Rarity

Examples

• If a man has just eaten, or if he is well fed generally and the opportunity to hear music is a rarity, he will probably prefer the music to eating. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Among the many wild changes observable on familiar things which made this wild ride unreal, not the least was the seeming rarity of sleep. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• In May snow is no rarity in these mountains, the corporal said. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• But your real collector values a thing for its rarity. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• It was just another sudden unexplained rarity of this war. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• A blazing sun upon a fierce August day was no greater rarity in southern France then, than at any other time, before or since. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• For this reason they always admire the beauty, utility and rarity of what is abroad, above what is at home. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Rarity, as geology tells us, is the precursor to extinction. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• It seems to be the mere rarity that attracts the average collector. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Mr. Hale spoke of him as always the same; indeed, the very rarity of their intercourse seemed to make Mr. Hale set only the higher value on it. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• During a two years' sojourn in Italy he had collected many good paintings and tasteful rarities, with which his residence was now adorned. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I opened it in his own presence, and showed him the small collection of rarities I made in the country from which I had been so strangely delivered. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.

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