All 15 Uses of

specimen

in

The Portrait of a Lady

Mrs. Touchett was certainly a person of many oddities, of which her behaviour on returning to her husband's house after many months was a noticeable specimen.†
Chpt 3 *

Isabel had spoken to him very often about "specimens;" it was a word that played a considerable part in her vocabulary; she had given him to understand that she wished to see English society illustrated by eminent cases.†
Chpt 7

"Well now, there's a specimen," he said to her as they walked up from the riverside and he recognised Lord Warburton.†
Chpt 7

"He's a favourable specimen then," said Isabel; "because I'm sure he's nice."†
Chpt 7

"I like your specimen English gentleman very much," Isabel said to Ralph after Lord Warburton had gone.†
Chpt 8

There's a great demand just now for the alienated American, and your cousin's a beautiful specimen.†
Chpt 10

It was moreover a seat of ease, indeed of luxury, telling of arrangements subtly studied and refinements frankly proclaimed, and containing a variety of those faded hangings of damask and tapestry, those chests and cabinets of carved and time-polished oak, those angular specimens of pictorial art in frames as pedantically primitive, those perverse-looking relics of medieval brass and pottery, of which Italy has long been the not quite exhausted storehouse.†
Chpt 22

He resembled no one she had ever seen; most of the people she knew might be divided into groups of half a dozen specimens.†
Chpt 24

Her mind contained no class offering a natural place to Mr. Osmond—he was a specimen apart.†
Chpt 24

This fine specimen of that great class seated himself near our young lady, and in the course of five minutes he had asked her several questions, taken rather at random and to which, as he put some of them twice over, he apparently somewhat missed catching the answer; had given her too some information about himself which was not wasted upon her calmer feminine sense.†
Chpt 27

That he esteemed the productions of comparatively frivolous periods would have been apparent from the attention he bestowed upon Madame Merle's drawing-room, which, although furnished with specimens of every style, was especially rich in articles of the last two centuries.†
Chpt 36

He got up as he spoke and walked to the chimney, where he stood a moment bending his eye, as if he had seen them for the first time, on the delicate specimens of rare porcelain with which it was covered.†
Chpt 49

Definition:

(specimen)
an example thought to represent its type; or a bit of tissue, blood, or urine that is taken for diagnostic purposes