concrete illustration

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A concrete illustration may bring out the philosophy underlying farm schemes better than abstract problems.

From The Young Farmer: Some Things He Should Know by Hunt, Thomas Forsyth

And our series of forms described in the second, third, and fourth chapters is merely a concrete illustration showing how this sequence may have been evolved.

From The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895 by Tyler, John Mason

The theoretical weakness of an arrested offensive received a practical and concrete illustration to a degree that war had scarcely ever known.

From Some Principles of Maritime Strategy by Corbett, Julian S. (Julian Stafford)

One concrete illustration from Bernhardi clearly shows that the sentences above quoted are truly representative of his philosophy, and not unfair excerpts.

From The Evidence in the Case A Discussion of the Moral Responsibility for the War of 1914, as Disclosed by the Diplomatic Records of England, Germany, Russia by Beck, James M. (James Montgomery)

If I were asked for a concrete illustration of self-respect I should say—the Frenchwoman.

From Another Sheaf by Galsworthy, John