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Example sentences for "striking example"

  • The charmingly artistic wood-carving of the consecration of St. Eloi in the Church of Notre Dame at Bruges is a striking example.

  • He was but one of the many great German scholars at this time, though many people seem to think that he stands almost alone, a striking example of the supposed freedom of intellectual development that was ushered in by the Reformation.

  • The poem is, no matter who may have been its author, at least a striking example of the style of the time.

  • This last-mentioned coat affords a striking example of the over-elaboration to be found in so many of the grants which owe their origin to the Peninsular War and the other "fightings" in which England was engaged at the period.

  • A striking example of their theories is to be found in the heraldic Camelopard, which was anciently devoutly believed to be begotten by the leopard upon the camel.

  • Stockton, afforded a striking example of the spreading and strangling properties of the Morning-glory, not under encouragement, but simply under toleration.

  • It affords a striking example of the beauty and satisfaction that can come from the use of Box as an edging, and old-time flowers as a filling of these beds.

  • Dahlias afford a striking example of the beauty of single flowers when compared to their doubled descendants.

  • This is a striking example of floral telepathy; you know what the Basil wishes, and the Basil knows and craves your affection, and repays your caress with her perfume and growth.

  • He cheats Laban through his knowledge of magic, gaining for himself the choicest of the young lambs by constructing the watering troughs of half-peeled rods of wood--a striking example of so-called imitative magic.

  • We have here a striking example of that form of mythological association and assimilation in which the phenomena of external nature, and particularly those of the heavens, exert an influence upon myth development.

  • A striking example appears in the case of the Spartan State.

  • Israelitic legend affords a striking example of such lustration in the goat which, laden with the sins of Israel, is driven by Aaron into the wilderness.

  • I have already mentioned how artfully he always made it appear that he was anxious for peace, and that he was always the party attacked; his, conduct previous to the first conquest of Vienna affords a striking example of this artifice.

  • His entrance into that city afforded a striking example of the vicissitudes of fortune.

  • The Ethiopic versions are of great interest as a striking example of literary ``accommodation.

  • Other blocks, termed horsts, remained unmoved, the island of Madagascar affording a striking example.

  • Thus Perkins's tractors afford a striking example of the curative force of suggestion.

  • A striking example would be the Song of the Spirits in Dryden's Tyrannic Love, Act iv.

  • This curious tableau is a striking example of the Elizabethan 'Dumb Show' lingering on to Restoration days.

  • The yeast of beer is a striking example of these cellular productions, being able to multiply themselves indefinitely without the apparition of their original spores.

  • The date-palm furnishes a striking example of such a successive transformation of the simplest leaf form.

  • As a striking example[222] see the long series of descending non-harmonic tones in the Coda of the B major Nocturne, op.

  • The second movement is the one famous for its use of five beats a measure throughout; and its trio, on a persistent pedal note D, is a striking example of the Russian tendency to become fairly obsessed with one rhythm.

  • Norway is a striking example of the practical value of zoological research.

  • A striking example of this is afforded by Apus cancriformis (see Plate II.

  • This is a striking example of the way in which, by a fortunate accident as it were, organisms apparently ill-adapted for fossilization may occasionally be preserved.

  • Trudeau to whom we owe so much of our knowledge of tuberculosis is a striking example of the power of character to enable even an apparently delicate organization to withstand the ravages of the disease.

  • I have seen a striking example of atrophy and pain due entirely to disuse in the upper part of the leg as the consequence of a fall.

  • Among the most famous nostrums, and a striking example of the great role played in therapeutics by mental influence and coincidence, is the Unguentum Armariam or Weapon Ointment.

  • A striking example of the place of suggestion came with the development of organo-therapy some fifteen years ago.

  • Illustration: "There is my notion--and a striking example of Mexican fair play.

  • There is my notion--and a striking example of Mexican fair play.

  • For a man who talks so feelingly about the terrible drudgery of literary work, your playwriter is certainly a striking example of simon-pure laziness.

  • This was a striking example of the utility of a handy smooth-bore in a howdah for close quarters.

  • At one time my own blacksmith had a nocturnal adventure with a leopard which afforded a striking example of audacity.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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