Seafaring monks are rare beasts, I never came by one before.

He was suddenly that still rare beast: an innocent man in prison.

Not so the story of the Asiatic lion - which is a rare beast, in every sense.

Ryan Harrison is that rare beast, a teenager ranked in the world's top 100.

With rare beasts like that, we'd be welcome in the palace itself.

Take a walking safari to track these rare beasts on foot.

Brown is quite a rare beast, he really doesn't care that much about money on a personal level.

What is one to do with such a rare beast except praise it?

Yet Treme is also that rare beast, a show operating entirely on its own terms.

Long before that, readers have identified him as a rare beast of a writer.