"Rareness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... my pretty sportive friend, Little is't to such an end That I praise thy rareness: Other dogs may be thy peers Happy in these drooping ...
— The Dog's Book of Verse • Various
... the more facile acquisition and digestion of food at a crisis. And this augmented the difficulty of discovering further change; and only persistent effort enabled us to discover that with comparative rareness there appeared a form in an amoeboid state that was unique. It was a condition chiefly confined to the caudal end, the sarcode having became diffluent, hyaline, and intensely rapid in the protrusion and retraction of its substance, while the nuclear ...
— Scientific American Supplement, Vol. XIX, No. 470, Jan. 3, 1885 • Various
... pretty, sporting friend, Little is 't to such an end That I praise thy rareness; Other dogs may be thy peers Haply in these drooping ...
— Heads and Tales • Various
... ordnance," or cannon, were muzzle-loading. The secondary armament, mounted in tops, cageworks, bulkheads, etc., were breech-loading; but these smaller pieces fell out of favor as time went on owing to reliance on long-range fire and rareness of boarding actions. Down to the middle of the 19th century there was no great improvement in ordnance, save in the way of better powder and boring. Even in Elizabeth's day the heaviest cannon had a range ...
— A History of Sea Power • William Oliver Stevens and Allan Westcott
... cleared first, since, mixed with air, they form highly dangerous explosives. To the fact that the operation is carried on in the manufactories with great care and accuracy can only be attributed the comparative rareness of explosions of the ...
— The Story of a Piece of Coal - What It Is, Whence It Comes, and Whither It Goes • Edward A. Martin
... infrequency, rareness, rarity; fewness &c 103; seldomness^; uncommonness. V. be rare &c adj.. Adj. unfrequent^, infrequent; rare, rare as a blue diamond; few &c 103; scarce; almost unheard of, unprecedented, which has not occurred within the memory of the oldest inhabitant, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget
... shadows. On nothing a year the colonel had managed, in some miraculous fashion, to preserve certain hospitable old customs. Distinguished guests still sat at his table and ate ducks cooked to the proper state of rareness, and terrapin in a chafing-dish, with a dash of old sherry. If between these feasts there was famine ...
— The Gay Cockade • Temple Bailey |
