1 Their arms had slipped apart and they stood motionless, each seeking to distinguish the other's face.
2 She braced her shoulders and went down among them, straining her eyes among the upright figures to distinguish Dr. Meade.
3 She could distinguish nothing but a volume of sound that rose and fell.
4 And she sometimes wondered if he'd ever learn to distinguish between planking and sills.
5 For a long time Mammy strained her sharp ears but she could distinguish nothing except the clatter of silver on china, and the muffled soft tones of Melanie's voice.
6 It was not, after all, opportunity but imagination that he lacked: he had a mental palate which would never learn to distinguish between railway tea and nectar.
7 Only when she was in the motor car did she distinguish the three people who were to accompany them.
8 She could not distinguish their eyes.
9 would be impossible to distinguish among the actors when all gave such fine account of themselves in difficult roles of this well-known New York stage play.
10 When they were most eager about soviets or canoeing, she listened, longed to have some special learning which would distinguish her, and sighed that her adventure had come so late.
11 At any rate, the popular name for him does not sufficiently distinguish him, since the sperm whale also has a hump though a smaller one.
12 The name is of my own bestowal; for there are more than one sort of porpoises, and something must be done to distinguish them.
13 And thereby whalemen distinguish this fish from other tribes of his genus.
14 The main building was called "the house," to distinguish it from the cottages.
15 Heyward could distinguish the impatient gesture of the scout, through the increasing shadows of the evening, and he moved in his footsteps, swiftly, toward the place where he had left the remainder of the party.