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  • It carries the logo of FedEx, but this craft is a sorry specimen.†   (source)
  • I'd spent my life imagining all the ways she'd loved me, what a perfect specimen of a mother she was.†   (source)
  • There, coiled comfortably on the second step, was a thick mottled specimen that Curly recognized as a cottonmouth water moccasin, common in southern Florida.†   (source)
  • Denton Deere hurried to seek first aid for his bleeding shin and sent the biggest male nurse on the floor to take care of Turtle, the same male nurse who chased Otis Amber out of the hospital for sneaking up on a nurse's aide carrying a specimen tray and shouting, "Boom!"†   (source)
  • So of course, of course I am given such a useless, untrained, hopeless specimen of underdevelopment as yourself.†   (source)
  • He is a fine specimen.†   (source)
  • "Those are excellent specimens," said the Count as he took his seat.†   (source)
  • There was one left, a large and sturdy specimen.†   (source)
  • We ate the specimens he had collected, before they were treated with arsenic and stuffed, of course.†   (source)
  • There are carpenters' shops, taxidermists' studios, acres of shelves and specimen drawers, whole museums within the museum.†   (source)
  • Seven other houses were also open to the public, but they were all museum houses, all important architectural specimens authentically restored and staffed by professional curators and operated on a nonprofit basis.†   (source)
  • It was also blatantly and exceedingly powerful, stout and thick muscled, the chest broad, the quadriceps muscles of the thighs pronounced, and Horace Whaley could not help but observe that here was an extraordinary specimen of manhood, six foot three and two hundred thirty-five pounds, bearded, blond, and built in the solid manner of a piece of statuary, as though the parts were made of granite—though, too, there was something apelike, inelegant, and brutish in the alignment of the arms and shoulders.†   (source)
  • Yes, he's lost some weight in the last month, but he's got a long way to go before he's any kind of athletic specimen.†   (source)
  • And he said, "You are a prize specimen, aren't you.†   (source)
  • If you were to visit our house today, you would find a lot of evidence of our faith just lying around: music by Christian bands Zoe Girl, Relient K, and Cutlass; easy-to-read Bibles; even surf movies like Changes or Specimen produced by Christian surfers.†   (source)
  • Hans glared at Thomas, scrutinized him like a scientist examining a specimen.†   (source)
  • Is there someone who will come and take care of the children while you are out collecting specimens?†   (source)
  • Peeta and I have been training intensely, though, and Finnick's such an amazing physical specimen that even with Mags over his shoulder, we climb rapidly for about a mile before he requests a rest.†   (source)
  • Sticky, who happened to consider himself a prime specimen of scaredy cat, moved on without comment.†   (source)
  • She said it was important to give a sense of exactly where the specimen was found.†   (source)
  • She regarded Jason like he was an especially interesting science specimen—one she couldn't wait to dissect.†   (source)
  • One spindly specimen stood in for everything she had been up until this moment.†   (source)
  • Delia told him he was a disgusting specimen but what could you expect from the North of Ireland.†   (source)
  • One day in a microbiology class the professor instructed the students to place a specimen on the agar in order to see if bacteria would grow in the petri dish.†   (source)
  • Coelacanth Prehistoric deep-sea fish, long supposed extinct until specimens found in mid-twentieth.†   (source)
  • His father's jeweler's eyes looked deeply into each specimen for cracks and flaws.†   (source)
  • Jars filled with leaves and dried flowers, jars filled with finely labeled liquids, jars filled with animal specimens and formaldehyde.†   (source)
  • They've sent specimens to foreign hospitals.†   (source)
  • Like a gardener occupied with greenhouse specimens, brushing aphids from individual plant leaves, he absorbed himself in the texture and grain of individual pieces, the hidden drawers, the scars and marvels.†   (source)
  • Fine specimens of humanity, those Germans, and to think I'm actually one of them!†   (source)
  • Saget looked at Langan oddly, as if he were some kind of laboratory specimen.†   (source)
