Andrea was Captaine Generall and Procurator, a man of great reputation for many rare partes, that were in him.
He died in 1256, leaving two works of rare power considering the century they were written in, viz, de Spheri Mundi, and de Computo Ecclesiastico.
Atmosphere has sometimes transformed the commonplace into something rare and delightful.
Rare indeed is the person who has not laboured out an essay, or dreamed a wonderful love story, or put together a few verses.
Without wishing to hurt any sensitive feelings, truth compels me to state that it is rarefor such productions to have any literary value.
The outsider would scarcely credit howrare it is for an editor to receive a piece of really original work; the universal tendency is to copy other people's productions rather than trouble to discover original models.
Your kind of common-sense is so rare that it's worth paying any price for.
Mother bore them all, wore a calm, brave face in public, and only when alone with me gave way, and then but at rare intervals.
She had the rare power of making one forget self and personal worries and I could readily understand why Mother had been so completely won by her.
But I have no hesitation in saying that I have reason to believe that the cases are very rare where surgeons or nurses tamper with those articles sent for the comfort of the sick and wounded.
Three of our men were slightly wounded, but we returned to Louisville in good order, and enjoyed the luxury of a good supper at a hotel, which is a rare thing in that city.
The farm appeared to be in good condition, fences all up, a rare thing on the Peninsula, and corn-fields flourishing as if there were no such thing as war in the land.
The picture was that of a lady of rare beauty, with an infant in her arms.
In Leighton's own letters, more than is possible in any other written words, will be traced those qualities of character and feeling which guided the rare gifts nature had bestowed.
How sorry I am that I should not have known in time that Mrs. Kemble was to read in Bath; I should have liked so to introduce you to her; you no doubt found her reading a rare treat.
Probably no Englishman ever approached the Greek of the Periclean period so nearly as did Leighton, for the reason that he possessed that combination of intellectual and emotional power in a like rare degree.
Leighton had a deep-rooted and ingenuous sincerity of nature, and never for a moment lost his self-centre; yet he had the rare gift of unlocking the side most worthy to be unlocked in the nature of his companion of the moment.
To a wide social circle, a personality, rare in its charm and endowments, differing from all others, had passed off the stage.
Both islands are interesting geologically from the occurrence there of a remarkable breccia containing inclusions of Devonian Limestone, and also from the existence of some rare types of dyke rock.
In this he is well equipped with a deep, powerful voice of rare volume and resonance.
The stone hatchets of the ancient Indians are very rare in Canada.
It was against the law of the two communities for their men and women to intermarry, but the potent influence of true love, so rare in an Indian's bosom, soon broke this command.
It had taken, with unconceivable rapidity, the character of a gigantic mantle of rare flame, extending from horizon to horizon.
And to our chamber there was no entrance save by a lofty door of brass: and the door was fashioned by the artisan Corinnos, and, being of rare workmanship, was fastened from within.
She was a woman of rare native qualities as well as of extraordinary accomplishments.
She is said to have attracted students far and wide to her classroom, not by her rare intellectual gifts alone, but by her charm of manner, her beauty of person, her modesty combined with real eloquence.
Polygamy was rare for the Orient, especially at so early a period; but where polygamy was practised at all, the harem existed.
The process of finding the least common multiple is of such exceedingly rare application in science or business or life generally that the textbooks have to resort to purely fantastic problems to give drill in its use.
For rare or difficult demands the elementary school should not prepare; there are too many other desirable abilities that it should improve.
The bonds between rare or unimportant words and their meanings should not be formed for the mere sake of verbal variety in the problems of the textbook.
These, although they exist in New Zealand, are rare birds, and during the years I was there I saw but few of them.
This is the earliest instance in which I have met with a jack flag for the bowsprit in an inventory, and its use at this date must have been extremely rare and exceptional.
Mrs. Patchen was greatly annoyed at the use to which this rare peculiarity of hers had been perverted.
On rare occasions I have given private sittings to confidential friends, and few days pass which do not bring me conscious evidence of the presence of Spirit friends.
A letter from you had become of sorare occurrence, that this was, I assure you, particularly pleasant to me.
At ordinary temperatures it will not combine directly with any of the elements except under rare conditions.
Hydrogen is far more difficult to liquefy than any other gas, with the exception of helium, a rare element recently found to exist in the atmosphere.
If the gas left after the removal of oxygen from a portion of air is passed over heated magnesium, the nitrogen is withdrawn, argon and the other rare elements being left.
These are allrare elements occurring in the air in very small quantities.
Owing to its peculiar properties and the secrecy which was maintained about its preparation, it remained a very rare and costly substance until the demand for it in the manufacture of matches brought about its production on a large scale.
The other family of Group IV includes carbon, already described, and a number of rare elements.
Molybdenum, tungsten, and uranium are three rather rare elements belonging in the same family with chromium, and form many compounds which are similar in formulas to the corresponding compounds of chromium.
These six rare elements have very similar physical properties and resemble each other chemically not only in the type of compounds which they form but also in the great variety of them.
These elements are found in a few rare minerals, especially in the monazite sand of the Carolinas and Brazil.
Since the other elements in their families are either so rare that they cannot be studied in detail, or are best understood in connection with other elements, it is convenient to consider these three together at this point.
It was a hateful combination of circumstances; but finding her thus would be no worse than discovering a rare jewel in a toad's head.
Punch was not such a rare show in the country as a live Lord Mayor.
The first difference between the psychical researcher and the inexpert person is that the former realizes the commonness and typicality of the phenomenon here, while the latter, less informed, thinks it so rare as to be unworthy of attention.
Martin), I know no Australian novelist of genius, and her work is only too rare in fiction.
Rich men and women often buy books for themselves, and for rare old books they will give big prices; but the Barr Smiths bought books in sixes and in dozens for the joy of giving them where they would be appreciated.
Great genius can overcome these things, but great genius is rare everywhere.
And a rare mess it is, far excelling any Westminster white-broth.
Physiological learning is of such rare emergence, that one may know another half his life, without being able to estimate his skill in hydrostaticks or astronomy; but his moral and prudential character immediately appears.
Of these, many possess rare merits, and are characterized by a depth, a comprehensiveness of criticism not to be found in the similar productions of any other nation.
Let us think without bitterness of the sacrifice of one influenced and formed by the rare nature we find in these poems.
But the bun was sweet and that was enough, sweetened with white sugar too, a rare flavor in those days.
Such forebodings, however, were rare and did not interfere with my complete enjoyment of present pleasures.
It was a rare chance when I was allowed to spend Fourth of July in Milford, the little metropolis of our region.
Rare as snowy heather bell, Sweet as melody of thrushes Through the ferns and foxgloves of the fairy dell.
I have in my possession a rare copy of the Vulgate Bible, in black letter, printed at Lyons, in 1522.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rare" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
