Mr. Franey anticipated that cabbage, zucchini and potatoes would be bargains, but more esoteric items, like leeks, would have to be ignored.

Over the years he has also amassed countless other, more esoteric items in the form of published reproductions, which he started collecting when he was 10 years old.

Along with many other esoteric items, all novices memorized those maps in the course of their studies.

Lefty would then begin to make his sales pitch for an esoteric item, such as a letter of the alphabet, a box or a snowman.

In some parts of the country there are more esoteric items gathered in the wild, which connoisseurs anticipate with gusto as the weather warms.

The agenda featured esoteric items like a discussion of 19th-century social attitudes toward the germ theory and a detailed analysis of the inks that Galileo used in one of his manuscripts.

She studied the inventory lists and tried to recognize the more esoteric items in Pretenses' stock.

The staff are always cheerful, always interested, always knowledgeable, and will go to enormous lengths to get hold of even the most esoteric items for you.

A political action committee representing business interests in the city has raised nearly $100,000 to promote one of the more esoteric items on Tuesday's ballot: a proposal dealing with mayoral succession.

The annual University of Chicago Scavenger Hunt is a multi-day event in which large teams compete to obtain all of the notoriously esoteric items on a list.