Ardent collectors scour gun shows, newspaper classified advertising, and the Internet searching for choice specimens.

Therefore University Genetics is trying to take choice specimens of its lean cattle and make genetic copies as fast as possible.

Unfortunately for them he recorded some choice specimens of Round Table humor, which, he noted sourly, seemed devoted to awful near-puns.

He was alerted to choice specimens: the Daliesque clock at Trenton's fire museum (bottom row, left).

After I had got my hands full Joe made me a paper bag, which I pinned to my lapel and filled with choice specimens.

I'll wait until you seem to be bored, then look over the crop and pick out choice specimens for you.

But they're all choice specimens in a freak show as amusing as it is morally repugnant.

He did persuade them to bring girl- friends for me; but I found them weak sisters, pale and ineffectual alongside the choice specimens he had.

This choice specimen was assigned to wait outside, and was quick enough to seize his chance when it came.

This is a choice specimen of Beltway thinking.