All 12 Uses of
distinct
in
The War of the Worlds
- In spite of all that has happened since, I still remember that vigil very distinctly: the black and silent observatory, the shadowed lantern throwing a feeble glow upon the floor in the corner, the steady ticking of the clockwork of the telescope, the little slit in the roof—an oblong profundity with the stardust streaked across it.†
Chpt 1.1
- Suddenly there was a flash of light, and a quantity of luminous greenish smoke came out of the pit in three distinct puffs, which drove up, one after the other, straight into the still air.†
Chpt 1.5
- My dear wife's sweet anxious face peering at me from under the pink lamp shade, the white cloth with its silver and glass table furniture—for in those days even philosophical writers had many little luxuries—the crimson-purple wine in my glass, are photographically distinct.†
Chpt 1.7
- And very faint now, but very distinct through the hot, quiet air, one heard the whirr of a machine-gun that was presently stilled, and an intermittent cracking of rifles.†
Chpt 1.9
- As he talked, things about us came darkly out of the darkness, and the trampled bushes and broken rose trees outside the window grew distinct.†
Chpt 1.11 *
- About eight o'clock a noise of heavy firing was distinctly audible all over the south of London.†
Chpt 1.14
- The two halted, the nearer to us standing and facing Sunbury, the remoter being a grey indistinctness towards the evening star, away towards Staines.†
Chpt 1.15
- For the most part these were staring before them, murmuring indistinct questions, jaded, haggard, unclean.†
Chpt 1.16
- A great bank of dust, white and luminous in the blaze of the sun, made everything within twenty feet of the ground grey and indistinct and was perpetually renewed by the hurrying feet of a dense crowd of horses and of men and women on foot, and by the wheels of vehicles of every description.†
Chpt 1.16
- So much as they could see of the road Londonward between the houses to the right was a tumultuous stream of dirty, hurrying people, pent in between the villas on either side; the black heads, the crowded forms, grew into distinctness as they rushed towards the corner, hurried past, and merged their individuality again in a receding multitude that was swallowed up at last in a cloud of dust.†
Chpt 1.16
- Then I heard quite distinctly a booming exactly like the sound of great guns.†
Chpt 2.3
- Six distinct reports I counted, and after a long interval six again.†
Chpt 2.3
Definition:
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(distinct) clear, easily noticed, and/or identifiable as different or separate