Sentence examples for splendid specimen from inspiring English sources

His teammates' job is to hold their heads in horror: oh cruel fate, striking down this splendid specimen in his prime.

"I, sirs, am a splendid specimen!" One will notice that the woman wipes her hand on her slacks because the mere thought of his lips touching her makes the flesh creep.

But make no mistake, Crystal is a splendid specimen that simply could not be built nowadays.

The Arkansas Gazette referred to the structure as "A splendid specimen of masonry".

While the men were cooking their rice, we sat before the tent enjoying our chocolate and observing one of our followers carrying water in a splendid specimen of the Nepenthes Rajah, desired him to bring it to us, and found that it held exactly four pint bottles.

She's one of the world's best known goat experts, and she pronounced the Mineola goats splendid specimens.

Broad boulevards were lined with splendid specimens of French belle époque architecture that evoked the Champs-Élysées, and tree-lined streets were buzzing with late-night cafes and oak-and-brass bars.

These two, though, bottled it: "Woody and I took a look at the rather challengingly splendid specimens on the table before us, considered for a moment the slightly more modest scale of our own endowments, and said, 'Hmmm.

Brendan Mullane, the new creative director at Brioni, thinks so, because he put the most splendid specimens of the company's sartorial style into glass cases at a grand Milanese palazzo.

Later Bishop Trollope described him as a "splendid old specimen of the army doctor". Sir Nicholas-Roderick O'Conor, British legation secretary In Peking (1885-86), minister plenipotentiary to China and Korea (1892-95).

However, the cast is full of splendid physical specimens and is soon going to lose about six of its male skaters, in addition to one who has already joined the Canadian Air Force.