  • I don't like that she's standing there, composed and detached, evaluating me like I'm a taxidermy specimen.†   (source)
  • Green technology for live specimens?†   (source)
  • Such a specimen.†   (source)
  • He had grown into a handsome specimen, and I felt obliged to point out to the doubting Miss Jenny that my formal name for him was not so far off the mark.†   (source)
  • When he'd finished his explanation, he said to me, "This is the second time I will have the opportunity of collecting a specimen of your blood.†   (source)
  • He thought I ought not to have demeaned myself by petitioning such low specimens of humanity as the police and the labour bureau staff.†   (source)
  • Without making any extravagant claims—no, this is not the greatest sonnet ever written, nor the most important statement of anything—we can say that "An Echo from Willow-Wood" is an excellent specimen of its chosen form.†   (source)
  • This request, too, the lawyers refused, much to the regret of Milton Greeman, curator of Wistar's renowned collection of medical specimens.†   (source)
  • Marc was an athletic guy, in some ways exactly the sort of tough physical specimen you expect to be a SEAL.†   (source)
  • Gey took any cells he could get his hands on—he called himself "the world's most famous vulture, feeding on human specimens almost constantly."†   (source)
  • But even if Big Mike had no idea what he was doing on a football field, Crone found him an awesome physical specimen.†   (source)
  • The cheerleading intervention, I thought, looking around me at all those perky faces, staring at me flatly as if I was a specimen about to be slapped on a slide.†   (source)
  • One day not long before the thumbectomy , perhaps even less than a week , Annie had come in with two giant dishes of vanilla ice-cream, a can of Hershey's chocolate syrup, a pressure can of Reddi-Whip, and a jar in which maraschino cherries red as heart's blood floated like biology specimens.†   (source)
  • The fact of its being so rare a flower ought to have made it easier to trace the source of this particular specimen, but in practice it was an impossible task.†   (source)
  • He was a magnificent specimen, eight and a half feet tall, with strong, proud-if grotesque-features, thick horns that spiraled all the way around, and a fantastic musculature that made it seem he could kill a bear with a single blow.†   (source)
  • Worm specimens we've examined lead us to suspect complicated chemical interchanges within them.†   (source)
  • The last thing Sherpas want is to be preserved as specimens in an anthropological museum.†   (source)
  • I could stay excited looking at live specimens day in and day out.†   (source)
  • When he did, I made a long cut down the length of the specimen.†   (source)
  • I mean to say, you are a pretty impressive specimen.†   (source)
  • I carried with me several specimen bottles, each containing some melancholy waste or secretion.†   (source)
  • "That's how Audubon got his specimens," he said.†   (source)
  • Most candidates admit being a little awestruck and a tad intimidated when they first encounter the jaw-dropping male specimens who show up for BUD/S to strut their stuff.†   (source)
  • This morning's specimen wore white trousers and a yachting cap, and a paranoiac little beard jutted out from the bottom half of his face.†   (source)
  • Again Peters asked him if he could send some people down to look at specimens of tissue from the monkeys.†   (source)
  • "I imagine he'll write for his books and specimens once he is settled," Matron said.†   (source)
  • Mine was probably one of the magus's old ones cut down, and Pol's was a plain military cloak, but Sophos's was a particularly fine specimen, made of expensive fabric generously cut with a stylish silk tassel hanging from the hem at the back.†   (source)
  • As Mr. Clutter contemplated this superior specimen of the season, he was joined by a part-collie mongrel, and together they ambled off toward the livestock corral, which was adjacent to one of three barns on the premises.†   (source)
  • Everything smelled like a biology specimen, and with the first bite the red juice spurted out and ran down my chin.†   (source)
  • The anaconda men are forever trumpeting the Orinoco specimen that weighed well over five hundred pounds, while the python people never fail to reply by pointing out that the African Rock found outside Zambesi measured thirty-four feet, seven inches.†   (source)
