| 单词 | indistinctness |
| 例句 | Emma remained in a state of vexation too; but there was more indistinctness in the causes of her’s, than in his. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z But her indistinctness is also the result of the problem of representing virtual communication onstage. Review: In ‘The Wanderers,’ Two Marriages and a Movie Star 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z In parts of the sky, at times during the day, we could be pardoned for claiming to see a certain hazy quality, a milkiness, an indistinctness. Saturday seemed okay, but what day had the skies of 20 years ago? 2021-09-11T04:00:00Z In its blurry indistinctness, Monday’s sky seemed a visual counterpart of the cloying humidity that often compromises the picturesque possibilities inherent in summer at its best. July 5 seemed a fitting symbol of summer’s start in D.C. region 2021-07-05T04:00:00Z In fact, it was a symbol of indistinctness. Washington region temperatures hit record high, break record low just five days apart 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z French philosopher Jean Luc-Nancy is one in a long line of thinkers that remind us about “the indistinctness between the ‘message’ and the ‘medium.’ How to Invest in Game Based Learning 2013-03-19T16:27:01Z The twilight lay heavy over the whole scene, and the dim indistinctness of the day's old age rendered it impossible to see any distant object. The Gipsy (Vols I & II) A Tale 2012-04-06T02:00:27.227Z Care must be taken that this repetition does not produce "doubling," that is, a blurred appearance of the design, and also that it does not lead to indistinctness of outline. Practical Bookbinding 2012-04-02T02:00:23.047Z A dim, confused appearance; indistinctness of vision; as, to see things with a blur; it was all blur. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z Statues, people, trees, and the long perspectives down the alleys, all mellowed into the shadowy indistinctness of fairy-land. Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe 2012-03-19T02:00:26.650Z With low powers this will not be very troublesome, but great indistinctness results from the use of high magnifying powers. Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies 2012-03-17T02:01:02.630Z The indistinctness is the one interesting feature of the sketch. Transcendentalism in New England A History 2012-02-18T03:00:16.210Z Fragments of hexameter, of great beauty and great indistinctness, rose in his mind. Istar of Babylon A Phantasy 2012-01-31T03:00:15.543Z But he might have been married in his own name; I could not tell, owing to the indistinctness of Mr Skipworth's utterance, only Lurana or those in their immediate neighbourhood could say. Love Among the Lions A Matrimonial Experience 2012-01-25T03:00:36.210Z The indistinctness of Chinese signs has already been fruitful of much controversy among the missionaries themselves. Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume II (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. 2012-01-03T03:00:07.630Z Leibnitz also, in the corresponding part of his work, behaves in a similar manner, only with more confusion and indistinctness. The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) 2011-12-29T03:00:18.017Z How different are the firm outlines of those distant peaks from the hazy indistinctness which usually falls to the lot of the summer tourist! Climbing in The British Isles. Vol. 1 - England 2011-11-14T03:00:21.670Z The sun sank behind the hills—the big tears swelled in his eyes—indistinctness gathered over the shore—he wrung his hands in silence and in bitterness. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX 2011-08-27T02:00:23.817Z Harry's strength was failing now, and the words trailed into indistinctness. The Long Lane's Turning 2011-08-23T02:00:34Z In so doing they warn us that in idealistic pedagogics all particular and definite concepts vanish, and what remains is a vague confused indistinctness of no practical utility to the teacher. The Reform of Education 2011-07-18T02:00:21.207Z The magnifying power of this microscope is prodigious: but the indistinctness of the image, for want of light, is a great imperfection. Conversations on Natural Philosophy, in which the Elements of that Science are Familiarly Explained 2011-07-12T02:00:28.027Z Even Denbigh's indomitable spirit had outworn his physical strength, while the Irishman was found to be affected with partial indistinctness of vision owing to prolonged exposure to the glare of the sun. Rounding up the Raider A Naval Story of the Great War 2011-06-24T02:00:25.163Z I addressed this people, raised above them by a little joinery, separated from them by a row of lamps, whose glancing and vapor threw an indistinctness over every thing before me. Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) 2011-06-22T02:00:23.137Z It is true that at first there seems to be a loss because of the indistinctness that now veils the old lines of demarcation. The Gospel Of Evolution From "The Atheistic Platform", Twelve Lectures 2011-05-31T02:00:36.420Z Dear philosopher, pray take from this proof the boldness or the indistinctness which it has for laymen. The Campaner Thal and Other Writings 2011-04-26T02:00:29.827Z The sunset clouds were just waning into pallor and blue-gray indistinctness, with a lightning-like breadth of gold on the outermost edges, when Mildred stepped out from the dark porch, with Polly hanging on her arm. Heriot's Choice A Tale 2011-04-20T02:00:22.760Z Round him the country brooded in its rest, silence lying on the pale surface of fields, on the black indistinctness of trees. Miss Maitland Private Secretary 2011-03-08T03:00:39.100Z The shadows dance and fade, and outlines blend in fantastic indistinctness. 'O Thou, My Austria!' 