Of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style.
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However, the judges said conditions would be met in only rare cases.
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However, it is very rare in children under 5 years of age.
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It could, however, be used in breeding prize livestock or rare animals.
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Clearly contact between the Hope PD and the State Police was rare.
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Incidents of a serious criminal nature were relatively rare, the report said.
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And TNF has never been more everyday having navigated a trek from the elevated niche of a technical brand to the less-rarified high street.
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The Martians experience no difficulty in living in a rarified atmosphere.
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For four years they had lived in the rarified atmosphere of celestial friendship.
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All the Tugela operations had been conducted in a rarified medium.
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Philosophy also has been itself of late working in a pretty rarified region.
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Every twenty feet we rested, breathing heavily of the rarified air.
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The poor asthmatic is now breathing the extremely rarified air of the New Jerusalem.
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The landscape is highly picturesque and the phantasmagoric effects of the rarified atmosphere are bewitching.
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The air had assumed an absolute limpidity, as if it had become rarified, rarified unto emptiness.
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SWITHIN: He breathes in a rarified air.
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His lungs, distended by the rarified atmosphere, threatened to burst with an explosion akin to a steamboat's.
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Tails of comets from rarified vapour, like northern lights, from electricity; twenty millions of miles long; expected comet.
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As the glass contains rarified air the flesh will be drawn up into it and a blister formed.
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So rarified, indeed, is the atmosphere, that it causes an elasticity of spirits unknown in a heavier temperature.
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This philosophic plane was too high for Emmy, who had her pleasant being in a less rarified atmosphere.
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Above that height it's excessively rarified.