  • To imply that a cowboy's sister was a sporting woman might lead to prolonged fisticuffs, if not worse—and Dish Boggett looked to be a healthy specimen.†   (source)
  • She was glad they were such fine specimens—all perfect.†   (source)
  • They supposed that he was a splendid specimen.†   (source)
  • Now and then the lab technicians lost a specimen.†   (source)
  • You'd gone out to collect specimens for a theory you were hatching about rainfall, instinct, and butterflies.†   (source)
  • Last known specimen was captured on the Iberian Peninsula by the famed warrior Roland who coveted its magic but inadvertently slew the animal in his impatience for its quills.†   (source)
  • Why are you looking at us that way, as if we're specimens?†   (source)
  • Joanna's been holding specimens of my hair in a jar ever since we were divorced?†   (source)
  • Put the specimen back where it was.†   (source)
  • The art and address of ambassadors from a dozen belligerent powers of Europe, nay, of a conclave of cardinals at the election of a Pope ....would not exceed the specimens we have seen.†   (source)
  • There it was, our Plague-scoured village, the names of all its three hundred and three score sorry souls pinned to the map like insect specimens on a board.†   (source)
  • Marcia, she learned, thought bull riders oozed sex appeal, and more than once, her roommate had nudged her to point out a particularly handsome specimen, including the guy who'd won it all.†   (source)
  • This was Colonel Harry "the Horse" Liversedge, a towering specimen from Volcano, California, who grew into a six-foot-four Olympic shot-putter and who, in the war, won a Navy Cross for his heroism in the jungle fighting at New Georgia.†   (source)
  • The microscope could effectively examine wet samples as well as specimens treated with liquid nitrogen.†   (source)
  • You are a disgusting specimen, corporal.†   (source)
  • I became increasingly aware that the man was staring at me, not impolitely, but as though he were studying an unknown specimen.†   (source)
  • That's a fine specimen of a pig—it's no bigger than a white rat.†   (source)
  • One wall was almost covered by a huge colored map, from which narrow red silk ribbons stretched tautly from each division of the map to a series of ebony pedestals, upon which sat glass specimen jars containing natural products of the various countries.†   (source)
  • And, if you happen to select a black among this lot that is not mine, I can guarantee you we could find a comparable if not superior specimen from my own stock.†   (source)
  • She keeps fuzzy specimens in an aquarium at school.†   (source)
  • Brother Leon studied him, looking at him as if he were a specimen under a microscope, as if the specimen contained the germ of some deadly disease.†   (source)
  • Then she remembered the old man at the cigar stand of the Taggart Terminal, and smiled, thinking that this was a specimen for his collection.†   (source)
  • It's like the specimens back at the hospital, I told myself.†   (source)
  • But the Psych Warfare boys did get live specimens, so I suppose Operation Royalty was a success.†   (source)
  • A sledge-faced specimen with Popeye forearms, neck sufficiently thick to support a small car, came around the side of the van, and Joe opted for the surprise of instant and unreasonable aggression, driving one knee hard into his crotch.†   (source)
  • "It was mine, actually," said Isabelle, who was looking at Emma as if she were a fascinating specimen.†   (source)
  • Damn, you're a fine specimen of a man, son.†   (source)
  • This specimen carries her parasol on her left, toward the gate and her fiancé, though the sun inflames her right.†   (source)
  • I could not shake the picture of Perry, her muffled screams as hands and mouths stifled and probed her, her body held and pinned, naked and helpless, an experiment, a specimen.†   (source)
  • It was a mammoth specimen, very nearly as long and as wide as the door itself.†   (source)
  • The light held him fixed, like a museum specimen, needle thrust through chest.†   (source)
  • Legend had it that in 1792 a collector, owning one of the world's few specimens, bought another at auction, only to destroy it, making his first specimen more valuable.†   (source)
  • A little weird the way you dress, but a fine specimen of womanhood.†   (source)