2011-03-04T03:01:01.630Z It is no less true than paradoxical, that the perception of these beauties depends on indistinctness of vision. Beauty Illustrated Chiefly by an Analysis and Classificatin of Beauty in Woman 2011-02-28T03:00:32.460Z The women left the room in a little group, their figures merging almost into indistinctness as they passed out of the lighted zone. The Wicked Marquis 2011-02-24T03:01:06.123Z The stricken man made no reply; he could utter but few words and those only with indistinctness and difficulty. Oldfield A Kentucky Tale of the Last Century 2011-02-13T03:00:19.953Z Suddenly it was drowned by droning English words that came floating up from below, smothered to indistinctness. The Three Sapphires 2011-02-07T03:00:24.770Z As time wore on, a dreamy indistinctness seemed to spread itself over the memory of her former life: it appeared little other than a mind-drawn picture. The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II) 2011-02-04T03:00:20.520Z This indistinctness of oblique vision, which might seem a defect, I consider an excellence. Beauty Illustrated Chiefly by an Analysis and Classificatin of Beauty in Woman 2011-02-28T03:00:32.460Z But besides the foreign and prosaic origin of the story, there is great vagueness and indistinctness in the incidents and personages connected with it. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil There was a shadowy indistinctness, as it were, over all; and yet their manner showed a perfect and thorough appreciation of whatever went forward. The Fortunes Of Glencore They who were thus, at a heavy cost, permitted to anticipate the general public, seemed—at least to Cashel's eyes—to fill the house; and so, in the dim indistinctness, they appeared. Roland Cashel Volume II (of II) A dreary indistinctness of what followed even still haunts my mind. Jack Hinton The Guardsman Two trails met and crossed near a sand-buffeted bowlder of lava stone, which was huge, grotesque and forbidding in its bulky indistinctness. The Orphan There was, besides, a kind of fog-like indistinctness in her few and muttered words that made a fitting atmosphere of drowsy uniformity for the sick-room. A Day's Ride A Life's Romance There was just that shadowy indistinctness in the whole that invested it with a kind of romantic interest, and he could weave stories and incidents from those whose figures passed and repassed before him. The Fortunes Of Glencore He will not,—I dare not ask him to call me his relative," said he; "but I can easily throw a hazy indistinctness over our intimacy. Roland Cashel Volume II (of II) In sunshine, both are operated on by refraction, which occasions that chaotic indistinctness so painful for the eye to dwell on long together. The Use of a Box of Colours In a Practical Demonstration on Composition, Light and Shade, and Colour. Nothing on earth can equal in confusion and indistinctness the views of the Italian rustic as regards his religion. A House-Party Don Gesualdo and A Rainy June The dusky indistinctness even added to the terror of the picture, as the white water splashed up on every side, and at times seemed actually to cover the whole party in its scattering foam. Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas Her idealism often loses itself in the misty regions of indistinctness, and borders on mysticism; her kindness degenerates into weakness, her trustfulness into credulity. Anarchism A Criticism and History of the Anarchist Theory Alas! the stronger light of day only served to confirm what the gloomy indistinctness of the preceding evening had partially disclosed, the utter impossibility of escape. Tales from Blackwood, Volume 1 A little indistinctness in the signification of P crept into mediæval text-books, and has tended to confuse modern disputation about the import of Predication. Logic, Inductive and Deductive I could see drops of blood welling from the breast; but the rest of the form of the body seemed to flow vaguely into indistinctness, as if a stream of water were carrying it away. The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II I could hear a voice, too, which even in its indistinctness I recognized as that of the old woman; and once or twice fancied I could detect another, whose accents sounded like pain and suffering. Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas XVI., namely, that it was distinguished from old art eminently by indistinctness, and by its idle omission of details for the sake of general effect. Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) The atmosphere is impregnated with a strong but not ungrateful perfume, and through its vapors objects appear with some indistinctness. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 5 November 1848 Her head was raised, and in the indistinctness I caught that sweet look of hers which besought me, and which I answered without knowing to what question. The Kempton-Wace Letters Such, however, is the nomenclature which is requisite; a nomenclature to which I have recourse, not for the sake of illustrating my subject, but with the view of giving a practical notion of its indistinctness. The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies The fire now barely flickered, throwing from time to time little jets of light upon the sleeping figures around us, and then leaving all in dark indistinctness. Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas As, for defence of his universal indistinctness, my appeal was in the last chapter to universal fact, so, for defence of this special indistinctness, my first appeal is in this chapter to special fact. Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) ‘A hazy semi-circle of indistinctness on each side of the bird is all that is perceptible.’ Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 2, No. 6 December, 1897 The face merged slowly into a general indistinctness until with a shock it all cleared away, and he felt a sharp pain in the back of his neck. The Wilderness Trail The traveller who has been accustomed to deride Turner’s indistinctness of touch, ought to examine carefully the mode of painting the Venice in the distance at the bottom of this picture. The Stones of Venice, Volume III (of 3) It was a magnificent view, and none the less so because the indistinctness of all beyond a limited radius made the huge City seem not only mystical, but absolutely boundless in extent. The Brass Bottle Both these impressions are partially true, and need to be insisted upon, and cleared of their indistinctness, or exaggeration. Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) There was a sense of indistinctness through the mist which was an ally to Chadron. The Rustler of Wind River Our perceptions have the brightness and indistinctness of a trance. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) The fields and copses lay all crisp and bright in the cool moonbeams; and over beyond lay the blue mountains, in a misty indistinctness that was even more ensnaring than their midday beauty. Opportunities In the notes also this view exercises a weakening influence, and, combined with some other similar features, produces a sense of indistinctness. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, September 1879 It is somewhat singular that the indistinctness of treatment which has been so often noticed as characteristic of our present art shows itself always most when there is least apparent reason for it. Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) In the last chapter, we have seen how indistinctness of individual distances becomes necessary in order to express the adaptation of the eye to one or other of them; we have now to � 1. Modern Painters Volume I (of V) But on this indistinctness of conception, itself comparatively valueless and unaffecting, is based the operation of the imaginative faculty with � 4. Modern Painters Volume II (of V) "If I were to say all the words in the language," said Nettie, after a pause, with a breathless indistinctness and haste, "words will not change things if we should break our hearts." The Doctor's Family And all these noises evaporated, as it were, into the vast, light-filled calm, where sounds and things took on outlines of fantastic indistinctness. Mayflower (Flor de mayo) A Tale of the Valencian Seashore In every attempt made to use this ink as a wash, the result was still more disastrous, producing only one dirty mass of indistinctness, amid which the original drawing was scarcely to be traced. A Walk from London to Fulham The peculiar indistinctness dependent on the retirement of objects from the eye. Modern Painters Volume I (of V) Investigation of the cause of that indistinctness of vision which has been ascribed to the smallness of the optic pencil. Sir William Herschel: His Life and Works The indistinctness of the head and of the kingly crown, makes this a sublime image. Practical Education, Volume II Each point of an object will be represented in the image not by a point but by a coloured patch: a fact which amply explains the observed blurring and indistinctness. Pioneers of Science It is no use shutting our eyes and struggling on any longer; for we are ruined—ruined!” her voice sinking into indistinctness. Not Like Other Girls The judges took advantage of the indistinctness, and attempted to draw to themselves supreme authority, not only within Calcutta, but through the whole of the great territory subject to the presidency of Fort William. Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3) The parts of each segment are to represent differences of clearness and indistinctness. Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles Under the flood of silver light which the full moon here pours down, even its forlorn shabbiness is softened into something of romantic indistinctness. Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy It is supposed by many that such types repeated in play after play do not mark the highest original power, but rather poverty of invention, weak and shadowy conception, indistinctness of coloring. The Critics Versus Shakspere A Brief for the Defendant The descent was still progressing and the noise of the machinery still reached her ears, with buzzing, humming, monotonous indistinctness. Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf It was especially necessary to reconcile, or obscure into indistinctness, certain conflicting theories that had more or less currency. Salem Witchcraft and Cotton Mather A Reply Idealization would degenerate into indistinctness, and, by the dulling of our memory, we should dream a world daily more poor and vague. The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory All this he said with great thickness and indistinctness of utterance, but with an immovable gravity of countenance. The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... By this time Susan had joined Virginia on the sidewalk, and the liquid honey of Mrs. Pendleton's voice dropped softly into indistinctness. Virginia In an indistinct place, which was quite sublime in its indistinctness, I was visited by a Spirit. The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete The men gathered round the Rest, the shaky indistinctness inevitable from the previous evening's hilarity adding to the expression of gravity which was upon every face. Colonial Born A tale of the Queensland bush Impressions of its importance have universally continued to appear on the heart of man; but with that varied indistinctness which may, and ought to be remedied, those have been marked. The Ordinance of Covenanting An iron lamp hung from one of the massy arches of the roof; the damp and stagnant vapours lending an awful indistinctness to the objects they surrounded. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 And now the engineer pulled out the throttle-valve to make up for lost time, and the clatter of the train faded into a distant roar and its lights began to twinkle into indistinctness. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science There is no indistinctness about Mayer here; he grasps his subject in all its details, and reduces to figures the concomitants of muscular action. