All 13 Uses of
distinct
in
The Time Machine
- One of the candles on the mantel was blown out, and the little machine suddenly swung round, became indistinct, was seen as a ghost for a second perhaps, as an eddy of faintly glittering brass and ivory; and it was gone—vanished!†
Chpt 1
- A colossal figure, carved apparently in some white stone, loomed indistinctly beyond the rhododendrons through the hazy downpour.†
Chpt 3 *
- As the columns of hail grew thinner, I saw the white figure more distinctly.†
Chpt 3
- The great buildings about me stood out clear and distinct, shining with the wet of the thunderstorm, and picked out in white by the unmelted hailstones piled along their courses.†
Chpt 3
- Then my eye travelled along to the figure of the White Sphinx upon the pedestal of bronze, growing distinct as the light of the rising moon grew brighter.†
Chpt 5
- The dawn was still indistinct, you must understand.†
Chpt 5
- But, as I say, it went too fast for me to see distinctly.†
Chpt 5
- But, gradually, the truth dawned on me: that Man had not remained one species, but had differentiated into two distinct animals: that my graceful children of the Upper-world were not the sole descendants of our generation, but that this bleached, obscene, nocturnal Thing, which had flashed before me, was also heir to all the ages.†
Chpt 5
- It was all very indistinct: the heavy smell, the big unmeaning shapes, the obscene figures lurking in the shadows, and only waiting for the darkness to come at me again!†
Chpt 6
- The pattering grew more distinct, and then I caught the same queer sound and voices I had heard in the Under-world.†
Chpt 9
- But I was still on the same beach, and I saw them distinctly now as soon as I stopped.†
Chpt 11
- I seemed to see a ghostly, indistinct figure sitting in a whirling mass of black and brass for a moment—a figure so transparent that the bench behind with its sheets of drawings was absolutely distinct; but this phantasm vanished as I rubbed my eyes.†
Chpt 12
- I seemed to see a ghostly, indistinct figure sitting in a whirling mass of black and brass for a moment—a figure so transparent that the bench behind with its sheets of drawings was absolutely distinct; but this phantasm vanished as I rubbed my eyes.†
Chpt 12
Definition:
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(distinct) clear, easily noticed, and/or identifiable as different or separate