In some States the
Specimens are occasionally fed and suffered to exist for several years; but in the more temperate and better regulated regions, it is found in the long run more advantageous for the educational interests of the young, to dispense with food, and to renew the
Specimens every month -- which is about the average duration of the foodless existence of the Criminal class.
A collection of
specimens of English poetry, for the purpose of exhibiting the achievement of prose excellences by it (in their legitimate measure) is a desideratum we commend to Mr.
It should not be forgotten, that at the present day, with perfect
specimens for examination, two forms can seldom be connected by intermediate varieties and thus proved to be the same species, until many
specimens have been collected from many places; and in the case of fossil species this could rarely be effected by palaeontologists.
Professor Bumper found plenty of his own particular kind of "game" which he caught in the net, transferring the
specimens to the boxes he carried.
Did erudite Stubb, mounted upon your capstan, deliver lectures on the anatomy of the Cetacea; and by help of the windlass, hold up a
specimen rib for exhibition?
Every one who has heard you speak has felt, and, I am confident, every one who reads your book will feel, persuaded that you give them a fair
specimen of the whole truth.
The Psychologist leant forward to see, holding out his hand for a
specimen.
All the fireflies, which I caught here, belonged to the Lampyridae (in which family the English glowworm is included), and the greater number of
specimens were of Lampyris occidentalis.
There the nets brought up beautiful
specimens of fish: some with azure fins and tails like gold, the flesh of which is unrivalled; some nearly destitute of scales, but of exquisite flavour; others, with bony jaws, and yellow-tinged gills, as good as bonitos; all fish that would be of use to us.
For this reason I have chosen one of his simpler poems as a
specimen.
They use that moon no more For the same end as before - Videlicet a tent - Which I think extravagant: Its atomies, however, Into a shower dissever, Of which those butterflies, Of Earth, who seek the skies, And so come down again(Never-contented things!) Have brought a
specimen Upon their quivering wings.
"Apart from exaggeration, he is certainly a well-grown
specimen," said the Professor, complacently.
By all the codes which I am acquainted with, I am a devilishly wicked
specimen of the sex.
And who substituted for the ancient gothic altar, splendidly encumbered with shrines and reliquaries, that heavy marble sarcophagus, with angels' heads and clouds, which seems a
specimen pillaged from the Val-de-Grâce or the Invalides?
"Indeed!" said the stranger, looking upon him with the curiosity of a naturalist studying some out-of-the-way
specimen.
