29 Metaphors for rare

In them the fine life of color, form, and symmetry, which is the gift of the Italian, formed a rich stock on which to graft the true vine of religious faith, and rare and fervid were the blossoms.

Rare indeed were these glimpses of his Majesty, and they afforded interest and excitement enough to last a long while.

In the course of so many years and so many wars the spolia opima were only twice gained: so rare has been the successful attainment of this honour.[10] While the Romans were thus engaged in those parts, the army of the Antemnates made a hostile attack upon the Roman territories, seizing the opportunity when they were left unguarded.

Rare are those virtues now in women's mind!

115 The rarest was a Turtle-shell Which he, poor Child, had studied well; A shell of ample size, and light As the pearly car of Amphitrite, That sportive dolphins drew.

A monk was showing the relics of his convent before a numerous assembly; the most rare, in his opinion, was a hair of the Holy Virgin, which he appeared to show to the people present, opening his hands as if he were drawing it through them.

Rare indeed, in our earth life, would be the crisis unmet by this treasury of knowledge.

" Rare, indeed, are the artists who know how to weep.

Rare are solitary woes; They love a trainthey tread each other's heels.

11:6, 7. Rare is the man who can look back over his life and not confess, at least to himself, that the things which have made him most a man are the very things from which he tried with all his soul to escape.

No one who has not dabbled among old books knows how rare have become the strictly popular publications of a non-literary kind which a generation of the lower middle class has read and thrown away.

Evidences of Ideation in Apes Reliable literature of any sort concerning the behavior and mental life of the anthropoid apes is difficult to find, and still more rare are reports concerning experimental studies of these animals.

Five ounces of black bread a day, part of barley and part of potato, the rest of rye and wheat; for breakfast, a pint of lukewarm artificial coffee made of acorns burnt with maize, no sugar; sauerkraut and cabbage in hot water twice a day, occasionally some boiled barley or rice or oatmeal, and now and thenalmost by a miracle, so rare were the occasionsa small bit of horseflesh in the soup.

OVID, Ars Am. i. 241. 'Most rare is now our old simplicity.' (Dryden).

Mr. Bynoe, who was of the party, added to his collection of birds, a kingfisher, and a specimen of a glossy species about the size and colour of an English blackbird; others were seen and killed, but all common to other parts; the most rare of the latter was the large cream-coloured pigeon I have alluded to, some few pages back.

So rare is such a combination in man that for a long time its occurrence was doubted, descriptions of it regarded as myth.

None more than I had cherished mystery and dream: my life until now had been but a mist which revealed as each cloud wreathed and went out, the red of some strange flower or some tall peak, blue and snowy and fairylike in lonely moonlight; and now so great was my conversion that the more brutal the outrage offered to my ancient ideal, the rarer and keener was my delight.

He is as rare as birds' teeth, and every officer anxiously scans his recruits in search of good sergeant timber.

"'My son! talents are still more rare than birth or riches, and are undoubtedly an inestimable good, of which nothing can deprive us, and which every where conciliate public esteem.

Ponting's nervous temperament allowed no waste of timefor him fine weather meant no sleep; he decided that lost opportunities should be as rare as circumstances would permit.

Habits of close attention, thinking heads, Become more rare as dissipation spreads, Till authors hear at length one general cry Tickle and entertain us, or we die! Cowper.

The real thing is as rare as genius, but we usually fail to recognize its rarity.

In stormy weather, when none could stir abroad, they turned or coopered the wooden vessels; for tin cups were as rare as iron forks, and the "noggin" was either hollowed out of the knot of a tree, or else made with small staves and hoops.

Listen to Matthew Arnold: "But in the world I learnt, what there Thou wilt too surely one day prove, That will, that energy, though rare, Are yet far, far less rare than love.

True eloquence is a gift, as rare as poetry; an inspiration allied with genius; an electrical power without which few people can be roused, either to reflection or action.

29 Metaphors for  rare