Sentence examples for extant specimens from inspiring English sources
The few extant specimens from that early period are in the manner of contemporary Italian maiolica.
Earlier extant specimens of the plasterers' skill in England are the pargeted and ornamented fronts of half-timbered houses.
Although a glassblowers' guild existed in Venice from 1224, the earliest extant specimens that can be dated with certainty are from the mid-15th century.
Pāli poems, with their new metres (often based on a musical phrase), stylistic features, figures of speech, and choice diction, foreshadow classical kāvya literature in Sanskrit, whose extant specimens date from a later period.
By and large, it seems possible to divide the extant specimens into two subcategories: Plato pastiche and Lucian pastiche.
In 1985, David Wetherbee suggested that extant specimens of the Cuban macaw had come from both Cuba and Hispaniola, based on his interpretation of an 1888 report.
Mr. Kallberg, Mr. Bellman said, is simply "the man" when it comes to Chopin manuscripts, having studied nearly every extant specimen hands-on.
The stone inscription is the oldest form of Burmese literature; the date of the earliest extant specimen is 1113.
They are also related to "mirror black" (wujin), a lustrous colour obtained by the addition of manganese, and sometimes decorated with gilding or even, as in at least one extant specimen, with both gilding and silvering.
Its immediate sequel will offer a census of all known copies (the first attempted since Sir Sidney Lee's in 1902, and a good deal more ambitious in scope), and, as the definitive source of information about the condition, provenance, binding and whereabouts of each extant specimen of F1, it will presumably be seized on at once as the bible of the up-market contract book thief.
But Aristophanes belongs to the end of this phase, and, indeed, his last extant play, which has no choric element at all, may well be regarded as the only extant specimen of the short-lived Middle Comedy, which, before the end of the 4th century bce, was to be superseded in turn by the milder and more-realistic social satire of the New Comedy.
