It would have been difficult to find more perfectly distinguished manners, with such dignity of movement and actions, or more graceful hospitality, than were blended in Madame Collard's character.
The women specially distinguished themselves by a fiery outbreak of threats, which tended even towards imprecations.
He knew many of the most distinguished people, from Victor Hugo and Louis Philippe to Garibaldi.
She was the widow of a distinguished military surgeon.
My father mentioned General Belliard and Adjutant-Generals Valentin and Liébaut as having particularly distinguished themselves in this attack.
Bonaparte singled out Generals Brune, Vial and Bon as having especially distinguished themselves, and also chiefs of brigades Destaing, Marquis, and Tournery.
Much as the Hispanic Americans missed their favorite topic of politics, they found consolation in entertaining the distinguished foreign visitors with the genial courtesy and generous hospitality for which they are famous.
Madero, a member of a wealthy and distinguished family of landed proprietors in one of the northern States.
In order to save the nation from bankruptcy Manoel Ferraz de Campos Salles, a distinguished jurist, was commissioned to effect an adjustment with the British creditors.
Elsewhere in southern Spanish America a brilliant feat of arms brought to the fore its most distinguished soldier.
Secretaries of State, Ministers of Foreign Affairs, and otherdistinguished personages interchanged visits.
Monardes, one of the distinguished Spanish physicians of this time, was busy seeking for the simples and curatives of the New World plants, as the adventurers to New Spain brought them back.
Hayden says: “The dialects of the western continent, radically united among themselves and radically distinguished from all others, stand in hoary brotherhood by the side of the most ancient vocal systems of the human race.
This learned missionary was the scion of a distinguished family in Estremadura, and was befriended in his youth by his relation, Don Juan de Obando, President of the Council of the Indies.
The most distinguished German worker in this field, if we except the incidental labors of Alexander and William von Humboldt,[1887] is J.
Gowans’s catalogues, that their notes “were distinguished by much originality, some personality, and not a little bad grammar.
A map seems to have accompanied the pedigree, which was drawn under the superintendence of the distinguished sailor and cosmographer, Don Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa.
Quatrefages himself is one of the mostdistinguished of the French school, and deserves as much as any to rank as the founder of the present French school of anthropologists.
The Lenox Library is now under the direction of the distinguished American historical student, Dr.
Tributes were paid to his memory by distinguishedassociates in the Massachusetts Historical Society (Proceedings, ix.
Soldiers were brought from all parts of the empire, and each tribe or ayllu was distinguished by its arms, but more especially by its head-dress.
Field issued in 1873 An Essay towards an Indian Bibliography, being a Catalogue of books relating to the American Indians, in his own library, with a few others which he did not possess, distinguished by an asterisk.
The manifestations took pre-eminently a political character, especially as they were attended by numerous distinguished foreign guests.
Foreign Legion and greatly distinguishedthemselves by their bravery.
Stefanik, a distinguished airman and scientist, Hungarian Slovak by birth, the vice-president, and Dr.
Women and foxes, being weak, are distinguished by superior tact.
We are happily not called upon to institute a comparison of character between the two distinguished moralists, though the same, drawn masterly, might not be devoid of entertainment and instruction.
The hero of the story must be clearly distinguished from Fust the printer, a wealthy goldsmith of Mayence, who, in the middle of the fifteenth century, was partner with Gutenberg in the new enterprise of printing.
Heroic memories and traditions of such distinguished men passed in the form of fireside tales from one generation to another through many centuries.
We began with the ancient Greeks, and distinguished the high idealism of their religious conceptions from the paganism into which these declined.
His public life was distinguished by one great speech made in answer to the accusations of some who had attacked him and the Navy Board in the House of Commons.
That speech seems certainly to have been distinguished and extraordinarily able, but it certainly would have cost him his soul if he had not already lost that in other ways.
It was this insistence upon the universe, as distinguished from the earth, which was the note of Sartor Resartus.
There are eight fine female portraits of distinguished personages, by the same hand, in the highest state of preservation.
Among these they soon distinguished a moving figure; but what it was, whether man or beast, they could not make out.
A little further observation showed figures among the trees moving to and fro, and soon he distinguished faint traces of smoke in other places, which he had not seen at first, as though there were more fires than one.
I could tell in the majority of cases, but there are many who can not be distinguished from us very easily.
Their world isn't in the least poisoned; they have assimilated their experience by a process scarce at all to be distinguished from their having healthily got rid of it.
As the boat glided along the stream, she stood leaning on one arm of Charles, while Miss Emmerson held the other, in delighted gaze at the objects, which they had scarcely distinguished before they were passed.
