From high overhead in the blue it came, often so high that the eye could not distinguish its makers; yet alway distinctive, alway hauntingly mysterious.

There used to be, I remember, a somewhat amusingly distinctive character attributed, of course in a general way subject to exceptions, to the different groups of the English rusticating world, according to the selection of their quarters in either of the above three little settlements.

"He is humorous and picturesque," says Fred Lewis Pattee, "and often he is for a moment the master of pathos, but he has added nothing new and nothing commandingly distinctive."

As we have already observed, the grotesque is that which is most obviously distinctive in Hood's writings.

Beyle's mind contained, in a highly exaggerated form, most of the peculiarly distinctive elements of the French character.

On the whole, whereas the plantation system cherished slavery as a wellnigh fundamental condition, town industry could tolerate it only by modifying its features to make labor more flexibly responsive to the sharply distinctive urban needs.

It has its own unique speciality; almost as strikingly distinctive as that of Strasburg or Pisa.