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 A vague indistinctness borne of distance served to modify the outlines and he alone was seeing and understanding. Egocentric Orbit But the hazy indistinctness was gone; the man was acutely conscious of everything around him. No Man's Land She held the boy close to her, and listened while he poured forth his story in sobbing indistinctness. A True Friend A Novel And oh, how splendid the lights of Broadway looked to them, two long rows stretching up and up until lost in indistinctness. A Little Girl in Old New York Slowly and deliberately the figure vanished, through the same stages of indistinctness, back to the globular, lamp-like whiteness, till it faded into nothingness. The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal The object was about one point before the weather beam, and was so far away that the rarefaction of the air imparted to it a wavering indistinctness of aspect that rendered it quite unrecognisable. The Castaways The elevated shores, and the green tops of the trees, were plainly visible; but just at the point where land and water met, there was a kind of hazy indistinctness in the view. The Island Home By the psychic perception, the aura is seen as a luminous cloud—a phosphorescent flame—deep and dense around the centre and then gradually shading into indistinctness toward the edges. The Human Aura Astral Colors and Thought Forms And now the engineer pulled out the throttle-valve to make up for lost time, and the clatter of the train faded into a distant roar, and its lights began to twinkle into indistinctness. Deserted 1898 Indistinct!" he cried, "why, the indistinctness must be in your own eyes. Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North At night the scene is particularly weird and impressive, for the shadows and general indistinctness make everything appear strange. The Western United States A Geographical Reader Upon this occasion the preacher seemed troubled with unusual indistinctness of vision. Hubert's Wife A Story for You His speech, though occasional cadences lapsed into indistinctness in that hall of poor acoustic properties, was in the main easily heard in all parts of the house. In and Around Berlin There is an ordinariness, an indistinctness, a generalization, not even to be found in a flock of sheep. Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection Some of the incidents of which I had read in Peruvian history were strongly mixed up in my mind with the reality, with the indistinctness which generally occurs in dreams. Manco, the Peruvian Chief An Englishman's Adventures in the Country of the Incas Even without taking into consideration the indistinctness that was supposed to characterise the Communiqué, its general contents roused no unanimous approbation. The Swedish-Norwegian Union Crisis A History with Documents In the innumerable swarm of minor characters with which he has enriched our comic literature, there is no indistinctness. Brief History of English and American Literature Again the dream-utterance sank into indistinctness, and I comprehended nothing more. The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 As in the alternative test of year III, we ignore ordinary indistinctness and defects of pronunciation due to imperfect language development, but the sentence must be repeated without addition, omission, or transposition of words. The Measurement of Intelligence An Explanation of and a Complete Guide for the Use of the Stanford Revision and Extension of the Binet-Simon Intelligence Scale The sun set, and shadows began to steal over the sea, gradually and softly wrapping its farther distances in hazy indistinctness. Culm Rock The Story of a Year: What it Brought and What it Taught He only saw the ship, the abode of men, fading into indistinctness, as the darkness threw its veil over it; he only heard the voice in his heart, proclaiming ever and again, "I am free." Evenings at Donaldson Manor Or, The Christmas Guest The vividness with which Homer presents to us the one-eyed Polyphemus, with his tree-staff and his ponderous body, is exchanged by the Scandinavian for smallness, indistinctness of form and of power. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy More to the point would have been the query whether in poetry darkness and indistinctness are synonymous terms. Essays on Scandinavian Literature Ignore indistinctness of articulation and defects of pronunciation as long as they do not mutilate the sentence beyond easy recognition. The Measurement of Intelligence An Explanation of and a Complete Guide for the Use of the Stanford Revision and Extension of the Binet-Simon Intelligence Scale Her voice had trailed away into indistinctness, and he saw her lower lip quivering. Dixie Hart His squat figure and red face suddenly loomed into a gigantic indistinctness in the girl's eyes. The Stowaway Girl As on the one hand, mathematical accuracy, by allowing no play to the imagination, produces a feeble impression, so on the other the indistinctness arising from indefinite expressions is equally unfavorable. The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1 I cannot help thinking that by a certain indistinctness of recollection they attribute to themselves every exploit, not only that they saw, but that their fertile imaginations have ever dreamt to be possible. Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris In some particular cases, the principle may be difficult of application; but in the principle itself, as defined in this passage, there is not the slightest uncertainty or indistinctness. The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy The word came with smothered indistinctness, but its meaning was unmistakable. A Melody in Silver Young house-crows are distinguished from adults by the indistinctness of the grey on the neck. A Bird Calendar for Northern India The globe of the earth seems to sink from beneath the floating figure, which is just sketched upon the canvass, and has a shadowy indistinctness which to my fancy added to its effect. The Diary of an Ennuyée Her necromantic pretensions gave an indistinctness and poignancy to their horror. The House by the Church-Yard The night was a vapourish, miserable one, blurring his figure into indistinctness, and when he spoke his voice was hoarse, as though the damp tendrils of the mist had penetrated to his throat. The Parts Men Play The indistinctness with which people who introduce often pronounce a name is not infrequently the cause of awkwardness. Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada The heat and the swinging motion of the camel produce a slight dizziness, and the outer world assumes a hazy indistinctness of outline—something like dream-landscapes. Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 1 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government By no means; but that, whatever subject they look upon, they always see themselves in the foreground of the picture, with every minute particular swelled into importance, while all besides is merged in indistinctness. The Ladies' Vase Polite Manual for Young Ladies The peculiarities to be noted are the curvature, indistinctness, and false colouring of the image. Half-hours with the Telescope Being a Popular Guide to the Use of the Telescope as a Means of Amusement and Instruction. No training could have corrected the low cockney vulgarity and coarse, ignorant indistinctness and incorrectness of her enunciation. Records of a Girlhood Their language seems difficult to be understood at first; not from any indistinctness or confusion in their words and sounds, but from the various significations they have. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16 A kind of wavering heat bathed the objects extended at our feet, and gave their outlines an indistinctness to be regretted. A Voyage in a Balloon (1852) The starlight, dim and soft, had a sense of silver in its indistinctness. Kenny The indistinctness of the image is partly due to the obliquity of the pencils which form parts of the image, and partly to what is termed spherical aberration. Half-hours with the Telescope Being a Popular Guide to the Use of the Telescope as a Means of Amusement and Instruction. In the glare and glamour of gas-light it is only flash and clouds and indistinctness. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863 In commercial evolution there was the same indistinctness of standards. T. De Witt Talmage As I Knew Him Which is the correct practice—distinctness, or indistinctness of outline—will be differently judged by those who hold different opinions on painting in general. Notes and Queries, Number 65, January 25, 1851 The most common fault is indistinctness—slurring over or leaving out notes. Piano Mastery Talks with Master Pianists and Teachers Other critics have pointed out a similar indistinctness in the human actors, no less than in the landscape features of "Fingal" and "Temora." A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century The latter was veiled, and although the face of the man was exposed, it swam in such a hazy indistinctness that it was impossible to make out the features. The Lost Hunter A Tale of Early Times Phil lay still in his chair, listening intently; the white figures glanced in shadowy indistinctness across the window, only the starry ray from each little brow lighting their dance. Prince Lazybones and Other Stories By Mrs. W. J. Hays The indistinctness of her vision was not due to any defect in her sight. Doctor Claudius, A True Story Under the instructions of this able teacher, he learned to manage his voice, and to overcome the thickness and indistinctness of utterance which previous to this had troubled him so much. Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made Sight-reading before a critical audience is surely a difficult enough task under the most favoring conditions; how much more so from the manuscript, with its excisions and corrections and general indistinctness! Beethoven It is the very vagueness, changefulness, and dreamlike indistinctness of these feelings which cause their charm; they harmonise with the haziness of our beliefs and seem to make our very doubts melodious. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series Considering the blunders and indistinctness of the public speaker, I think they get things wonderfully accurate. Around The Tea-Table There was an indistinctness about the last word; it might have been "your," or "yours." Doctor Claudius, A True Story Mrs. Wappinger, coming forward at that minute with a cup of tea for her, pronounced their names with hurried indistinctness, and left them together. The Inner Shrine The air was amethyst and gold, and the beautiful earth shone through it, ennobled by the large indistinctness, the quiet massing of the evening tones. The Mating of Lydia The fog hung in her hair in drops like rain; it made her grey dress cling close about her straight, fine limbs; it gave its own grandeur and indistinctness to her solitary figure. The Divine Fire For some time previous his mind had been confused, wavering doubtfully between the past and the present, and hovering forward, as it were, at intervals, into the indistinctness of the world to come. Twice Told Tales The power of the contemplative imagination is based on the indistinctness of the image. A Study of Fairy Tales All the bench was in shadow; in the valley below a twilight indistinctness had fallen. The Rim of the Desert He went forward to meet her and asked leave to present Orsino, with that polite indistinctness which leaves to the persons introduced the task of discovering one another's names. Don Orsino Hebbel leaned somewhat upon Norse myths in his reproduction of them, though it was part of his plan to preserve a certain indistinctness and mystery in these undramatic presuppositions. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig Here and there it has some of the indistinctness of hoar antiquity: its fadings away are beautifully characteristic. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 487, April 30, 1831 But this indistinctness in the moral and political line begets indifference. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 329, March, 1843 A twilight indistinctness settled over the valley between. The Rim of the Desert But even a change in the degree of indistinctness causes inversion. The Boy Mechanic: Volume 1 700 Things for Boys to Do The indistinctness of evening intermixed and blurred them; the mask of shadow was over their faces. The Man Who Laughs Here again the indistinctness of the Old Town aids the fine effect of the new buildings. