Upon a staff there erected hung ribbons distinctive of the ship and serving at the same time to show the direction of the wind.

Those which we now offer to the reader, are distinctive in many of their leading facts, if not rigidly true in the details.

These features are distinctive as between most sheep and most goats, but the Barbary wild sheep (Ovis tragelaphus) has no suborbital gland or pit, a goat-like peculiarity which it shares with the Himalayan bharal (Ovis nahura), in which the horns resemble closely those of a goat from the eastern Caucasus called tur (Capra cylindricornis), which for its part has the horns somewhat sheep-like and a very small beard.

For there is, too, something distinctive about their mentality which has been as often portrayed as those of the pathologic giant.

Then another new-comer, as distinctive from the average settler as Jack was, diverted talk into another channel, without, however, reconciling the people to their loss.

" At length he stopped before a small mound of earth not in any way distinctive at a short distance on the uneven surface of the plateau.

All the historians until recently have placed this grant in the year 1517 and have called it a contract (asiento); but Georges Scelle has now discovered and printed the document itself which bears the date August 18, 1518, and is clearly a license of grace bearing none of the distinctive asiento features.

The dwellers in this region have a character no less distinctive than that of the Plains themselves.

She gave him a few descriptive touches that made the house suddenly real and distinctive to him.

Quite apart from this, too, Oriel (FISHER UNWIN) is after an unassuming fashion one of the most easily and happily read and, one would say, happily written books that has appeared for many a long day, with humour that is Irish without being too broadly of the brogue, and with people who are distinctive without ever becoming unnatural.