rara avis
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rara avis englanniksi
(quote-book)|location=London|publisher=(...) Darling for A. K. Newman and Co.(nb...)|year=1825|volume=V|pages=105–106|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=7AJLsbzwJXUC&pg=PA105|oclc=1079799952|passage=Ramsay flung open the door. "Lord Fred—damn it we are all in the lurch!", he exclaimed, (..) "my ''rara avises'' have taken wing and flown off." / "What were they actually, Ramsay?" asked Newbank. / "Two black swans," replied he—"the finest creatures ever were beheld, except another of the kind that is in company with them, though I understand there is more of the breed."
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A rare or unique, and thus outstanding or unusual, person or thing; a bird.
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(RQ:Fielding Tom Jones) Such ''Raræ Aves'' ſhould be remitted to the Epitaph-VVriter, or to ſome Poet, vvho may condeſcend to hitch him in a Diſtich, or to ſlide him into a Rhime vvith an Air of Careleſneſs and Neglect, vvithout giving any Offence to the Reader.
(quote-book)|location=London|publisher=A. H. Baily and Co.,(nb...)|year=1835|volume=I|page=12|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=sd8MAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA12|oclc=729859996|passage=Few attorneys are well acquainted with the etiquette of good society; those among the fraternity are ''raræ aves'', who venture on the esquire or afford sealing-wax; hence there is usually a characteristic vulgarity about "a lawyer's letter," which identifies it at once.
(quote-book)|location=London|publisher=Bentley (publisher)|Richard Bentley,(nb...)|year=1838|volume=II|pages=268–269|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=m99fAAAAcAAJ&pg=RA1-PA269|oclc=1345235813|passage=One Maori man stated his surprise on seeing a boat land with seamen, who had black legs and white bodies; others with bright red bodies, and white legs speckled with white spots, according to the dresses they had on, which was supposed to form part of the body; but their fear was at its height on seeing these ''rara avises'' walk about the beech,(sic) on which numbers of the natives ran up the hills, while others climbed the trees.
(RQ:Poe Works)
(quote-book) Nazareth was one of those ''raræ aves'' of her sex, a self-contained, self-companioning woman, finding her best sympathizer, her best confidante, her most satisfactory friend, in Nazareth Pitcher; for Nazareth Sampson was non-existent as yet, except in name.
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(quote-journal) He is that rarest of rarae aves—the author-actor.
(RQ:Woolf Night and Day)
(quote-book); 13; DAW Book Collectors|seriesvolume=no. 1758|location=New York, N.Y.|publisher=DAW Books|year=2017|isbn=978-0-7564-1162-6|passage=Alf was that rarest of ''rarae aves'' of the underclass. He knew what he wanted, and what he wanted was to be comfortable. He wanted to not have to work too hard for that comfort.
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