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 487, April 30, 1831 A hard fight took place, rendered still more confused by the darkness, or rather by a faint grey light, which was just beginning to appear, and gave a shadowy indistinctness to surrounding objects. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 329, March, 1843 Much of the confusion of terms and indistinctness of principles, both in Ethnology and Phonology, are due to the combined study of these heterogeneous sciences. Critiques and Addresses Then I mumble off into an indistinctness, whence the nouns "House—warming," "Bobby," "Gold Coast," crop out audibly. Nancy The indistinctness of the opposite wall, which widened from the gate, was astonishing. The Chase of Saint-Castin and Other Stories of the French in the New World The two shrouds soon united, and then there was a minute when the boats could only be seen with indistinctness. The Wing-and-Wing Le Feu-Follet If the lens was imperfect, the faults would be all over the surface, and this would produce simply an indistinctness of the image. Experimental Determination of the Velocity of Light Made at the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis He saw these nearer figures with a fluctuating indistinctness, by lights that came and went, and the remoter ones still less distinctly. The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth There is the indistinctness of fine weather over the chain of low round hills that bound our horizon, giving them a dignity that, on clearer days, they lack. Nancy The world was just beginning to come out of positive shadow into the indistinctness of dawn. The Chase of Saint-Castin and Other Stories of the French in the New World And then home through the white indistinctness in a state of melancholy that became at last so fine as to be almost pleasurable. Love and Mr. Lewisham In the innumerable swarm of minor characters with which he has enriched our comic literature there is no indistinctness. From Chaucer to Tennyson Usually the Forms fade away into indistinctness after 100; sometimes they come to a dead stop. Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development A strong charge passed through the head, gave to Mr. Singer the sensation of a violent but universal blow, and was followed by a transient loss of memory and indistinctness of vision. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 372, May 30, 1829 Here, however, as the system of dictation prevails, the slowness of utterance compensates in a measure for its indistinctness and incorrectness. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861 If there is an indistinctness or distorted images in the dream, you are likely to meet with quick and decided defeat in some enterprise apart from your regular business. Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted, or what's in a dream: a scientific and practical exposition The quotations of Gibbon have likewise been called in question;—I have, in general, been more inclined to admire their exactitude, than to complain of their indistinctness, or incompleteness. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1 It would have lost nearly all its charms in losing that perplexing veil of indistinctness which affords such ample range wherein the doubting imagination may speculate. Intentions With apologies for my remissness or indistinctness, I assured my lady that I accepted it most readily and gratefully. George Silverman's Explanation He had watched hour after hour since first New York had risen out of the blue indistinctness of the landfall. The War in the Air His face was preternaturally pale; so deadly white, indeed, that, through all the glimmering indistinctness of the passageway, Hepzibah could discern his features, as if a light fell on them alone. House of the Seven Gables Just sufficient time had elapsed to enable each storyteller to dress up his tale with a little becoming fiction, and, in the indistinctness of his recollection, to make himself the hero of every exploit. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow The two halted, the nearer to us standing and facing Sunbury, the remoter being a grey indistinctness towards the evening star, away towards Staines. The War of the Worlds In the indistinctness the little red gleam lit up the lower part of her face, and he saw her mouth tremble into a smile. House of Mirth His face was now no more than a white blur in the dusk, but she felt its indistinctness as a veil drawn over aching intensities of expression. The Reef What meaning was couched under this terrible threat, it is difficult to say; but certain it is that its awful indistinctness seemed to produce very little impression on the young sinners addressed. Uncle Tom's Cabin Up the beach by the boathouse a bonfire was burning, raining up sparks into the indistinctness of the dawn. The Island of Doctor Moreau Emma remained in a state of vexation too; but there was more indistinctness in the causes of her's, than in his. Emma How absurd to be resuming the agitation which such an interval had banished into distance and indistinctness! Persuasion It is better to take things on trust, with something of distance and indistinctness. Wylder's Hand "Edmund remarked a sort of indistinctness about the pupil, which he said was not a good sign." The Two Guardians or, Home in This World He articulated with some difficulty, slurring his words to the point of indistinctness at times. The Black Bag But, first and foremost, Pao-yü's excitement was so intense that he spoke with indistinctness. Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books The features of the youth I could not discern: either it was the indistinctness of a dream, or I was not permitted to behold them. The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 1 The indistinctness about her is not that indistinctness which belongs to the sublime, but that which arises from unsteadiness in the painter's hand when he sketched the figure. The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Volume 2 Do not you observe an indistinctness about the pupil, between it and the iris? The Two Guardians or, Home in This World When inculcating the necessity of repentance, he will perceive the indistinctness of apprehension of the difference between the horror of sin merely from dread of impending consequences, and an antipathy to its essential nature. An Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance The man whose voice was coming to them with a certain deep indistinctness from the bay-window was an American—decidedly so. With the Procession The indistinctness of the land began seriously to alarm them, and sea-sickness had actually placed four of their number flat on the deck. Afloat and Ashore A Sea Tale A figure, blurred to indistinctness, appealed in a doorway nearly opposite, stood for a moment looking up at the reddened sky, and came across the street. Lonesome Land That the incidents I am going to relate can be recalled and arranged without indistinctness and confusion? Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker Instead of clearness of thinking, we find an indistinctness which sometimes amounts to the unintelligible. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities Mr. Esmond delivered these words with the most amiable rapidity and indistinctness, running them into one another, and tacking about the room as he spoke. The Virginians Rather, some of them say, the value of their reflection lies in its misty indistinctness. The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years Vanderbank sat now a minute with raised eyes, catching the indistinctness of the other's strange expression. The Awkward Age This is partly the effect of distance, which clarifies and softens sound, just as distance gives indistinctness of outline and ethereal blueness to things that meet the sight. Birds in Town and Village And at last came that night in October whose happenings it is so difficult for a sympathetic historian to drag out of their proper nocturnal indistinctness into the clear, hard light of positive statement. The History of Mr. Polly In the case of such things as are apprehended as objects, indistinctness may take place, viz. in so far as some of their distinguishing attributes are not apprehended. The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 There was a dreamy indistinctness about the outlines of the hills, even in the immediate vicinity, which increased as they receded, until the Blue Mountains in the horizon melted into sky. Tom Cringle's Log This indistinctness of enunciation and the Catholic system of learning by rote instead of permitting the development of individual power to think were as marked even in the colegio, corresponding roughly to our high schools. Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras — Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond Much of what we dread is really due to indistinctness of outline. Pages from a Journal with Other Papers At first the words that came were almost unintelligible, pouring out with rapid indistinctness, then by degrees his voice slowed, and hesitating, interrupted sentences came clearly from his lips. The Sheik We, moreover, must ask the following question: 'Is this indistinctness which you consider an effect of avidyâ put an end to by the rise of true knowledge or not?' The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 Rapidity in speech results in indistinctness, and indistinctness leads invariably to monotony. Book of Etiquette, Volume 2 Indistinctly!—pardon me, sir, but the indistinctness must be in your powers of vision. The Antiquary — Volume 01 You may invest them with as much light or other blessed indistinctness as you please; the beards and the old ages will break through. Stories from the Italian Poets: with Lives of the Writers, Volume 1 This sort of distinction, as a writer nobody is likely to have read, can hardly counteract an indistinctness in my articulation, which the best-intentioned loudness will not remedy. Impressions of Theophrastus Such If it does, there is no room whatever either for indistinctness the effect of avidyâ, or for its cessation. The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 I endeavored to form some arrangement in my mind of the objects I had been contemplating, but found they were already fallen into indistinctness and confusion. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 1 Great Britain and Ireland, part 1 The water was a beautiful light green, like semi-opaque glass, and from the indistinctness of its depths waved and beckoned, rose and disappeared with indescribable grace and deliberation long feathery sea growths. The Mystery His well-known signature, a masterpiece of involved hieroglyphics, was there in all its indistinctness, written as no one but himself could ever have written it. The Gerrard Street Mystery and Other Weird Tales Presently Zene's countenance, and even the cast in his eyes, became a certainty instead of a wavering indistinctness, and he smiled with satisfaction while halting his vehicle at right angles with the carriage. Old Caravan Days I repeat my sincere opinion, that the general indistinctness of the expression was, on principles of taste, an advantage, as harmonizing with the stately and sullen monotony of the Greek tragedy. Note Book of an English Opium-Eater The disadvantages are an inaptitude for scholarly things, a want of the steadiness and clearness of the tone of letters, the need of a great deal of experimenting, a certain thickness and indistinctness of accent. Our Friend John Burroughs He looked at those around him with a dreary indistinctness as from a distance, almost as if he had begun his long journey and was looking back from afar. The Grey Lady With a throbbing roar the engine awoke to life and the propeller spun around, a blur of indistinctness. Air Service Boys in the Big Battle Or, Silencing