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Far from the Madding Crowd
- And from a quiet modesty that would have become a vestal, which seemed continually to impress upon him that he had no great claim on the world's room, Oak walked unassumingly and with a faintly perceptible bend, yet distinct from a bowing of the shoulders.†
Chpt 1-3
- Between this half-wooded half-naked hill, and the vague still horizon that its summit indistinctly commanded, was a mysterious sheet of fathomless shade—the sounds from which suggested that what it concealed bore some reduced resemblance to features here.†
Chpt 1-3
- Had Gabriel been able from the first to get a distinct view of her countenance, his estimate of it as very handsome or slightly so would have been as his soul required a divinity at the moment or was ready supplied with one.†
Chpt 1-3
- "It is mine," said she, and, from a sense of proportion, kept down to a small smile an inclination to laugh distinctly: "it flew away last night."†
Chpt 1-3 *
- Oak," she said, with luminous distinctness and common sense, "you are better off than I. I have hardly a penny in the world—I am staying with my aunt for my bare sustenance.†
Chpt 4-6
- The blaze, enlarging in a double ratio by his approach and its own increase, showed him as he drew nearer the outlines of ricks beside it, lighted up to great distinctness.†
Chpt 4-6
- The question was such a profound one that Henery was obliged to drink there and then from the large cup till the bottom was distinctly visible inside.†
Chpt 7-9
- …By daylight, the bower of Oak's new-found mistress, Bathsheba Everdene, presented itself as a hoary building, of the early stage of Classic Renaissance as regards its architecture, and of a proportion which told at a glance that, as is so frequently the case, it had once been the memorial hall upon a small estate around it, now altogether effaced as a distinct property, and merged in the vast tract of a non-resident landlord, which comprised several such modest demesnes.†
Chpt 7-9
- The whole string of trailing individuals advanced in the completest balance of intention, like the remarkable creatures known as Chain Salpae, which, distinctly organized in other respects, have one will common to a whole family.†
Chpt 7-9
- The indistinct summit of the facade was notched and pronged by chimneys here and there, and upon its face were faintly signified the oblong shapes of windows, though only in the upper part.†
Chpt 10-12
- An expostulation followed, but it was indistinct; and it became lost amid a low peal of laughter, which was hardly distinguishable from the gurgle of the tiny whirlpools outside.†
Chpt 10-12
- He was a gentlemanly man, with full and distinctly outlined Roman features, the prominences of which glowed in the sun with a bronze-like richness of tone.†
Chpt 10-12
- Every turn, look, word, and accent contained a mystery quite distinct from its obvious import, and not one had ever been pondered by him until now.†
Chpt 16-18
- It was a moment when a woman's eyes and tongue tell distinctly opposite tales.†
Chpt 19-21
- His readings of her seemed now to be vapoury and indistinct.†
Chpt 22-24
- Bathsheba's form, still in its original position, was now again distinct between their eyes and the light, which revealed that Boldwood had gone inside the room, and was sitting near her.†
Chpt 22-24
- "But remember this distinctly, I don't promise yet."†
Chpt 22-24
- CHAPTER XXIX PARTICULARS OF A TWILIGHT WALK We now see the element of folly distinctly mingling with the many varying particulars which made up the character of Bathsheba Everdene.†
Chpt 28-30
- Had her utmost thoughts in this direction been distinctly worded (and by herself they never were), they would only have amounted to such a matter as that she felt her impulses to be pleasanter guides than her discretion.†
Chpt 28-30
- But I have given him no distinct answer.†
Chpt 28-30
- She said more distinctly, "Will you leave me alone now?†
Chpt 28-30
- It is only fair to Bathsheba to explain here a little fact which did not come to light till a long time afterwards: that Troy's presentation of himself so aptly at the roadside this evening was not by any distinctly preconcerted arrangement.†
Chpt 28-30
- The air was so empty of other sounds that the whirr of the clock-work immediately before the strokes was distinct, and so was also the click of the same at their close.†
Chpt 31-33
