, of learning without pedantry, and pious without sanctimony; but this is a rara avis'.
Every schoolboy knows the famous quotation in his Latin grammar which tells of a "Rara avis, simillimaque nigro cygno.
I called on Don Emmanuel de Roda, who was a man of letters, a 'rara avis' in Spain.
The marquis had expected as much, but I had not; for a nobleman of sixty who could boast that he had been enlightened was a 'rara avis' in the domains of his Sicilian majesty thirty years ago.
She would have preferred to see her Rara in a region adorned with gardens, but love is sometimes shy under the myrtles or by the murmuring fountains.
Madame de Bonmont was thinking how sweet life might be, if only Rara willed it so.
The fact was that latterly, to re-establish his reputation among his fellows as a man of honour, Rarahad warmly espoused the cause of the Army, in which he had formerly served as a cavalry officer.
In the first place she never liked paying and, in the second, she disliked lending money to Rara as much as a matter of principle as from fear of not being loved for herself alone.
Slowly and sadly she went up the stairs, but even on the very threshold of the door the hope of finding the delightful Rara of former days stirred her heart.
Rara provided her with other more painful worries, but her son was, for all that, a source of anxiety.
Madame de Bonmont was sadly reflecting that lately, with teeth set and eyes flashing, Rara had been threatening the destruction of the Jews.
One may have an extraordinary natural gift of vocal expression which is superior to all adverse circumstances; but such an one is a rara avis in terris.
It still maintains its place in our Dictionaries of living vocables, but the thing it represents is a rara avis in terris nigroque simillima cygno.
It is doubtful whether their unimportant little village among the foothills was ever before visited by a Ferenghi; consequently I am to them a rara avis to be petted and admired.
That girl is a 'rara avis' such as has never flown across my path before.
Rara Mathematica; or, Collection of Treatises on the Mathematics.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rara" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
