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1584 E. Paget tr. J. Calvin Harmonie vpon Three Euangelists 734 It is rare for God to haue his righte honour in princes courtes.

1595 W. Perkins Expos. Creed Apostles 290 It is rare to finde the like man in these dayes.

1603 R. Rogers Seuen Treat. i. iv. 10 It is rare, that men, who know that all are vnder the wrath of God..doe beleeue indeede that it is so with them.

1674 R. Fleming Faithfulness of God v. 199 It is rare to find a warming heat with a large profession, such as can make it convincing to others.

1680 W. Jole Warning Drunkards 6 It is very rare, that a Man should drink himself drunk alone; love of the Company makes many drunk, who say they do not love Drink.

1733 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. (ed. 2) at Ferrum Equinum There are some other Varieties of this Plant, which are preserv'd in curious Botanick Gardens; but it is rare that any of them are propogated.

1754 Earl of Chatham Lett. to Nephew (1804) v. 35 It is rare to see in any one a graceful laughter.

1788 T. Taylor tr. Proclus Philos. & Math. Comm. (1792) I. 34 It is very rare that philology and philosophy are united in the same person.

1855 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Philip II of Spain I. ii. ii. 398 It was rare that the tone of remonstrance was heard in the halls of Castilian legislation.

1888 G. Rolleston & W. H. Jackson Forms Animal Life (ed. 2) 474 It is rare for a left-handed or sinistral twist to be normal in a given genus or species.

1898 Argosy Nov. 610 I believe it is rare that a vessel has sustained any serious damage from these convulsions.

1929 H. A. A. Nicholls & J. H. Holland Text-bk. Trop. Agric. (ed. 2) ii. iii. 142 It is very rare that more than one of the flowers develop into fruit.

1949 H. W. C. Vines Green's Man. Pathol. (ed. 17) xv. 388 It is rare for the whole mass to be composed of fully developed muscle.

1972 Amer. Jrnl. Compar. Law 20 697 It is very rare that an Israeli woman uses her maiden name after marriage.

1992 A. M. Buckett in C. Blank Lang. & Civilization I. 341 It is rare to find comments on the mentality, or even less, on the dialect, of the Bavarian in a way that distinguishes him from other Germans.

2002 M. Marschark et al. Educating Deaf Children v. 89 It is rare that deaf children are exposed only to spoken language or sign language.