My friend the humourist again," he said softly; and then he pricked up his ears, for in some back premises he could distinctly hear a very clear, sweet girlish voice.
And then, the next moment, a man's shadow was distinctly visible.
Then I distinctly heard the same heavy steps and the same creaking of the stairs that I had heard before I went to sleep.
I distinctly heard a woman's light laugh behind the shutter of the window at which the giver of the flowers had appeared to me.
It was a liquid, and that liquid, the colour of which could now be distinctly seen by the candlelight, was blood!
I could distinctlysee under me a white burnous with a large red patch on it, and I should fall on it, head or tail.
Then all the torches were simultaneously extinguished, and I remained in darkness in the midst of such a profound silence that I coulddistinctly hear my own heart beat.
And as life awakens and reality enters, either the grace or the sentiment or the passion of unworldliness is more and more distinctly present.
And the great advantage of this kind of remedy is that it is so distinctly an academical remedy.
He bent his head and shoulders over a chair, and distinctly felt the coin drop towards the glottis; whilst raising himself a violent fit of coughing came on, which ceased after a few minutes.
On leaving England, he strongly urged the Directors on no account to fail to make a strict contract, distinctly defining the work to be done, and the manner of its execution, as provided for by the specifications he had drawn out.
The experiments made with the experimental cradle distinctlyshowed that any rule as to friction being constant at different velocities was untrue.
I'm afraid everything is very cold," she confided with distinctly formal regret.
In consideration of the fact that Flame's mother had run all the way from the icy-footed chicken yard to answer the telephone it shows distinctly what stuff she was made of that she gasped nothing else.
This is certainly a very great pleasure, I assure you," he affirmed distinctly to Miss Flamande Nourice.
Where the hobbly lane curved darkly into a meadow through a snarl of winter-stricken willows the rattle of a loose window-pane smote quite distinctly on the ear.
And that Flame herself re-telephoned within the half hour to acknowledge her absurdity shows equally distinctly what stuff she was made of!
Napoleon, on the contrary, declared that a battle would be useless, and distinctly ordered his officers not to fight one.
It is, in fact, a traditional practice in the British Navy and is not in the least distinctly Elizabethan.
Of course, the part devoted to the creation of the 'Army of England' is not uninteresting; but it is distinctly less so than the part relating to the proceedings of Hoche.
I think it must be from the old association of Hollyhocks with village Fourth of July celebrations that the flower has to my mind a distinctly festal appearance.
Faintly visible from the hills around Albert, distinctly from the observation post in a high tree, the remains of the village looked like a patch of coal dust smeared in a fold of the high ground.
There had been something workmanlike and bold about their rigid, matter-of-fact progress, reflective of man-power in battle as seen very distinctly for a space in that field of baffling and shimmering haze.
Each man was distinctly outlined against the white background as, bayonets glistening and hands drawn back with bombs ready to throw, they sprang forward to be at the mouths of the dugouts before the Germans came out.
In his letters after his arrival, and in his book, hedistinctly states that Luis Perez Dasmariñas was governor.
So I was distinctly more alert than those who retained their positions merely by letting things run along as well as they always had been going.
I remember distinctly that when I opened my eyes and realized my surroundings and traced back the incidents of yesterday to the ditch, I was concerned principally with the problem of a stone in our path upon which we had been working.
He was becomingdistinctly more middle-class than either of us, with some of the faults of the so-called upper class thrown in.
Somehow they made me distinctly conscious of my own ancestry.
As he sat in a group of his fellow countrymen laughing and jabbering he made me feel distinctly like an outsider.
Her family, too, was distinctly middle-class, in the sense that none of them had ever done anything to distinguish themselves either for good or bad.
Oh, my dear little girl," spoke the noted singer, with a distinctly foreign accent.
All these tales of adventure, of struggle and difficulty; of hunting and fishing and fighting; of robbing and murdering, catching and punishing, are distinctly and essentially masculine.
All through ancient Hebraic history it was frequently a special mandate, the people being distinctly commanded to slay and destroy, sometimes even to kill women, children and the unborn.
As it happens, the distinctly feminine or maternal impulses are far more nearly in line with human progress than are those of the male; which makes her exclusion from human functions the more mischievous.
Few men can overlook the limitations of their sex and see the truth; that this business of taking care of our common affairs is not only equally open to women and men, but that women are distinctly needed in it.
Of course some say that bearing false witness means lying; but surely malicious perjury is a special crime, distinctly described, and not the same thing as mere misrepresentation.
We are so accustomed to this relation; have held it for so long to be the "natural" relation, that it is difficult indeed to show that it is distinctly unnatural and injurious.
Similarly we might have distinctly masculine matters so marked and specified; not assumed as now to be of general human interest.
He is distinctly and excessively male, at the expense of his humanness.
What might we look for in a distinctly feminine influence?
This is the individualist view, and is distinctly masculine.
To receive implies wanting, at its best--to receive what you do not want is distinctly unpleasant.
The magazine is unique and distinctly 'Gilmanesque,' which is a sufficient recommendation to me.
As the twilight deepened, the moon became totally obscured, dark cloud masses spread over the heavens, the sea grew black, distant thunder rolled, and the sob of an approaching tempest became distinctly audible.
SOUND of his voice communicates to their minds most of his character, and serves to fix distinctly upon their minds clear and correct general ideas of his mentality.
Probably the most difficult point of discrimination is between Hope and Conscientiousness, and it should be distinctly borne in mind, that Hope is generally placed too far forward.
A few years ago, in Darjeeling, north of Bengal, the brahman names upon the signs of the liquor shops were distinctly in the majority.
There is, then, a distinctlyrecognised Hindu orthodoxy in manners and worship, at least for each Hindu community, while there is no orthodoxy in doctrine.
Krishna has set up distinctly as the Indian Christ, or as the Indian figure to be set up over against Christ.
He handed me his lens, through which I could distinctly see the particles to which he referred.
But soon a new alarm struck fresh terror to their trembling souls, for the deep roll of a drum was now, distinctly heard.
They could distinctlyhear footsteps about them in the room, but no one visible.
Bentinck prevailed on Burnet to defer an open declaration of hostilities till William's resolution should be distinctly known.
He had repeatedly and distinctly declared his resolution never to put the white staff in the hands of any heretic.
He had a decided opinion on that point; and he thought it right to say distinctly that he would not be Regent.
They mustdistinctly admit the Commission and all that had been done under it to be legal.
The flourish of trumpets, the clash of cymbals, and the rolling of drums were distinctly heard at once on the English and French shores.
A distinctly evil expression played about the corners of his sensuous mouth, as his narrow-set eyes glinted with the fire of a detestation which, until that moment, he had so cleverly concealed.
And the news is disquieting--distinctly disquieting.
The young girl was distinctly handsome, as she sat leaning her elbows upon the table, gazing into her companion's eyes, and bending forward to listen to the low words he was uttering.
He told me distinctly that he expected the Bill to be lost in the Lords, and that, if it were lost, the Ministers must go out.
I see, however, that for the future I must mark more distinctly when I intend to be ironical.
I felt a temporary relief, even from the presence of the terrified beast, though I could distinctly perceive him shuddering, yet fixed to the spot.
But even in these instances it will be necessary that the right of enforcing these regulations should be distinctly maintained, in practice as well as in theory, as often as the public good may clearly demand the enforcement of them.
