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- I think now he was like a specimen preserved in a bottle.†
p. 3.3specimen = an example regarded as typical of its class
- If what he saw troubled him, he never spoke of it, would simply return to gathering specimens or making calculations.†
p. 44.4specimens = examples regarded as typical of their class
- I opened a burlap sack filled with oversized plant specimens and drew out two fistfuls of stringy palm leaves.†
p. 53.3
- Father is renowned for his specimen collection, most of which he donates to Montagu House.†
p. 76.1specimen = an example regarded as typical of its class
- Transports the apparatuses, collects specimens, keeps us from walking into the northern wastes and never coming out.†
p. 188.4specimens = examples regarded as typical of their class
- One day I sat sketching a specimen.†
p. 192.7specimen = an example regarded as typical of its class
- The image seemed less a drawing than a haunting, a vision of the specimen's afterlife, set down in a ghostly lustre of ink.†
p. 192.9
- I am collecting specimens.†
p. 234.9specimens = examples regarded as typical of their class
- "My father, you see," said Tanna flatly, speaking for the first time that day, "is collecting New World specimens for a small exhibition in London."†
p. 240.3
- There are a few specimens of which we are still in need.†
p. 245.4
- The man had also told them of a recent wreckage in the shallows where Goff might find the specimens he desired.†
p. 246.4
- She was wondrous and brilliantly vivid, and when I thought of Goff killing her to crate up as a specimen for his exhibition, a twist of nausea went through me.†
p. 250.4specimen = an example regarded as typical of its class
- I entered the dark dining room to discover that even here was an explosion of papers and pickling jars and specimen cases.†
p. 253.2
- It is one thing to organize a temporary exhibition of dead specimens, and quite another to nurture living organisms over a period of years.†
p. 257.2specimens = examples regarded as typical of their class
- I set the cask down with a click and, without even fastening my waistcoat, went out to the shores to dredge specimens.†
p. 259.6
- In this way my new specimens survived a long while.†
p. 260.1
- If these are not temptations enough, think of the specimens.†
p. 284.9
- We started to talk more and to joke again as we cared for the live specimens, and soon we were often together, changing and aerating the water, feeding our creatures.†
p. 291.1
- We began to go almost daily into the city together, to inspect new specimens or pieces of equipment.†
p. 323.3 *
- Some months ago Mister Visser wrote with news of a specimen he thought perfect for Ocean House but did not entrust to the post.†
p. 323.8specimen = an example regarded as typical of its class
- Amsterdam was a city we had heard much spoken of for its unusual aquatic specimens.†
p. 338.1specimens = examples regarded as typical of their class
- And so Goff granted her permission to go to the countryside, and I promised to bring him back from Amsterdam the specimen of the two-headed cetacean, if indeed it existed.†
p. 338.7specimen = an example regarded as typical of its class
- He had already laid out the specimen.†
p. 339.2
- In the corner, the two-headed specimen sat hidden in its case.†
p. 348.3
- We returned together to England with our specimen, and it was never a question that I would again be leaving.†
p. 353.1
- I saw my hand in everything—in the size and material of the tanks, in the choice of animal specimens, even in the arrangement of the aquatic plants.†
p. 354.9specimens = examples regarded as typical of their class
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)