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For years she had endeavoured to impress the fact on London, and by careful attention to detail had at last succeeded in gaining that reputation. She was that rara avis among the women of to-day the hostess who knows her guests. She never asked any one to dine at her house without some definite purpose in mind and, for that matter, her guests never dined with her except on the same terms.
That noon, as he sat opposite his wife at table, he said, "Marian, I want you to look out of the window about a quarter past one, and you will see a rara avis." "Goodness! Henry, you're not having any of those horrid dinornis things brought to the house, are you?" He laughed.
One man writes that he never knew before that there was such a thing as a "praying actress." Poor fellow, one can't help feeling there's lots of other things he doesn't know; and though I wish to break the news as gently as possible, I have to inform him that I am not a rara avis, that many actresses pray; indeed, the woods are full of us, so to speak.
Audiet pugnas vitio parentum. Rara juventus. HOR., Od. i. 2, 23. Posterity, thinn'd by their fathers' crimes, Shall read, with grief, the story of their times. What can be more sounding and poetical, or resemble more the majestic simplicity of the ancients, than the following stanzas?
It is said that in revenge at his Italian rivals, Mozart introduced an aria from Martin's "Cosa Rara," arranged for wind instruments, and also a favorite aria of Sarti's, to be played at the banquet when the hungry Leporello beholds his master at the table and watches for some of the choice morsels, and parodied them in an amusing manner.
Vieweg, at that time, I believe, the largest manufacturer of sulphate of quinine in Europe. Mr. Vieweg was that rara avis amongst middle-class German business-men, a born sportsman. He had already made two sporting trips to Central Africa after big game, and rented a large shooting estate near Brunswick.
I saw her first on the Recreation Ground, the day a gang of Boer blackguards insulted some nuns who were in charge of a ladies' school, and to-day she passed with two other Sisters of Mercy, and I touched my hat to her as the Staff dismounted at the gate." "Another rara avis, Beau?" the Colonel called across the intervening group of talkers.
He had a rifle over his shoulder, and carried a powder-flask, shot and bird bags. In fact, he was a fully equipped sportsman, a somewhat rara avis in those parts. "What's this lazy fellow doing here?" said Ashburn, to himself. "I wonder where he comes from?" "Good morning, neighbour," spoke out the stranger, in a familiar way, as soon as the farmer came within speaking distance.
Bouverie is a rara avis, an exception to the general rule, said Elizabeth; 'but you know, she or my uncle, or aunt, or Papa, are generally forced to put a lock on their understanding. Why, Anne, what are you laughing at? 'Lizzie, I beg your pardon, said Anne, trying to check herself, 'but I could not help it. Your speech put me in mind of the prints from Albano's four elements.
I had had to embrace the governor, then a black pacha, a rara avis in terris, and a whole host of beys, concluding the affecting ceremony with a very fat colonel whom my arms could not properly encircle.
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