Word: rare
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Seventy-third Psalm David considers and solves the perplexity which has been troublesome to not a few, in all ages. Virtue with crosses and misfortunes is not rare while vice is often prosperous and comfortable. Here a poor seamstress earns enough to sustain life only by constant and painful labor and there a careless cumberer of the ground is quite content in everything; here a charlatan thrives and there a well-equipped practitioner has scarcely a patient; here a demagogue makes a fortune out of the people's fears and hopes and there a patriot is unheeded...
...Service Reform League, his speech at the annual convention of that body in Buffalo held during the first week of the present month created wide spread attention. Mr. Storey's duties in the law make such demands upon his time that the opportunity of hearing him in Cambridge is rare and the reception given him on Wednesday evening in Sanders should be correspondingly enthusiastic...
...total of '87 men in the class, 77, or 41.17 per cent., have never used tobacco; 22, or 12.86 per cent., have used it slightly, at rare intervals, of whom six have begun the regular use since Christmas of senior year; 18, or 9.62 per cent., have been hard smokers at different periods of their college course; 70, or 36.89 per cent., have used it regularly during their four years in college, or longer...
...bring about in the reader the effect of the antecedents of which this feature is the consequent. But as two persons are unlikely to be affected in the same way by a phase of life, the novelist to retain a leadership was obliged to seek novelty, what is rare and curious. He soon turned to the abnormal and deformed and entrenched himself there. The process is a psychological one and English writers have followed it with the difference that instead of making the reader psychologist, they act before his eyes. But the tendency is the same, to manifest the invisible...
Among the rare specimens that Professor Cooke has obtained is a remarkable collection of meteorites. There is not another collection like it in America, and even the British Museum cannot produce such specimens as some of those to be seen in the Harvard Collection. Although the study of meteorites is only comparatively recent, these falling bodies were noted in ancient times and thought to be miracles. They used to be preserved and worshipped; and Livy tells us that about 652, B. C., the Senate decreed nine days' solemn festival on account of a shower of stones on the Alban Mount...