All 9 Uses of
distinct
in
Heart of Darkness
- It was a distinct glimpse: the dug-out, four paddling savages, and the lone white man turning his back suddenly on the headquarters, on relief, on thoughts of home—perhaps; setting his face towards the depths of the wilderness, towards his empty and desolate station.†
Chpt 2
- Looking past that mad helmsman, who was shaking the empty rifle and yelling at the shore, I saw vague forms of men running bent double, leaping, gliding, distinct, incomplete, evanescent.†
Chpt 2 *
- In a hurried, indistinct voice he began to assure me he had not dared to take these—say, symbols—down.†
Chpt 3
- Dark human shapes could be made out in the distance, flitting indistinctly against the gloomy border of the forest, and near the river two bronze figures, leaning on tall spears, stood in the sunlight under fantastic headdresses of spotted skins, warlike and still in statuesque repose.†
Chpt 3
- The fact is I was completely unnerved by a sheer blank fright, pure abstract terror, unconnected with any distinct shape of physical danger.†
Chpt 3
- He rose, unsteady, long, pale, indistinct, like a vapor exhaled by the earth, and swayed slightly, misty and silent before me; while at my back the fires loomed between the trees, and the murmur of many voices issued from the forest.†
Chpt 3
- The bent gilt legs and backs of the furniture shone in indistinct curves.†
Chpt 3
- She had said, with a deep catch of the breath, 'I have survived;' while my strained ears seemed to hear distinctly, mingled with her tone of despairing regret, the summing-up whisper of his eternal condemnation.†
Chpt 3
- Marlow ceased, and sat apart, indistinct and silent, in the pose of a meditating Buddha.†
Chpt 3
Definition:
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(distinct) clear, easily noticed, and/or identifiable as different or separate