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With specimen pages compiled by Lafayette S. Mercer.

He is a specimen brick from Kansas, and doubtless always carries one in his hat.

It is more suitable as an isolated specimen plant than for the border.

Here is a specimen conversation, taken almost at random from a hundred such in Boswell's incomparable biography.

This and the following are specimen sketches.

The specimen case, by Ernest Bramah.

Here are a few specimen comments: "His great theses are, first, that romantic love is an entirely modern invention; and, secondly, that romantic love and conjugal love are two things essentially different....

But it must be admitted that the great task of opening up the country, of which we hear so much, will never be complete until the Washington skinners and stuffers get us all into the prepared specimen condition.

Egregium specimen dent, saith Erasmus, let them approve themselves worthy first, sufficiently qualified for learning and manners, before they presume or impudently intrude and put themselves on great men as too many do, with such base flattery, parasitical colloguing, such hyperbolical elogies they do usually insinuate that it is a shame to hear and see.

The following is a specimen determination: Column 1 gives the number of the spark or the number of seconds.

The free end of a growing twig is introduced into a limb of its own tree, back of a specimen fruit, thus pushing its development by means of the supplemental feeding so provided.

"My game-bag has nooks for 'Notes, Sketches, and Journeys,' By soldiers and sailors, divines and attorneys, Through landscapes gay, blooming, and briary; And so, as you seem rather pensive to-night, To dispel your blue-devils, I'll briefly recite A specimen-leaf from my diary: "'THE NINTH OF NOVEMBER.

As a young matron of seventeen or eighteen she was evidently a lively, unconventional, opinionated gadabout fond of the company of similar She-romps, who exchanged verses and specimen letters with the lesser celebrities of the literary world and perpetuated the stilted romantic traditions of the Matchless Orinda and her circle.

He sent copies of the specimen number to Mr. Croker and received the following candid reply: Mr. Croker to John Murray.

" "Some of you must dine," says poor mother, rather wearily, "or your father" "He cannot complain if we send our two specimen ones," say I, again looking up, and indicating Barbara and Algy with my weapon, "our sample figs:

net each), which contains biographical and critical articles on all authors, arranged chronologically and furnished very copiously with specimen passages, may be consulted at any library.

That every individual of her acquaintance, male and female, aged and youthful, orthodox and heretical, who sleeps regularly nine hours out of the twenty-four, has his or her own especial specimen recipe of a "perfectly harmless anodyne" to offer, with advice thrown in.

The new doors were to be of the same shape and size as those by Andrea Pisano, which were already getting on for seventy years old, and candidates were invited to make a specimen relief to scale, representing the interrupted sacrifice of Isaac, although the subject-matter of the doors was to be the Life of S. John the Baptist.

Presently Miss Heydinger came out of the specimen room and addressed a remark to the young man.

The questioner being the very woman for whom Sylvia had taken such pains in selecting the bouquet of specimen roses, who proved to be the new wife of a neighbour whom Horace had not met.

Then, again, with reference to the eight specimen scholars, taken from a school of fifty, and who were exhibited, he observes, "they were the same as those who were examined a year ago; nothing is said of the other forty-two.

; money deposited with, 25 seq.; specimen balance sheet of, 35 Bearer securities, 54 Bill-brokers, 37, 38 Bills of exchange, meaning of, 26 seq.; on London, popularity of, 29, 30; uses of, 39, 40 Bonds, description of, 54 Bowley, Dr., on specialization, 156 Brailsford, Mr., on Egypt and finance, 99 Brazil, financial embarrassments of.

Of this there follow three specimen fac-similes, including the figures indicating the Anno Domini at the top of the page from which the words are taken.

' An Emperor penguin was found on the Cape well advanced in moult, a good specimen skin.