Sentence:  He looked down into Glen Doone first, and sniffed as if he were smelling it, like a <WSD>sample</WSD> of goods from a wholesale house; and then he looked at the hills over yonder, and then he stared at me. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A part or snippet of something taken or presented for inspection, or shown as evidence of the quality of the whole; a specimen.