SYN: Specimen, pattern, illustration, case, exemplification, scantling.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

He appeared so pleased, I could easily see that Joseph had been able to explain his conduct satisfactorily.
— from Cora and The Doctor; or, Revelations of A Physician's Wife by Madeline Leslie

In some points I consider Ellis somewhat of a theorist: now and then he broaches ideas which strike my sense as much more daring and original than practical; his reason may be in advance of mine, but certainly it often travels a different road.
— from Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle by Clement King Shorter

* $2.50 (1c) Macmillan 330.9 17-13473 Frederic Austin Ogg is associate professor of political science in the University of Wisconsin and author of “Social progress in contemporary Europe,” some chapters of which have been reproduced, with considerable modification, in the present volume.
— from The Book Review Digest, Volume 13, 1917 Thirteenth Annual Cumulation Reviews of 1917 Books by Various

It is significant that a main street in the northern part of Carlisle is called "Scotch Street," while another in the southern part is called "English Street!"
— from Stories of the Scottish Border by William Platt