All 12 Uses
specimen
in
The Power and the Glory, by Cooke
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- Not often in her eighteen summers had she found so fine a specimen.†
Chpt 2specimen = an example regarded as typical of its class
- I'd like to get hold of a good specimen.†
Chpt 5
- She's rather an extraordinary specimen.†
Chpt 6
- She was glad they were such fine specimens—all perfect.†
Chpt 7 *specimens = examples regarded as typical of their class
- I've got my specimens in this here bandanner," he explained quaveringly.†
Chpt 12
- But the ore specimens, they're right here in the bandanner, and I aimed to give 'em to Johnnie—to put 'em right in her lap—the best gal that ever was—and say to her, 'Here's your silver mine, honey, that your good-for-nothin' old uncle found for ye; now you can live like a lady!'†
Chpt 12
- The specimens clattered and rolled on the porch floor.†
Chpt 12
- We'll keep the old fool out of the knowin' of it, and find whar the mine is at, and we'll—" The two men squatted on the floor, tallying over the specimens they had already collected, and looking about them for more.†
Chpt 12
- Whirling upon his adversary, he grappled him in his long arms, hugging like a grizzly, and shouting: "You, Gid Himes, wha'r's my specimens?"†
Chpt 22
- You an' Shade Buckheath—you p'ar o' scoundrels—give me back my silver specimens!†
Chpt 22
- They did get your specimens; but we can fix all that; there's a worse thing happened now.†
Chpt 23
- Hit was August—but—O-o-h, hot enough to fry eggs on a shingle, the day I tramped down to Cottonville with them specimens; and here it is"—he threw up his head and took a comprehensive survey of the grove about him—"airly spring—March, I should say—ain't it, Johnnie?†
Chpt 23
Definitions:
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(1)
(specimen) an example thought to represent its type; or a bit of tissue, blood, or urine that is taken for diagnostic purposes
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)