  • He described Harriet as "a woman of no pretensions, indeed, a more ordinary specimen of humanity could hardly be found among the most unfortunate-looking farm hands of the South..."Her success was wonderful.†   (source)
  • They were marked: 100% Grain Alcohol for the Preservation of Specimen Stomachs.†   (source)
  • It appeared from the lithe physical specimen seated upon his own mount that Brahma had bargained in good faith, authorizing for his use an excellent and sturdy body, which was now possessed by the ancient Shan.†   (source)
  • The cities that had been good enough for earlier generations had been rebuilt-or deserted and left as museum specimens when they had ceased to serve any useful purpose.†   (source)
  • A specimen hasn't been identified since 1925.†   (source)
  • They haven't taken it over yet, but they've moved in their libraries and their herbariums and their specimens of seed.†   (source)
  • And I'm not a particularly handsome specimen!†   (source)
  • Marley was an amazing physical specimen, the kind of dog passersby stopped to admire.†   (source)
    specimen = an example regarded as typical of its class
  • I'm sure you want to see the actual specimen, too.†   (source)
  • But the specimen they were looking at was much, much older than that.†   (source)
  • Do you have the specimen with you, Dr. Grant?†   (source)
  • Grant said, "You were the one who found the original specimen of the Procompsognathus."†   (source)
  • It's a biological specimen, a partial fragment of an animal collected from Central America.†   (source)
  • Let's see if she'll send us the actual specimen.†   (source)
  • And when did this, ah, specimen arrive in your hands?†   (source)
  • By the way, this specimen you have found of a pro ...procom ...what is it?†   (source)
  • Then I can run down that specimen for Mr. Hammond, who's very excited about it.†   (source)
  • Specimens associated with Morrison formation strata in Colorado, Utah, and Oklahoma.†   (source)
    specimens = examples regarded as typical of their class
  • So we now have a number of adult specimens in the park.†   (source)
  • Chapter 8 — "A Miserable Specimen"†   (source)
    specimen = an example regarded as typical of its class
  • The coelacanth was a five-foot-long fish thought to have died out sixty-five million years ago, until a specimen was pulled from the ocean in 1938.†   (source)
  • Specimen acquired on the beach of Cabo Blanco, July 16....Apparently a howler monkey was eating the animal, and this was all that was recovered.†   (source)
  • And a ten-thousand-year-old fossil fruit bat from New Guinea was described by a zoologist who not long afterward received a living specimen in the mail.†   (source)
  • It was indeed a young specimen.†   (source)
  • The specimen is in New York.†   (source)
  • The actual specimen?†   (source)
  • Specimen is number HD/09.†   (source)
  • The trailer had a series of long wooden tables, with tiny bone specimens neatly laid out, tagged and labeled.†   (source)
    specimens = examples regarded as typical of their class
  • After all, the lab had recently identified specimens contaminated with Venezuelan equine fever, Japanese B encephalitis, Kyasanur Forest virus, Langat virus, and Mayaro.†   (source)
  • The automated fecal analysis (called Auto Poop), designed to check for parasites in the animal stools, invariably recorded all specimens as having the parasite Phagostomum venulosum, although none did.†   (source)
  • He's quite the specimen," Uncle Nabi said from the front seat.†   (source)
  • You crossed a line when you made that specimen, and you have put this entire facility at risk.†   (source)
  • Somebody has to make sure all the snake traps are working, so I don't hurt any of our specimens.†   (source)
  • As he arrived at the specimen bay, sure enough he found the door open a couple of feet.†   (source)
  • What on earth can you do with such a silly, sniveling specimen of humanity?†   (source)
  • To Ancient Egyptians, I'm sure he would've looked regal and warlike, a fine specimen of manhood.†   (source)
  • He sets down his cup of tea and says, "I would like to see your most protected specimens.†   (source)
  • He removed the gold ring from Peter's hand, placed it in a clear specimen bag, and gave it to Sato.†   (source)
  • "Henrietta is still a miserable specimen," they wrote.†   (source)
  • But nobody knew this specimen even existed!†   (source)
  • Maybe someone stole the specimen to do analysis and R and D. Industrial espionage?†   (source)
  • She produced the specimen bag and handed it to Langdon.†   (source)
