Something unusual

Usage examples of rarity.

Sianadh had hired a carriage and driver, which contraption was ogled by the neighbors when it stopped at the door, carriages being a rarity in Bergamot Street.

When Dana Gaynor, copartner of Rarities Unlimited, started in on him with a voice like an ice-tipped whip, he stood up straight and paid attention.

The rarity of eidetic memory, coupled with the fact that to possess such a capacity does not seem to make for much success in life, suggests that it may not be so beneficial a gift.

It is useless to deny the rarity and worth of the skill that can report so perfectly and with such exquisite humor all the fugacious and manifold emotions of the modern maiden and her lover.

On the contrary, were the generous friend or disinterested patriot to stand alone in the practice of beneficence, this would rather inhance his value in our eyes, and join the praise of rarity and novelty to his other more exalted merits.

Horton and Jols began filling the glasses as the knights eyed this rarity with enormous anticipation.

Quite pleased, Glencoe left Mance to his task and devoted his own efforts to displaying musical rarities.

The Grand Inquisitor was utterly overwhelmed by his volume of Pasquinades, a work so witty that it was constantly attributed to Erasmus, and so carefully destroyed that Heinsius gave a hundred gold pieces for the copy which Count Hohendorf afterwards placed among the imperial rarities at Vienna.

But Rafik had said Hafiz was a collector of rarities and had implied that he was not overburdened with scruples.

For two hours we fished unceasingly, but without bringing up any rarities.

Kashmir, Miss Mandeville, zough not, I am desolate to say, of great rarity.

From the other table advances Tommy Molto, the Homicide supervisor, who has elected to try this case, a rarity for him these 68 THE LAWS OF OUR FATHERS days.

Relkin and Mono were orphans, Manuel was not, a real rarity in the Dragon Corps.

The roof was hung with hams and polonies and sausages, there were barrels of pickled meats, stacks of fat round cheeses, cases of Hansa beer, cases of cognac, pyramids of canned truffles, asparagus tips, shrimps, mushrooms, olives in oil, and other rarities.

It was a rarity that the defense would not object to prosecutorial foot dragging.