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Example sentences for "rare thing"

  • Therefore it will be a rare thing to find an exemplary life among professors.

  • I said it before, and will say it again, it is a rare thing to be set in downrightness of heart against sin.

  • So that I account it no rare thing to haue of the Roman coine, albeit that it still represent an image of our captiuitie, and maie be a good admonition for vs, to take heed how we yéeld our selues to the regiment of strangers.

  • Yet Arhianus noteth it as a rare thing li.

  • Trulie it is a rare thing with vs now, to heare of a courtier which hath but his owne language.

  • Howbeit, because it is much maruelled at as a rare thing, I doo not thinke it to be vnméet to be placed amongst our woonders.

  • Evident that the man was above his costume; a rare thing!

  • Maria del Fiore, and on days of the highest solemnity it is set up on the altar of the said Saint, or in some other place, as a rare thing.

  • That is a rare thing; it is a divine composition and temper of spirit that makes a divine soul.

  • And meditation upon spiritual things, that is the nerves and sinews of religion, that is a rare thing.

  • Faith is a rare thing, but a good conscience is much rarer.

  • But afterwards, Giovanni being dead, his brother Gherardo Bartolini presented it to Duke Cosimo, who keeps it as a rare thing in his apartments, together with other most beautiful statues of marble that he possesses.

  • It is now in his house, treasured in memory of him by his nephew Leonardo as a rare thing, which indeed it is.

  • On the morning of that great day it was no rare thing to hear the question put in the dormitory, "Who is a virgin?

  • Prov 10:19) Plain men are thin come up in this day; to find a mouth without fraud and deceit now is a rare thing.

  • Howbeit, because it is much maruelled at as a rare thing, I doo not thinke it to be vnmeet to be placed amongst our woonders.

  • So that I account it no rare thing to haue of the Roman coine, albeit that it still represent an image of our captiuitie, and maie be a good admonition for vs, to take heed how we yeeld our selues to the regiment of strangers.

  • His steady-going style is much liked, not only by his colleagues, but spectators, and it is quite a rare thing to see him grassed by an opponent.

  • While kicking he always got his toes well under the ball, and it was quite a rare thing to see Forbes kicking high into the air.

  • Campbell's and Mr. Joseph Taylor's captaincy, none could keep his feet better on the field; and it was quite a rare thing to see Lawrie grassed by an opponent.

  • Through this opening a stream came down, flowing even in the summer, a rare thing in Eastern Greece.

  • And it's a rare thing for an artist to be able tae see sae close the impression that he's making.

  • I had my private car--that was a rare thing for me to be thinking of.

  • I have a rare thing in my memory which perhaps may lead you to perceive my meaning darkly.

  • I have a rare thing in my memory which hits the case.

  • Suleymân pursued unheeding: 'I have a rare thing, which will show you what I mean.

  • But wait and I will find a rare thing suited to the present instance.

  • She never returned to the hospital voluntarily, but it was not a rare thing to see Johansen, who was guardian to the family, hauling off the lady and as many of her little ones as he could get hold of in a hurry.

  • It was no rare thing to come across Camilla in a tearing gale and a temperature twenty below zero with one of her offspring in her mouth.

  • Two Christiania manufacturers sent us their finest bonbons and drops, and a foreign firm gave us "Gala Peter," so that it was no rare thing to see the Polar explorers helping themselves to a sweetmeat or a piece of chocolate.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    bearing date; broken head; catch the; evidence against; father wrote; federal party; horizontal plane; last able; orange flower; personal relation; quoted from; rare beauty; rare bird; rare books; rare cases; rare intervals; rare occasions; rare thing; rarely seen; rarely white; should soon; stay with; thence will; universal soul; violent pain; young girls