A table in the centre exhibited curiosities of the rarest description: the shell of a Cauchoise cap, two argil urns, medals, and a phial of opaline glass.
Some of his rarest books were sold in 1757, and twelve years afterwards his Delphin series and the greater part of his general collection were purchased by Count Macarthy.
That done, sylph-like hands spread them over with a profusion of the rarest flowers and rose leaves.
From the centre hung a golden vase, in which burned the rarest incense.
God has enriched you with the rarest gifts of mind and heart, but He has not bestowed outward wealth upon you.
In the midst of the rarest and most beautiful groups of flowers, immense tents were raised; they were of rich, heavy silk, and were festooned at the sides with golden cords and tassels.
They were enthusiastic students of botany, and came home from their excursions in the woods with their arms loaded with flowers, and often searched out the rarest which could be found in the Walden and Lincoln woods.
Belgium contributes the rarest of her laces, and the North sends down the finest of its Russian sables.
He has the true artist's aspiration after the rarest perfection in his art, though to those of us without the charmed circle it is difficult to see how he can excel his present excellence.
Dolores was, or at least seemed to be, that rarest creature among women--an unconscious beauty.
It was to Mr. MacEnery's researches that Buckland and others of the earlier modern geologists owed their most valuable data; and some of the rarest palæontological specimens in the British Museum originally belonged to his private collection.
This well-known fact has frequently supplied an additional inducement to transfer to the crucible many of the rarest and most valuable relics of this period.
Perforated stones must once have been common in England, and probably in Scotland also, as the Anglo-Saxon laws repeatedly denounce similar superstitious practices; but they are now of the rarest occurrence.
Lukis in a somewhat parallel case, though any indication of artificial formation in such primitive structures is of the very rarest occurrence.
Under the law, there should be a light burning, but it is one of the rarest things to find one.
Uptown or downtown, as the tenements grow taller, the thing that israrest to find is the home of the olden days, even as it was in the shanty on the rocks.
These two men had not exchanged a word, had not even seen each other, save at the rarest intervals, for nearly a quarter of a century.
My friend Tudor was suffering from one of the rarest of all maladies--malignant disease of the heart.
The rarest of loves is the love of a debtor for his creditor.
The rarest thing in Jimmy Grayson's life now was privacy, and he longed for it as a parched throat longs for water; it was only at such times as this, with a late hour and a favoring night, that he could secure it.
Rare and beautiful flowers bloom now and then on the cold plains of the great Northwest, and Harley said in his heart that Helen Anderson was one of the rarest and most beautiful of them all.
The rarest shells were only to be found at the Point, and both children were eager collectors.
The true Maiden-hair Fern is amongst the rarest of our native ferns.
He had an extreme quantity of the most beautiful plate in silver and enamel, most admirably worked; the richest furniture, the rarest jewels of all kinds, the finest and rarest horses of all countries, and the most superb equipages.
There was every kind of hot and cold liquors; everything which can be the most widely and the most splendidly comprehended under the term refreshment: French and foreign wines, and the rarest liqueurs in the utmost abundance.
Meanwhile the grandest and rarest example of attachment and of courage that had ever been heard of or seen was seen in Spain.
These will just be as useful in making him acquainted with the structure and physiology of lichens as though he had gathered the rarest that grow on Ben Lawers or by Killarney's lake.
In the hot depths of a South African mine, negroes, stripped to their very waists, are toiling to bring forth the rarest precious stones that the world has ever known.
For two centuries or even more its tireless looms have spun the rarest silk fabrics of the world.
And Friendship, rarest gem of earth; who e'er has found the jewel his?
He told us that Lady Curzon designed the coronation robe of Queen Alexandra; he declared that she had the rarest taste of any woman he knew, and that she was the best dressed woman in the world--an opinion shared by other good judges.
Their costumes are usually very elaborate, the materials being of the rarest and finest qualities and profusely embroidered, and their jewels are usually costly.
Had Gozzi been a great spontaneous poet, or a consummate artist, this invention of the dramatised Fiaba might have become one of the rarest triumphs of artistic fancy.
He felt compassion for my weakness, which coincided with his own, and directed my reading by lending me the rarest books, masterpieces of pure Italian diction in prose and poetry.
There is no doubt that during their flourishing period the companies of the Commedia dell' Arte afforded the rarest amusement, not only to the vulgar, but also to refined and cultivated audiences throughout Europe.
Thy throne emblazoned with the rarest jewels, Each wall adorned with battered coats of mail, Choice relics of some bloody fields or duels, A legend or some untold battle tale.
There the swains are the rarestand maids are the fairest, And their love is as true as it seems!
And Homer, fiery bard, was first To smite the chords of nature's lyre; Sweet sang he till the earth was filled With rarest strains of rapturous song!
For as the maid clips off the stems Where once the flowers have been, So angels pluck earth's rarest gems, Immortal souls of men!
None there saw it, for it was covered with white samite, but the hall was filled with the rarest odors, and each knight saw on the table before him the meats and drinks that he loved best in the world.
Every day Tristram went hunting, for at that time men say he was the best courser at the chase in the world, and the rarest blower of the horn among all lovers of sport.
They lie buried in the chancel of All Saints, Wigan, where, carved on the tomb, their effigies still exist, the rarest of the monumental antiquities in that ancient edifice.
In it lay hidden the mysteries of many a goodly tome, more precious in his eyes than the rarest and richest that Dee's library could boast.
Sometimes one soldier had won the whole, then another; but if they had been heaps of the rarest jewels they had been of less worth than pebble-stones.
His coffers glittered with broad ducats, and his cabinets with the rarest productions of the East.
And this work caused him to be greatly esteemed both in his lifetime and after his death, being the rarest and most excellent that Raffaello executed in all his life.
The rarest wood-turtle in the United States was not so rare a specimen as this gentleman of Walden Woods and Concord.
One of the rarest prints for most snow-hunters nowadays, but one of the commonest hereabouts, is the quick, sharp track of the fox.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rarest" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
