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Answer for the clue "Scarce, to Scipio ", 4 letters:
rara

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Usage examples of rara.

Pot, Rara, the woman with the birthmark on the side of her face, was tapping a cane and holding out a tin cup.

Polito, and refused to receive this rara avis, or black swan, into the present collection.

CAPITOLO LXXI LE TRE EROINE Tre donne di rara bellezza sopraintendevano alla cura dei feriti ed al nobile e gentile loro aspetto, noi riconosciamo le nostre eroine: Clelia, Giulia ed Irene.

I fear, a rara avis among country gentlemen, it unites me, puts me in the main, I may say, in the only current of progress--a word sufficiently despicable in their political jargon.

However, in the country, such dresses are Rara avis in terris, nigroque simillima cygno.

Palpably he was one of his hangerson but for the matter of that it was merely a question of one preying on his nextdoor neighbour all round, in every deep, so to put it, a deeper depth and for the matter of that if the man in the street chanced to be in the dock himself penal servitude with or without the option of a fine would be a very rara avis altogether.

Such rarae aves should be remitted to the epitaph writer, or to some poet who may condescend to hitch him in a distich, or to slide him into a rhime with an air of carelessness and neglect, without giving any offence to the reader.

CAPITOLO LXXI LE TRE EROINE Tre donne di rara bellezza sopraintendevano alla cura dei feriti ed al nobile e gentile loro aspetto, noi riconosciamo le nostre eroine: Clelia, Giulia ed Irene.

Perhaps there was another man behind the personality of this deprecating, pleasant-spoken little sybarite - a man who only appeared (oh rara avis!