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a sample regarded as typical of its class; or a bit of tissue, blood, or urine that is taken for diagnostic purposes
- CHAPTER 6 The following conversation, which took place between the two friends in the pump-room one morning, after an acquaintance of eight or nine days, is given as a specimen of their very warm attachment, and of the delicacy, discretion, originality of thought, and literary taste which marked the reasonableness of that attachment.Chapter 6 (2% in)
- The manufacture was much improved since that time; he had seen some beautiful specimens when last in town, and had he not been perfectly without vanity of that kind, might have been tempted to order a new set.Chapter 22 (34% in)
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