; engraved gems and gem impressions ; legends written with pigment on pottery ( rare ); characters incised on stone or pottery.

Before her, erotica written by women was rare, with a few notable exceptions, such as the work of Kate Chopin.

* ( ــ ٰ ـ ) superscript alif ( also " short " or " dagger alif ": A replacement for an original alif that is dropped in the writing out of some rare words, e. g. لاكن is not written out with the original alif found in the word pronunciation, instead it is written out as ل ٰ كن.

Ensembles made up entirely of double basses, though relatively rare, also exist, and several composers have written or arranged for such ensembles.

Very long readings also occur for certain kanji or symbols which have a gairaigo reading ; the word " centimeter " is generally written as " cm " ( with two half-width characters, so occupying one space ) and has the seven-kana reading ( it can also be written as the kanji, though this is very rare ); another common example is '%' ( the percent sign ), which has the five kana reading.

While rare now, some late 19th – early 20th century authors used kanji as furigana for loanwords written in katakana.

The character and themes from the comic strip Little Nemo were used in a song " Scenes from a Night's Dream " written by Phil Collins and Tony Banks of the progressive rock group Genesis on their 1978 recording, ... And Then There Were Three ... Another progressive rock group, from Germany, called Scara Brae also recorded a musical impression of the comic on their rare self titled disc from 1981 ( the track was actually recorded 2 years earlier ).

Martians, other than human beings transplanted to Mars, became rare in fiction after Mariner, except in exercises of deliberate nostalgia – more frequently in some genres, such as comics and animation, than in written literature.

In 2006, the Jewish National and University Library at Hebrew University put on an exhibit commemorating the 900th anniversary of Rashi's death ( 2005 ), showcasing rare items from the library collection written by Rashi, as well as various works by others concerning Rashi.

" The Lorelei Signal " and " The Infinite Vulcan ", the latter written by Walter Koenig, are rare occurrences where Captain Kirk comes close to actually saying, " Beam me up, Scotty " ( long erroneously believed to be a Star Trek catchphrase ), when he commands " Beam us up, Scotty.

The combination of with some of the vowels is also represented by a single letter ( = я, = є, or = ї, = ю ), while = йо and the rare regional = йи are written using two letters.

Middle English literature of the 12th and 13th centuries is comparatively rare, as written communication was usually in Anglo-Norman or in Medieval Latin.

Apostrophes are used for the rare ( ly written ) clitic.

This is a rare case of a game adaptation written by the creators of the stories that the game is based on.

In rare cases, the notes are written between the lines.

True operatic contraltos are rare, and the operatic literature contains few roles written specifically for them.

" Moonlight ", a rare jazz performance by Sting for the 1995 remake of Sabrina, written by Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman and John Williams, was nominated for a 1997 Grammy Award for Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or Television.

It also includes the rare first neurological text written in the 1600s by Thomas Willis, the man who coined the term neurology and is known as the ‘ father of neurology ’.

The Soke ( head of, and heir to the style ) of Masaki-ryu Bujutsu, Nawa Yumio, has written several books on the subject and has worked as an historical consultant on matters dealing with law-enforcement and Mizukoshi Hiro ’ s recently reprinted book Torinawajutsu offers historical background followed by thorough, practical instruction in more than 25 traditional ties including some recreated from rare and very old texts.

Dorff is a rare example of someone who has written about the theory of Jewish law and has also written rabbinic rulings ( teshuvot ) on a number of issues in Jewish law.

In William Caxton's pioneering printed English, it is rare except in an abbreviated the, written with a thorn and a superscript E. This was the longest-lived usage, though the substitution of Y for thorn soon became ubiquitous, leading to the common ' ye ' as in ' Ye Olde Curiositie Shoppe '.

* ME thou. png – ( þ < sup > u </ sup >) a rare Middle English abbreviation for the word thou ( which was written early on as þu or þou )

A notable exception to the association of Lycanthropy and the Devil, comes from a rare and lesser known account of an 80-year-old man named Thiess.

In 1891, naturalist Paul Le Cointe provides a rare first-hand account of a candiru entering a human body, and like Lacerda's account, it involved the fish being lodged in the vaginal canal, not the urethra.

Thus, regardless of the mass interest in psychology, an accurate account of psychology for the layman was rare.

The personal account of a female martyr is also rare, as the stories of other female martyrs were recorded collectively.

He believed that sensation is the result of a vibration of the minute particles of the medullary substance of the nerves, to account for which he postulated, with Newton, a subtle elastic ether, rare in the interstices of solid bodies and in their close neighbourhood, and denser as it recedes from them.

Taking this into account, it is quite probable that from the time the speculation started until its collapse, the actual number of rare bulbs that changed hands so feverishly never increased beyond the original number.

There are few other accounts of the island, as it was not occupied by Europeans and visitors were rare or there unofficially, hence Young's account is the only one of the century before he wrote to provide specific details of the origins of the Garifuna.

A rare historical account of the event — the Tarih-i Heleb of Akhmad ibn Ibrahim al-Halabi — relates that the court, which was of the Maliki school of religious law, was unwilling to convict Nesîmî of apostasy, and that the order of execution instead came from the secular power of the emir of Aleppo, who was hoping to avoid open rebellion.

In 1811 he presented to the Geological Society of London a description of the geological structure of the vicinity of Dublin, with an account of some rare minerals found in Ireland.

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Of the solid colours, sable is considered rare, and is classified by some countries as being a type of particolour on account of its mixed hair shafts.

This was the opportunity for Sweyn to assume power, and the account provided by Hervarar saga concerning his inauguration contains a rare description of the ancient Indo-European ritual of horse sacrifice:

In a few parts of the world 5-alpha-reductase deficiency or defects of testosterone synthesis, or even rarer forms of intersex account for a significant portion of cases but these are rare in North America and Europe.

The late Ban Shigeo, a technician at the Japanese Army's 9th Technical Research Institute, left a rare and valuable account of the activities of Noborito Research Institute which was published in Rikugun Noborito Kenkyujo no shinjitsu-The Truth About the Army Nororito Institute available only in the Japanese language.

:" Leaving on our right hand Plum Island ( so-called on account of the rare Plums which doe grow upon it ), we struck into the open Sea ...."

Cadamosto attempts a similarly detailed account of the Mandinka people of the Gambia River, making particular note of their abundant cotton ( rare in Wolof areas ), although not nearly as complete, as he did not seem to venture much away from his boats there.

His essay about his settlement with the RIAA for file-sharing, has been cited in several law reviews, as it is a relatively rare first-person account of the process of settlement with the RIAA.

The film is a thinly disguised account of writer Peter Viertel's experiences working with John Huston ( the Wilson character ) while he made the film The African Queen, which was shot on location in Africa at a time when location shoots outside of the United States for American films were very rare.

The book, considered a seminal work, is a rare insider's account of Gypsy life.

The university press described the book as important to Holocaust studies as a rare account of a Romanian and Latin American Jew.

The late Ban Shigeo, a technician at the Japanese Army's 9th Technical Research Institute, left a rare and valuable account of the activities of Noborito Research Institute which was published in " The Truth About the Army Nororito Institute " ( available only in the Japanese language " Rikugun Noborito Kenkyujo no Shinjitsu ").

Chang & Halliday's is a rare account in denying that there was a battle at Luding Bridge.

Looking at things a few years later, it is a rare occurrence for anyone to actually have a large amount of money in their special " non-smoking " investment account.