All 3 Uses of
specimen
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Far from the Madding Crowd
- It was a featureless convexity of chalk and soil—an ordinary specimen of those smoothly-outlined protuberances of the globe which may remain undisturbed on some great day of confusion, when far grander heights and dizzy granite precipices topple down.†
Chpt 1-3
- It may be said that married men of forty are usually ready and generous enough to fling passing glances at any specimen of moderate beauty they may discern by the way.†
Chpt 10-12 *
- Bathsheba, with a sad, bursting heart, looked at these primest specimens of her prime flock as they rolled there— Swoln with wind and the rank mist they drew.†
Chpt 19-21
Definition:
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(specimen) an example thought to represent its type; or a bit of tissue, blood, or urine that is taken for diagnostic purposes