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Example sentences for "fair specimen"

  • FN#444] A fair specimen of the riddle known as the "surprise.

  • A fair specimen of the Saj'a or rhymed prose.

  • The lines will be found in a note,[926] and may serve as a fair specimen of as good Greek as could perhaps be written in that age of celebrated erudition.

  • The following is a fair specimen of logic in rhyme, so frequently employed at that day.

  • It is a fair specimen of the middling class of houses of that period.

  • A fair specimen this of the manner in which modern usages are made to interpret the sacred Scriptures?

  • The account here given is but a fair specimen of the solemnity and decorum of an Antigua sabbath.

  • Mr. Hill said these were a fair specimen of the character of the complaints that came before him.

  • There may be exceptional cases; but I daresay, taking the whole thing, Sandison's pass-book may be regarded as a fair specimen of the way in which the thing has gone on.

  • He is a fair specimen of the average peasant of such a district as Yell.

  • Is that a fair specimen of the average sales of shawls?

  • Do you think the case of this woman Sandison may be taken as a fair specimen of the accounts which you keep with the other women employed by you?

  • Such is a fair specimen of this man's frenzy; and there are multitudes all over the Free States who will listen to such language and applaud it.

  • It has not been specially selected, and is therefore a fair specimen:-- Bisque d'Ecrevisses.

  • The affecting death of Yezdijird, the last of the Kaianian race of kings, affords a fair specimen of that plain and distinct style in which some of the best histories of Persia are written.

  • The Turkumans, of whom Rahman Beg is a fair specimen, pay little if any regard to religion beyond a few ceremonies.

  • Is this a fair specimen of religious conduct?

  • The land is not the best near the road; so that what is seen there is no fair specimen of the state of the settlers.

  • I know that these ladies are no fair specimen of the women who would attend parliamentary proceedings in any other metropolis.

  • Charles was a fair specimen of the "corn-field hand," but thought that he could take care of himself in Canada.

  • He was about twenty-five years of age, and a fair specimen of a stout man, possessed of more than ordinary physical strength.

  • An old German ballad gives a fair specimen of the ideas which people entertained of the joys of heaven.

  • We cannot, however, consider Lord Herbert's serious reflections on the publication of his chief work as a fair specimen of the tone of his coadjutors.

  • As a fair specimen of the extent to which philological criticism is often carried by some of our German friends, when advocating a doubtful cause, we quote a paragraph in point from Dr.

  • But Tholuck's work is not a fair specimen of his writings.

  • As a fair specimen of the kind of Biblical instruction then imparted to the children of Germany, we may adduce the example of Becker's Universal History for the Young.

  • This is a fair specimen of obscure conciseness.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    class carriage; described elsewhere; eating warbler; fair and; fair chance; fair damsel; fair degree; fair idea; fair knowledge; fair lady; fair maid; fair means; fair nephew; fair price; fair show; fair sirs; fair size; fair statement; fair weather; fairly large; fairly well; fairy tale; punishment inflicted; rature fran; religious training; thou thinkest