Sentence examples for rare reference from inspiring English sources

He is a resident Lincoln fanatic, underlining each rare reference he can find to the cottage.

(Thucydides, in a rare reference to his personal life, writes that he had the illness but survived).

It is a rare reference to life beyond the summer residents and those who catered to them.

At a vast campaign rally in January, Hollande made a rare reference to his father: "The left wasn't my heritage, I chose it".

At another point, they chided two competitors, Sun Microsystems and Oracle for lobbying federal regulators to break up Microsoft, a rare reference to the Justice Department's continuing antitrust suit.

He directs my attention to the coffee table in front of us, where a module covered in black fabric stands on its end, like the slipcase for a rare reference book.

Participants were more likely to refer to 'strong antibiotics' and only rare references to 'first line antibiotics' were made.

This is one of Orwell's exceedingly rare references to the theme of his book.

Nowhere is there mention of boomers less well off than profligate retirees, and the book's rare references to the lower classes are condescending.

Jazz musicians in general are not prone to forelock-tugging, and Humph's rare references to his past tended to be lightly ironic.

In support of his rejection, in On the Universe he makes one of his rare references to Averroes, citing with approval his claim that prime matter is a potentiality only of perceptible substances and hence is not found in spiritual substances.