Specimen

Examples

• I handed it back to Mr. Murthwaite, and owned that this curious specimen of Hindoo correspondence rather puzzled me. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• He was very light in colour for a red man, but in other respects he seemed a typical specimen of this handsome race. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• He was an almost perfect specimen of manhood; tall, straight as an arrow, superbly muscled and with the carriage and bearing of a ruler of men. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• You think me a dangerous specimen of my sex. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Why, elevate your own servants, for a specimen, said Alfred, with a half-scornful smile. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Freed from that he would have been as agreeable a specimen of rustic manhood as one would often see. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• If we were in the other room, said Emma, if I had my writing-desk, I am sure I could produce a specimen. Jane Austen. Emma.
• I really wanted you to _try_ with one child, who is a specimen of thousands among us. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Don't you see, my young friend, that they were very anxious to obtain a specimen of your handwriting, and had no other way of doing it? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Mr. Barff kindly sent him a specimen of this substance, which he melted, and put some of it into one-half of a pint of cream. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• This question was a specimen of one of Shirley's sharp, sudden turns. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• But all this has been changed by the advent of the reaper, and ere long the grain cradle will hang on the walls of the museum as an ethnological specimen only. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• How long, when I look on this matchless specimen of mortality, may I perceive that his thought answers mine? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The ape-man, hiding safe behind a screen of foliage, sat watching this new specimen of his own race intently. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Marcus Marcellus Valerian (stage name--his real name is Smith,) is a splendid specimen of physical development, and an artist of rare merit. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I'm glad you're going to keep one or two vanities, just by way of specimens of the old Adam. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• If they are really good specimens--Great heavens, is it you? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• We entered, and the pilgrims broke specimens from the foundation walls, though they had to touch, and even step, upon the praying carpets to do it. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• These camels are very much larger than the scrawny specimens one sees in the menagerie. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Each age has handed down to us from many countries specimens of glass ware which will compare favourably in beauty and finish with any that can be made to-day. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• This seemed to be true, so long as a genus was imperfectly known, and its species were founded upon a few specimens, that is to say, were provisional. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• The color is a yellowish gray on the back, spotted with yellow and brown; the belly white or red, with golden spots in young specimens. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The officer drew a powerful glass from his desk and examined all three specimens carefully, making notations meanwhile upon a pad of paper. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• As early as 1747 he had been interested in geology and had seen specimens of the fossil remains of marine shells from th e strata of the highest parts of the Alleghany Mountains. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• I have given two fair, average specimens of the character of the testimony offered by the majority of the writers who visit this region. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• They are of course unpolished, but the best specimens are as thin as steel blades and almost as sharp. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I now wish to draw your attention to a parcel from Jamaica, which has just arrived, and from which I am able, I am happy to say, to show you specimens which must be of interest. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• He collected a large number of specimens, which were subsequently sent to Orange for Edison's examination. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• They rest on one side--in the greater number of species on the left, but in some on the right side; and occasionally reversed adult specimens occur. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• The table is usually pretty well filled with specimens or data of experimental results which have been put there for his examination. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.

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