I know that in London bookbinding is treated as an art, and I would much like to have a good specimen of London art work for my wife (for I cannot present her with anything else).
As a specimen of unaffected appreciation from a critic like Heine, who rarely sat in judgment without giving vent to a vitiated vein of sarcasm, it is most interesting.
He proved to be a splendid specimen of a wild lion, an old animal, but in good condition, with an excellent coat and a full, long, and silky black mane.
The rhinoceros is the interesting figure in the picture, for he is mailed, like the Asiatic variety, and is either a late discovery, or an escaped specimen from the travelling show of some African Wombwell.
Another specimen of indefinable sweetness and significance we may take in this symbolic little piece of song; "I walked abroad on a sunny day; I wooed the soft snow with me to play.
A second specimen from the type locality gives precisely the same measurements.
Measurements in parentheses are those of a Tenasserim specimen (female) of Sus cristatus so young that the posterior molar is not fully in place.
One badly damaged specimen from Bunguran appears to be referable to typical Rhinolophus affinis.
The skull of this specimen is more rounded posteriorly than that of the type, and the rostrum is shorter.
Tooth measurements are from a younger specimen (male) with perfect dentition.
A specimenfrom each of the following islands: Sirhassen, Pulo Lingung and Pulo Laut.
Measurements in parentheses are those of an older specimen of Sciurus natunensis from Sirhassen.
Measurements in parentheses are those of a less mature specimen from Bunguran.
Indeed we could hardly select a more favourable specimen of the graceful and easy majesty to which his style sometimes rises than this unlucky passage.
The well-known lampoon of Gray may serve as a specimen of the feeling of the country.
Now here we have a book which is by no means a favourable specimen of the English literature of the nineteenth century, a book indicating neither extensive knowledge nor great powers of reasoning.
Nature and education had done their best to produce a finished specimen of all that a king ought not to be.
Falkland is commonly selected as the most respectable specimen of this class.
Such is a specimen of one of the ephemeral slanders of the day; and the circumstance of the coach and six tends to disprove the whole letter.
Colonel Walkinshaw Craufurd was a fine specimen of the true Scottish gentleman, and of the British officer.
The following address affords a curious specimen of the subtlety of Lord Lovat, and the mode usually adopted by him of cajoling his clan.
A rather superior specimenof the professional politician, but distinctly of that hypocritical, slippery class.
A very sturdy-appearing specimen of manhood was this before her; she could understand how her granddaughter might be physically attracted.
His companion was a tall, slim, fair-haired young man, about as good a specimen of the young Englishman turned out by the English public school as one could find.
The stranger's face had been almost blackened by the snow-reflected glare of the clear winter sun, and yet both girls decided that he was hardly a representative specimen of the wandering fraternity of tramps.
After running many kinds of machines in my time, I'm willing to own that this particular specimen defies me.
The "rebel" in the Socialist camp is a good specimen of the man whose self-assertive period was injured by authority, and I suspect that the truculent drunk is letting off the steam that he should have let off at the age of eight.
This particular specimen spoiled my visit to Amsterdam.
It is a true specimen of a Western town which fully believes in itself, and blows a loud trumpet from its elevation of five thousand feet.
Such a specimen is the noted Cubber Burr, growing on a picturesque little island in the river Nerbudda, near Baroach, in the province of Guzerat.
Considering that the place was only settled in 1858, and has in these fifteen years been destroyed both by fire and water, and almost starved by an Indian blockade, it must be admitted to be a pretty smart specimen of a Western city.
The Specimen is in the Collection of Miss Lilley Paull, of Truro.
Peterborough Museum] The largest specimen in the museum of this class of work is the model of a large château, with various mechanically working figures.
He was about as fine a specimen of seaman as I have ever seen in all my cruising.
Shall I send you a fin of the Whale by way of a specimen mouthful?
This horse “was unanimously pronounced by the islanders to be the most extraordinary specimen of zoology that had ever come under their observation.
Strolled about the town, on our return, and found it full of interest as a fine specimen of the old Elizabethan architecture.
I was alone with my guide, who, like the rest of his class, could not be considered as a very favourable specimen of humanity.
One of these monuments resembles a mountain; it covers the ashes of a general, and is large enough to have covered his whole army; his relatives probably took the graves of Troy as a specimen for their monument.
He's about the craziest specimen of a tosser I ever stacked up against.
She had a fine specimen under her hand at the moment, which I suppose suggested the figure.
The French Protestant Church, though small, is an attractive specimen of Gothic architecture; and the Unitarian, which is in the Perpendicular style and is modelled after the chapel of Edward VI.
Rogers was not gifted with any powerful inventive faculties; but he was a fine specimen of the British breed, ready to take a hand at anything which offered a prospect of fun.
As a specimen of the tactics of our Napoleon-worshipping Bascha, he allowed the wells, which were at two hundred yards from camp, to remain unguarded at night, so that they might easily have been filled up by the enemy.
If the reader wishes a specimen of this sort of modern antique, he may turn to the fifteenth chapter of the second volume of the Modern Painters.
Mr Werne had not long to wait for a specimen of Turkish military skill.
He was a specimenof the Southerner possessing salient points, and was a study for the Down-Easter.
He was a noble specimen of a French gentleman: a French scholar, and a Frenchman.
The speech of Prentiss in Faneuil Hall will long be remembered as perhaps the finest specimen of oratory ever listened to in that venerable hall.
Sometimes he might irretrievably injure a specimen by his too great ardour in handling it; but still he united the genius of a true geologist with the keen eye of the mineralogist.
To have in one's possession a living specimen is a happy event for a naturalist.
But I will go further in my deductions, and I will affirm that this specimen of the human family is of the Japhetic race, which has since spread from the Indies to the Atlantic.
But in the presence of thisspecimen to doubt would be to insult science.
Here is a specimen page of the Guide Book (bound in red) for 19--(?
Perhaps it is not too much to say that it is the loveliest tomb in the world, and the finest specimen of Mohammedan architecture in existence.
It was raw and cold, with flying wreaths of damp mist shutting out the view, and we were glad of a comforting tiffin, swallowed somewhat hurriedly, under a forlorn and stunted specimen of a blue pine.
There is a very fair specimen in Kew Gardens, between the pond and the "herbaceous border.
Many showers, but no serious downpour, enlivened our march, and we arrived at the snug little wooden house just in time to escape a particularly fine specimen of a thunderstorm.
Bamborough, the finest specimen of a feudal castle in the north of England, is said to have been founded by King Ida about the middle of the sixth century.
This must appear to the reader a singular specimen of the humour of that time.
The specimen is unknown in England as far as I know.
It was a gigantic tortoise--a specimen of Testudo elephantopus--a huge cumbersome brute.
The name of Cato the Censor, naturally induces a few observations on the character of this ancient specimen of the "Fine old Roman gentleman all of the olden time.
The firstspecimen of diplomacy to be met with in the records of Rome must be referred to the first year of the Republic, when a treaty was concluded with Carthage, and engraved on brazen tables.