the Big Guns Compared with the vividness of that one initial Picture, the events of the next few months have only the blurred indistinctness of all childish memories. Recalled to Life While he spoke his form quivered like a smoke, twinkling in misty indistinctness in the blue twilight, and then vanished before their eyes. AE in the Irish Theosophist The worst was when the desolate indistinctness took on the shape of visions or touches. The Prose of Alfred Lichtenstein Berenger looked alarmed, and said with the indistinctness with which he always spoke, 'Have they caught it? The Chaplet of Pearls Her ears heard with indistinctness, and the edges of things and people had a prismatic colouring. The Old Wives' Tale So close is the connection between the thought and its expression that looseness of style in speaking and writing may nearly always be traced to indistinctness and feebleness in the grasp of the subject. Slips of Speech : a Helpful Book for Everyone Who Aspires to Correct the Everyday Errors of Speaking "It's strange that he does not come, Alice, or sister, as I must call you," Helen remarked, in a graver tone, as the shadowy twilight deepened until everything wore a veil of indistinctness. The Lights and Shadows of Real Life Their present coldness might be imputed to the indistinctness of his declarations with respect to what was intended to be the future government. History of the Early Part of the Reign of James the Second The church was in dim twilight; the bride and bridegroom loomed through the haze, and the indistinctness made Clara's fine tall figure appear quite majestic above the heads of the other bridesmaids. Dynevor Terrace: or, the clue of life — Volume 2 In the very indistinctness of their theogony a sublime truth is implied. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers But the beauty of Linked Spheres is its indistinctness. To-morrow? Back of it the serried ranks of the Alleghanies rise in hazy indistinctness and blend imperceptibly with the blue along the far horizon. See America First The graceful foliage melting into indistinctness in the gathering twilight, appeared to her horrible and treacherous. For the Term of His Natural Life While lingering thus, he noticed the reflected image of his own face in the glass—pale and spectre-like in its indistinctness. Desperate Remedies Exception might be taken to the name bestowed upon this whale, on the ground of its indistinctness. Moby Dick, or, the whale Norikura, the Saddle, especially, showed a fine bit of its ten thousand feet, wrapped in the indistinctness of the spring haze. Noto: an Unexplained Corner of Japan Before and below the point where the bridge spans the river, the dim outlines of vessels melt into hazy indistinctness in the gathering twilight. See America First In the glare and glamour of gas-light, it is flash and clouds and indistinctness. Gala-days The judges took advantage of the indistinctness, and attempted to draw to themselves supreme authority, not only within Calcutta. but through the whole of the great territory subject to the Presidency of Fort William. Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 1 As upon a former occasion my conceptions were in a state of the greatest indistinctness and confusion after leaving the mattress. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 3 I endeavored to form some arrangement in my mind of the objects I had been contemplating, but found they were already falling into indistinctness and confusion. The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon But pages and wigs and Grand Masters have almost faded out of the canvas, and are vanishing into Hades with a most melancholy indistinctness. From Cornhill to Grand Cairo Muller's voice trailed off into indistinctness at the last words, and the fire died out of his eyes. The Case of the Lamp That Went Out Yet greater is the indistinctness when they are all jostled together in a little soul, which has no room. Theaetetus To the left, with strange indistinctness, almost like something human struggling to assert itself, came the fitful flash from the light at the entrance to the tidal way. The Vanished Messenger Just sufficient time had elapsed to enable each storyteller to dress up his tale with a little becoming fiction, and in the indistinctness of his recollection to make himself the hero of every exploit. The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon These now lay before him, merging imperceptibly into indistinctness. The Golden Fleece, a romance That there is a degree of confusion and indistinctness in Plato's account both of man and of the universe has been already acknowledged. Timaeus Yet greater is the indistinctness when they are all jolted together in a little soul, which is narrow and has no room. Theaetetus Rumours, indistinct indeed, but perhaps the more alarming by reason of their indistinctness, imputed to the court a deliberate design against all the constitutional rights of Englishmen. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1 For some minutes they flickered to and fro between distinctness and indistinctness, like an object being focused. A Voyage to Arcturus So again, if during the night you gazed at some near-by gas lamp and then glanced into the room, there is only a few moments' indistinctness at most, after that the single candle is enough. Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students Her mind and body both seemed to have floated into another region of quick-sailing clouds rapidly passing across each other and enveloping everything in a vaporous indistinctness. Night and Day She stood quite still, she was just a beautiful outline in the twilight, her face was an indistinctness under the black shadow of her hair, with eyes that were two patches of darkness. The Research Magnificent Sir Leicester, lying in his bed, can speak a little, though with difficulty and indistinctness. Bleak House The features emerged from their indistinctness and became human, and almost powerful. A Voyage to Arcturus |
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