- Distinct upon the stagnant air came the sounds of a trotting horse passing up Longpuddle Lane—just beyond the gipsies' encampment in Weatherbury Bottom.†
Chpt 31-33
- As Oak approached the building the sound of violins and a tambourine, and the regular jigging of many feet, grew more distinct.†
Chpt 34-36
- But two distinct translations attached to these dumb expressions.†
Chpt 34-36
- In the midst of these shone red and distinct the figure of Sergeant Troy, leaning back in a chair.†
Chpt 34-36
- Every hedge, bush, and tree was distinct as in a line engraving.†
Chpt 37-39
- There was then a silence everywhere for four or five minutes, and the crunch of the spars, as Gabriel hastily drove them in, could again be distinctly heard.†
Chpt 37-39
- Bathsheba said nothing; but he could distinctly hear her rhythmical pants, and the recurrent rustle of the sheaf beside her in response to her frightened pulsations.†
Chpt 37-39
- Her steps became feebler, and she strained her eyes to look afar upon the naked road, now indistinct amid the penumbrae of night.†
Chpt 40-42
- A startling quiet overhung all surrounding things—so completely, that the crunching of the waggon-wheels was as a great noise, and small rustles, which had never obtained a hearing except by night, were distinctly individualized.†
Chpt 40-42
- Joseph Poorgrass looked round upon his sad burden as it loomed faintly through the flowering laurustinus, then at the unfathomable gloom amid the high trees on each hand, indistinct, shadowless, and spectre-like in their monochrome of grey.†
Chpt 40-42
- Travellers—for the variety tourist had hardly developed into a distinct species at this date—sometimes said in passing, when they cast their eyes up to the sign-bearing tree, that artists were fond of representing the signboard hanging thus, but that they themselves had never before noticed so perfect an instance in actual working order.†
Chpt 40-42
- Coggan looked up indefinitely at Oak, one or other of his eyes occasionally opening and closing of its own accord, as if it were not a member, but a dozy individual with a distinct personality.†
Chpt 40-42
- Gabriel, seeing that neither of the three was in a fit state to take charge of the waggon for the remainder of the journey, made no reply, but, closing the door again upon them, went across to where the vehicle stood, now getting indistinct in the fog and gloom of this mildewy time.†
Chpt 40-42
- The candle was standing on a bureau close by them, and the light slanted down, distinctly enkindling the cold features of both mother and babe.†
Chpt 43-45
- Up against this dark background the west front of the church tower—the only part of the edifice visible from the farm-house windows—rose distinct and lustrous, the vane upon the summit bristling with rays.†
Chpt 43-45
- Weatherbury tower was a somewhat early instance of the use of an ornamental parapet in parish as distinct from cathedral churches, and the gurgoyles, which are the necessary correlatives of a parapet, were exceptionally prominent—of the boldest cut that the hand could shape, and of the most original design that a human brain could conceive.†
Chpt 46-48
- From the position of the setting sun his white form was distinctly visible upon the now deep-hued bosom of the sea to the east of the boat, and the men saw him at once.†
Chpt 46-48
- The cluck of their oars was the only sound of any distinctness upon the sea, and as they laboured amid the thickening shades the lamp-lights grew larger, each appearing to send a flaming sword deep down into the waves before it, until there arose, among other dim shapes of the kind, the form of the vessel for which they were bound.†
Chpt 46-48
- Bathsheba's ears were keen as those of any wild animal, and she distinctly heard what the speaker said, though her back was towards him.†
Chpt 46-48
- When I want a broad-minded opinion for general enlightenment, distinct from special advice, I never go to a man who deals in the subject professionally.†
Chpt 49-51
- He said this to himself, and they all distinctly heard it.†
Chpt 52-54
- The little attenuated voices of the children brought to her ear in distinct utterance the words they sang without thought or comprehension— Lead, kindly Light, amid the encircling gloom, Lead Thou me on.†
Chpt 55-57
Definition:
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(distinct) clear, easily noticed, and/or identifiable as different or separate