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Example sentences for "good specimen"

  • I need not say that a good specimen is a beautiful little creature and a charming pet for a lady, and very smart and showy.

  • There is no trace of soldering; and we may be sure that we possess in this figure a good specimen of those hammer-wrought sculptures of old which were spoken of by the Greeks themselves as belonging to a fabulous period.

  • A good specimen of the costume of a female of the higher classes is here given, from an effigy of a lady of the Ryther family, in Ryther church, Yorkshire, engraved in Hollis's Monumental Effigies.

  • A good specimen of this class is that at Cussi, near Beaune, in France.

  • It is a good specimen of the fortified Border churches.

  • One of its dwellings furnishes a good specimen of the mode of cottage-building formerly prevalent in the North.

  • The keep of the castle is a good specimen of the Norman donjon, though some parts of it have been modernized.

  • There was but one man in the only house here, and him I shall always remember as a good specimen of a California ranger.

  • When we were called aft to be divided into watches, I had a good specimen of the manner of a sea captain.

  • It is an abundant bloomer, and a good specimen is a glorious object during the autumn.

  • At this stage a good specimen clump is very attractive, and is only more so when the fine blooms first open.

  • The habit is exceedingly neat, and, when in flower, a good specimen is a pleasing object; it is only a few inches high, but spreads quickly.

  • In the churchyard of Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, is a good specimen of a typographical epitaph, placed in remembrance of a noted printer, who died in the year 1818.

  • Would not 'rare Ben' himself have acknowledged this a good specimen of 'what verse can say in a little?

  • When we were called aft to be divided into watches, I had a good specimen of the manner of a sea-captain.

  • It is a good specimen of the ancient black-and-white timbered house, though the carved work on the front has been considerably defaced.

  • It is a good specimen of brick architecture, with mouldings and niches upon the surface and battlements at the top.

  • On the other side is the "Gate of Honor," a good specimen of the Renaissance.

  • Ivan's household was a good specimen of the Russian peasant family of the old type.

  • When I say that the rural Commune is a good specimen of Constitutional government, I use the phrase in the English, and not in the Continental sense.

  • He was a good specimen of the Andalusian braggart.

  • The posada where I had put up was a good specimen of the old Spanish inn, being much the same as those described in the time of Philip the Third or Fourth.

  • He was a short, merry-faced, active fellow, whom I had frequently seen at Madrid, and was a good specimen of the Spanish labrador or yeoman.

  • The plain hat, ruff, and open-breasted gown are a good specimen of part of the dress of a country lady at the end of Elizabeth's reign.

  • A good specimen of the new costume is given in Fig.

  • St. Bartholomew's Church, Smithfield, is a good specimen of Norman work.

  • A good specimen of the fashion in the hoop petticoat, from a curious print called the "Review," published about 1740.

  • A good specimen, illustrated in figure 156, is of steatite, from Sevier county, Tennessee.

  • A good specimen of this class (figure 120) is of magnetite, from Caldwell county, North Carolina.

  • There is a good specimen of such a bracket at Pilton Church, in North Devon (Fig.

  • The following is a good specimen of ready Scotch humorous reply, by a master to his discontented workman, and in which he turned the tables upon him, in his reference to Scripture.

  • I should suppose this account of a family fool was a fair representation of a good specimen of the class.

  • Any of my readers who are not much conversant with Aberdeen dialect will find the following a good specimen:--A lady who resided in Aberdeen, being on a visit to some friends in the country, joined an excursion on horseback.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "good specimen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    good account; good bread; good counsel; good dame; good dish; good disposition; good distance; good evidence; good glass; good instance; good intention; good knowledge; good lookin; good man; good men; good order; good place; good profit; good right; good round; good seed; good sign; good store; good terms; good uncle; good youth