But, though these luxuriant, shaggy river-beds were thus distinct from the smooth, treeless plain, they made no heavy dividing lines in general views.

Thenceforth the holdings and the stretchings will be distinct in your mindwill constitute two great families, not one.

It is there, and will stay there, in spite of the ten thousand other things that get piled in on top of it, and some day it will come popping out like a cork, just as good and distinct as new.

The firing soon commenced again, nearer and more distinct than at first, and thicker and faster as the rebel advance encountered the Union pickets.

And now the atmosphere became more distinct to her.

Its grayness makes its strong, bold outlines appear the more distinct against the melting background of the faint blue and white English sky and the shifting sky scenery....

Close one eye, and with the other we soon see either the letters distinctly or the fine threads of the veil, but we cannot see both equally distinct at the same time.

A round red spot formed on each of the cheeks of Mr. Woods as he proceeded, and his voice gathered strength, until its lowest intonations came clear and distinct on every ear.

He began to speak, and his voice fell clear and distinct through the silence.

I was dazzled with the lightning, only my brain was distinct with 'its skeleton of woe,' when I found myself in your father's house.

The murmur of the crowd grew louder, was very distinct for a moment and then died away.

Stephen's reminiscences were at once more distinct and more indistinct,more distinct of his emotions, more indistinct of the incidents.

This day with its trivialities dwindles and vanishes before the teeming hours wherein it learned and felt and suffered;so the circles, which are the tree's memories of its own growth, are more distinct near the centre, where its growth began, than in the outer and later development.

I do not know how, upon a subject which I began with treating half seriously, I should have fallen upon a recital so eminently painful; but this theme of poor relationship is replete with so much matter for tragic as well as comic associations, that it is difficult to keep the account distinct without blending.

These when the clouds distil the rosy shower, Shine out distinct along the watr'y bow; While o'er our heads the dewy vision bends, Delightful melting in the fields beneath.

HERBERT Thy Mother too!scarce had I gained the door, I caught her voice; she threw herself upon me, I felt thy infant brother in her arms; She saw my blasted facea tide of soldiers That instant rushed between us, and I heard Her last death-shriek, distinct among a thousand.

One eye was over the instrument, and bright and distinct before that was the circular field of the microscope, across which a brown diatom was slowly moving.

His black eyes were bright, mysteriously bright, and on his thin hands, folded across his chest, the veins stood out full and prominent; but look where one would on the lithe body, the muscles lay distinct beneath the close-fitting clothes, distinct to emaciation.

As the affections and perceptions of the male (and of the female) sex are thus distinct by creation and consequently by nature, therefore among the statutes given to the sons of Israel this also was ordained, "A woman shall not put on the garment of a man, neither shall a man put on the garment of a woman; because this is an abomination."

When about a fortnight old, however, they generally develop a dark ridge on the belly, and the spots will then begin to show themselves; first about the neck and ears, and afterwards along the back, until at about the sixteenth day the markings are distinct over the body, excepting only the tail, which frequently remains white for a few weeks longer.

The stock came into view, the metal plate on the end very distinct towards the left (1).

The rebels were plainly visible three hundred yards away, their heads distinct above their pits.