All 16 Uses of
distinct
in
The House of Mirth
- She admired him most of all, perhaps, for being able to convey as distinct a sense of superiority as the richest man she had ever met.†
Chpt 1.6 *
- He had so completely ceased to consider how far this might carry him, that he had a distinct sense of disappointment when she turned on him a face sparkling with derision.†
Chpt 1.6
- In the indistinctness the little red gleam lit up the lower part of her face, and he saw her mouth tremble into a smile.†
Chpt 1.6
- The fact that the remark was in distinctly bad taste did not make it any easier to answer, for Lily was vividly aware that it was not the moment for that drawing up of her slim figure and surprised lifting of the brows by which she usually quelled incipient signs of familiarity.†
Chpt 1.10
- The gist of this strange communication gave Lily a distinct thrill of pleasure.†
Chpt 1.10
- The two measured each other for a moment, but Lily still saw her opponent through a blur of scorn that made all other considerations indistinct.†
Chpt 1.13
- It was annoying that Selden, when he came, should find that particular visitor in possession, but Lily was mistress of the art of ridding herself of superfluous company, and to her present mood Rosedale seemed distinctly negligible.†
Chpt 1.15
- "Miss Bart is not going back to the yacht," she said in a voice of singular distinctness.†
Chpt 2.3
- Then she heard her own name—"to my niece Lily Bart ten thousand dollars—" and after that the lawyer again lost himself in a coil of unintelligible periods, from which the concluding phrase flashed out with startling distinctness: "and the residue of my estate to my dear cousin and name-sake, Grace Julia Stepney."†
Chpt 2.4
- Lily had seen little of Rosedale since her illuminating talk with Mrs. Fisher, but on the two or three occasions when they had met she was conscious of having distinctly advanced in his favour.†
Chpt 2.6
- Chapter 7 The light projected on the situation by Mrs. Fisher had the cheerless distinctness of a winter dawn.†
Chpt 2.7
- To Gerty Farish, keeping watch over her with a tenderer if less discerning eye than Mrs. Fisher's, the results of the struggle were already distinctly visible.†
Chpt 2.8
- For a moment she found a certain amusement in the show, and in her own share of it: the situation had an ease and unconventionality distinctly refreshing after her experience of the irony of conventions.†
Chpt 2.9
- It was pain enough even to think of him, whether she considered him in the distinctness of her waking thoughts, or felt the obsession of his presence through the blur of her tormented nights.†
Chpt 2.10
- The tinge of constraint was beginning to be more distinctly perceptible under the friendly ease of his manner.†
Chpt 2.12
- She struggled faintly against it, feeling that she ought to keep awake on account of the baby; but even this feeling was gradually lost in an indistinct sense of drowsy peace, through which, of a sudden, a dark flash of loneliness and terror tore its way.†
Chpt 2.13
Definition:
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(distinct) clear, easily noticed, and/or identifiable as different or separate