  • "The specimen is not touching the canister," Vittoria said, apparently expecting the question.†   (source)
  • A cherubic entomologist with a specimen box?†   (source)
  • How large a specimen did you and your father create?†   (source)
  • Katherine's pudgy little assistant began rattling on about the specimens in this room.†   (source)
  • You created a specimen larger than five hundred nanograms?†   (source)
  • The specimen remains suspended even if I remove the canister.†   (source)
  • Vittoria knew it had been she who convinced her father to create the specimen.†   (source)
  • I am the one who convinced my father to create that specimen.†   (source)
  • Perhaps you and your father should have considered that before you created the specimen.†   (source)
  • In those canisters are specimens of the matter he created.†   (source)
  • Director, you are looking at the world's first specimens of antimatter.†   (source)
  • Vittoria, surely you can't be saying those canisters contain actual specimens?†   (source)
  • And second, that the specimens could be safely stored.†   (source)
  • All the antimatter specimens were accounted for.†   (source)
  • "We need to check those specimens," Kohler said.†   (source)
  • If he wrecks this specimen, I'll kill him.†   (source)
  • A healthy specimen lay across this gap, forming a bridge.†   (source)
  • What she saw was a rather sad-looking specimen only half-stoned, looking hangdog and ashamed.†   (source)
  • He kept each specimen in its own plastic bag.†   (source)
  • Niedermann was his son, and physically an almost perfect specimen.†   (source)
  • The possibility of planted lab specimens.†   (source)
  • Tina Coleman is a gorgeous specimen of a woman.†   (source)
  • This one"—Sam gestured at me like I was a prize specimen—"saved many lives on that bridge.†   (source)
  • "You keep live specimens here?" asked Cooper.†   (source)
  • The three torn specimens he was tying into their shrouds had not been so lucky.†   (source)
  • But the most serious drawback had to do with the sections of specimen.†   (source)
  • Ain't she a splendid specimen of Southern womanhood?†   (source)
  • For example, we might clone a specimen whose species is threatened by extinction.†   (source)
  • It's a plant, all right, and valarian was used in the grafting of the specimen.†   (source)
  • There's a stuffed specimen in our Biology Museum, and we have a dozen genetic samples on record.†   (source)
  • Not often in her eighteen summers had she found so fine a specimen.†   (source)
  • Fred has looked at a specimen, and he's got worms.†   (source)
  • I can't spend enough time with each specimen.†   (source)
  • The place is strange, frozen away, a specimen of our forgetfulness even as we note the details.†   (source)
  • Captain Delroy Michael Blane was the most rock-solid psychological specimen you'd ever want to meet.†   (source)
  • How much longer could an ancient specimen of seventy-seven years be expected to continue?†   (source)
  • Redford ordered his first specimen nine months ago, using another name and a forged license.†   (source)
  • I don't see why we need to stay, Dalrymple," moaned a young tawny specimen with tufty ears.†   (source)
  • I'd like to get hold of a good specimen.†   (source)
  • What a specimen, Hema thought as she studied him.†   (source)
  • Your Nick is the only specimen I've ever actually seen.†   (source)
  • She laid her tools and specimen containers at the head of the table, counting them off one by one.†   (source)
  • Several escaped specimens have been destroyed, and the situation is coming under control.†   (source)
  • You an' Shade Buckheath—you p'ar o' scoundrels—give me back my silver specimens!†   (source)
  • There are a few problems with the actual specimen.†   (source)
  • They did get your specimens; but we can fix all that; there's a worse thing happened now.†   (source)
  • So the Immortal Blossom is a controlled specimen.†   (source)
  • The specimens clattered and rolled on the porch floor.†   (source)
  • A licensed lab, such as this, or a horticulture expert can, with limitations, import a specimen.†   (source)
  • Dr. Engrave has found your specimen highly interesting.†   (source)
  • I've got my specimens in this here bandanner," he explained quaveringly.†   (source)
  • Most of what is known about them comes from a study of average specimens.†   (source)
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