"Rara avis" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... nothing for it but to accept the resignation, and to begin once more the weary search for that rara avis, "a ...
— We Two • Edna Lyall
... World is naturally a rara avis with the simple villagers of Aivan-i-Kaif, and their inquisitiveness concerning Yenghi Donia and Yenghi Donians fairly runs riot, and shapes itself into all manner of questions. They want to know whether the people smoke ...
— Around the World on a Bicycle Volume II. - From Teheran To Yokohama • Thomas Stevens
... machine shop" group. The productive departments of the automobile factories utilize in the main the same equipment as other machinery manufacturing plants, but specialization has been carried to a degree found in few other metal industries. The "all-round" workman is a rara avis. The machine shops are manned by machine "specialists" most of whom know how to operate a single machine tool or perform a single operation made up of relatively simple elements. From one-half to two-thirds of the working force is recruited from immigrant labor ...
— Wage Earning and Education • R. R. Lutz |
