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Example sentences for "fine specimen"

  • The old college, the greater part of which was standing in the year 1800, exhibited a fine specimen of the gothic architecture of the thirteenth century.

  • Here is also a fine specimen of monumental architecture in the little chapel, or oratory of Prior Bird, who died in 1525.

  • The church, which is a fine specimen of the florid gothic of the Tudor age, contains a richly carved screen and rood loft, a beautiful sculptured stone pulpit, and several windows of the richest stained glass.

  • The church is gothic, with a steeple, containing twelve bells, and a porch, which is considered a fine specimen of the florid gothic.

  • Its Lion Inn is a fine specimen of the ancient black-and-white gabled hostelrie which novelists love so well to describe.

  • The second court is of earlier date, and a fine specimen of sixteenth-century brickwork.

  • Chapel is a fine specimen of the architecture of his time, and the monuments of Queens Elizabeth and Mary of Scotland are in the north and south aisles.

  • There is a fine specimen of this in Barron's nursery at Borrowash.

  • A fine specimen 20 feet in height is at Menabilly.

  • A fine specimen over 15 feet in height and as much through is at Greenway on the Dart.

  • There is a fine specimen at Greenway, 20 feet in height, which has ripened fruits from which seedlings have been raised.

  • I saw him just in front of the hounds; a great, fine specimen he was too.

  • Mr. Garne, of Aldsworth, is a fine specimen of this class.

  • A fine specimen of a stone coffin is likewise to be seen.

  • There was also, however, a fine specimen in the Oxford Botanic Gardens, with a stem 16 ft.

  • A fine specimen, such, for instance, as that at Kew, which is over 8 ft.

  • This book exhibits a fine specimen of rich gothic type, especially in the larger fount--with which the poetry is printed.

  • The drapery of this figure is in perfectly good taste: a fine specimen of that excellent art which prevailed towards the end of the XIIIth century.

  • The floor was bare, but shone by reason of repeated scrubbing, and the black mantel-piece was a fine specimen of colonial carving in the staunchest of walnut-wood.

  • The valley at the head of Seythisfjord is a fine specimen of the result of sub-aerial erosion, for its form is due to the denuding action of frost and snow, wind and rain, storm and sunshine.

  • Away we went again, though, through the wood, until we overlooked the Bruara at a spot where it had worn down the valley to the level of a plain of denudation, of which it is a fine specimen.

  • A fine specimen of an old kitchen attracted my attention, and I determined to try to photograph it.

  • When the atmosphere was quite clear in the afternoon, we saw standing out above the ice of Lang Joekull a prominent peak, a fine specimen of a volcanic neck.

  • Mr. Forsyth was a fine specimen of that kind of speaking which constitutes a debater, and which, in fact, is the effective speaking in legislative assemblies.

  • This was pre-eminently the case with the commander Slidell Mackenzie, and with all his informers; and here is a fine specimen of it in himself.

  • Comatula rosacea; a fine specimen of which, taken by myself in a little cove near Torquay, I have delineated in the centre of Plate XX.

  • In the foreground is a full-grown Pagurus Prideauxii tenanting a whelk-shell, which carries a fine specimen of the Cloak Anemone (Adamsia palliata).

  • It is a fine specimen of the Sea Lemon,[17] which we oftener find clinging to the sides of perpendicular rocks, or beneath projecting ledges, than on the undersides of stones.

  • In the Londesborough Collection is a fine specimen.

  • In the Londesborough Collection is a fine specimen of a Papal ring.

  • In the Londesborough Collection is a fine specimen of a mourning-ring of the early part of the last century.

  • Butcher Row has some old houses with projecting storeys, including a fine specimen of a medieval shop.

  • The courtyard is a fine specimen of sixteenth-century architecture.

  • The whole house was a fine specimen of East Anglian half-timber work.

  • A fine specimen of Lombard work of about 1000 A.

  • The tomb of Theodata at Pavia is a fine specimen of Comacine-Longobardic sculpture.

  • It is a fine specimen of Gothic ornamentation, at the culmination of the Campionese school.

  • It is a fine specimen of Italian Gothic, with the dome peculiar to that style.

  • In fact, as is readily seen, a fine specimen may be easily ruined at any stage.

  • In the illustration of a fine specimen of an agate cat, in height only 4 inches, the body colour is light grey with dark brown solid marbling, and the front and ears are splashed with blue.

  • It stands as a fine specimen of its class.

  • A fine specimen of the Uhria speciosa was in great vigour of health.

  • A fine specimen of the Laurus indica, which must have been fully twenty feet in height, was standing out of doors, and obliged to be cut down, as it was getting too high for the house in which it stood in the winter season.

  • I also saw a fine specimen of the Tilia alba, that was planted by Duke Charles the Fraxinus juglandifolia, was a particularly noble plant, as well as the Quercus macrocarpa, and various other species of this genus.

  • I saw likewise some good kinds of greenhouse plants, as well as many rare species of the Rhododendron tribe; the Rhododendron campanulatum, a fine specimen; a collection of orchideous plants is also forming in this nursery garden.

  • You may not have been aware of it, but embedded in your enclosing structure was a fine specimen of green granite.

  • A fine specimen that I dropped accidentally rolled into it," was the reply.

  • It's a fine specimen of green granite," he exclaimed.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    fine appearance; fine bread; fine clothes; fine copy; fine effect; fine gentleman; fine hair; fine looking; fine place; fine point; fine quality; fine ripe; fine salt; fine sand; fine silver; fine style; fine sugar; fine view; fine weather; fine work; finely divided; finely minced; general will; lemon sauce; poor white; though struck