Word: rare
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...school-boys, and about the true purpose of the Library. Now, whatever cause for complaint there may have been formerly, there seems to be little at present. There are, as naturally there must be, some books in the Library that students should be restricted from using. There are rare copies that must be kept from all risk of loss, and costly bindings unfit for careless use. The wisdom of forbidding the circulation of such books is evident. But the source of complaint lies not in these, but in certain books of questionable character which the Library council prudishly...
...maid of beauty rare...
...select an oar - oarful task - from the buttonless, broken-bladed specimens now on exhibition; then I venture out for an hour's pull, returning in time to take a shower-bath, to dress, and to arrive at Memorial Hall about six o'clock. By that time the rare beef has all disappeared, and the waiters are generally hidden behind that mysterious screen where there are so many "evidences of things known, but unseen...
...Rare Excellence. - At the charter-house athletic sports held on April 20, in England, W. J. Growse won the wide jump at 19 ft. 11 in.; mile run in 4 min. 51 sec.; 200 yards in 22 1/4 sec.; 100 yards in 11 1/2 sec.; the quarter in 57 1/2 sec.; and the 660-yards steeple-chase in 2 min. 41 sec.; a most wonderful all round performance...
Nicholas's voice is a rare one, full, rich, and uncultivated, yet very sweet withal. I remember that often, crossing the Public Garden, and hearing the familiar voice singing, under a Beacon Hill window, I have had the bad taste to sit down upon one of the benches to listen, and imagine myself in Italy hearing a lover serenade his lady. Once indeed, on a June morning, when the birds twittered and Nicholas sang so that I forgot my annual awaiting me, I followed him up and down, until, meeting a severely critical friend, I basely shielded myself by asserting...