Word: rare
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...programme to be offered at Salem by the Harvard Glee Club on Monday evening next is a rare good one. The Club will be assisted by Mrs. Kemble and Mr. M. H. Richardson of Salem. - Globe, April 10th...
...shameful act that was committed Wednesday night? We were in hopes that this spirit of irreverence had passed away, but the "leaven of unrighteousness" has shown itself in our midst, to bring shame and contempt on the students. It is but justice to say that these occurrences are rare; yet, when they do appear, they show a vandalism unworthy the lowest barbarians, and an existing undercurrent which it is our sad duty to notice. Have we not sufficient respect for our College buildings not to desecrate them? Are they not as much our own property as that of the Corporation...
...five times quicker than any other will afford the much-needed hour or half-hour for rest and enjoyment. The lawyer in his cases, the minister in his sermons, the business man in his records and copies, the author in his daily jottings and quotations from books too rare or expensive to be within his purchasing power, - all these may find a most valuable help from this "ready writing." Indeed, everybody seems to be so busy nowadays that one cannot but be reluctant to bring forward any pursuit or study that is not itself saving of time; but this...
Buttercups in reaping time are, in the author's own words, "preciously rare." But the young woman is ambitious and goes about her drudgery...
...classes are concerned that furnish the common drunkards of our police courts, to show them what is for their self-interest, to teach them to prefer permanent future good to present indulgence. Where the effective desire of accumulation is strong, the people are sober and industrious. It is rare to find among the crowds of Irish that throng the savings-banks any intemperate; it is equally rare to find any who do not take their rum and whiskey...