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Our visit has fallen in the late autumn, and the gas burns bnghtly in the bronze chandelier, while the fire in the old-fashioned circulating stove, a rare specimen of ancient Flemish design, makes the room look cosy and hospitable. For the moment our friend the lawyer is absent.
Kettell has preserved no specimen, the author of "War, an Heroic Poem"; he publishes by subscription, and threatens to prosecute his patrons for not taking their books. The fine arts, too, were budding into existence.
Never thought you were cut out for an athlete, either, when you were in college." "I rather think that siege with my eyes was the best thing that ever happened to me though it didn't seem much like it at the time. Look at that berry." He held out a fine specimen. "That goes in Class A specials, all right." "How many classes do you have?"
Adam Winthrop must have been a fine specimen of the old English gentleman, with all of native polish which courtly experiences might or might not have given him, and with a simple, high-toned, upright, and neighborly spirit, which made him an apt and a faithful administrator of a great variety of trusts. His old Bible, now in the possession of Mr.
It is said that a thorough-paced naturalist can reconstruct a whole animal from one specimen bone. In like manner, we imagine that, from these few words of dialogue, our expert readers can reconstruct Mr. and Mrs. Follingsbee: he, vulgar, shallow, sharp, keen at a bargain, and utterly without scruples; with a sort of hilarious, animal good nature that was in a state of constant ebullition.
This is further confirmed in some lines vehemently passionate, in a performance of his called Piers Penniless; which to say nothing of the poetry, are a strong picture of rage, and despair, and part of which as they will shew that he was no mean versifier, shall be quoted by way of specimen.
Just as a wife prefers her own husband to every other man, though surely she does not necessarily suppose him to be the most brilliant specimen in existence, so a congregation will generally be found to prefer their own minister, if he is a genuine man, to every other, although surely not always entertaining the hallucination that he is a paragon of ability.
"Suppose we take our butterfly nets on to the heath to-day, and try to find some 'blues. You haven't a really nice specimen, you know. And I think we might find some moths on the trees in the wood, if we look about carefully. It's worth trying, isn't it?" "Oh yes! Do let us! Shall we start now?" agreed Clifford, much mollified.
Both the letter and the petition requested the transmission to Boston of all Bernard's letters, a specimen only of which had now been received.
Waking from his reverie, he found that his letter would be too late for the post, so he deferred it till Monday, and then wrote "Dear Miss Home I enclose you a specimen of the herb Paris, which I promised to procure for you, if I could find one in Barton Wood.
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