Sentence examples for rare reference to from inspiring English sources

(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.

What Ms. Thornton had stumbled upon was a rare reference to stack pie, a sugar-laden confection of four to seven pies stacked on top of one another, often spackled together with caramel frosting.

And in a rare reference to one of the lowest points of her first White House bid, she said: "In 2008, during the darkest days of my campaign, you lifted me up, you gave me my voice back, you taught me so much about grit and determination, and I will never forget that".

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.

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

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

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.