Sentence examples for specimen jar from inspiring English sources

Admittedly, the extraordinary began with a specimen jar.

A specimen jar containing chitons from Mexico after receiving its new ethanol solution and labels.

Grad student Erin Meyer fills a specimen jar with an ethanol solution.

"What we have come to think of as me is just a specimen jar," Vivian says bitterly at one point, but of course she is wrong.

Not far from Guildhall, in the forensic museum at Bart's hospital, there are the real feet of just such a girl as the one in the painting, preserved in a specimen jar: she fell asleep in a doorway, and woke up so badly frostbitten that both her feet had to be amputated.

The full horror is made explicit in the painful opening chapter when Rebus, seven days off the fags and screaming inside for one last, lingering smooch with his smoky siren, receives instead a specimen jar containing a diseased lung from his pathologist girlfriend Deborah Quant.

A vanished world re-emerged out of the specimen jars and formaldehyde.

We drown one of the characters and drill his eyes out, and we kill the princes and put their heads in specimen jars".

The lid of Quecksilber's morbid world seemed to be closing over me, stoppering me up like one of these specimen jars.

Darwin writes with shaking hand and sweaty brow, as storms rattle his windows and his specimen jars glow with sinister import.

"It was stared at, feared (and in some cases desired), weighed, interpreted via Scripture, meditated on by zoologists and anthropologists, preserved in specimen jars and most of all calibrated," Mr. Friedman writes.