The room was dark, I could distinguish nothing; that I had attempted to do myself some injury, I took for granted, or my arms would not have been secured.
We resumed our oars, pulling with the greatest caution; the night was intensely dark, and we could distinguish nothing.
I looked him earnestly in the face--the nose was exact, and I imagined that even in the other features I could distinguish a resemblance.
It was a dark cloudy night, and when I first went out, I was obliged to grope, for I could distinguish nothing.
Among them I could distinguish a few French faces, with here and there a woman of the lower orders, ill clad and coarse of speech.
We could distinguish gangs of slaves toiling in the fields, and a group of warriors, their spears glistening, clustered together before the gloomy altar-house.
I could distinguish, upon the terrace of the temple, the whitish dresses of the captives.
On its most distant border, along the base of the snowy mountains, we thought we could distinguish a black line, like that of timber, and for this point we directed our march.
A light was brought, and I could distinguish a number of men in hunting-shirts moving to-and-fro with violent gesticulations.
I could distinguish in his bold features all the marks of one of those vigorous natures which a kind of predestination seems to push forward for the rude trials of a military life.
I then raised my head to seek for the place from which the shot had been fired, but the fog lay so thick on the heights that I could distinguish nothing.
Drawing breath, I was amazed to find that my head was above water, although the wild roar of the flood was deafening, and in the total darkness I could distinguish nothing.
So dense was this mist hanging over the trackless, pestilential bog that I could distinguish nothing a leopard's leap distant, and my gandoura was as soaked with moisture as if I had waded a river.
In the almost impenetrable darkness I could distinguish nothing, but when I heard the footsteps of my captors receding, my heart sank within me.
At first glance I could distinguish no sign of the boatman left in charge, but, even as I lay there, breathless and uncertain, he suddenly revealed his presence by lighting a lantern in the stern.
Out dar am de Beaucaire place," he announced, as soon as he could distinguish my presence, waving his arm to indicate the direction.
From where we stood we could distinguish no means of approach to the impregnable fortress, but on coming at last to the base of the rock we found a long flight of narrow steps mounting zig-zag up its dark, moss-grown face.
I could distinguish a knot of men close to the water's edge.
Retaining its hold on the rocks with a pair of its arms, the hideous brute began to increase its grasp on my leg, while at the union of the slimy tentacles I could distinguish a pair of small, protruding eyes and a formidable beak.
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