It was in these words: "As for MacIan of Glencoe and that tribe, if they can be distinguished from the other Highlanders, it will be proper for the vindication of public justice to extirpate that set of thieves.
Their walls so nearly resemble the stratified rocks upon which they stand, that they are not easily distinguished from their surroundings.
His acknowledged skill in mountaineering, and felicity in romancing has won for him more than a local reputation and the distinguished title of Grand Canon Guide and Prevaricator.
It was a perfume which I had distinguishedbut once before in my life, and that only a few hours ago.
And although all the Indians seem of one color to the father, this color is well distinguished among them; and they are very respectful to their chiefs and much more so to their priests, even though these be Indians like themselves.
He was especially distinguished for his honesty and uprightness.
For the same reason, although the Joloan nation is so small, it has become the most distinguished in these islands; for on sea it equals the strength of the Mindanaos, as they have as many or more vassals of the Lutao nation.
Consequently, that people must be distinguished from the rest in its character, in all that we have said.
Just as the poor are arrogant, so also are the old ones ignorant, and they are not to be distinguished from the youths.
Next day the Princess removed her residence to the palace of the Archdukes, where she was treated with distinguished honour by Isabella, and installed ceremoniously in the most stately, the most virtuous, and the most dismal of courts.
But I decline to touch it, highly recommended though it is by a distinguished canootzer.
Without actually commenting on the case, these distinguished writers pointed out day by day how the various points in the curious case of Marcus Blaydon and Priscilla Wadhurst bore out the various contentions of the various faddists.
Yet he survived to do good service in other fields, and to maintain the reputation of that most distinguished branch of the military service, the Indian Engineers.
Nor would a modern brigade move along that line with the rapidity that has distinguished some of our late man[oe]uvres in South Africa.
Since then the ruins of the old village have been devoured by the shifting Oxus, and nothing but a ziarat at some distance from the river remains as a record of the distinguished saint who gave it its name.
The far-sighted policy of public works development, which distinguished the late Amir Abdurrahmon, led to the extension of roads for facilitating commerce between the Oxus and Kabul, the full effect of which we have yet to learn.
Wood of the Indian Navy, distinguished themselves by much original research, and have left records the value of which has been proved by subsequent observations.
To this discord God and bounteous Nature[8] put an end; for he separated the earth from the heavens, and the waters from the earth, and distinguished the clear heavens from the gross atmosphere.
His father belonged to an old equestrian family, and at an early age brought his son to Rome, where he was educated under the most distinguished masters.
He sought the society of the most distinguished poets of the day, and his admiration for them amounted almost to reverence.
In the midst of the assembly sat the king himself, arrayed in purple, and distinguished by a sceptre of ivory.
How had it happened that the king had become so intimate with this man, and distinguished him above all the other members of the court?
The little town blessed itsdistinguished and beneficent citizen.
He had apt quotations to support every statement and did not forget to lug in the names of his distinguished friends.
But it was not a joke, it was the simple truth, for, side by side with his own, he could read of the appointment and the promotion of many distinguished men to important positions.
Toward evening the doctor and his wife left, and Walpurga was not a little proud of the fact that all the villagers knew of the distinguished visitors who had called at the cottage.
The rain and mist were now so thick that the hut could not be distinguished until they were within a few steps of it.
Thanks to the glowing descriptions of the power and glory of the white men given by his friends, Réné found himself treated with distinguished consideration by the Alachuas, who regarded him with the greatest interest and curiosity.
A large booth, or shelter from the hot sun, under which the chiefs and distinguished visitors might sit and witness the games, was constructed of boughs and palm leaves.
But Cremorne was never able to parade in the newspapers that array of fashionable and distinguished personages who ‘last night’ visited Vauxhall.
The Zoological Garden was inaugurated underdistinguished auspices, and the prospectus of 1831 proclaims as patrons the Queen, the Duchess of Kent, the Princess Victoria, and an imposing array of Dukes and Marquises.
Maury, the distinguished marine scientist, and Professor Morse, had also come to the same conclusion, and at about the same time as had others in England.
Many distinguished modern authorities agree with them.
It is distinguished by its air-vessels, which explode when trodden on or otherwise roughly compressed, and which are the delight of all youngsters at the sea-side.
The first serious attempt to carry out the views of the distinguished Academician were made in the Bay of St. Brieuc.
It appears that the higher the sun is above the horizon, the more easily is the creature distinguished at the bottom.
Several of these children distinguished themselves in after life, but none more than the subject of this sketch.
