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Rare

adjective

Not widely known; especially valued for its uncommonness. "Rare books"

Recurring only at long intervals. "Total eclipses are rare events"

Not widely distributed. "Rare patches of green in the desert"

Having low density. Synonyms: rarefied, rarified. "Lightheaded from the rarefied mountain air"

Marked by an uncommon quality; especially superlative or extreme of its kind. Synonym: uncommon. "A rare skill" , "An uncommon sense of humor" , "She was kind to an uncommon degree"

(of meat) cooked a short time; still red inside.

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"Rare" Quotes from Famous Books

... require some explanation," continued the man in black, "and I will make it presently. I am going to be exceedingly frank and open in all that I say to you, and as frankness and openness are so extremely rare in this world, it may be that I shall obtain favor in your eyes from the fact of my possessing those unusual qualities. Originally I was a teacher, and for a year or two I had a very good country school; but my employment at last became so repugnant to me that ...

— The Associate Hermits • Frank R. Stockton

... her, but they say she's a rare good-looker and has more brains in her little finger than most men keep under their hats. I'm told she has designs on the ...

— The Lion of Petra • Talbot Mundy

... but a rare article is a dear article, and that is the reason why I have written a small poem, excessively free in its style, very broad, and extremely ...

— The Vicomte de Bragelonne - Or Ten Years Later being the completion of "The Three - Musketeers" And "Twenty Years After" • Alexandre Dumas

... done exteriorly. Outside influences, outside circumstances, wind the MAN and regulate him. Left to himself, he wouldn't get regulated at all, and the sort of time he would keep would not be valuable. Some rare men are wonderful watches, with gold case, compensation balance, and all those things, and some men are only simple and sweet and humble Waterburys. I am a Waterbury. A Waterbury ...

— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... You've got us analyzed," Seaton stated, rather than asked, as with knife and fork he attacked the thick, rare, and beautifully broiled steak which, with its mushrooms and other delicate trimmings, lay upon his rigid although unsupported tray—noticing as he did so that the Norlaminians ate with tools entirely different from those they had ...

— Skylark Three • Edward Elmer Smith

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